The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-02
Kaiser's Manifesto to Ger
man People on Anniver-
sary of Wars Outbreak
CLEAR
DID NOT WILL WAR
stGod With U.s. He Declares-Be-
heves Internal Strength and Unani-
nous National Will Guarantees Vic
tory to His Country.

The complete text of the manifesto
of the Kaiser to his people on the first
of the outbreak of the
war is as follows:
Zone year has elapsed since L was
obliged to call to arms the German peo
pie. An unprecedented time of blood
shed has befallen Europe and the
world.
"Before God and history my con
science is clear. | did not viii the war.
after preparations for a whole de-
cade the coalition powers, to whom
Germany had become too great, believed
that the moment had come to humiliate
the empire, which Loyalty stood by her
Austro-Hungarian ally in a just cause,
or to crush it in an overwhelming cir
Gle. No lust for conquest, as | already
announced a year ago, has driven us
into tho war.
/ "When in the days of August all
able bodied men were rushed to the col
ors and troops were marched into
| defensive war every German on earth
| felt, III accordance with the unanimous
example of the Reichstag, that it was
q fight for the highest good of the ma
/
| ed us if the enemy force succeeded in
determining the fate Of our people and
of Europe has been shown in the hard
ship endured by my dear province, East
Prussia.
The consciousness that the fight
/ was forced upon us accomplished mira
cles Political conflict of opinion be-
came silent; old opponents began to
understand and esteem each other; the
4 spirit of true comradeship governed
the entire people.
''Full of gratitude we can say to-
day that God was with us. The enemy
armies who boosted that they would
enter Berlin in a few months are with
heavy blows driven back far east and
west. Numberless battlefields in vari
GUS parts of Europe and naval battles
off near and distant coasts testif,
what German anger IN seIfdefenct
and German strategy can do. No viola
ton of international law by our enc
mics will be able to shake the economi,
foundation of our conduct of the war
The communities Of agriculture
Industry, commerce, science and tech
, nical art have endeayored to softer
: the stress of war Approaching TIL
s necessity of measures for the free in
tercourse of goods and wholly devote,
{ to the care of their brethren in tn
: field the population at home has strain
!. ed all its energies to parrying the con
mon danger.
= "'With deep gratitude the father
n land today and always will remembe
T its warriors-those who. defying deatI
show bold front to the enemy; thos
: who, wounded or i'll, return; thos
:. above all, who rest from battle on fol
= eign soil or at the bottom of the sea.
"With mothers, widows and ophar
+ l feel grief for the beloved who hay
: died for the fatherland.
n internal strength and a unanimol
or national will in the spirit of II
a founders Of the empire guarantee vi
9. tory The bikes they erected in ante
u patton that we once more should HAY
\. to defend that which we gained
~ 1870 have defed the highest tide
r the world s history
s. after unexampled proofs of perso
If al ability and national energy, / che
80 ish the bright confidence that Il
German people, faithfully preservir
- the publication acquired through wa
or will vigorously proceed on the tri,
~ old ways and confidently enter the me-
~ "Great trials make the nation re
lin erent and firm of heart In heroic q
ton we suffer and work without wave
ing until peace comes; peace which {
fers us the necessary military and i
30 litical economics and guarantees for
future which fulfils the conditions f
the unhindered development of our pl