The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-07-12

ana TO what end! Because ou
cursed Kaiser and the creatures w,
call statemen are afraid of their live
for what will happen to them whel
the people know it's all up.
! "But plenty Of them know it now
Many knew before ever | was forced
to Join up. And perhaps l neve,
should have been made to join if
had known less, and never said 9
word of what / know. talked lit.
tie of what | knew. And that was
enough. In Germany today the man
who tells the truth must be hustled
I out of the way That is why | see no
nope for Germany, because those who
are left in the country have no spirit,
: can do nothing. All the strength of
the country, such as it is, is in the
; lighting lines-hclplcss as slaves.
The others, there in Germany, thcv
are slaves; starving, starving quietly.
never daring to say word. The few
who speak soon find themselves hus-
tied into the front line--and no more
Is heard of them. They 90 on paying
the price; thousands of lives every
day, every single day. The Central
Powers casualties now must be 100
900 a wcck-all for what! The craZy
dreams of a few bankers and mcr-
chants, and the cowardy fears Of Il
few politicians and of-of the Hohun-
zollerns. They say the Hapsburcs,
too; but the Austrians would be
thankful to make peace tomorrow but
they cannot. They are rs much sacri
feed by Berlin as we poor devils here
on the front. All the bloody slaugh
ter of this war, with its inllliards of
money and thousands Of lives lost
every single day-what keeps it 90
ing after it has been finally decided,
is not the will of nations. No, it is
the murderous criminalitV and CO.
wardice of n little handful of men in
Berlin, who never have been anything
but pest in Europe.
as not that the greatest crime the
world has ever known? AMI is it
not strictly true? Does any sane
German suppose the appointed end
can be altered when the whole New
World is ranged against Germany as
well as the Old? They know all about
the hundred millions in the States,
and the millions Of millions of money;
the innumcrablc factories and ship
yards. They know that America can
put hundreds Of thousands Of fresh
troops next spring, and that the ex-
haustion of Germany long before then
will be frightful is frightful now.
has been frightful for a year or more.
They know it all, and, brute devils
that they are, they chose to keep the
awful slaughter going, not because
they hope it can alter the end, hut for
what you call wait and see'-bccdusc
they fear to face today what they can
put off till tomorrow at the cost of
another few thousand decent lives,
another few milliards of money.
"Never before since the world be-
gan has twentieth part of such suf-
fering been allowed to continue dav
by day and month after month to pro-
tcct a handful of exalted criminals
from general recognition of their
crimes. The Russian people rose and
smashed the bonds that bound them.
But not our people. Our tyrantS
have been much clcvcrcr. 1t was only
the bodies of Russian people that
were fcttcred. Their minds were
free. No German mind in Germany
has been free since 1870. The Berlin
criminals have seen too well to that.
Our people think they have been well
educated. So they have; very well,
very carefully, for just what are they
are doing now-for the blindcst and
most damnablc kind of slavery the
world has ever seen, for slavery in
which the will of the masters must be
paid for daily by steadily running
streams of blood of their victims
victims taught to bare their own
throats to the knife on the word of
command.
eff your armies could reach Ger
many itself the slavery might end
suddenly. But Germany today is one
vast prison full of starving slaves,
who cannot lift Il hand to help them
selves, and it will remain while Will
lam the Murderer can go on buying
a daily rcpricvc for his miserable
family in return for the blood of his