New Britain herald., 1917-03-20


 have always misunderstood American liberality, SD the people under them
 have misunderstood the motives which
 prompt the mind of royalty. Some
 By all that has happened in the
 past. the deep sympathy of the United
 States has been alienated from the
 cause of Germany. When the war
 broke out, two and a half years ago.
 the average man in the street here
 was somewhat in favor of Germany
 winning the war. This was because of the past record of England in her re-
 lations with the United States. His
 tory brought up many reasons why the people of this country could not be totally behind tho English. That was at the beginning. As the war gradually wore on, things changed. German frightfulness, first experi- enced by this country in the sinking of the Lusitania, began to offset the old crimes of Great Britain. Biz as the sins of Great Britain loomed in the past, they became totally obliter-, ated when the slaughter of innocent men. women and children on the high seas was pressed by Germany with relentless vigor. The only ones then who were willing to make excuses for this wilful murder were those who were born and raised on German soil, those who had not become acclimated, so to speak. to the American methods or government. Now, even the sons and daughters of Germany in this country are unable to further palliate the crimes of those who direct the government of Germany. The sink ing of the three American ships,-the Illinois. the City of Memphis and the Vfgilancia,-came as the last straw. There was no reason in the world for sending these ships to the bottom. Two of them were returning to Ameri- ca in ballast. They carried no car goes. They were American ships, flying the American flag, and manned by American crews The sinking of such vessels without warning and the attendant loss of lives were nothing short of wilful murder. That they were committed in the face of obliga- ttons to international law and human ity bespeaks the perpetrator of the deeds an outlaw among nations and an outcast from society.
 Such deeds as have been recorded against Germany have come about because of the great misunderstanding which is harbored in the minds of those men who have always had their own way in the government of their people. The House of Hohenzollern operates under the belief that it Is ap- pointed by Almighty Cod ta carry out His mission on earth. The Divine Right of Kings" is the first and fore most principle upon which this House was builded. Those who disagree with such a doctrine have no place In the empire over. which the House presides. The people who live in that land have always been subjected to the absolutism of the Kaiser and those who are his official advisors, just as the people in Russia were always under the thumb of the Car. The only difference has been that the rank and file of German people were more highly educated than their Russian what though education in Germany has always been under the direction and supervision of imperial For the people who have been under this influence the sons and of American liberty have held the highest sympathy. As the people on these shores have come to know the meaning of true political liberty they have manifested broad spirit of tolerance for the folk of all nations. They have wished that the entire nations of the earth might be brought to the democratic way of thinking. The mere fact that they have thought these things places them at one and the same time against all rule. The King of Eng land is just as displeasing in the eyes Df Americans as the Czar of Russia pr the Emperor of Germany, even though the English throne is not any where near as powerful as the thrones of Austria Hungary and Germany. These two are the last words in ab- solutism. The men who occupy chairs on or near the thrones of those lands can never bring themselves to under stand America. They can never know now any nation can exist that is gov -A