The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-03-14
Then thefpreacher paused and look
ing out Of his dark eyes that were
now flashing with a strange light.
straight at the kaiser he continued:

see q VISION OF Europe after
years Of conflict thrown back finally
to the state that existed in the dark
est years Of history. when our ancest.
ors swept down in their hordes 10
break down an ancient civilization.
/ see this fair land Of ours. desoI ated
by war, ruined, bankrupt. and plung-
ed into the most appalling internal
strife. J" Then. raising his finger and
pointing it at the kaiser. he said !:
{. And terrible will Gods vengeance
be on the man who exercised his pow
er, not to stop or stay the war, but
to cause it. = The kaiser III anger
was just about to rise from his seat
when the preacher fell back in his
pulpit and expired. The kaiser soon
left the church. There was group
of villagers outside and turning to.
them the kaiser said, speaking angri-
ly. Your pastor is dead, and may
all men who speak as he did die.
Your majesty" replied an old raa Z
SAINT, "Wei heard him, and we be
lieve he spoke as prophet The
emperor made no reply and he left
Baron Riffard's home at once. Thus
early in the war did this discerning
pastor and his parishioners realize
who was the real cause of this war.
The young men who have gone to
this war from Scotland, and any of
you who may go from here in the flu
ture, will remember that you are to
fight for the liberty Of the world to
put down this ambitious autocrat,
and the system of militarism that sus-
tains him.
The real feeling Of the best inform
ed of the German people toward the,
kaiser and militarism was doubtless
expressed in the circulars which were
secretly circulated in Berlin during
the rec ent strikes from which l make
the following extracts:
"When will peace come? It will
come when Germany is ready for it,
and the time is approaching. The
hour of peace will strike when Ger
mans no longer heed the makers of
war, when they aespise and hiss the.
apostles of militarism. !" Peace
will come when the Germans say to
the emperor: You have been loved
and obeyed; you for whom we have
sacrificed ourselves and our dear ones;
you, who have not spared even our
ideals and beliefs and traditions
Nothing but hunger and cold and ma
Kedness, disease and death, ruin and
destruction. Never before in the his
tory of the world has there been sac
rifice SO great or go willingly made;
and what have we won by it? Two
years ago the world lay at our feet;
strangers from every land came to our
cities; all over the world the industry
of our merchants was successful; ev-
erywhere the German spirit was well
coined and honored. Will it ever be
80 again? We have you, Emperor
William, we have you to thank that
the achievements of a century Of ma
tional effort has been lost. We will
no longer follow you.
These citizens of Germany were
right. 1t was the kaiser and the
military leaders associated with him
who are responsible for the fearful
evils that have come, both upon Ger
many and the rest of the world during
the past three and one-half years.
Listen to what Rev. Newell Dwight
Hills says upon this subject. Rev.
DR.. Hills was sent over to Europe
by the American Bankers Associa-
ton 20 investigate the facts in rela-
ton to this war and report them to
the American people. When Dr. Hill
lis returned from Europe he preached
a sermon in Plymouth church in which
he said:
1.-THE kaiser (and his helpers) think
to teach the theory of iron force (the
wrong idea that might makes right
the right of big Germany to loot lit
tie Belgium or northern France drills
the people in the belief that Ger
many's right is the right of the lion
over the lamb, and that no questions
will be asked by just God on the
day of judgment. = Said DR.. Hills
further: "This war began in con-
ference in the Potsdam palace in
1892. The pamphlet distributed by
the kaiser begins with these words:
The Pan-Cierman Empire; from Ham
burg on the North Sea to the Persian
Gulf, our immediate goal $50, 0OO-
zee of people. (Our ultimate goal:
tho Corpo ni1ofiov ,of oil TIA 1,,o.ld -,