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WHY SPARE FOES HERE ProGerman sabotage is more common than is generally supposed Arson is its commonest form and the fact is concealed when the criminal escapes detection because those who suffer fear their in ¬ surance policies will be canceled or the rates will be raised if they state the facts Manufacturers also believe that publicity will encourage more secret enemies to make similar attempts Thus we are terrorized at home homeWe We have been too lenient with the enemies within our gates The man who sets fire to a field of grain an elevator a munition plant a shipyard si lumber yard or any other place where supplies for our army or navy are being produced is either a traitor or a syy in the service of the foe In time of war we should suffer death for such deeds In France such men are executed without delay Our soldiers are dying by thousands on the battlefields of Fnuice Why should we let those who are trying to stab them in the back live in our midst midstWe We should avail ourselves of the deterrent effect of the death penalty just as the Huns would cer ¬ tainly do if secret enemies within their gates tried to help their foes Hundreds of Russians were ex ¬ ecuted by the supine Bolsheviki at the order of the kaiser to avenge tho assassination of his ambas ¬ sador at Moscow That is the way this war is waged by him Why spare his agents here New York Commercial
