The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-31

)IOT I1STO D0du-- w dI AuSt UC
for America and Her Allies
for the gain OF territory and gratifica
ton of selfish ambitions.
That their methods Of subduinf
the weak, sUbjecting them to horrors
too terrible to mention, their averice
their greed, their Injustice, theil
destruction Of high and holy ideals il
the minds Of their people, has for
ever sullied their Gag; terror, and
not love, thrills the body Of its help
less victims when it goes marching
by; children Of oppressed territories
tremble at its sight as their young
memories reflect upon the CHASTITY
deeds performed under such q ban
ner; and viftne-pure virture Oh
young womanhood and sacred moth
erhood vail and weep and quake with
fear at the sight Of its coming
| ON, God! What contrast to the
love with which our emblem is held
in every cline. The shackled slave,
, starving humanity and nations bleed
ing tor righteous cause, hail its
advent with love and devotion, know
ing their redemption is nigh. Only
the antocrat, the tyrant, the OPP
2ressor, the slave master, dread to
behold it, and only their evil hearts
quake with fear in its presence
Liberty or Death.
Yes, let US compare hstory's pages
Just prior to the time OF the revo-
lutionary war when we were stand
ing in opposition to: Taxation with
out representation, stamp act, the
Boston massacre, declaring the right
OF trial by jury and objecting to the
quartering Of soldiers upon the col
onies in times Of peace; about the
time Patrick Henry voiced the IN
uttered cry Of thousands Of Cypress
ed Americans in, Give me liberty or
give me DEATH during the long
months when anxious hearts with
fondest hopes were praying that
they might hear the peal of the bell
which would declare the glad news
of our independence from the iron
rod of the oppressors rule, what
were the pages Germany was writing
in her history?
Germanys Lust
TN 1855 to 1853 Frederic the Great
was fighting the adjoining states to
satisfy his lust Tor more domain and
having succeeded - his conquest,
forcefully retains all the unjustly
dism embered and brought into sub
lection; 1888 the emperor begins to
try to control the universities, the
government eventually succeeded to
such an extent teachers and profess
sors instruct according as pleases
the controlling officers Of the kaiser.
The growing school boy is stepped
in the belief that true heroes must
be warriors. That the most honorable |
of all callings, righteous or upright
eous, just or unjust, is slaughter,
shedding of blood, outIages OF every
conceivable form upon innocent hui
anything, just so it is car
ried on under the name OF war.
What wonder is it, STEPPED and rear
ed in such teachings, their young
minds poisoned with killing and
thoughts Of slaughter, Germany has |
more child suicides than any other !
nation on earth.
What Blessing is.
'1 declare to you the greatest |
blessing which is to come out OF this |
worlds war. is not; to- restore Bel |
GUM to her rights and see that she !
Is as far as possible compensated !
Tor the outrages against her; it is
not to see the territory stolen from
France returned to her and indemn-
ties righteously due her, paid.
But the greatest blessing (upless
t is world wide prohibition and de- I
which is to Gomez is the
blessing we are to give to the chill
lren of Germany. Our hearts were
illed with pity over the little bound
eet of China and we never tired in
aught them better.
More pitiful are the poor little
,ound down, distorted minds and
ouls of Germany which depend upon
Is to liberate them from the slavery
# militarism, to show them another
Tod than kultur and kaiserism, which
caches only greed and slaughter;
how them the difference between
he rule of autocracy or despotism
nd the rule Of the people found in
democracy. Nay, one of the great
st blessings God has called upon us
o give to the world Is to be given y.
o growing Germany herself
Must Win the War.
Truly as our president has said,
,ur war is with the kaiser or Hohen- ,
ollern rule and not with German ,
eople' Their depraved natures, l.
distorted minds and debased morals
re the result of centuries of false ,
eachings in school and church. =
I'VE must thoroughly win this war,
hen patiently unloose their shackled, -
alse taught, depraved inte1lects, and :
each them by precept and example :
ome Of the real meanings of neigh :
or1y love- fatherhood of God and {
of man
TOO long have their poor starved =
pulls been fed upon the h1sks OF the I
wine. upon the Christless teachings 9
Voltaire. kulture, materialism.