The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-22

God With Us and Loot

0Od With Us and Loot
The Emperor of Austria in speech to his
troops before they began their offensive against
Italy said:
Before you is the enemy. There glory awaits
you, and also honor, good food, abundant spoils
final peace. With the help of God make the su.
preme sacrifice for your king for liberty and for
your beautiful fatherland."
And not so long ago, his boss, the German
kaiser said
Either the German principles of right, free
DOM honor and morality must be upheld OF
Anglo-Saxon principles, with their idolatry OF
mammon, must be victorious"
The two teutonic monarchs mix their piety
and lust for plumber in amusing abandon En-.
peror Charles is an apt pupil of Emperor Will
lam. And so, when he implored his god to help
the Austrian soldiers to rob and plumber Italy, he
remembered the fine example of ruthless robbery
which his schoolmaster had set for him in Bel.
GUM and Russia
Emperor William believes in the spoils sys.
tenn. That was the motive which prompted him
to precipitate the world war. Der Tag" for
which he had prayed to his god, and which his
officers had toasted with beer mugs time and
again, meant the day on which he could begin
looting and robbing to his hearts desire.
When the German Emperor pirates about
principles of right, freedom, honor and moral
ity," he is indulging in terms that are meaning
less to him, for the truth is not in him.
Principles of right and freedom did not exist
for him when he invaded helpless Belgium and
declared the sacred treaty binding the two ma
tions "scrap of paper"
Principles of honor and morality were forgot
ten when he seized Belgium's industrial wealth.
deported it's men and women to work in German
munition plants. shelled Red Cross ambulances,
sank hospital ships, and more recently robbed
Russia of it's best provinces after farcica peace
conference at Brest-Litovsk.
The piety and plumber prayers Of William and
Charles make the world wonder from whence
come their religious conceptions and ideals. A
barbarian ruler might be pardoned for holding
out the prospect of plumber and loot to his fol-
lowers as an incentive to hard fighting, but when
monarchs who profess in public statement to be
Christians project the reward of abundant
plumber" before the minds of their soldiers and
in the next breath urge them forward Gin the
name of god' they voice discrepancy that is
papably apparent to both follower of Christ and
an enlightened pagan
Emperor Williams fear that Anglo-Saxon
idolatry of mammon will ruin the world is anus
ing. Of all the money-mad nations four years
ago. none surpassed the German empire The
Kaiser and his leaders boosted with loud decama-
ton of the gold which the Germans had accumu-
lated and of their growing wealth by virture of
the industrial and scientific prowess of the
people. What caused the present war? Nothing
but the Kaiser's insane desire to annex more
territory so that the consequent establishment of
new markets might bring more gold to his coun-
try.
And now in the midst of the gigantic strug-
gle, the kaiser believes the world must be saved
from the mammon idolatry of the Anglo-Saxons
and be made safe for German principles of right,
freedom, honor and morality. What nonsense!