Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-10-17
The Devil Abdicates IN
Favor of Kaiser Wilhelm

naval power. Murder is dirty work
but it takes a HOhenzOllern to make
away and get by.
Your opportunity was at hand; you
set the world on fire and bells Of hell
were ringing; your rape of. Belgium
caused much JOY, it was the beginning
the foundation, of perfect hell on
earth, the destruction of noble cathed-
ials and other infinite works Of art
was hailed with JOY in the Internal re
giOns. You made war on friends and
foe alike and the murder of civilians
showed my teaching had borne fruit.
Your treachery toward neutral nations
fastened a universal upheaval, the
thing l most desired. Your under-sea
warfare is a master stroke. From the
smallest mackerel pot to the great
Lusitania you show no faVOrites. AS
war Lord you stand supreme, for
you have no consideration for the baby
clinging to it's mothers breast as they
both go down into the deep together,
only to be torn apart and leisurely de-
voured by sharks down among the cor
ais.
81 have strOlled over the battlefields
of Belgium and France. | have seen
your hand of destruction everywhere;
it's all your work, super-fend that l
made you. | have seen the fields of
Poland; now a wilderness fit only for
prOwling beasts; no merry children in
Poland now; they all succumbed to
! frost and starvation l drifted down
into Galicia where formerly Jews and
gentiles lived happily together;
found but ruins and ashes. l felt a
curious pride in my pupil, for it was
all above my expectations. l was in
Belgium when you drove the peaceful
population before you like cattle into
slavery; you separated man and wife
and forced them to hard labor in the
trenches. I have seen the most fiend-
ish rape committed on young women
and those who were forced into ma
ternity were cursing the father of
their offspring, and | began to doubt
if my own inferno was really up to
date
you have taken millions of dollars
from innocent victims and called it in
demnity; you have lived fat on the
land you usurped and sent the real
owners away to starvation. You have
strayed away from all legalized war
/ methods and introduced a code of your
own. You have killed and robbed the
people Of friendly nation and de-
strOyed their property. You are liar,
hypOcrite and a buffer of the high
est magnitude. You are a partner of
mine and yet you pose as a personal
friend of God All, Wilhelm, you are
a wonder. You wantonly destroy all
things in your path and leave nothing
for coming generations.
Il was amazed when | saw you
form a partnership with the impossi-
Bile Turk, the chronic killer Of Chris
tians, and you a devout worshipper of
the Lutheran church. I confess, Will
! helm, you are puzzle at times. A
MOhammedan army, commanded by
German officers, assisting one another
! in massacreing Christians is a new
line of warfare. When a Prussian Of
ficer can witness a nude woman being
disembOWelled by a sWarthy Turk,
committing a double murder with one
cut of his Saber, and calmly stand by
and see a house full of innocent Ar
menians locked up, the house saturat-
ed with oil and fired, then my teach
ings did not stop with you, but have
been extended to the whole German
nation. [ confss my Satanic soul grew
sick and there and then | knew the
pupil had become the master. | am a
back number, and, my dear Wilhelm,
abdicate in your favor. The great key
of hell will be turned over to you. The
gavel that has struck the doom of
damned souls since time began is
yours. am satisfied with what I have
done; that my abdication in your favor
is for the very best interests of hell.
In the future l am at your majesty's
service. Affectionately and sincerely,
'GLucifer H Satan"