The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-09

and "Nicky'' were Indignantly schem-
ing q shameless conspiracy which, but
for the mercy of God and the honesty
of France, might have found Europe
leagued in an iron enmrry against the
British Empire.
Two creatures-dirty dogs-without
the brains of the average working
man, but with the might and power of
gods-were able to look upon this
great struggling world of ours-with
its trials and its tears, its travail and
endeavor, its yearning ideals and it's
hopes for the future-with a sardon-
ic indifference. a deadly aloofness, in
famous and impious.
Let all free men take note; let the
democracies Of the world mark the
meaning, and while this war is still
weltering to it's bloody close let HUI
mainly register vow.
That vow If maintained will change
the face of the earth and bring nearer
the Millennium of human hopes. Death
to such kings--an end to all the des-
postal the autocrats! On the blood
of those who have fallen to give mon
archs sport. by the tears of the wild
ow, the wailings OF ravished maiden
hood, the cry of the orphan and the
starving, let man swear the solemn
oath of fea1ty to humanity.
Thank God. the working men of
Britain have made answer in clarion
tones to the sickly sentimentalists and
the spies Of Germany who sought to
undo our determination at Stockholm
and plant the insidious seed of mis-
trust into the hearts Of the Allies.
Those who are not for US are
against u.s. Neutrality is a crime.
Today the guilt of Potsdam cries
aloud to Heaven. And that guilt is
the guilt which comes of the foolish
ness Of nations-the weaknesses and
ignorance of peoples. No one would
dare to say that there would be no
war If there were no kings. But the
war began with the murder Of a puny
princeling; and God knows the rest of
strife is awful SO long as dogs like
willie and ''Nicky'' can plot in Sc
cret and disport themselves upon a
human chessboard. Read the revela-
lions in the correspondence which
passed between Potsdam and Petro-
grad, in the years before the war, and
realize the deadly dangers of auto
cratic monarchy. Can you imagine
the Presidents of the French and
American republics-or even our own
sovereign, the head of the most truly
republican nation in the world-treat-
ing the millions over whom they rule
as miserable pawns In the dirty game
of personal ambition, writing and wir.
ing, plotting and scheming to make
more firm their thrones with ce-
ment mixed with the blood and tears
Of men?
Death to the Kings of the type of
the Kaiser and the Czar-that is the
stern moral, the bitter lesson Of the
agony Of the Armageddon. Away with
them-let them be crucified. The
world is in arms today-the sword
must not be sheathed until the GRIM
inals are swinging in the cleansing
breezes of revenge and their bodies
mo peace with the Hohenzollern!" is
the cry. mo place for the despot,,
wherever he be found" must be our
fixed and unalterable resolve.
And, repeat, to bring about this
splendid end, to encompass the down
fall of all despotism and liberate the
world from the thra1dom of arms, we
must save Rassia from herself. The
picture on which we look today across
the ensanguined fields of Europe is
dark and menacing. We see liberty
in drunken frenzy. The shack1es
of an age long autocracy have fallen
with suddenness that has turned
honest mems heads, made cravens of
soldiers. and converted the fine old
law of self-protection into the raving
danger of national suicide. It is an
appalling outcome of struggle to-
wards light and freedom And it's
menace is worldwide.
Misunderstanding all, knowing all
lis making haste to the rescue of
civilization i 40 T.
mapped QUIT is to help sweep back
the foul waters of Prussian despotfsm
to the Rhine.
Japan-brave, virile, fighting jan
an; free people. loving a constitu-
ttonal sovereign, preferring all that is
best and most healthy in our western
civilization is already in d-clasp
with the Allies. She can do in the
East what our cousins from across the
Atlantic will help accomplish in the
West. Who can doubt her power or
her honor? Give her the call. let the
cry echo across the seas-"tCome over
and help u.s." And with a mighty
Banzaf!' the armies of Japan. which,
peat down the Russians on the broad
plains of <Manchuria like ripe corn
Deneatn the sickle, will pour across
the intervening lands make common
/ "~S<> VIC OA0 Cl1SIIlyy ana OGIOr6
the winter comes to stifle the efforts
OF man and hold up the conflictins
hosts, turn the rout of the Russian
into He'll for the Hun. ALWAYS pro-
vided, as the lawyers say, that the
politicians do not thwart them.
Never mind about color, creed or
anything else. We are at war-at war
with the Devil himself. We must. as
l nave so often said, throw our copy-
books and our text books away. In
the mighty words of Henry ". before
Ag1ncourt, we must Initiate the ar.
ton of the tiger" The Hun is the prev
I'VE must devour him. Merely r.
| clip his claws would be to give them
time to grow again. A peace that left
! Inns hound Of Europe with even a yes.
/, tlge OF strength would mean stand.
ing menace to the whole worla-at
| any moment the rivers of blood NIGH,
begin flowing again. The Allies mus
STICK at nothing to make victory sure
$4,000 BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED
Paris, Nov. 9-More than 5n mr.
buildings had been demolished ~
France and more thar I'm nnn