Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-19
KAISER FIGHTING FOR HIS CROWN
Thanked by of Democracy Revolution Threatens Ger
 man Emperor-Autocracy Doomed and Throne in Peril

army should be only so large and nc
 larger, In their widest dreams the
 allies do not fancy that they will be
 able to crush it as hard now as it was
 crushed then. Yet in only half a doz-
 en years it sprang up anew under the
 nose of the conqueror and flung him
 off.
 Consider another warning example The allied powers of Europe resolved
 tarism. They banished Napoleon himself to the end of the earth, but | they forced upon France a Bourbon
 despotism instead. and the spirit
 which they foolishly thought to
 years and raised another Napoleon to l the French throne.
 A Democratic Peace.
 In treating the malady of mflitar- ism like never has cured like, and it | never will. All round the world are | governments which have been forced
 upon the governed at the bayonet point. As a consequence you can hardly put your finger on the map of I Europe without touching a sore spot, | swarrning with the germs of warfare.
 Wars always have been fought to | enable the victor to dictate to the van i quished. If the kaiser could have his l way in this war we believe he would
 be the dictator of the world l On the other hand, his foes have | declared from the outset their pur- l pose to dictate the dismem l and the disarmament of the German
 Austrian and Turkish Empires. But | if we win a democratic victory die l tation will be unnecessary. l Some of our comrades in the war | and some of our own people object | we are proposing to dictate to the 1 Germans how they shall be governed | This is stumbling over a shadow.
 Only by making this a war for de-
 mocracy shall we be able to avoid a | dictated peace.
 l A despotism may be dictated to a. 1 people. but democracy cannot be.
 Freedom cannot be thrust upon a Ma | ton. Liberty cannot be fastened up- on it. But break a peoples shackles, and they will not forge new shackles | for themselves.
 l Already millions of people in the Central Empires are rallying to the l democratic standard which we have 1 raised. This is the great advantage | of a war for democracy. It has a | tendency to transform it's enemies in | to friends.
 l The Germans have been quicker | even than our own Allies to perceive | that democracy is the paramount is are standing behind the target where | they can see that the democratic gun | rings the bell every time. Many were fearful that President Wilson was heads of people. But his paper bull i let hit the bullseye more effectively | than any shell that has been hurled l across the trenches.
 The wooden sword made a home
 thrust. and the subject Of democracy ! now takes precedence of the subma- l rine. Kultur, Pan -Germanism. annex ations, indemnities and all other top | ics In Germany. Day by day the
 masses in the German Empire are coming more and more to understand that the world is not fighting them, but the autocracy at Potsdam, which n d t0- more Urea cherously and ruinously | than it deceived and betrayed their neighbors in other lands. Kaiserism it outf1anked and is caught in a cross fire from front and rear.
 The Kaiser at Bay. Even now, when there is not yet an enemy on German soil the Kaiser is beaten. He has assured his people and the world that he wants peace, | that he has had enough, and he means i it. But he has failed to dictate a ! German peace and he fears to accept an Allied peace, lest by yielding he | might lose his balance and tumble 1 from the throne.
 l At the same time his foes are re- fusing in advance the terms that he has not yet dared to offer them. With l his spokesmen in the Reichstag still 1 talking of annexations and indemni- | ties, with his invading armies still in enemy territory on both fronts the AII1eS are re1uS1nS to make peace with l ltim even If he should withdraw to l bis original frontiers and agree to 1 the status quo ante. They will not | trust him to forego his ambition for military conquest and they would look upon such concessions from him as only ruse to gain breathing time l for a fresh onslaught
 The Prussiah autocracy is in the Helpless plight of being unable to ] bring to Germany either victory or l peace. The United States cannot I make peace with the Kaiser at all without losing the object of the war 1 The Kaiser cannot satisfy the de- mands of France and England with out exposing himself to the loss of his
 autocratic power if not his crown. l And free Russia cannot safely ac- cept a plotting despotism as a next door neighbor.
 If the war should come to an end without the loss of an acre of Ger | man soil, the Germany of the Kaiser and the junkers, of Hollweg and the l scrap of paper of Tirpitz and r11th- lessness, of Bissing and frightfulness could not obtain for the German peo- pie the benefits of peace. With that Germany the democratic world still would be al war, if a bIoodIess one Without credit and without friends | such Germany could not rehabilitate itself under the frowns and suspicious of the free people. No one could take I it's hand in an alliance and it UoI1ld
 
 l many handicaps or it would be forced to renew the war in a desperate struggle to break through the moral, l political and economic quarantine against it.
 Must Make a Fresh Start. This is the state of affairs that is dawning upon the astonished under standing of a long deluded. a sadly
 misled people. Their eyes are open | ing to the fact that the autocracy is | stalled, that it can neither win the war nor stop it.
 The big business men are reckoning | in marks and years the loss of good will in the markets everywhere. The | Socialists went to Stockholm for | peace but came back to fight for de- mocracy at home. Some of the most conservative Germans have awakened | to the realization that the militarists l have made Germany the dread and | horror of Christendom and that only the people can restore the Nation to | the confidence of mankind | Germany is like property that has