The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1917-08-02

There are people and a goodly
number of them, who because OF
their hate for England seem to suf-
fer from a confusion of concept. or
in plain language have their wires
crossed" Not long ago a railroad
employee said he did not believe In
sending men to Europe to fight fol-
that darn John Bull. Naturally, az
may be implied this fellow was an
freshman. An editor in a nearby
town expressed himself thus: We
are not disloyal to America, when
we dislike the British lion. We are
fighting for America, not for Eng
land" This editor does not seem
to be aware of the fact that Ameri.
ca for which he is lighting" is al
war with Germany and England IL
her ally. If he is lighting fol
America. logically he should be fight
ing barbarous Germany. England
may have her faults and we do not
intend to apologize for them, but
she has not as yet ~degenerated into
an outlaw nation as did Germany
not by a long shot.
When England shall guarantee
the neutrality Of a small nation anc
then barbarously violate it by muir
dering its people, lays ruin to if
cities and towns, brazenly call inter
national treaties scraps. Of paper,
sinks neutral ships and murders itt
passengers, attacks d~efenseless town
ard school houses with its air Graf
and murders children, poisons wells
in occupied territory, her soldiers
give poisoned candy to children
leave rapine. destruction and hell il
thu" wake Of it's military machine b,
/. disregarding all semblance OF hu
manity and rules OF Civilized war
fare. excelling even the Turk in bar
barity, and when England spreads {
net of espionage over the entire
world and attempts to incita Mexico
and japan against America while We
on peace terms with it. and when |
commits ghoulish acts, such as util
iEing the dead bodies of her dead
soldiers to make more explosives
then. and not until then, shall We
hate England al we hate Germany
The point is: Who lifted the lie
of Of heir" as Ebert Hubbard put
1t before "~petering out" on the Lusi
tahia with hundreds of other limo
cent men. women and children which
German "kultur" had SEM down t.
the bottom Of the ocean. Not tho
Germany OF Schiller, of Goethe
Wagner and countless other Of hei
great and good men, but the Ger
many of Nietsche, the insane ex
FOUNDER of the doctrine that might
is right and his followers Treitschkt
and Bernhard. and last but no
least. Wilhelm Hohenzollern, he Of
the withered arm and running ear
who rules owe Germania by divine
right" The world at large is nov
realizing how long and well the Ger
man government under Wilhelm has
been preparing for this war, SO thai.
he who runs may read. But we dc
not have 20 go for proofs to Eng
land. Macmillan Harden, editor OF
Berlin at the outset Of the war said
Let us own up to 1t; we have start.
ed this war" Karl Liebkneeht, the
German Jew and socialist, said that
Germany started the war to put down
the awakening conscience Of the
masses demanding their heritage,
Recently DR.. R%athenau, prominent ir
government circles said: I'VE started
the war a year too SOON" Harden
was muzzled and now put in the
trenches; Liebknecht was put in Jail
sent to the front, jailed and muzzled
owe and over for his utterances OF
truth. When the German Kaiser
says that he rules by divine right
and that he is responsible to no one
but God. he uttars a blasphemy
against humanity and God. 1t also
proves that he is insane and danger
out.
Germany started the war to gain
a place in the middle of the sun.
Mittefeuropa-that's the magic word
which sounds like the symphony Of
the spheres to every faithful and
brainless German. A Mitteleuropa
for Tretschke's superman to live in
and hold dominion over a %barbarous
world with a fence around 1t, and
then. millennium. But IL you want to
know what German supremancy
means. ask the Poles of eastern Prus-
STA: ask the Bohemians of Austria,
the vassel of Berlin: ask the thous-
ands of Belgian, French, Serbian