SHALL THE GUILTY ESCAPE PUNISHMENT? 
On this date, October 29th, the air is filled with rumors of peace and of 
an armistice which may lead to an early ending of the war. God grant this 
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war may end soon, but not too soon; not until that horde of murderers, de- 
spoilers of womanhood and perpetrators of the most revolting crimes known to 
history, called the German army, be well-nigh annihilated; not until the bal- 
ance be driven back whence they came, driven relentlessly so that they 
experience something, if only a little, of the misery and anguish of the peoples 
of suffering France, Belgium, Servia and Armenia. Let no peace come until 
the victorious armies of America and our allies march as conquerors thru 
this land of “kultur” to receive the humble obeisance of every German man, 
woman and child in the land. 
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And then? When peace is finally declared what then? Will we extend 
the right hand of fellowship to this bloodthirsty gang or will we demand the 
death penalty for the actual criminals, the Kaiser, Hindenburg, Ludendorff and 
every prince, politician, general, naval commander, aristocrat and beaurocrat 
who has been responsible for the murder and mutilation of civilians, killing of 
wounded in hospitals and crimes without end. Shall the guilty escape? 
F. C. 
