New-York tribune., 1918-09-13
Flight to End" Is Vow
Demanded by Kaiser

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soul. But there were people who did
not wish to work, but to rest on their
laurels. Those were our enemies. We
got close to them through our profit
able work and the development of our
industry, science and art; through our
popular education and social legisla-
ton. Thereby cur people throve, and
then came envy.
Envy Caused War, He Says
Envy induced our enemies to fight,
and war came upon us. And now when
1 our opponents see that their hopes
have been deceptive and how our
MIGHTY generals, after whom your new
workshops are rightly named, have
dealt them blow upon blow, hatred
springs up. We only know the honest
wrath which deals the enemy the blow,
but when he lies PROSTATE and bleeding
we extend to him our hand and sec to
his recovery.
HATRED manifests itself only among
peoples who feel themselves beaten.
II therefore such terrible hatred exists
among our enemies it owes its origin
to the fact that their calculations have
been wrong. Every one who knows the
character of the Anglo Saxons knows
what it means to fight them-how tena-
cious they are We do not know when
40 know, namely, that VIC must fight
the battle through.
ana now, my friends, let me draw
your attention to something more. You
have read what recently happened in
Moscow-the mighty conspiracy against
the present government. The parlia-
mentary- governed, democratic British
nation has endcavored to overthrow
the ultra democratic government which
GoI D.
struct, because this government, con-
sldcring the interests of its fatherland,
wishes to maintain its people in the
peace for which it clamors
But the Anglo Saxon does not vet
desire peace. That is how things are.
1t is proof of his feeling of inferiority
that the Anglo-Saxon has recoursc to
such criminal means"
Calls for Final Excrtions"
Everything now depends on our
hnal cNertions. Everythinr is at
stake. and because our enemies know
1T, because they have the greatest re-
spect for the German army, because
they sec they cannot overcome our
army and navy, they are trying to
overcome us by means of internal dis
lntegratlon and to weaken US by false
rumorS.
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German people. They arc artificial
productions. But whoever harkens to
such rumors, whoever passes on un-
substantiated news in the railway
workshop or elsewhere sins against
the Fatherland. He is a traitor and is
liable to severe punishment, no matter
whether he be count or workman.
| 81 know very well every one of you
will acknowledge that am right in
this matter. Believe me, it is not
easy for me to bear every day the
nation Of seventy millions, and for
more than four years be a spectator
to all the difficulties and increasing
distress of the people"
The Emperor then referred to the
German Empress. "who by Gods as
sistance again is on the road to re-
covery.' lie recalled the passages in
the Bible: Cast thy burden upon the
Lord and he shall sustain thee and
But seek ye first his kingdom and
his righteousness and all these things
peror then added:
"How can we please God and soften
His heart? BY doing our duty! In
making our Fatherand free. Conse-
quently, it is our duty to hold out with
all our strength in the fight against
: our enemies.
Each one of US has received his
appointed task from on high. You at
your hammer, you at your lathe, and |
on my throne: We must all, however,
build on Gods assistance Doubt is
the greatest ingrattude toward the
Lord, and now l ask you all simply and
honestly: Have we, then, really ground
for doubt?
Germanyss "victories"
'Just look at the four years of war.
behind us! Half the world stood
against us and our loyal allies, and
now we have peace with Russia and
peace with Rumania. Serbia and
Montenegro are finished.
"Only in the West do we still fight,
and is it to be thought that the good
God will abandon US there at the last
moment?
eve should be ashamed of the faint
heartedness which comes when one
gives credence to rumors From the
facts which you yourselves have ex-
perlenced forge for yourselves a firm
belief in the future of your Father
Hand.
1--WE often at home and at the front,
in church and in the open air, have
sun, Fine fcste Burg st unser Gott!'
So it is resounded in the blue vault of
heaven and in the thunder clouds. The
nation from which such hymn. orig
| mated must be invncible
My request, my demand of you
and through you to all the workers
who have proved themselves so ad-
mirable and capable, and through you
again to the entire German people, is
this: For me and for my relations to
my people my words Of August 4, 1914,
hold good. I know no party. | know
only Germans.
at is now no time for factions We
must all now combine into a block, and
here the most appropriate word is to
be as hard as steel, and a block of
the German people welded into steel
shall show its strength to the enemy.
"Whoever, therefore, is determined
to obey this summons; whoever has
his heart IN the right place and who
ever intends to keep faith, let him
stand up.
Demands Pledge to Fight
"Now promise me on behalf of the
entire German labor, I'VE intend to
fight and to hold out to the last, so
help us, God Whoever so intends let
him answer, Yes"
The assembly loudly chorused, Yes
and the Emperor continued:
az thank you. With this Yes I go
now to the field marshal. Now it is