New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-04-27

through the Amcrlc an war to give
us our present flag "a star for es-
cry State. and State for every
star.
Don t judge German-Americans
of Irish Americans or even prof.
teering Americans by few de-
generates who may be only dis,
guised A. p. A. s or |. w. W.
Loyal Americans of German an
cestry. direspect you, and be-
cause You are suspected, | respect
you all the more. AS an Irish
man and a Catholic, i have been
suspected all my life. SO | know
what l am talking about. Amer
leans today are either Americans
or parasites, and / want every
American parasite, let him be Yam
kee, German, Irish or unlabeled,
to get the limit of the law. and of
public reprobation and extoria-
ton if guilty Of giving comfort to
the common foe. Even for him
| want the good old Scottish
Americanized principle to be
strictly observed, Not guilty I'M
til proven.
"Some of you | fear are think
ing why the Bishop does not stick
to his text. you were to tell us
how to win the war. and you have
camouflaged the whole thing
Wait little; | have not yet done.
First of all, let us be well con-
vinced Of a few fundamental and
essential facts. First, that this
war was made in Germany-that
it was started by the Kaiser ana
his confederates, for the sole pur-
pose of forcing Germany's domi-
nation on the world. Therefore,
our war is just from every angle,
it is war Of defense. and no
American can be conscientious!y |
opposed to it. Second, the war
Matched in Germany has been
waged along German lines, traced
long ago by Bernhard, hence no
regard for treaties. national or
international. The Hague tribu-
nal made international laws to
which Germany subscribed-laws
protecting neutrals, women, chill
dren. unfortified places, etc. Ev-
cry known and unknown law Of
war has been outraged and vio-
lated and thrown into the Kais-
er's scrap heap. Against the law
of nations and humanity she
hurled her soldiers, who for gen.
erations had thought and been
taught war, dreamed war, plotted
war. and subordinated every
moral and humane consideration
to the Bernhard method of wag-
ing war-that is by wholesale
slaughter and wholesale pillage.
Churches, universities, converts
and cathedrals were burned,
looted and destroyed without a
shadow of military advantage. 1
Men, young and old, the nun |
in the cloister, the priest at the !
altar. the physician ministering /,
70 humanity, were the victims Of
he brutality hitherto unknown :
md unapproached and nowhere !
lreamed of approachable except ,
~ the Turks in Armenia. Pr &,
'acy by sea, poison by land and |
lir. treachery everywhere-be- ;
lold the methods Of the war made
n Germany.
What about peace' There is v
'eace and peace. Russia talked I
'eace and got a German variety; t
he got chloroformed by the S
mooth liars who filed the bomb O
hristened no annextions and no Q
ndemnities' and threw it among v
he Bolshevikis, with the result t.
hat the Kaiser grabbed three t
undred and fifty thousand square C
niles of Russian territory and Il
almly added another scrap Of A
aper to his precious collection.
ak Of peace to German militar- Z
its is like talking peace to rat W
|esnake. 1t seems silly to talk fl
eace to the Kaiser, considering
is record for twelve million "
cad and mutilated soldiers, with n
x million in prison camps, and p
,rty million under arms while he G.
unrepentant and defiant. a
Peace with the Kaiser! whose 81
ord. according to our President. d
worthless whose lip arrogance h
to him say and survive such nom q