Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-09-27
TREACHERY AND VIILAINY.

III TlnRiuB pdtilotiS auuiS5e W 'ht
body of selected soldiers from LaFay
cite county gathered at Darlington last
week for departure to Camp Grant,
Hon. j. G.. Monahan, whom all south
western Wisconsin know and respect,
gave the people something to think
about in partial revelation of the
treachery and villainy of the Kaiser
and his clan as follows:
There are men, largely German
sympathizers, if not secret allies OF
the Kaiser, who are constantly asking
the question: Why did the United
States enter this war; The answer is
simple. First, because our duty 20
every friend of political liberty de-
manded it; second, because our exist
ence as nation was put in peril. our
people had been murdered. our prop
erty destroyed. the rights Of the sea
denied US. solemn pledges were given
us only TO be violated. and we were
automatically told that the United
States had no rights the Kaiser was
bound to respect.
ITO have longer endured these in
suits and outrages would have stamped
us as pusilanimous people, unworthy
of this great land that has come as a
heritage to US, and unworthy of the
flag she flies That is why we are at
war with the Government of Germany
ITO be more specific, it is now known
on German authority that on July and
z, council was held at Vienna, at,
tended by the representatives. of an
allied nation, who dominated the Coun
ell, and decided on war Ard that
nation was Germany. 1t is known. also
on German authority, that on July s.,
began the massing Of troops along the
borders of both Luxembourg and Bel
GUM. and these troops all wore the
helments of Germany; and this CON
tinucd for twenty days before war was
declared.
Then came the crash. The Kaiser
and his government had not built for
Autocracy in vain. One nation en-
tered that mighty conflict, armed and
armored for battle; and that nation
was Germany. France came upon the
field with her hastily summoned le-
gions. poorly armed, a great deficiency
in munitions and without hospital sup
plies, England had to purchase rifles
from a neutral nation with which TO
arm her soldiers hastily sent to assist
bleeding France. while Belgium and
Luxembourg awoke to find their land in
vaded by one of the powers that was
bound 10y solemn treaty to respect their
neutrality and protect them in case Of
invasion; and that government was
Germany.
what nation invaded Belgium, de-
claring that solemn treaty is only a
"scrap Of paper" shot and bayoneted
her civilian men, outraged her women
ana starved and mutilated her chill
dren? Germany.
"When neutral peoples asked permis-
sion to send food and clothing to the
suffering Belgiaus, and that permits
sion was granted, what nation violated
their pledge freely given by seizing
some Of the cargoes Of food and cloth
ing. appropriating them to their own
needs, and at other times. with their
murderous submarines, sinking those
supply ships? Germany.
What nation ordered her air-crafts
to attack unfortiied cities. and in so
doing dropped bombs on homes and
school houses. killing women and chill
dreng Germany.
what nation sank the Lusitsnia and
Arabic in which hundreds of lives were
lost, including many women and chill
iren, and one former citizen Of Oar
Iington, Or. L. f. Woods? Germany.
What nation, through their spy and