The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-05
HUNS EVEN CLAIM JESUS CHRIST WAS
 A GERMAN
Moses Led TeutOnic Tries to Messina, According to Kultur
 Advocates

| lie utterances has called upon God as the particular protector of the Ger mans, the whole world has curled its lips in scorn for the blasphemy that German egotism has provoked. "Me und Gott" was one of the first bits of literary effort that commented upon the German appropriation of the uni vesal divinity. A new booklet, "The Trial of the Kaiser" written by Ed ward Menkin of Chicago, and now be- ing given wide circulation, is another satiric bit that is provoking amuse- ment as we'll as affording some sur prisingly apt sidelights on German character, philosophy and ideas. An autographed copy has been sent by the author to his friend, Theophil Feist, of Tacoma.
 In this trial of the Kaiser before the Omnipontent the devil acts as the prosecutor, and with devilish cunning i marshals before the court of God the strange fancies of the Kaiser and his people. The author aas Satan read many excerpts from German books and newspapers proclaiming the su- perior invincibility of the Teuton race.
 And the Lord asked Satan whether he had heard that the Germans claim that Moses was a German" the au- thor remarks, "and Satan answered, saying that he had. Then the Lord asked Satan where he got his infor- nation and he answered, From the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag (Berlin Times) of November 1915, which re- ported the claim of those professors, theologians and pretended statesmen; and from it Satan read, Moses was not a Jew at all. It is now beyond doubt that he was born in the Hartz moun- tains and therefore he was a German. He led the North German tribes to Malta and thence to Messina, the modern name of which can be dis tinctly seen to have originated in Mac edonia"
 Claims Jesus Christ was German
 Further substantiating his claim, the author leads Satan to show how the German evens claimed that Jesus Christ was a German and from the book ''Ein Pangermanashhes Deut- schland," written by Reimer, he read Jesus Christ, with his blue eyes, fair hair and fresh complexion, was es- sentially of German type. His very name testifies to his German origin; the first syllable Je is plainly a corrup- tion of Ger, the letter "r" having been dropped as commonly happens and been replaced by S; the second syl- lable us, is merely the Latin termin- ation of a mans name. We get there fore Jesus ,equalling German"
 kaiser's Address
 Further in evidence of the claim presented by Satan that the German consider God to be of their race he cited from the kaisers address to the army in the east.
 Remember that you are chosen people. The spirit of the Lord has descended upon me because I am the emperor of the Germans. I am the instrument of the Most High am his sword His representative. Disas- ter and death to those who do not believe in my mission" And on March 22, 1905, the kaiser said we gre the salt of the earth. God created us to civilize the world.'
 Quoting still further from the preach ing and teaching of the German lead CTS. Satan quoted from the famous Songs of Hate."
 "Oh, my Germany, into thy soul thou must etch a deep and indelible late. Stife in thy heart all human feeling and hasten to the fight. Oh, Germany, Hate! Slaughter thy foes by the millions, and of their reeking corpses build a monument that shall reach the, clouds. Oh, Germany, Hate! Salvation will come of thy wrath. Beat in their skulls with rife butts and axes. Let your clenched