The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-12
NO PEACE WITH POTSDAM


mSleSt OF the vile; the r0tteneSt OF the rotten; no peace with
them; no peace with Germany until they are exterminated.
First out of the box, the president should urge this upon
Balfour and Viviani. The decisive word should go forth from
the White House. America should proclaim to the world that
freedom will never be safe, peace secure, until an end is put
to the obsession that the kaiser is God with which the Hohen-
zolern has inoculated the German mind.
Let us recall two shocking examples. They will suffice to
show the impious character of the man and the gullible charac-I
ter of the people. In his speech to the recruits on parade at
Potsdam the kaiser said:
crate N other.
Il represen Monarchy by the grace of God.
"You us all have n will, and that is My will; there is only one
law, and that is My law.
"f 1 order you t. shoot down your relatives, brothers-yes, even
your parents-you must obey Me without murmuring.'
This reads like a travesty. Yet word for word it is what
the kaiser actually said. 1t underlies his whole case. In his
proclamation" of the 18th of January, 1914, he profanely
shouted:
1.-The esprit of God has descended upon Me because 1 am German
Emperor. 1 am the instrument of the Most High. 1 am lis sword, His
representative o earth. Woe ant Death t o those who oppose My will!
Death to the infdel II denies My mission! Let all the enemies of the
German nation perish! God demands their destruction-God' who by My
mouth summons you to carry ut His decrees.'
Coming down to brass tacks and boot heels, taking account
of the situation and stock of the record, especially the kaiser's
recent promise of reform, our esteemed contemporary, the In
dianapolis News, says:
The plain truth is : and it might as we'll be spoken : that the
present a is n between the socaled common people everywhere and
the HohenzoIern and Hapsburg families. The courer-Journal has not
always been parliamentary in its discussion of the "a and the problems
growing ut Of it, but it has ON neare the truth than those towards
h have tned to carry water o both shoulders. The point for
is to remember is that we are at war, not with a few submarine com
manders who are willing to commit murder under orders, but with a sys-
TEN that must be destroyed. We and the entente allies have a common
enemy, and we should act together against him. There would be no
submarine murders were there n o Hohenzolern government
II is strange that the honest American Germans have not
,s@en the truth long ago that it is this kaiser, who has posed so
Xong as a srperman, who by the assertion of his imperial abso-
Mtsm, has plunged the world into the direst cataclysm of de-
struction and slaughter since time began.
1t is he, and he alone, VINO, Wnetner eXplOlleu by tyrdlHouo,
unreflecting militarism, or exploiting it, has wrecked the great
German empire. He has lost every rood of its colonies, ami
Inflated all it's splendid commerce, desolated the land In rum,
crushed its people in poverty and famine, filled the muck of
the trenches, the reek of the prisons, the maws of the buzzards,
with the millions of its best manhood and made kaiser i'm
perialism abhorred and despised of all humankind.
Yet, whether they saw it or not, this kaiser sees it. He sees
that the hour of reckoning is near; that the people whom he
can deceive no longer will turn from his victims into his judg-
es: that unless he comedies them part of the rights, so long de-
MED them, they will take all their rights. So this self-elected
partner of Jehovah pretends to be willing to become a partner
Of the people, whom he has trampled under his feet, IN 'e
hope that by thus surrendering his claims to infalibillty and
omnipotence he may save his throne to himself and his long
necked, r~eceding- chinned progeny?
Be sure that it is all pretense. He does not mean it. His
kind of reform is not to come till after the war. Meanwhile
let it be remembered that no Hohenzonern was ever known to
keep a promise.
No peace is with the Hohenzollern; William must walk the
plank. There is no hope for Germany till he is out and down,
dead and done for. We must destroy him if we have to fight
for years. The blood of innumcrable brave men will have been
shed in vain if this ridiculous and archaic lunatic is permitted
to retain one vestige of power. He tried to impose his will
upon the world. By the world he must be Judged and not by
his besotted subjects. When he sought world dominion he
ceased to possess the right to have his fate decided solely by
his own people. He must be dealt with by the nations he
sought to ruin and enslave, by the peoples he is enslaving to-
day: and there must be no paltering with any foolish sentl-
mentalists who fear to see him treated as he deserves.
They are wide of the mark who think that if left to them
selves the Germans will overcome the imperial will and
democratize their own institutions.
Politically the Germans are sheep, and even in their excess
es they are merely artificially maddened sheep. There is not
the smallest prospect of an international movement in Germany