The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-12-28

no right and no opportunity to inter-
pose n word concerning the future or
der Of the world and Of Germany. But
liz you cooperate, and that with all
your might, to carry out this purpose,
the honor of the German people, which
Is today scorned as merely an insen-
safe tool In the hands Of murderers,
will be restored; and more than that,
you will have a voice in the establish
ment OF the new order of the world
and of Germany. And take my word
for 1t we shall have peace, and we can
have II on such terms that the German
people win be happier in the future
than they ever were before the war. But
leave us in the lurch, and we must rec
ognize with sullen rage and scorn that
we are the fellow countrymen Of hope
lessly deluded slaves, upon whom will
rest the blame for their own ruin and
for the humiliation of Germany.
EMPEROR WIcKEDLY
DECEIVED you.
Comrades In war, you have taken an
oath of allegiance to your flag. But the
emperor, too, took an oath at the be-
ginning Of his reign, an oath of al
l~egiance to the German constitution.
The confederation which forms the
German empire was established ac-
cording to this constitution, ITO PRO-
TEcT THE UNITED PROVINCES
AND THE LEGAL RIGHTS THERE
OF, AND TO PROMOTE THE VEL
FARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE,"
To guard 1t is the foremost, indeed the
only, duty of the German emperor. IL
this purpose cannot be accomplished
without war, then the emperor may de-
clare war, but not until then. But the
emperor wickedIy, wantonly, by deceIv-
Ing the German people, by misrepre-
sentlno facts and by forging official
documents, by breaking sacred treaties
which he a. tho defender Of justice
should have observed, has overthrown
Belgium, declared war on Russia,
France and Serbia, and has thereby
violated the lawn OF Justice and the
constitution; has hurled the German
empire down TO ruin and has wrecked
the welfare OF the German people. The
oath which you have taken means al
legiance merely to an emperor who is
the protector of the German people,
the guardian Of their constitution, the
true preserver Of their welfare; Ii does
not mean allegiance to burglars, MUIR
derers, ~rascally drummers for greedy
canno makers. But you took no oath
against the German people whom 1t
was this emperor's duty to protect; ;
whom you must % protect without
him and against him, a miserable
wretch who betrays his country In the
hour Of greatest danger, who either
from stupidity or from cowardice
works against the good of his people.
KNIFE At cuLLET OF
scouNDRELs WHO RULE.
Let every man who loves the Ger.
man people and the German fatherland
come overt The password which is to
be given at the French posts Is:
REPUeLIci
He will meet not only French and Eng
lish and Americans, but also German
patriots, whose concern II is that our
fatherfand, the fatherland so shame
fully and treacherously sold by Its
rulers by divine right, should not be
annihilated; and he will be welcomed
with honor by the French IL he gives
this password, and will be well treated
Comrades In war, the knife is at the
gullet Of the scoundrels who rule you
and they would rather starve and bleed
the German people to death to the last
man than make peace, or ever make
known the object of their war. Fol
they know very well that the hour OF
reckoning has struck for them wher
they can no longer suppress the truth
beneath their martial law, and tramplt
freedom in the dust. Before we make
peace. therefore, and In order to make
peace. we must first reckon with them
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