The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-02-14


erly and crown princely and govern
mental and legislative speeches and
writings-a voice whose import Is a
thousand times confirmed, day after
day and year after year, throughout
this age of slaughter 10y the actions
uf the Germans and their government.
Here and there IA German cry of pro.
test is heard there is II sound us of
something human wailing for human
ity ON the vast wind of Gcrmanism.
Sometimes for II moment II name is
heard out OF the fatuOus hurricanc-a
name like llnasc or licbknecht or
~Ilurdcn-and there seems to come the
murmur ms of II troubled multitude
who do not ride the wind; but the
sounds are uncertain aud come to us
but weakly. We can only hope that
there is some one there" Woodrow
Wilson has called to them In Il loud
voice, but they have not known how
to answer If they would-or could.
Would Divide United States.
The German kaiser has really
thought pcrsistcntly of all n%on.Tcuton-
ic countries In terms Of destruction,
and when he has spoken his private
thoughts. his speech has always been:
Let Us find the best way To weaken
and iujurr them" Those real thoughts
Of his came out chuructcristiCally
when, OF his yacht at kicl, he said that
Europe had made II great mistake In
not strongly favOring the South during
our Civil war, for thus two weak
countries might have been created to
take the place of the powerful Union.
Amething might be hoped for even
yet, he wen on, II the East and West
could be sufficiently stirred up against
ench other. There Is the kaiscr's for
elgn policy and the order OF his mind
and OF his heart. What he meant was
that 1t would be n good and beneficial
thing II the people Of our Eastern and
Western states could be brought to
kill one another in great numbers and
thus the Union yet he divided.
The kaiser twice played wantonly
and without the slightest p~rovocation
OF the verge of war with the United
States-once on the coast of Venezuela
and once In Manila bay. While Ger
many was In n state OF friendship with
England, he proposed to Russia that
Russia and Germany attack England
and while Germany was In n state OF
friendship with the United States he
proposed To England that England and
Germany seize Mexico and destroy the
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man, asked Mexico to propose treach-
cry to Japan, that the two together
might diSinember and plumber the
United States. His diplomatic agent.
resident In Buenos Aires by courtesy
Of the Argentine government, makes
treacherous use OF the Swedish lcga-
ton to send word TO Germans how to
destroy Argentine ships and leave no
trace" This phrase, with which we
are familiar mainly through the i'm
possible "yillains'' OF the movies"
and of old-time dime novels and
mclodramas-''leave no trace" mean
ing sink the ships and murder every
soul on board"-this message Is not
that of a stage or movie villain"
Not ut all! II Is a German govern
mental message regarding ships be-
longing to citizens of n friendly power.
and Is sent by a German nObleman In
the German diplomatic service TO other
officials OF the German government.
More, ii Is a characteristic work Of the
German governmental kind. And II
is IN actual snapshot OF the person
allty of the German government.
The government Of the United States
and the governments VI the world gre
literally unable to make peace with the
people thus revealed. -
Why We Entered War.
The people OF the United States
would have borne almost anything
from Germany II they could have be-
lieved that the Germans cause was
originally n good one or that the war
was forced upon Germany" But,
knowing what we did, when the Ger
mans, after numbering great numbers
Of our fellow citizens and ~Quibbling
for many. many months about these
murders-when they told us to keep
bNT SHIPS III port UT tHey WOulu bluh
them we found that Germany's on.
duct toward us was not to be dis
tinguished from making val upon US,
and we decided that cur citizens should
not be killed continuously by Il coun.
try which was "at peace" with us,
and we would not take orders from
Germany TO remain In port and away
from the high seas. Germany does 10
make and enforce the laws of and for
the United Statesmen without en-
countering some resistance from Amer
leans. So we disobeyed Germany, and
would not paint the commanded yell
low stripes upon the hulls OF the one
ship a week which was TO be permit
ted upon the Atlantic ocean.
We found ourselves in n state of
war because the German government,
having forced q war upon Europe with
the object OF dominating that CONT
nent and subsequently, the world. in.
Guiding the United States. and having
carried on the war with Unnecessary
cruelty and the employment of treach-
cry whenever II considered treachery
useful, we found ourselves In q state
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