The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-11-08
Huns Revile and Vilify

many ana the SerVlle PruSSlan
press have suddenly awakened
to the fact that the United
States is really preparing to
make its force felt in the world
war. This and the smashing
Indictment of the Hohen oil
ern written by President Will
son in his reply to the Pope's
last peace proposal, have caus-
ed all Germany to talk more of
America than of Russia or of
peace. The empire has rung
with a new hymn of hate, in
which we have been the ones
they want Colt to strafe. The
hymn containg four sections:
Violent abuse of Presi-
dent Wilson.
2-Ridicule of our army and
navy.
| 3-Anxious discussion of the
indemnity they would like to
exact from us.
4EEagerness to get new ter
ritory from which they can
menace us in the future.
Immediately after the pres
idents note to the pope, all
kinds of organizations passed
resolutions denouncing Wilson.
These formal declarations
were sent to the inner circle of
the empire.
! For instance the painters of
Berlin sent such a telegram to
Kaiser Wilhelm that he replied
thanking them for their loyal
pledge regarding the attempt
to seduce the German people
into breach of faith against
their Kaiser, and the empire"
The crown prince proved
himself an apt "Me-Too" by
thanking the Hamburg Cham
Der of Commerce for "the re-
freshing candor with which the
presumption of the American
president was deservedly de-
clined,
| Old General Hindenburg
Marshal Backwards-was the
busy boy. He did more fight
ing with his pen than with his
sword. He gave out a mes
sage assuring Germans that
they had placed themselves
firmly behind the kaiser as an
answer to the presumptuous
words" of Wilson. A few days
later he wired the Cologne
Chamber of Commerce:
"By his attempt to create
disunity President Wilson has
succeeded in uniting the Ger
man people. l don't doubt
that Wilson will receive a clear
answer by the seventh war
loan. May he in the future
continue to be a part of the
force which ever intends evil
and does good.
Three weeks later he sent
a similar message to the Cath
Ole Peoples Union of Essen,
where the Krupp cannons are
made.
Count Hertling, Prime Min
lister of Bavaria, in an address
to the Bavarian diet, attacked
Wilson, saying: what makes
his note inSufferable and must
challenge the sharpest protest
are his villification and insults
heaped upon the imperial gov
eminent as we'll as the trans
parent effort to cause dissatis-
faction btween the government
and the German people"
The town council of POtsdam
where is located the main resi-
dence of the kaiser, passed res
olutions which said:
"Filled with contempt, our
citizens turn aside from the
shameless hypocrite (Wilson)
who seeks to, hide behind high
sounding idealism his anxiety
about the blood-money which
he has advanced to his Eng
fish colleague" The President
is referred to as the crafty
hypocrite who with the simple
impudence of an uneducated
parvenu has the insolence to
interfere in our domestic Of
farirs."
The Rheinesche Westphal-
isc Zeitung, munition makers
organ, says the presidents note
exhibits colossal arrogance and
insolence. 1t continues:
German self-respect is a
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