The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-09-21
Result Of Investigation Is Put
Into Plain Words
DREAM OF The KAISER
Proof That Emperor Sought the
World Control BY Use of
Shot and Shell
MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL
From Tuesdays Daily.

MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL
From Tuesdays Daily.
New York, September 17.-Ten
thousand atrocities committed on a
800 mile front by the kaiser's soldiers
have been recorded in photographs
and refugees testimony by trained
men following in the wake of the
German armies, according to Rev.
Newell Dwight Hills, delegated by
the American Bankers association to
conduct an investigation of German
outrages in Eastern France.
His report is to be given to the
public in serial form in the shape of
sermons. The first of the sermons
was delivered Sunday in Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, under the title
1.-The German Atrocities as the Logic
al and Inevitable Results of the Ger
man Philosophy of Militarism." AL
together there will be six sermons
based on his investigation, in which
berlain of New York.
"For three years." said DR.. Hills,
German Americans have protested
that the stories of German atrocities
were to be disbelieved as English in
ventions, Belgian lies and French
hypocracies. The photographs
of dead and mutilated girls, children
and old men tell no lies.
Soldiers Are Dehumanized.
"The Germans slaughtered old men
and matrons, mutilated captives in
ways that can only be spoken of by
men in whispers. violated little girls
until they were dead. Finding calf
skin nailed upon a barn door to be
dried, they nailed a babe beside it
and wrote beneath the words:
"Zwei." (Two)
Call wise men trace deeds, wicked or
good, back to the philosophic thinking
of the doer, just as they trace bitter
water back to poisoned spring.
What the individual or the nation
thinks in the heart, that he does in
the life.
Judas thinks in terms of avarice
and greed, and his philosophy results
in treason and murder. The kaiser,
Nietzche. Won Bethmann Hollweg,
Won Kissing and Plauss think and
teach the theory of iron force, the
right of big GERMANY to loot little
Belgium or Northern France, and drill
them in the belief that Germany's
right is the right of the lion over the
lamb, and that no questions will be
asked by just God on the day OF
judgment.
"This war began in conference IN
the Potsdam palace in 1892. The
pamphlet distributed by the kaiser be-
gins with these words:
"'The pan-German empire: from
Hamburg on the North sea to the
Persian gulf Our immediate goal:
25O,O0O,0OO of people. Our ultimate
goal: the Germanization of all the
world
"The explanation of the kaiser con-
tains these words:
"'From childhood I have been un-
der the influence of five men, Alexan-
der, julius Caesar, Theodore ii, Fred
erick the Great, Napoleon. Each Of
these men dreamed dream of world
empire-they failed. I am dreaming
a dream of the German world empire
and my mailed fist shall succeed.
"Germania" On United States May.
"He printed one map headed The
Roman EMPIRE with all the great
states captured and their capitals
Athens, Ephesus, Jerusalem, Alex-
andria, Carthage-reduced to county
seat towns, paying tribute to Rome.
But the kaiser prints side by side
with that map another world map,
with Berlin the capital; and by 1915
st. Petersburg, Paris and London
were to be county seat towns, sub
dued provinces Of Germany-and
Washington and Ottawa were to fol-
low with the word 'Germania' stamped
on the United States and Canada.
"That is why the kaiser told Mr..
Gerard: After this war I shall not
stand any nonsense from the United
States The president heard, but he
Cid not tremble
"The originator of this world war
was the kaiser; Treitschke was its
historian; Nietzche was it's phil
osopher; Won Kissing and Won Hind
enburg it's executives. The murder of
Edith Cavell, hundreds of women and
Belgium, the assassination of North
ern France were the outer exhibition
in deeds of the philosophy of force.
The German Philosophy.
'The German philosophy has dehu-
manized Germany's officers and men,
Pulling his iron token Ca coin given
to each German soldier) out of his
pocket-that exhibited Deity as de-
stroying soldier-the German officer
or private reads the words beneath
'Smite your enemy dead. The day OF
judgment will not ask you for your
reasons
Having, therefore, full liberty to
loot, these Germans became the wild
beasts. The plan had been Brussels in
one week, Paris in two weeks, London
in two months, and then two pockets
filled with rings, bracelets and
watches, from Paris or Nancy, for
the sweethearts at home.
when the German army in Lorraine
was defeated by one-half it's number
it fell northward, passing through
French towns and villages where
there were no Frenchmn. no gunc.
and where no shots were fired.
Tales From Victims.
During July and August we went
slowly from one ruined town to an
other, talking with the women and the
children; comparing the photographs