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THE COUNTY DEMOCRAT. TECUMSEH. OKLA.
AFTER 14 YEARS
OF SUFFERING
This Lady Tried Cardui. Let Her
Tell Yon in the Following
Statement the Results
She Obtained.
Va.--Mr*. J. M. Klara. of this
place, in writing of tier female |
trouble*, say*: “This trouble went on
for 14 yearn, often 1 was uuuble to .
work and suffered liad’y at . . . time*. ■
when I could not be on my feet at all.
Iteaily la had beaitb all the time (hir-
ing those 14 yearn, and waa never jof 'h<,ra 1>erh*P*- hecauae we
wttkout ini In. with awful baikacblng. he!n our record in the
had aio appetite. waa nervous, but at p„t ,t CBn n(.ver bo of n8 that
that time ray husband'* slater . . . we brought this war on ourselves or
recommended that 1 try Cardui, which that we failed to ua« every honornble
method to keep out of the death grip
of Europe. If we were long In coming
LEST WE FORGET!
Why America !$ at War After
Making Every Effort to Keep
Out or Europe’s Death Grip
By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
Aathor af “TU QtcaW Suacwe.” "11m Mm ia Low. T«a." "K." «*c-
(JHT why are we In thla war?
For democracy ? For the
aake of Belgium! For the
ancient law among nations
that the word of a people
la Its oath! I’erhapa for all
1 began to take . . . and which has
rauaod mo to lie In better health ever
since in a few days I felt that 1m-
provement had beguu. My back got
stronger and lesa jxiiulul. I got less
anrvtMiN and my appetite begun to Im-
prove. (u a few weeks my Improve-
ment waa noticeuble, and I got luto
better health than I bad had for 14
yearn . . . My walking before bad been
very painful, and could not aland on
my feet to do any good. After using
three medicines, however, I could walk
without pain and was able to do the
work and housekeeping, for an ordi-
nary family. My hack and appetite j
were hotter and also my nerves."
to our decision. It waa because we re-
mained Incredulous. W# were asked
to believe something that was hard to
believe.
Bo we waited and hoped and stressed
every point of International law to the
breaking point because of this thing
we would not believe. We were a
clean and humane people. We can un-
derstand Individual cruelty. We have
had sad experiences of the hysteria of
crowds. But we cannot understand,
and today we hardly credit, the cruelty
of a government.
V> e have ourselves constructed a
government that Is dignified. Just, slow
I to wrath, and humane.
But for three yeurs a conviction has
been growing umong us that one of the
If you aulTcr as Mrs. Klum did, take , nations In the world war Is none of
UarrfuL It may be Just what you need, i these things not dignified, not Just,
not humaue. Had Gcrmany’a cruelties
| ceased with Belgium, she might In time
have made her case before the world.
For three years tn that wretched coun-
try she has been covering her tracks.
But Germany has bungled. She has
disclaimed frightfulness In Belgium
only to bring It home to the world at
Inrge. She hns Introduced inio wnr-
—Adv.
Deep Laid Plot.
"There's h conspiracy in our neigh
kiirliuud."
“Not a war conspiracy, I hopet"
‘Well, It la. In n wuy.”
“Are yon at liberty to disclose the
I»h rth ait ars ?”
Ob, yea. We are trying to persuade | fare such cruelties of killing, such In
Miss Yowior to drop her vocal exer- human methods, such destruction, such
claoM for the duration of the war on contempt of the laws of war as have
the ground that It Is her patriotic duty »ct the world pale with horror. She
has added hate to the vocabulary of
war, and hatred Is a contagion.
Yes, persistently and In the face of
I the evidence, she has disclaimed the
i atrocltlco tn Belgium. She has been
[ willing tn shoulder the sinking of
I women and children In unarmed ships.
