New Britain herald., 1917-05-03

If order you to shoot. down your relatives, hrothers-yes even your
 parents-you must obey Me without
 murmuring..
 To the Colonel this sounds like a,
 travesty. Yet word for word it is
 what the Kaiser actually said.
 Further. the Kentucky Editor believes
 1t underfies the whose case. In the .Kaiser,s ''ProcIanation" of the 18th
 of September. 1914, he profanely
 shouted:
 The spirit of God has descended upon Me because I am German Elm
 peror | am. the instrument of the
 Most High. am His sword. His representative on earth. Woe and
 Death to those who oppose My will!
 Death to the infidel who denies My
 mission! Let all the enemies of the
 German nation perish! God demands their destruction-0od. who, by My
 mouth summons you to carry out His decrees."
 Reviewing the record. taking stock of all the Kaiser's~ works. and noting
 especially his: recent promise of re- form. the Indianapolis News has this to say: ss4
 ..The plain truth is--and it might as well be spoEen-that the present war is one betwcen tho so-called common people, everywhere and the HohenzollernNfn Nfnd Hapsburg families. The Courier. r.Journal has not always been parliamentary in it's discussion of the war and the problems growing out of it, but it has come nearer the truth than those towards who have tried to carry water on both shOul- dcrs: The point for us to remember is that we are at war, not with a few sub marine cosGmanders who are willing to commit murder under orders, but with a system that must be destroyed. We and the Entente Allies have a common enemy, and we should act to- gether against him. There would be no submarine murders were there no Hohenzollern government"
 That is what Colonel Watterson calls getting down to brass tacks and boot heels. He regrets that the honest American Germans have not long before this seen the truth; that they have not known it is this Kaiser, posing so long as Superman, who. by the assertion of his imperial abso- lutism. has plunged the world into the tiirest cataclysm of destruction and slaughter since time began" It is beginning to dawn upon them nav. As the days s9 on. as the flower of German manhood is further dissipated in behalf of the Kaiser, they will get a better grasp of the situation. The heretofore has been that most Germans in America have refused to believe the Kaiser could do wrong. In Germany the people have never be-. lieved it. and probably never will be- lieve it until an entire world in it's just wrath arises t6 crush the Hohenzol- lerns under heel. This the United | States must help to do. Once the Hohenzollerns are fully disposed of. tie Hapsburss will 70 of their ownd accord
 But the task Is no easy one. The world to be free from the curse of German mi1itarism, must have the help of the very people who make up that system. Either that, or the world must beat those people into sub- mission and destroy the power behind and on the throne. which is Hohen- zollern. Hohenzollern. Hohenzollern. For what has happened the Kaiser is to blame. For what Is to happen he is to blame. As Watterson paints the picture, "It is he, and he alone, who whether exploited by tyrannous, un- refecting mi1itarism or exploiting it, l has wrecked the Great German Empire. He has lost every rood of it's colonies, annihilated all it's splendid 1 commerce, desolated the land in ruin, crushed it's people in poverty and famine, filled the muck of the trenches, the reek of the prisons, the mawa of the buzzards. with the millions of it's best manhood and made Kaiser imperialism abhorred and despised of all mankind"
 The German people do not know all these things, up to this they have had no desire to learn, to be taught. But the hour has struck for the Kaiser, and he has heard the bell toll. By protesting his willingness to become a partner of his people he shows he has seen the handwriting on the wall What promises he may make the German people are as the '.scraps of paper he has torn in the faces of civilized nations. The world has taken the measure of the Kaiser. As sdon as the German people see his a..-.....;n..a AS fhex rnnsf see ns4