Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-08-09
of the kaiser. ready to do his bidding.

THE school and churches of Ger
many" he continued are but part of
the imperial army system. They are
government institutions that teach
kaiser-worship. Every school house is
little empire; every school teacher a
little emperor. The little children are
not taught to think but to obey The
part the church plays in this terrible
Prussian system is the deepest dis
grace of ALL"
MOCKERY OF FREEDOM
Referring to the German form of gov
eminent he said it was a hollow mock
cry of democratic government. The
reichstag. represented to be the German
parliament of the people, is nothing but
debating society without power and
completely dominated by the ruling
power. The bundesrath. the real govern
ing body is appointed by the kings and
princes, the kaiser, as king of Prussia,
appointing seventeen of its members,
this being three more than enough to
kill off any constitutional amendment
that the reichstag may propose. Practi-
cally, the entire bundesrath is composed
of kaiser appointees, because all the
kings and princes are relatives of the
emperor. The Prussian diet he said is
the greatest farce of all. 1t is supposed
to be elected by the people, but the gov
eminent shrewdly divided the people in
to three classes, according to wealth,
and one rich mans vote is worth q
hundred, or perhaps ten thousand times
as much as a poor mans vote.
KAISER'S AMBITION
DR.. Bohn charged the kaiser with hav-
ing deliberately wrecked The Hague
peace tribunal by sending delegates
there on two occasions for that. very
purpose having in mind all the time
his present assault on world freedom
These delegates, he said, at the kaiser's
bidding, turned back the clock of civiliZ-
alton and blocked what would have been
court of International arbitration
amounting to federation of nations that
would have made war impossible.
SPECIAL SERVICE
I'VE of German extraction" continued
Dr. Bohn, "have the high privilege of
performing special service for Ameri-
ca at the present time, a service that
will not only benefit America, but the
entire world, not emitting the people
of Germany who are now so madly
following their false leader. President
Wilson has told us we are not fight
ing to destroy the German people, We
do not want their property, we do not
want anything they possess. We only
want to defeat the imperial government,
completely destroy the Prussian monster
of oppression and force the German peo-
pie to live up to treaties and conduct
themselves like civilized nations. We
are not waging war for conquest. A
physical victory would avail little.77<We
might seize Germany and exact any toll,
but if we failed to arouse the German
people to revolt against the kaiser he or
his family would soon be in control again
and the world be forced to prepare. for
another war. We must wipe out the |
entire ruling class of Germany and make |
the people see that it is to their bene-
fit to help the good work along"
THE TIME TO ACT
"The people of Germany believe they
are fighting a war of defense. They, do |
not know that the German army has |
had a single reverse in the entire war. |
They think America and it's associates |
are trying to destroy them, that we want |
their land their property. Let us organ |
ize and shout across the sea to them that |
we do not want anything but the COM
plete overthrow of the war lords and |
their brutal power. We can do this by |
standing shoulder to shoulder in Amer |
lea and sending our messages into Ger
many. This is being done now can |
not tell you how, but millions of mes
sages from American people are being |
scattered over Germany. And they are .
bearing fruit. The time to defeat Ger
many is this year. Next year the task |
will be harder. But once give the Ger
man armyia sound trouncing and the |
people will instantly arise and throw |
the kaiser from the throne. Once let |
them know that he is not allpowerful, |
as they have been fought to regard him, |
and they will knock over the throne |
like a house of cards. The present Ger
man drive is the last mad rush of a |
stalking eevrything on it, because Ger
taking everything on it, because Ger
many is on the verge of collapse. From |
month to month the starving people are
being implored to hold out a little long
er, being told that victory is in sight. |
The Germans won't break through the
line. in Europe. They cannot break
through. We must send over every |
man we can in the quickest possible
time. We must end the war and end it |
right, so that there will be no more
German arms. We want world brother I
hood. We want to rebuild the world, !
make it better than it ever was before.
Victory will come to us. 1t is newt
able. We must have victory, not only !
physical, but spiritual victory"
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