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Show The Trail of the Killer Beasts A book was recently sent to us with a short note from the committee, "We think all editors should be familiar with the contents of this book." The author takes up killings, which he says were done by beasts. It opens with Socrates being made to drink hemlock, hem-lock, after a trial by the mass beasts of Greece, close to the very time of the glorious period of Pericles, when Athens was the center of art, music, sculpture and architecture. He then moves westward "as the course of empire em-pire took its way," treating of beasts in each prominent prom-inent nation; from the Dark Ages of Europe we noted Atilla, Genghis Kan, the barbaric hordes from Germany Ger-many called Vandals, down to the burning at the stake of Bruno, Savonarolla, and the Spanish Inquisition Inqui-sition with its exquisite and many implements of torture, the rack, the thumb screws, and to the trial by the highest bishops of England of Joan of Arc, and that august body finding her to be a witch, and condemning her to the painless death that of being be-ing burned alive at the stake! He takes up the French Revolution and Madame Guillotine, showing the streets of Paris running in blood; Spain is given a chapter; and Merry OT England, Eng-land, Bloody Mary Queen of Scots; the Tower, beheading; be-heading; Henry the VIII and Ann Bolyne (who by the way noble Henry had beheaded. Fine reading, nice reading. One is so proud of wherever his forbears for-bears came froml The Massacre of Saint Bartholemew, when 1500 ardent and believing Christians killed 1500 also ardent ar-dent and believing Christians, because one lot was in Protest against the other lot, but both Christians. Then he steps across the Atlantic to our own good soil descendants of those Pure-itans who left England to worship according to conscience, made ships for the Slave Trade at profit, and manned them the Negrp problem now in full fulfillment, with its race hatred, color discrimination against those who did not come here, but were brought here by a God-fearing, pious bunch of beasts. Four hundreds hun-dreds years afterwards it is the people's baby of now to attend to. . Then he jumps in one stride to Rock Springs, Wyoming, when in 1885, 28 . Chinese were killed, and in more than one instance, four, big, burly miners min-ers grabbed a unarmed Chinaman, "Yo-heave, Yo-heave, Yo-heave, Yo-heavo" and threw them alive into their own burning homes to be burned alive! And he says to get out of it, both the State and Nation said "But those miners weren't citizens aliens," because, be-cause, if citizens our nation was liable; so they were all said to be non-citizens (although they had voted and were citizens in fact). He calls this "beasts in Mob." Then he passes to the state of Utah to the Mountain Meadows in 1857 the book really ought to be read by many and he characterizes that massacre as in the same class as Saint Bartholomew's Bartholo-mew's Massacre "religious frenzy." He then steps across the Pacific, continuing westward west-ward to make a circuit of the globe, and drops one off in Japan just after Tokyo was raided and aviators avia-tors in that force were beheaded. He steps next to Russia the purges of the recent re-cent years, when officers, high-ups and all disloyal prominent persons were placed before a wall. Blood atonement, or else. He then says he has nearly completed the circuit cir-cuit from where he started. He seems to have saved all the force of his pen to pour vials of just condemnation condem-nation on the greatest beasts of all time, those in "Der Slaughterland" a term borrowed from Walter Winchell', and brand the Germans with Ladice, Rotterdam, Rot-terdam, Poland, scientific starvation in Greece, reprisals re-prisals taking the best minds after the killing of any German; daughters of the conquered races sterilized steriliz-ed and given to officers; theft, loot, ruin, demolition, beasts at large, unrestrained. He is very bitter and gives factual statements, and quotes the sources of his information so that any interested person may check his statements. He withholds no punches on the Germans, saying that they know better, but have sunk below huns, below savages scientific wantons, killing for blood lust. I have never read so forceful cm arraignment of any crime as in that book; it is a bare-fisted recital , of the Trail of Killing Beasts, again at war, Christian Chris-tian against Christian, and all with a record down the ages similar to today's holocaust. I would judge that the purpose of the writer of that book was to remind us that we, mixed heritage, drawn from all nations, have but to look into our own past to find much that we are not proud of; that criticising others is much like "kettle calling pot black." The best of us have but lately emerged from bar-barianism. |