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Show I CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST. i Berlin has received President Wilson's Wil-son's reply and Berlin has had a bad spell. There has been a panic in German Ger-man banking circles and on the Berlin stock exchange, j. That is just as we had hoped the 'news would be received. We desire the. German leaders" to feel depressed to the utmost and to. suffer great menial men-ial distress. They have had their period pe-riod of elation over the horrors of the war; they have rejoiced when a Lusi-tania Lusi-tania was sunk and danced with joy because of the Zeppelin raids over London; they have delighted in the shooting of Belgian women and children chil-dren and the outraging of the girls of Noyon; they have boasted of their firing fir-ing on Paris and their destruction of Kheims; and whenever the kaiser has called on God to witness the glory of war, they have applauded. Today let them pull their hair and shout themselves hoarse in their consternation. con-sternation. . Let them quake and become panicky at the thought of the coming storm. Let them anathemlze their enemies 'while praying for mercy. Let them declare their Innocence of, all premeditated wrong doing. Yes, let them do as they see fit, but in the meantime, let us not forget to press steadily forward to the one goal unconditional surrender. Their love of war must be extracted extract-ed by a major surgical operation. When the allies finish, the Huns will be reduced to humility and their swashbuckling will be over. They will be better neighbors for the rest of Europe than they were in 191-1. There will be less talk of the superman super-man and more regard for others than has been the custom among the military mili-tary buccaneers of Prussia in forty years. on |