; She Is proud of the Invention of poison
A mod.dnal pre,..ration l.ke Dr. Kil- £"«■ ®nd of »QUld Are. She believes
mer’a flwaiupjtout, that has real curative that the shelling of unfortified cities j
value aliiHul sella itself. Like an endless and the use of the submarine against i »
chain system the remedy ia recommended helpless Ashing boats will, on her In- 11;
by those who bsye been benefited to those itiatlre, be accepted by the next Hague
to devote all tier spare time to knitting
for t he soldier* ”
OLD PRESCRIPTION
FOR WEAK KIDNEYS
permission, although he would prob-
ably give It. When the Interview vena
written for publication we were st*.'I
a neutral people. He respected our
neutrality, although he waa hopeful
that some day he coulJ lay the case
of Belgium before the world. It Is
enough to say that he continued the
atrocities out of hla Intimate knowl-
edge, and that not the loss of a king-
dom out the Inhuman method* of the
Invader* was the thing that had struck
to hla very heart. Here la that Inter-
view, brought now to the attention of
the American people, lest we forget. In
the tnngle of International law and the
outcry of Germany that we are fight-
ing the allies' war. the reul cause of
our entrance Into the world conflict.
To the American people today thla
Is a war not merely of democracy
against military autocracy, not mere
ly of the breaking of treaties, not at
all of diplomatic Juggling and disputed
points of law.
It Is a war against brutality and
Inhumanity; a war against cruelty; a
way against ruthlessneas and barbar-
ism and Incredible savagery; a war
against the German conviction that
might Is right.
KING ALBERT’S CHARGES.
The first time King Albert of Bel-
gium gave to the world at large bis
statement as to the conduct of the
German army tn Belgium waa on that
Jnntiary afternoon tn 1015 when. In his
own villa at La I’anne, he gave m*
the following Interview. Later he re-
read It carefully.
Later on, when his equerry brought
me the Interview, officially approved,
he snid. “This will make history,
niailame." so sure was he that the
king's statement would carry with it
not only conviction but the outruged
sympathy of the American people.
“Fearful things have been done, par-
ticularly during the Invasion,” the
king said, weighing his words care-
fully, “although It would be unfair to
who are in need of it.
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An Optimist.
“Aro you badly hurt? 1 urn u physi-
cian. ( am sorry my car struck you.
and—”
‘T»ar, now I” triumphantly exclaimed
battered Brother Bung, striving to
scramble to bis feet. “I done paid a
fa well In teller fou' lilts, and she went
Into a transportation mid ‘nounced dnt
I was gwiue to have u piece of good
luck. And, alio' ‘nulT; ytih 'Us I I gits
hit by a autymoblle and knocked every
wtalch-uh-way, and, to and behold, a
white Uoctcjf hops out. hII ready tn fix
me up l And, ytt, dar’s folks dut don't
b'llevo in fawchtn tellers a-tall I"—Kun-
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Or Pteree's Pleasant Pellets are the
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“Wtiat swagger yon fellow Is walk-
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convention as ethical and legal.
But ahe continue* to disclaim the
atrocities tn Belgium. Why should she
uot? The thousands who died In pro-
tecting the advance of her army, the
other thousands who were shot with-
out Inquiry against the brick walls of
captured towns, those men who were
bayoneted white trying to protect their
women from the assault* of drunken ;
soldiers, the little children whose bod- j
les lay unbnrled by the roadside—none
of them will ever tell the story.
ATROCITIE8 ON RECORD.
The atrocities In Belgium are true.
They are matters of record. German
soldiers themselves have set down the
detalle in the diaries their government
gave them. I have read some of those
diaries. Not all German soldiers
turned Into beasts tn Belgium. There
are some who record that the horrors
sickened them. It is not true that the
German government ordered assaults
on women. Bnt It did order looting
and arson and wholesale murder.
The result of that order for looting
was a mob of drunken men. whose vic-
tims today fill great graves.
This la a terrible accnsatlon to bring
against a people. Yet I know the
thing of which I speak. During the
first year of the war I went to that
portion of Belgium which remained un-
conquered. There I-saw men, officers
high In the Belgian army, who had
themselves seen thnt Infamous advance
protected by their own people—old
men, women carrying children, small
girl*, sturdy boys, with death behind
and death ahead.
It was Impossible not to believe. The
accumulation of evidence wae too
great. The German army had come
into Belgium prepared for opposition.
They brought fire confetti, which they
flung Into the houses while they were
occupied. More than one German
dlnry tells of the shooting of the in-
habitants as they tried to escape.
Drunken German soldiers firing tbetr
guns led sober ones to believe the
civil population waa rising, although
it was known they had no weapons,
and 50 or more leading dtlsens were
shot without a hearing. Women were
attacked tn public places.
