The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-09-29

Ihe foregoing paragraph is from q source tut "h"n
was last to be expected. 1t is from the kaiser's reply to me
pope.
1t comes from the ruler "by divine right" VINO
decorated with royal honors the author of the noted and no'or-
ious, the famous and infamous "song of hate"-noted and IA
nous in Germany, notorious and infamous throughout I'M Nv
ilized world.
1t comes from the ruler of that country whose schools had
been so abased by the doctrine of war for wars sake, so hard
ened to cruelty by the teachings of militarism and the glories
of war, that teachers and children alike rejoced, while school
bells rang, as the news came to Germany that the unarmed
Lusitania with 1900 noncombatants of all nations and SU inno-
cent women and children had been murdered at sea.
1t comes from the ruler by divine right" of a country that
tore up a treaty its government had signed and sent its vandal
hordes through Belgium and into France and levied tribute, as
Jesse James, or the Moroccan pirates, or Pancho Villa might
have done.
1t comes from the ruler of the only country on earth that
ever printed the words of hate upon the money of its people,
or asked God to share their hate-"Gott straffe England" "Gott
straffe America"
1t comes from the ruler "by divine right" who sent his
vandals into neutral Belgium and northern France to conquer
and subdue, and promised his bankers that the cost of the war
would be paid by indemnities collected from the conquered
peoples.
1t comes from the ruler "by divine right" whose army and
whose officers treated rape as one Of the rights of the con-
queror; forcing upon the world a new problem, the care of the
children of violence" whose mothers, through adherence of
their fathers and the memory of their conception, disown them.
These now number 10000, cared for by the people of those
nations who are resisting the enforcement, at the point of the
sword, of German 'kulur," and merciful care is being taken
that their unfortunate lives shall not be clouded by the circum-
stances of their birth. God alone knows how many there
VIII De Wnen Ill tne conquered territory IS recovered.
This plea for the abatement of hate comes from the ruler
by divine right" of the only nation that ever deliberately
taught, through the textbooks of its public schools, the doctrine
of hate.
What other nation ever placed in the textbooks of a pri-
mary grade a catechism opening with such a question and an
swer as this:
Ouestion-What is Germany?
Answer-An empire entirely surrounded by enemies.
And what a commentary! What must we think of the man
who tells us, even in his own defense, that every %neighbor is
his enemy?
How long, O Lord, will the German people submit to the
rule of a government that places them before the world in that
light? And what object can that school-book question have
had except to prepare the child for war by planting early the
seeds of International hate?
The plea that has come out of Germany most frequently of
late is the plea that there shall be mo war after the war"
no trade discrimination. God forbid that there should be, but if
there should, where will lie the blame? Who will have made
forgetfulness difficult? Will the people of Belgium forget
that violated treaty? Will they forget Liege and Antwerp?
Will France forget Rheims? Will either forget their wives
and daughters outraged, their homes, their vineyards and even
fruit trees wantonly destroyed, their wells befouled and their
people driven into slavery? Will England forget the war on
women and children from the skies? Will America forget
Bernstorff Won Papen, Won Igel and the plot to involve us with
MEXICO and Japan? Will Argentina forget Luxburg? Will the
world forget Edith Cavell or the Lusnania or the Sussex? Did
the world forget Nero or Herod, and will it forget or forgive
while the people of Germany continue to honor a Hohenzollern
or a Hindenburg?
Before Germany invaded Belgium there were millions of
articles sold daily throughout the world that carried the trade
legend "Made in Germany" They were the product of Ger
man labor and they brought wealth and power to the German
nation, a wealth and power that have been used to devastate
the world, to destroy civilization, to brutalize mankind, and all
for the glory of a war-mad king.
The writer loves his country, but no nation can make
treaty that will bind him to the purchase of a dollars worth
of anything made in Germany while the people of that coun-
try continue to honor a Hohenzollern or a Hindenbure And
there will be millions of that mind.
No wonder the ruler who sowed in Germany the seed Of
hate is trying to stink from his harvest of wrath.