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warning. Hospital ships have been
sunk Ships carrying food for the
Belgians have been sunk. Neither
life, property or humanity has been
regarded; nothing but terrible lust
for blood, greed for power, for con-
quest. The question was up to the
civilized world: Is democracy, the
right of the people, to survive, or IS
the world to be ruled by the Hohen-
zollerns, by the Prussian militarlsm!
That is where we are concerned.
I love the German people, grew up
among them, and can talk with them
and read theirliterature. But they have
been hypnotized, they have been mis-
led for thirty years. They have been
educated to think that the German
government is the only government in
the world, that German rule is the
only just rule, and that they
are the only people fit to rule
the world Much as respect
the German people, and no one re-
spects them as citizens more than l
do when they are loyal, say that
there are other people just as good'
All people have their good points.
Swedes are pretty good people, ana
there are lots of them here. ZAP
plause.) The Irish are good people
(applause), and you know l have
tender love for our American people
myself. (Applause.)
= Now. let me be frank about it. Is
there any one people in the world
better than all the rest-fitter than
all the rest, to rule and to dictate!
If not. the kaiser and the German
propaganda is wrong. Their only
ideal is force. Right has no place IN
their dictionary. Force. Look at their
treatment of us: filled our peaceful
land with spies and informers, fired
factories and put explosives on our
ships. Why the German government
even sent officials to little Norway to
drop bombs in the coal bunkers,< the
same as they did in our own, to de-
stroy. The German emperor is acting
like a mad dog, acting like a mad dog
let loose among the community Of ma
tons; and when man plays a brute,
T acts q brute and is brute, it is the
business not only of every nation but
of every individual who has drop of
red blood to turn out and fight the
brute. (Applause.) Let there be no
peace in the world until the brute is
gone.
For long time, my friends, after
the opening of this war, the European
war, I did not pay much attention tc
it. felt that it was a scrap between
European nations. I knew England
had robbed for hundreds Of years.
knew she had exploited weaker popu-
lations. She had done great many
good things, but she had also done
bad things, and I will not shut my ole
eyes to things as they are. l knew
that Germany, the German ruling
classes, feeling their strength, feeling
their power, thought that they hat
reached the point where they coule
get into England, too; where the!
could do the exploiting, where the!
could do the robbing of the helpless
nations of the world for few hun
dred years. Well, I felt if they cal
turn the trick, if they let us alone
it is a good deal of case of dog ca
dog; go to it; let the best man or tn
biggest rascal win. But bye and by
it dawned upon me that it was no
merely rivalry for political power
it is rivalry to dictate to the worlc
The real question was whether autoc
racy should rule or whether demoe
racy should rule. I said so to
friend of mine when this had dawne
upon me-and he is an old Germa
FRIEND He replied, "John, how d
you feel about this business now
"Well," l said, peter, I'm getting
be a pretty old man, am afraid I Al
too old to learn to walk goose ste]
I am on the side Of democracy, and
could never learn to respect verbote
on every corner" Now I do NJ
imagine for moment that we in Mil
nesota will be threatened; the Germs
emperor will never travel the roo
that I have ridden over today to me
you. (Applause.) My remaini1
hand will pull a trigger before TIL
comes to pass. (Applause.)
We are not alone in this wor]
We are one Of family of nations.
is our duty to see that this world
fit for democracy all over, that it
not to be plundered by autocracy, tn
it is not to be plundered by class ru
What is the trouble with the wo1
today? Not too much democrat