But even here there was a chance
for Germany. She could say—and
she has said—she did not order these
things, although she did order the
shoe ting of hostages without Inquiry,
and ahe did order the looting which
resulted In drunkenness and Ita thou-
sand resulting brutal crimes.
CONVICTED ON ONE COUNT.
But oa one count Germany must
face the world, must be tried and sen-
tenced, with no possibility of acquit-
tal. She protected her advance with
noncombatants.
I have before me on my desk the
original copy of an interview with
Albert, king of the Belgians, during
the first winter of the war. Much that
wps said during that Interview has
never been published and will not be
published now. 1 have not the king's |
Mary Roberta RinaharL
condemn the whole German army.
Some regiments have been most hu-
mane, but others behaved very badly.
Have you seen the government re-
port?"
I spld I had not seen It, though I
had heard that a careful Investigation
had been made.
‘The government was very cau-
tious,” his majesty said. ‘The Inves-
tigation was absolutely Impartial and
as accurate as It could be made.
Doubts were cast on all statements—
even those of the most dependable wit-
nesses—until they conld be verified.”
■“They were verified?”
"Yes; again and ngatn.”
“By the victims themselves 7”
“Not always. The victims of ex-
treme cruelty do not live to tell of It,
but German soldiers themselves have
told the story. We have had here at
La Panne many thousands of Journals
taken from dead or Imprisoned Ger-
mans furnishing elaborate details of
most atrocious acta. The government
la keeping these Journals. They fur-
nish the most elaborate details of
testimony of what happened In Bel-
gium when it was swept over by a
brutal army. That was, of course,
during the Invasion; such things are
not happening now. so far ss we
know.”
He was trying hard to be fair. We
were still neutral. I was to publish
the Interview In s neutral country.
Ha did not wish to Involve us, to
rouse us. He had sent a delegation
to us to tell ns the truth, but we had
not realised then what wns happening,
and we had not heard their story.
Slowly and gravely he went oa. He
sat very still, looking ahead, weighing
every word.
•Thousands of civilian* have been
killed without reason. The execution
of noncombatants is not war, end no
excess can be made for 1L Such
deeds cannot bs called war."
HID BEHIND WOMEN.
“But If the townspeople fired on the
Germans?” I asked.
“Ali weapocs bad been deposited In,
the hands of the town authorities. It
Is unlikely that any organised attack
by civilians could have been made.
However, If In Individual caaee shot*
were fired ut the German soldiers, this
may always he condoned In a country
suffering Invasion. During an occupa-
tion It would be different, naturally.
No excuse can be offered for such an
action In occupied territory.
“Various Belgian officers have told
me of seeing rrowd* of men, women
and children driver ahead of the Ger-
man array to protect the troops. This
ia so Incredible that I must ask
whether It has any foundation of
truth?"
“It Is quite true. It la a barbarous
and Inhuman system of protecting the
German advanco. When the Belgian
soldiers fired on the enemy they killed
tlielr own people. Again and again
Innocent civilian* of both exes were
sacrificed to protect the invading army
during attacks. A terrible slaughter!”
There was much more to the Inter-
view, but thla part Is the part that
concerns us now.
There is tio annul*# In the king's
statement. It Is quiet, dignified, as
restrained as possible, a bare recital of
fact. On the right of Germany to In-
vade Belgium there mny be differing
opinions. On the right of any army
pretending to civilisation to ho protect
Its advance there can be but one ver-
dict.
The king of the Belgians had
spoken as a ruler and a soldier. He
hnd himself fought with his army
those terrible rear-guard engagements
which could have but one end. He
himself had seen this thing, so shock-
ing that It Is smalt wonder that
America heard It with Incredulous
eers.
A king’s statement end a man’s.
How about a woman who herself had
been among the last to leave Brussels,
and before whom, In the Intimacy of
thnt small villa at La Panne, came
soldiers and refugee nobles with their
stories of murder and debauch by the
Invaders?
I have never before broken the si-
lence of my Interview with Elizabeth,
queen of the Belgtnns, that smnll,
frail and heroic woman who has lived
for three years under the roar of the
artillery at Dlxmude and Nleuport.
But the time hns come to break thnt
silence. Not all can be told, but be-
cause an Infamous report has been
spread broadens’ that Elizabeth of
Belgium sympathizes with Germany, I
shall tell some of the things she said.
