The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-06-13
GEORGE III WAS OF GERMAN
BLOOD-AND AN ANCESTER
OF KAISER WILLIAM

This war has illustrated in tragic
fashion the Importance of the edu
Gated citizenship in democracy.
When the war with Germany came
on, the average educated, well-in-
formed American at once threw him
self heart and soul into the Ameri-
can cause. He did so because he
knew what the war meant.
Unfortunately, however, our aver
age voter had studied nothing about
the menace of Kaiserism, had never
even familiarized himself with the
names of Nietzche, Bernhardi, and
Treitschke and knew nothing of Ger
many's Caesar-like plans to make
conquest of the world. In fact, the
distinction between the Government
OF Germany, ruled by "divine right"
Kaiser and his military authority,
and the present-day government of
England in which the king is only a
hgure-head and the people rule as
completely as the people in the Uni
ted States-even these distinctions
were hardly familiar to the average
citizen before war came on.
In the limited instruction given in
our public schools below the high
school, no mention is made at all of
the change in English government
since l176, nor are fundamental facts
about the Revolutionary War itself
emphasized as they should be. For
example, how many of our people
Know today that the British tyrant-
King, George III who fought us dur.
ing the Revolutionary War was of
German blood, having a German fa-
ther and a German mother, and that
the present tyrant- Kaser is on his
mothers side lineal descendant of
the same King George we fought in
l76? Yet these are facts.
Let's put these facts somewha.
more in order.
l. George III was of German fam
n.y. George being imported from
Germany and never learning to speak
English at all, while George III came
go England from Germany when he
was 81, and married German
George iii was a first cousin of Fred
erick of Prussia and had been es-
pecially taught by his German mo-
ther,' says Larned, "that he and no
the people of England must rule"
z. Coming to the throne, this an
tocratic rule is what George III tried
TO accomplish; and the war against
the American colonies was fought in
the days when the King controlled
farhament not the Parliament the
king as now. AS Larned wrote in
ms History of England" years ago
1T was the blind obstnacy of King
George, more than any and all states
OF feeling among his subjects, that
carried England into conflict with
her children in American, and thai
gave an irreconcilable bitterness to
''e s'r'ie. lie managed the
doings OF government i'm his own
way"
3. Meanwhile, however. while
George III was trying to oppress
America and carry out his Kaiser
ike idea of making everything bow to
the Kings will (and hiring Hessian
soldiers from Germany to conouer
America), Pitt, Burke, Fox, and 9th
ers OF the greatest Englishmen of
the time were against the King, and
fought on many occasions in Parlia-
ment in the interest of the Ameri-
cans Chatham boldly declaring in
famous speech in the House Of
Commons: "If l were an American.
as l am an Englishman, while for
elgn troop was landed in my country,
never would lay down my arms
never, never, never"
d. The liberty-loving English peo.
pie have since compelled the King
70 give up one power after another
until he now has practically no au-
thority, but in Germany, as we have
seen, this idea Of autocratic rule by
monarch exists rampant and uncurb-
eb.-The Progressive Farmer.