Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-01-19


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, for 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 annlhilate
Prussian junkerdom, and will sthrVe
out the German people that thus they
may free mankind, for now and Tor
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 corpses
and cripples, and ruin the industry ana
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 II 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 conquerorss
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 word concerning the future Or
der of the world and of Germany. But
IL 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 voice In the establish
ment of the new order of the world
and Of Germany. And take my word
for 1t we shall have peace, and we can
have 1t 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 at the be-
ginning Of his reign, an oath of al
| legance to the German constitution.
The confederation which forms the
i German empire was established &C.
cording to this constitution, ITO PRO-
TEcT THE UNITED PROVINCES
AND THE LEGAL RIGHTS THERE.
OF, AND TO PROMOTE THE WEI.
FARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE,"
To guard 1t 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 wlckedly, wantonIy, by deceIv
Ing the German people, by mlsrepre
sentIng facts and by forging Official
documents, by breaking sacred treaties
which he as the defender Of justice
should have observed, has overthrow
Belgium, declared war on Russia
France and Serbia, and has thereby
violated the laws of justice and thu
constitution; has hurled the German
empire down to ruin and has wrecked
the welfare of the German people. TIT
oath which you have taken means al
legiance merely to an emperor who II
the protector Of the German people
the guardian of their constitution, thu
true preserver Of their welfare; 1t doe
not mean allegiance to burglars, muir
derers, rascally drummers for greed.
cannon makers. But you took no oatl
against the German people whom |
was this emperor's duty to protect
whom you must now protect withou
him and against him, a miserabl
wretch who betrays his country In tn
hour of greatest danger, who eithe
from stupidity or from cowardic
works against the good of his people.
KNIFE AT GULLET OF
scouNDRELs WHO RULE.
Let every man who loves the Gei
man people and the German fatherlan
come overt The password which Is t
be given at the French posts is:
REPUBLIcl
1 He will meet not only French and Eng
4 fish and Americans, but also Germa
\ patriots, whose concern 1t Is that on
| fatherland, the fatherland so shame
fully and treacherously sold by II
rulers by divine right, should not b
annlhilated; and he will be welcome
Il with honor by the French If he give
this password and will be well treated
Il Comrades In war, the knife is at tn
/ gullet of the scoundrels who rule yoV
4 and they would rather starVe and bIee
the German people to death to the LAT
man than make peace, or even max
known the object Of their war. II
they know very well that the hour {
reckoning has struck for them whe
III 4hav can no longer suppress the trlIt