QUEEN TELLS OF HORRORS.
Again I quote from my notes of
that Interview:
“It Is the women and children I"
she said. “It Is terrible. There must
be killing. Thnt Is war. But not
this other thing."
She could not understand American
skepticism on this point. She had
but Just returned from England,
where In one convent 29 Belgian nuns
were enceinte by German soldiers. She
had visited them.
That to her was the most terrible
thing of war. That these quiet women,
living their devout and simple lives,
should have suffered eo grossly bewil-
dered and dazed her. Was there noth-
tng, then, sacred to these Invaders, not
even the church?
“I am a Bavarian," she said. “I
have always from my childhood heard
this talk that Germany must grow,
must get to the sea. I thought It was
Just talk—a pleasantry. And the lies
they have told about us I The em-
peror has always pretended to bs so
friendly, and all the time—”
She held out her hands expressively.
“Anyone who knows ths king knows
that he cannot do a wrong thing. It
Is not possible for him. He cannot go
any way bnt straight."
Then she recurred to the Invasion
and the terrible cruelties of tbs Ger-
man army.
"They were terrible,” she said,
“especially what they have done to
women and children. But more than
any men In the world the Germans are
cruel to women. I have seen them my-
self when they did not know who I
was—on trains sometimes—not since
the war, of course. But the very way
they stare at women Is odious.”
She thought that this attitude of
the Germans explained many things.
And she told me In detail revolting
stories of the profanation of churches
under the pretext, totally unfounded,
that the Belgian churches were store-
houses for arms. She told me, too, of
the especial cruelty they had shown to
priests and nuns; of locking the priests
In churches and, after Insulting the
altar, of killing them.
I said It wns difficult to say what
any army would be In an occupied
country. Bnt she protested.
OWN DIARIES CONVICT.
"Do you think the Belgian* would
have done such things? Never. Never.
Isolated Instances might be possible.
But the Germans have committed
thousands of crime*. I have sat In
this very room while the diaries of
German soldiers were read. Kven If
we had had no other means of know-
ing. those diaries would have told us
everything, They relate unspeakable
crime*."
We cannot Impeach that testimony.
But we can add to IL At British head-
quarters later on an officer high on the
staff of Lord French told me of follow-
ing the German retreat at the battle
of the Marne -nd verifying with hla
own eyes, for hts own satisfaction, the
brutalities of the invaders tn occupied
towns.
"It Is hard for us to understand,” he
said. “I was Incredulous myself. But
I saw enough to convince me that the
worst I heard was true."
I have been careful to give only
such testimony aa reached m' direct
The king and queen of the Belgian*
each told of these German Inhumani-
ties to me, myself. I wrote them down
at the time. TbtJ are nnexaggerated,
Suffered For Years
Back and Kidneys Were in
Bad Shape, But Doan’s
Removed all the Trouble.
“My kidney* were so weak that the
leant cold I caught would affect them
and start my Pack aching until I
could hardly endure the uimery, »»ys
Mrs. D. C. Ross, 973 Fulton St., Brook-
lyn, N. Y. “In the morning when I
first got up, my back
was »o Ume, 1 could
hardly bend over and
any move sent dart* of
pain through my kid-
ney*. It waa hard for
me to walk up «Uir« or
stoop, »nd to move
while lying down nent
dart* of pain through
““The kidnev «cor* MRS-ROSS
tion* were scanty and distressing and
the water remained in my bwm,
inf mv feet snd hands swell. There
were dark eircle* under my eye# and
1 became so diuv I could hardly
uneinplmslr.d. flat statements of wit-
nesses In the case against Germany.
Bo we have seen bow the Germans
conducted themselves In Belgium and
how they treated one British officer,,
which la by no means an Isolated case.
For—thla not to me, but In Oolonal
Vandeleur’s statement to the British
war office—he tells of *. car ahead of
his where, the men being threatened,
with suffocation, they hammered so
madly on the walls of the car 'list at
last a carpenter wns brought, wno cut
a small round hole for air.
VIOLATED HAGUE CONVENTION.
Let us see for a moment what the
Belgians had a right to expect from
the Invading army, considering Bel-
gium not neutral but enemy territory.;
Germany had subscribed to The
Hague convention, that gentleman‘s
agreement between nations whlcu wad
designed, since wars seemed lnevt-.
table, to make for fairness and de-
cency. By Article 46 of that conven-
tion Belgium, as enemy territory, ha*
this claim;
“Family honor and rights, Indlvld-j
ual life, and private property, as well,
as religious conviction* and worship,
must be respected.
