The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-01-02


stand above all else, and are the only
lodestars of my destiny. / know the
war, the events leading up to it, its
causes, and its progress-more than
the kaiser's government likes. ] assure
you that the welfare Of the German
people demands that you come over;
aye, that you turn your cannon around,
that you Join the entente and march
with them to the Rhine and over 1t,
and wrest our land from the claws Of
its destroyer, fer now and for all time.
FREE MANKIND FROM
AN INSANE CRIMINAL.
There are only two possible ways
of ending this war: Either humanity,
without you, without the cooperation
of the German people, will annlhilatc
Prussian junkcrdom, and will starvc
out the German people that thus they
may free mankind, for now and for
ever, from a curse which rests upon
them with the weight of Alpine SHOWS;
from any insane criminal on throne
who, by stroke of the pen, may
change millions of men into corpses
and crlpples, and ruin the industry and
welfare of a nation; either this or you
yourselves will assist in the task Of
freeing mankind. PEACE WILL NOT
coHE 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 he given
over to the will of the conqucrors.
Then your intellectual and political
leaders the true leaders who are not
the lackcys of the emperor, will have
no right and no opportunity to inter-
pose word concerning the future Or
der Of the world and of Germany. But
your might, to carry out this purpose,
the honor of the German people, which
Is today scorncd as merely an insen-
safe tool in the hands of murdcrers,
will be restored and more than that
you will have voice in the establish
and of Germany. And take my word
for 1t 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 humiliation 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 mt the be-
ginning of his reign, an oath of al
Icgiance to the German constitution.
The confederation which forms the
German empire was established ac-
cording TO this constitution, ITO PRO-
TEcT THE UNITED PROVINCES
AND THE LEGAL RIGHTS THERE
OF, AND TO PROMOTE THE VEL
FARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE,
To guard 1t is the foremost, indeed the
only, duty of the German emperor. If
this purpose cannot be accomplished
without war. then the emperor may de-
clare war, hut not until then. But the
emperor wickedly, wantonIy, by deceiv.
ing the German people, by misrepre.
senting facts and by forging official
documents, by breaking sacred treaties
which he as the defender of justice
should have observed, has overthrowrI
Belgium, declared war on Russia
violated the laws of justice and the
constitution; has hurled the German
empire down to ruip and has wrecked
the welfare of the Germ an people. The
oath which you have taken means al
leglance merely to an emperor who is
the protector of the German people
the guardian of their constitution, the
true preserVer of their welfare ii does
not mean allegiance to burglars, muir
derers, rascauy drummers for greedy
cannon makers. But you took no oatl
against the German people whom II
was this emperor's duty to protect
whom you must now protect without
him and against him, miserable
wretch who betrays his country in tho
hour of greatest danger, who either
from stupidity or from cowardict
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 fatherlant
come over! The password which Is t.
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 1t Is that oui
fatherland, the fa;herland so shame
fully and treacherously sold by 1t,
rulers by divine right, should not bC
. annihilated; and he will be welcomed
with honor by the French If he gives
this password, and will be well treated
Comrades in war, the knife Is at the
gullet of the scoundrels who rule you