The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-04-12
himself and his gear at your disposal.
The ample bosomed housewife coddles


phere radiates with friendly JUNCTION
Their actions, rather than their words
proclaim that they would like to have
you stay forever and day and when
you depart it is with a "God-speed'
and good wishes fervently uttered.
On the other hand the Imperial
government is the most suspicious, in
hospitable, critical, illiberal and can
tankerous in existence. From the mo-
ment you cross the boundary you are
treated as an un-friend, regarded as a
potentisl criminal. A spy is placed
upon your trail, even as they have
honey-combed all the nations of the
world in times of peace. You register
at hotel. An official appears at your
elbow like ghost from nowhere, calls
| for your passport, wants to know, you
know where you are from, where you
are going, what your business is, how
long you are going to stay, whether
or not your baby has been vaccinated.
the nationality of your wife's mothers
aunt and plainly indicates by both
words and action that the shorter you
make your stay the more agreeable ii
will be to all concerned.
What a German citizen has is yours
for the asking; the Imperial govern
ment will grab your night shirt if you
look the other way.
The German people are the most
democratic in the world, equality of
right and privilege is fetch with
them; they never ask more than they
are willing to give and merit is their
measure of a man, to a greater ex-
tent than in any other nation We have
ever visited.
The Imperial government is the
most autocratic beneath the stars,
Equality of right or privilege is her
esq, if not treason in it's eyes; it de-
mands everything, but will yield moth
ing and in it's councils precedence is
based on birth and not merit.
The Germans are the greatest eve"
people God ever created; the Imper-
lal government is the greatest 81"
government that ever existed since
time began.
Why the most democratic of peoples
rave endured the most ahso,ut, form
of government as long as they have
is one of the incomprehensive myster-
les of the ages.
The German people are loyal to the
Kaiser but they do not love him. This
is demonstrated by the fact that they
have never given him nickname.
When people or an army love their
leaders they always bestow on them
some affectionate, descriptive nick
name.
We have a parallel in our own his
tory. The army was loyal to Grant,
but they did not love him, as they did
Sherman. He was always General"
Grant to them, while it always was
"Pap" Sherman and Little Phil'
Sheridan around the campfires.
The German army and people loved
the kaiser's grim old grandfather. He
was and still is water" Wilhelm to
them. They worshipped almost tc
idolatry the Kaiser's faher, the most
liberal of modern German rulers. Low
ingly they termed him "Unser Fritz"
(Our Fritz.
The present ruler is the KAISER,
nothing more and they utter the name
with the same mein that the hooky-
playing school boy says Teacher"
when he marches down the aisle to re-
ceive an application of the ruler where
it will do him the most good. The
Germans will follow him to the death
under existing conditinos he repre-
sents, or at least they think he repre-
sents the Fatherland, but they are
fighting for their country and not for
their king and the things for which
he stands.
Germans love Germany with pa
triotic devotion impossible to put forth
in words, and it will be governed by
Germans as long as there is left man
strong enough to pull trigger or a
woman able to throw hot water and
no fair minded man would will it
otherwise, but they do not love the
Imperial government.
Germans are found in every country
under the stars. They cling tenacious
ly to their religion, their customs, their
sports and their mother tongue, but
there is not a recorded instance that
they have even suggesed that Ger
man law should supplant the laws CT
the country in which they located.
Nine-tenths of the original German
settlers of this country came here not
because they did not love Germany
not because they could not make a liv-
ing there, but because they irked un.
der Imperialism and it's restrictions.
In almost inspired utterances Pres.
ident Wilson made clear this difference
between the German people and the
Imperial Government and equally
plain that he declared war moi
on the German people but upon Prus
sian Imperialism.
BRYAN
]. Again has William Jennings Bryan