"Private property may not bo con-
fiscated.”
Article 28:
•The giving over to pillage of a
town or place, even when taken by,
assn nit. Is forbidden.
“In sieges und bombardment* all
necessary ateps roust be taken to
spare, as far as possible, buildings ded-i ________
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the sick and wounded are collected. |
provided they are not being used at _ _
the time for military purposes.” ! riuraa^. iw reMfe-JP*** ?£<*urtUnSJ0<1i!5
That is what Belgium had a right
I had rheumatic paina in my knee# and
it w«» all I could do to get around.
For years I w«* in that «h»pe snd 1
do to get around
___ ________ shape snd 1
wore plasters snd used all kinds of
medicine to no avail until I tried
Doan’* Kidney PHI*. They rid roe
of the trouble and strengthened my
hack and kidney*. When I have taken
Doan’t sines, they have alwsys bene-
fited me.”
fiu-orn to before me.
L. N. VAUGHAN, Notary Public.
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zens of conquered Belgium who died ; Grate Bars and Smokestacks
protecting their women.
We are at war because of that Ger-
man order of August 24, 1914. for
frightfulness.
W# nre at war against the convic-
tion, In German minds, that might la
right, that the end Justifies any means,
no matter how brutal.
We are a clean and a humane people.
We would not believe these things at
first. A million and a half Belgians
fled to England with the story. We
were still incredulous. Noncombatants
were sunk at sea. We still felt therq
must be some Justification. New and
ever new cruelties of death came from
the German trenches, and we have
said; “This Is modern war.”
But the score is mounting higher
day by day. The politics of this war
are lost In Its Inhumanities, fathered
by German skill. It was not enough
that men shonld die. They must die
horribly.
We have never understood. We
have been a people of Ideals, confront*
Ing a nation of crass materialists. It;
Is time ior us to understand. Bnt It 1*
not time, and never will be time, for
the American people to stoop to the
methods of an enemy which would
again today. If the necessity arose;
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Of Japan’s 54,000,000 people, about
200,000 nre Christian believers. This
figure Includes Roman nnd Greek Cath-
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bers number 07,350, of whom 11,886
were baptized In 1915-1016. The gain
was about 14 per cent.
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
is ber hair. If yours is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use “La Cre-
ole” Hair Dressing and change It in
the natural way. Price ,1.00.—Adv.
Ferrets Will Aid Soldiers.
A corps of ferrets hns been mobi-
lized from all parts of England and
Wales for service at the front. They
are to be sent to the trenches to fight
the rats which have become excep-
tionally fierce nnd bold, and have been
known to attack n man for right of
way In a narrow passage.
Adruco Liquid
Screw Worm Killer
kills the worm
and heals the wonnd.—Adv.
It is well for us to panse for a mo-
ment to look back on these things.
We were skeptical at first, bnt time
has shown their truth, for they aro
of a piece with the thing* that havel
happened since. They belong with
the Lusitania and the little fishing
boats. With the attack* on London.
With liquid fire.
We are a people of homes.* Politics
means little to na; the quarrel* of
Europe nothing. Bnt here la an enemy
which ha* marched over the homes j
of a nation and wantonly destroyed
them. Here 1* an enemy that took
the women and children out of these
homee and wlfh that pitiful advance
guard, drove ahead. “Again and
again Innocent civilian* of both sexes
were sacrificed to protect the invading
army.”
It Is for the home we are fighting
today. Democracy will live, because
the principle of a free people will
never die. Liberty will survive, so ---
long a* the soul Is greater than the There’s one thing sure, you seldom
body. But the world will go on and 1 80e 8 f®t, bnlilheaded tramp,
progress only when we have placed |
on the lintel of each door In every
land the sign. In blood If It must be,
Another Meanest Man.
The meanest man in the world 1*
rivaled by a young New York lad. He
stole the harmonicas with which a
blind mnn made his living and then
went to Corey Island and stole the
uniform of a sailor who was bathing.
There wns about 375 ir. the pockets
of the uniform.
that the covenant of the
rest be kept,
and the
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