The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-01-24

right of kings has existed from tn,
beginning and Is 10 be swept aside IN
the same fashion.
"Thc first moral duty CT the war Il
TO sweep away autocracy. The second
moral duty Of the war is the creation
Of a League to Enforce Peace, which
will secure a lasting peace.
Autocracy and Commerce
II the German government had
stayed at home we would have waited
patiently until il changed. But it did
not stay at home. All German com
morcc has had behind il not merely
the imperial German government,
but kaiser and kings, dukes and grand
dukes, shareholders in Krupp's great
muniton and arms works, in German
steamship lines, in colonial companies,
in the great railroads across the Otto
man empire, extending German power
to the Persian gulf, and German
ascendancy from the North Sea and
the Baltic 10 the Black Sea and the
Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf and
the Red Sea.
"Neyer before has there been such
combination between score Of rul-
ers, an imperial government and in
ternational trade. Banks, factories
and steamship companies, the German
navy and the imperial German gov
ernment,' its diplomacy and its infu-
cnce all fostered and directed by the
Bundesrath, named by the kaiser and
% sovereigns! Add the Austrian en-
peror, and there are in all % rulers
controlling 105 900, 900 people in 1914;
today, 170,000,000, through the war,
its alliances and its occupations.
"These men scorn to marry outside
this ruling caste, in all not more than
500 men, women and children. Every
day you read of this prince and that
in command of this army group and
that. Their names are everywhere in
the war save in the lists of the killed,
and this group of rulers stands re-
sponsible before God and man for 20,-
100000 human lives.
The Foe of Liberty
Biased on the principle, immoral in
ethics, tyrannical in operation and
perilous to all liberty, that certain
men are born to rule, the imperial
German government has for gener
alton been the foe of Liberty and the
enemy Of freedom.
Its whole influence has been
thrown to suppress freedom in the
four Balkan states 1t has prevented
their peaceful development, refused to
enforce the Treaty Of Berlin, which
would have brought peace, and is re-
sponsible for four Balkan wars. A
score of years ago it supported the
sultan Of Turkey in Ar
menian massacres, and tie officers of
The imperial German government
have allied and abetted these massa
res now because the Armenians
worked and planned for liberty when
,ther races in Turkey were quiescent.
1T is the imperial German govern
men which is responsible for 100000
armenians starved to death, as Ger
mans themselves testify.
"In 1908, when the revolutionary
Turkish government was for freedom,
Germany opposed it; when it became
yrannical Germany made this govern
nent its ally. The German govern
nent harassed France not merely be-
ause it was its ancient enemy, but
'ecause its success as republic made
he French people perilous to princes.
he German government has this past
ear plotted to restore the Manchu
mperor and the Russian Tsar TO their >
hrones.
Secret Enemy Of the United States !
because the American people by
heir prosperity and power made lib
rty desired by all the world the Ger
IAN government has been its secret
nemy. Thirty years ago it plotted
gainst our treaty rights in Samoa; it
ent its feet to worry and threaten .
'ewey at Manila in 1898; it offered to !.
ngland, which refused, TO overturn
,e Monroe Doctrine in Mexico. Il !,
as in Is years threatened Venezuela, y
Iexico, Hayti and other American :
ates. :,
"The past year, when We were v
peace under great provo :
ltion, it proposed to Mexico and Jap
, to attack us. Both refused. 1t has
,trayed international faith in the de-
,atches sent through the Swedish ST
mister. II has filed our land with l.
lies, sought unayailingly TO embroil
with those Of German birth resi- &C
mt in this country and slaughtered h;
IT citizens on the high seas contrary 70