Evening journal., 1917-04-20
"NO PEACE WITH THE KAISER ON ANY OF THE
HOHENzOLJERN TRIBE"

n RESIDENT WILSON has made it fairly clear that
4 America does not consider peace possible IN a
world in which the Hohenzolern dynasty is allowed to
rule And the United States OF the most power
full OF the Allies should to it that this battle cry is
adopted bv all the nations now at with Germany.
Only by bringing this fact home to the masses Of the
German people democracy be given its chance in
Germany itself
The Hohenzolerns and their dynastic ambitions have
been the curse not only of the doce German people
but OF the whole world we'll The history OF how
the Hohenzollerns raised themselves from minor
baronal family to imperial dynasty claiming d.
vine right and of how Prussia made the menace
that she is constitutes one long story Of and theft
and rapne
It began back in the eighteenth century, when VIII
helms much-belauded ancestor, Frederick the Great
assisted in the partition of the independent Kingdom
Of Poland taking a liberal slice for himself And
every Prussiau war since that time has Melted the
Hohenzollerns something of power or pef
What could the civilized nations expect of Germany
in relations with little Belgium, when they remem-
bered what Prussia had done to little Denmark back
in the sixties? The dynasty that ruthlessy robbed
Denmark OF her choicest provinces OF Scheswg-Hol-
stein and thus made possible the building OF the kie
canal largely for naval purposes is the same
one that treated a Belgian treaty mere scrap oil
paper.
The counts in the Indictment against the Hohenzol-
lerns many; against Wllhelm III uiey are ln''N
merable There can laid his door the sin OF caus
ing a whole world to be drenched in blood and tears
To him blinded men owe their sightess eyes, manged
men their shattered limbs widows and orphans their
mourning He has caused all civilization 10 pause IN
its forward swing and reel backwards into the bar
barism of war and its attendant horrors.
He has forever stained his name with the VIOLATION
Of Belgium with the destruction of its quiet Old
dreamy cities with the exile and deportation of its
people The starving Begians, the hungering Polish
Christians and Jews the children Of Armenans massa
cred 10 make a Mahommedan holiday. all curse mis-
name There is hardly spot in the world where his
existence has not been felt and, since 1914 for evil
| No other creature in the worlds history has been re-
sponsble for much woe, so much destruction OF Ire
/ and property of happiness and we-beng.
This fantast with brain warped by lust FOR power
this neurotic this basphemer with his wicked pratngs
about the favor OF the God Of Divine Love for his ac-
cursed family must go, he and all his brood
Only when they have been toppled from the hign
places OF power and command only when the German
people are allowed to rule themselves only when dynas
tic pretensons and ambitions cast into the garbage
barrel of things that were will It be possible to have
ANYTHING like peace in this world; only then can the
democratic nations OF the world of which the United
states is most representative seriously begin to talH
OF universal disarmament that the time and The
talents and the money devoted to the wicked aru
OF war may be used for the uplf OF man and thu
greater glory OF God.