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Show THE HUNS ARE CUTTHROATS Our President's definition of "Germanism" "Ger-manism" Is accepted as one of the best so far given. In his message to Congress on December 4, Woodrow Wilson said: "This intolerable thing of which the master of Germany have shown us the ugly face, this menace of combined intrigue and force which we now see so clearly clear-ly as the German power, a Thing without conscience or honor or capacity ca-pacity for covenanted peace." Almost daily evidence of the outrageous out-rageous conduct of the German military mili-tary power is brought home to the American people. General Pershing's official report of the murdering of an American sentry is the latest proof that what the British and French have told us of German atrocities Is not overdrawn. In the earlier stages of the war the Americans refused to believe that any civilized people, even under the strain of war, could become as savage and inhuman as the Germans were represented repre-sented to be. Even after the LusI-tania, LusI-tania, with Its great load of humanity, including hundreds of women and children, chil-dren, was torpedoed, there was a withholding with-holding of judgment The horrors of Louvain had left a painful impression, as did the stories of women outraged and little children left to starve, but there was a withholding of Judgment j because the news came through preju-. preju-. diced channels. ' But now we are getting first-handed word, and indignation is growing. The cutting of the throat of the American Amer-ican soldier who was at ids post of duty is an act as barbarous as any committed by the Indians of the plains. Having the lone sentry in their hands, Instead of following the method meth-od pursued by all armies pretending to be governed by Christian principles, princi-ples, which gives to a prisoner the right to live, the Germans cut the throat of the American boy. It was a cowardly act; it was a bloody butchery: butch-ery: It was an outrage comparable with the tearing from their homes of 500 girls and young women of Noyon, France, to serve the lust of 10,000 degenerates de-generates in the Germany array. What a record Germany must face when the final accounting is made! I When the Kaiser makes his next I formal offer of peace, which is daily expected, the Standard hopes some one of the allied leaders President Wilson or Lloyd George will presont a list of authenticated brutalities, outrages, out-rages, intrigues and conspiracies and notify the Kaiser that at the peace conference all these offenses against civilization will be brought up and made a part of the negotiations, and tVinf n Jnrnn.J ...Ml I.- . , n ucumuu wm uu issuea to trace those responsible for the crimes, and that the fixing of responsibility, accompanied ac-companied by condign punishment, must be preliminary to the signing of the terms of peace. j oo |