The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-01-01


honor and welfare Of my fath"rland
stand above ell else. and are tie orig
lodestars of my destiny. l know The
war, the events leading up to it, rs
causes, and its pIOgrcsS--more thar
the kaser's government likes. assure
you that the welfare OF taa Ccr:rG.;.
people demands that you come ever;
aye, that you turn your cannon around,
that you join the entente and march
with them to the Rhine end ever it,
and Wrest our land from the claws OF
its destroyer, for now and for al! time.
FREE MANK!MD From
AN INSANE CRIMINAL.
There are only two possible ways
of ending this war: Either humanity,
without you, without the co-0p"r@;icn
Of the German people, viii annihiiate
Pru&sian iunkerlom, and VIII st;rve
out the German people that thus thew
may free mankind, for now ard for
ever, from a curse which rests upon
them with the weight Of Alpine SHOWS;
from any insane criminal On throne
who, by a stroke OF the pen, may
change millions of men into cGrcseS
and cripples, and ruin the industry and
welfare Of nation either this or you
yourselves will assist in the task Of
freeing mankind. PEACE WILL NOT
COME ONE HOUR BEFORE THIS
GOAL is REACHED, BUT NOT ONE
HOUR LATER. But if this goal should
be reached without you and in spite OF
you you will be ground down into
ruin, and what Is more, the people Of
our German fatherland will be given
over to the will of the conquerors.
Then your intellectual and political
leaders, the true leaders who are not
the lackeys Of the emperor, will have
no right and no opportunity to inter-
pose a word concerning the future or
der of the world and Of Germany. But
if you cooperate, and that with all
your might, to carry out this purpose,
the honor Of the German people, which
is today scorned as merely an insen-
safe tool in the hands of murdererS,
will be restored; and more than that,
you will have a voice in the establish
ment of the new order Of the world
and Of Germany. And take my word
for it we shall have peace, and we can
have it on such terms that the German
people will be happier in the future
than they ever were before the war. But
leave US in the lurch, and we must rec
ognize with sullen rage and scorn that
we are the fellow countrymen of hope
lessly deluded slaves, upon whom will
rest the blame for their own ruin and
for the anpihilation Of Germany.
EMPEROR WIcKEDLY
DECEIVED you.
Comrades in war, you have taken an
oath Of allegiance to your flag. But the
emperor, too, TOOK an oath at the be-
ginning Of his reign, an oath of al
legiance to the German constitution.
The confederation which forms the
German empire was established ac-
cording to this constitution. "TO PRO
TEcT THE UNITED PROVINCES
AND THE LEGAL RIGHTS THERE
OF, AND TO PROMOTE TIE VEL
FARE OF TIE GERMAN PEOPLE,"
To guard it is the foremost, indeed the
only, duty of the German emperor. II
this purpose cannot be accomplished
without war, then the emperor may de-
clare war, but not until then. But the
emperor wickediy, wantonly, by deceiv-
ing the German people, by rnsrepre-
senting facts and by forging official
documents, by breaking sacred treaties
which he as the defender of justice
should have observed, has overthrown
Belgium, declared war on Russia,
France and Serbia, and has thereby
violated the laws Of justice and the
constitution; has hurled the German
empire down to ruin and has wrecked
the welfare Of the German people. The
oath which you have taken means al
legiance merely to an emperor who is
the protector Of the German people,
the guardian Of their constitution, the
true preserver of their welfare; it does
not mean allegiance to burglars. mur-
derers, rascally drummers for greedy
cann~l makers. But you took no oath
against the German people whom 1t
was this emperor's duty to protect;
Whom you must now protect without
him and against him, miserable
wretch who betrays his country in the
hour of greatest danger, who either
from stupidity or from cowardice
works against the good Of his people.
KNIFE AT GULLET OF
SCOUNDRELS WHO RULE.
Let every man who loves the Ger
man people and the German fatherland
come over! The password which is to
be given at the French posts is:
REPUBLIC!
He will meet not only French and Eng
lish and Americans, but also German
patriots, whose concern it is that our
fatherland, the fatherland so shame