Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-12
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| Eva Mills, of the senior class, is the
victim of a severe and prolonged cold
which has necessitated her absence
from school. All hope for her immed.
late recovery, for she is an all round
booster" who is much missed from
the ranks.
The U. S. History class is very
proud of its liberty bond. They didn't
start in and pay 2 per cent down
They paid down SS per cent in coin OF
the realm, and at present writing, are
within a few cents of having the
whole $50 paid.
Some days ago, during discussion
Of the Declaration of independence
the topic came up, What would a
Declaration of Democracy" be like /!
In response, some very fine speci-
mems of the concrete application OF
the Declaration of Independence to
the present day were submitted. The
following from the pen of Hilmer
Christopherson is one of the able ex-
ponents of this scheme:
Declaration of Democracy.
When, in the course of human
events, it becomes necessary for the
people of a free and independent
country to take up arms for the cause
of life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness, and for the acknowledge
ment of international laws and rights,
which one government is refusing to
heed, do assert that governments are
instituted among men, deriving their
Just powers from the consent of the
governed, and that whenever any
form of government becomes de-
structive of these ends, it is the right
and duty of the people to alter or
abolish it.
We, therefore, the people of the
United States of America, do absolve
all political and international rela-
lions with the empire of Germany
and Kaiser Wilhelm, which of a right,
ought to be dissolved; and do here
by pledge allegiance to stand united
in overthrowing the tyrannical and
corrupt government of the empire of
Germany; the corrupt Prussian mill
tarism; and the submarine menace.
The history of the present empire
of Germany is a history of increas-
ing power of the Kaiser in his king
dom over his subjects, and of his
striving to uphold the "diyine right of
kings" and to become ruler of the
world, which the people of Germany
have been led to prepare for during
the last fifty years. Further, that it
has been the object 81 the Kaiser to
overthrow his greatest enemy, de-
mocracy, and establish his corrupt
autocracy. We hold these truths to
be self evident and submit these few
facts to the people of the world to
decide:
1.-That the Kaiser has for his
main object to establish autocracy in
the world and rule, himself, by the
divine right of kings"
2.-That he has broken and refuses
to acknowledge international laws in
his submarine warfare.
3.-That he has sunk many neu-
trail ships with helpless women and
Children on board.
4.-That he has sunk many of our
passenger ships without warming and
at a time when these United States
Of America were neutral nation.
5.-That he has filed neutral coun-
tries with spies.
6.-That he has used the utmost
cruelty to prisoners by cutting OF
their hands and feet or otherwise
manning them for life.
THAT he has endangered the po-
litical liberty of the whole world.
8.-That he has ruthlessly menac-
ed all countries by his submarine
warfare and tried to brighten all the
smaller countries into alliance with
him.
9.-That he has invaded and
mistreated Belgium, DESTROYED its
towns and country homes and dried
to starve the people to death.
1O.-And lastly, that he has most
mercilessly attacked hospital ships
and Red Cross hospitals wherein