Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-05
Have You Met the Kaiseriteq

l am afraid that there are more
kaiserites in our country than you or
think. 1t is hard to imagine the seem
ingly nice man or woman that we meet
can be in the pay of Germany. Some
times il is a neighbor we have known
for years, who acts the part of the
kaiserite and does not get. pay for the
disloyalty.
Look around you and see if there is
not some one knocking our president,
or "sure that the Germans will come
any way" and if we do not get them
stirred up they will act decent. That
was the sort of talk and takers that
Germany scattered in Russia and Polal
and see where they are today. Germany
took all she could lay her hands on,
even put me men in virtual slavery
Think of a country with no little chill
dren in it. Look at your dear children
you give them their dinner and try
to think how miserable you would be
to see them cold and starving. That is
Poland today The German hireiings had
no trouble to make Poland disconnected.
She was a conquered, oppressed land,
but 100 per cent better off than now.
She was promised system of home
rule, but you must ever remember that
Germany says a treaty between nations
is merely a scrap of paper" if it is
to Germany's interest to break her word.
Better a country filled with starving
women and children than one German
soldier go hungry, is her motto.
In your community, as in almost
every one. there is at least one family
who has kept in touch with their home
land, and they find it hard to choose
between But the true-hearted ones have
long since decided that their mother
land has drifted far away from the
brotherhood that should exist between
nations. That is the class. if they have
not decided for America and their allies,
that are real kaiserites. They are worse
than slackers. If a German that has
escaped prison finds that sort you may
be sure the prisoner~wiIl get money and
help. Vanity, curiosity and the desire
some people have to appear big to
strangers are all motives to help Ger
many, Such people call themselves
broad-minded.
The Stacker eats his flour and makes
her cakes and keeps money at 10 per
cent even if the world does need their
portion. Some of them steal the uni
form of our country, our charitable or
our religious organizations to serve the
ka User in.
When you find the sort that tells
you the Red Cross sells the things you
send there, that they. steal the money,
that the Y. NJ c. A is just a graft,
that the doctors and nurses are getting
ten times as much as they are worth
make them prove it,
All these lies have been run down by
the department of Justice in Washing
ton and proved to- have started from
German insinuations.
Haven't you heard some yarn whis-
pered at church and before the end of
the week it was all over town? That's
the way the kaiSerite works
Have you ever heard that fnterned
Germans are fed on the fat of the land
and given the fiilest sort of clothes?
That the Masonic orders were fighting
against the Knights of Columbus? These
are some of the kaiserites' favorite lies.
AS soon as you hear any of the kaiser
ties talk ask him, or her to prove it,
OF course they cannot, so let the kaiser
lite see you put letter in the mail tell
ing the postmaster the kaiserite' name
and what has been said. 1t will stop
the silly ones who, through vanity, the
desire to tell something, has repeated
the reasonable criticism.
There is a little book that you can
get free if you send for it,
Ask for The Kaiserite in America"
There are a hundred lies that Ger
mans started in this country. Do not
send to me for this book. Write to
Committee on Public Information" s
Jackson Place Washington ID. c., and
your copy will be sent you. If you
know some one who through ignorance
is circulating these ugly rumors, send
their names with yours. Fight the
ISLANDERS. against your country's presi-
dent; he has hard enough time with
out his own people stabbing him in the
back
We cannot go to France but we can
help run down the aliens who are
Kaiserites. ,..
Wasn't that U-boat bluff easily call
ed? The kaiser thought that by send
ing one or two to our undefended coast
he would put us in such a panic that
we would beseech our president to stop
sending soldiers. The Kaiserites did a
lot of talking, but did we get in a
panic? Well, not enough to be noticed,
and the ships that the U-boats get are
returning, not going to France.
This world war has been, and is a
terrible thing, but it has revolutionized
the world. There is a new national
ism, and the entire world comes into
it. The men and women of every land
show that under their former seeming
indifference there was the tie that
binds. and it took misfortune, oppres-
sion and cruelty to break the crust that
ease, selfishness and too much money
had put over every heart. There will
be a world commonwealth as the re-
suit of this vast upheaval. Do not let
your hearts grow bitter, do not become
discouraged. God rules and He will
not let might conquer right even
though there had been seven times sew
enty years preparation in Germany.
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE o. THOMAS
TuscumSia, Ala.
Have More Faith in God