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POSTBELLUM PUNISHMENT After war boycott of Germany and of German trade will not depend upon government action If Washington London Paris Home Tokyo throw down the bars utterly upon the signing ° f a treaty of peace and formally forgive and forget the Teutons will still find themselves outcasts and the longer the war continues and the more universally the men of the world find themselves involved in it the more uncomprising and the more continuing will be tiie postbellum punishment inflicted upon the people of the Central Empires EmpiresThe The stand taken by the British seamen will serve as a basis for a social and commercial ostracism of the Germanic peoples the utter abhorrence of the whole world will be the superstructure No one will care to touch or use Teutonic products The general feeling will be the feeling of the Nor ¬ wegian pilot who returned all the medals the kaiser had given him because they had become repulsive The world will want nothing to do with Germany or with things German They will look upon them as leprous This will be the real punishment of the Teutons Detroit Free Press
