The Parker post., 1917-07-14
THE COMING OF THE END.


The military masters of Germany
have used their allies in the interest
of the Hohenzollerns. The Austro-
Hungarian empire has talking rep
resentation in the Wilhelmstrasse,
but no voice potential in the conduct
of the war For centuries Germany
has prosecuted and murdered the
people of Bulgaria Now she has
made peace with them in order that,
with a German CZar on the throne,
the plans of the Wilhelmstrasse
might be carried out. In Turkey the
German officials have infiamed Mos
lem fanaticism hOisted the green flag
and urged the massacre of Christians
in the Turkish possessions in Asia
and Africa in the same way that many
of the Christians of Syria and Ar
menia were ruthlessly murdered in
order to secure the Bagdad Railway
and give Germany domination of the
country from Hamburg to the Persian
Gulf.
Not since the Goths emerged from
the forests of Germany centuries ago
and made practice of drinking blood
from the skulls of their enemies has
the world witnessed such cruel and
ruthless warfare as that which the
Hohenzollern dynasty has pursued.
Belgian men have been set to dig
field Notifications under fire Women
tories to make bullets and bombs for
the wounding and killing of their
husbands and brothers On the sea
all pretence at compliance with the
law of nations has been abandoned,
and not only have peaceful, unarm-
ed merchantmen been sunk without
notice, but their passengers and
crews seeking to escape in small
boats have been pursued and shot and
sunk, in despite of their cries for
mercy.
In Northern France the devasta-
tion wrought has no parallel in the
history of the civilized world. Towns,
villages, orchards, roads, monuments,
public and private buildings, churches
and art galleries have been destroy
ed, women ravished and men de-
ported.
Mr. HohenZollern has not failed to
dominate his allies as we'll as his own
people. The Austrian Hapsburg is a
puppet who dances when Wilhelm
pulls the strings, and as President
Wilson points out, ''the guns of Ger
man warships lying in the harbor at
Constantinople remind Turkish
statesmen every day that they have
no choice but to take their orders
from Berlin"
President Wilson points out that
the campaign for peace on the basis
OF the status quo ante should never
for moment be entertained. because
the entertainment of it would in
trench the military masters of Ger
many in an armed camp, stretching
from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf,
behind the lines of which they would
only complete their preparations for
the perpetration of fresh demands on
the free peoples of the world, in the
very way In which the demands upon
Serbia, with which the war opened,
proved to be but a single step Sin a
plan which encompassed Europe and
Asia from Berlin to Bagdad."
The only terms of peace that the
Allied world should extend to Ger
many are unconditional surrender
characterization of Germany, and de-
portatlon OF the autOcratic ruler
whose mad ambition has brought
death and suffering and enslavement
TO her people, destroyed her indus
tries and loaded unborn generations
with monstrous burden of debt.
And unconditional surrender must
come, and that before many months.
With hundred thousand airplanes
dropping bombs into the German
trenches and camps and munition
factories and arsenals and royal pal
aces and parliament houses GERMANY
must reltnquish her fight against de-
mocracy, humanity and civilization
Los Angeles Times.
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