Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-22
PLEA TO REVOLT SENT GER
MANS BY FRIENDS
HERE
Airplanes Will Scatter Appeal to
Gust Kaiser
(From the Chicago Tribune)

(From the Chicago Tribune)
An appeal to the German people to
rise in revolution and seize the gov
ernment of the German states from
king, princes, and grand dukes is made
in pamphlet which has been cabled
to Europe by the American Friends of
German Democracy and will be dis
trlbuted over Germany by airplanes.
This appeal was made public Mon
day in Chicago by the local branch of
this organization of which Otto c.
Butz is president. The appeal is as
follows:
"Bulgaria's surrender breaks the
line of the central powers and con-
verts our unshakeable faith lin final
victory for democracy into the GER
tainty of it's early attainment.
Sat this fateful moment in the his
tory of the German people we, the
American Friends of German Democ-
racy, therefore feel impelled to raise
out voice and appeal to the democratic
and liberty loving elements of the Ger
man people to make determined eff
fort to rid themselves of their rulers
who have enslaved them and who. are
tormenting the rest of the world.
"We have right to be heard In
the past we have defended what was
good in the German people at the risk
of our own reputation of loyalty to
our republic. We could do so because
by word and deed we have been faith
full to the ideals of the American peo-
pie. We have always felt sure that
the love of liberty and justice never
died out of your heart and that when
the time came we could rely upon your
love of liberty and justice to assert it
self. While blithely condemning your
rulers as the authors of the world
crime, we did not lose faith in the men
of German blood, nor did our presi-
dent, however much your newspapers
and rulers have misrepresented him.
I'VE know That your leaders and
press have persistently described our
president to you as a hypocrite. That
false cry has totally deceived you. Is
it not time that you should open your
ears to better and wiser counsels?
Many of you know in your hearts
that President Wilson has an ire
proachable record as a democratic
statesman. He is our voice, the voice
of the common people of our republic,
including the German element
"Our people desire just and demo-
cratic peace not a compromise with
your military masters. If you listen
to our president you are listening to
us. IT you trust him you are trusting
us. We do not desire the destruction
of Germany. What we do desire is
that you take political power into your
own hands and establish government
responsible only to yourselves, the
German people. With such a German
government only can our government
deal and thus pave the way for an
early, honorable, and lasting peace.
''If you do not wish to meet the
fate of an utterly defeated and discred-
tied people, this is the time for you to
awake and seize the opportunity given
to you. This is the critical hour of
German liberty. Strike while the iron
is hot. You must rid yourselves COM
pletely of your Hohenzollerns and the
Hapsburgs; they and their junkers
must have no part in the free Ger
many of the future
'The days following 1915 and 1848,
of promises never fulfilled and hopes
of popular, free government killed and
and kaiserism, must not be repeated.
In appealing to you we act from mo-
tives of self-interest, as well as out of
sympathy for the German people. For
IL your government remains autocrat-
ic, militarism and compulsion will en-
danger free institutions throughout the
world. The moment you rise and seize
the reins of government you have laid
a secure foundationf or peace and the
rehabilitation of your honor and good
name"
REPUBLIC ONLY SALVATION
Karl Mathie, secretary of the Chi
cago society, said yesterday:
"This latest German note is not the
voice of the German people. The
kaiser and his military clique are be-
hind it. Germany can only be pre-
served by republic. The only thing
for the allies to do is to occupy the
German land until republic is es-
tablished. We must go the whole
way. A n armistice would be the big
way. An armistice would be the big
friend we have is Foch and his two
fists