Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-02

stand above all else, and are the only
lodestars Of my destiny. / know the
war, the events leading up to 1t, its
causes, and its progress-more than
the kaiser's government likes. assure
you that The welfare Of the German
people demands that you come over;
aye. that you turn your cannon around,
that you join the antente and march
with them to the Rhine and over II,
and wrest our land from the claws Of
its destroyer, for now and for all time.
/ FREE MANKIND FROM
| AN INSANE CRIMINAL.
There are only two possible ways
of ending this war: Either humanity,
without you, without the cooperation
of the German people. viii annihilate
Prussian junkerdom. and will starve
out the German people that thus they
may free mankind, for now and for
ever, from a curse which rests upon
them with the weight of Alpine SHOWS;
from any insane eripinal on throne
change millions of men into corpses
and cripples. and ruin the industry and
welfare of nation; either this or yoa
yourselves will assist in the task of
freeing mankind PEACE WILL NOT
COME ONE HOUR BEFORE THIS
GOAL is REACHED, BUT NOT ONE
HOUR LATER But If this goal should
be reached without you and in spite OF
you you VIII be ground down into
ruin. and what Is more, the people of
our German fatherland will be given
over to the will of the conquerors.
Then your intellectual and political
leaders, the true leaders who are not
the lackeys of the emperor. will have
no right and no opportunity to inter-
pose word concerning the future or
der of the world and OF Germany. But
If you cooperate, and that with all
your might, to carry out this purpose,
the honor Of the German people, which
is today scorned as merely an insen-
safe tool in the hands of murderers,
will be restored: and more than that,
you will have voice In the establish
ment of the new order of the world
and of Germany. And take my word
for II we shall have peace, and we can
have 1t on such terms that the German
people will be happier In the future
than they ever were before the war. But
leave Us in the lurch, and we must rec
ognize with sullen rage and scorn that
we are the fellow countrymen OF hope
lessly deIuded slaves, upon whom will
he, los, for chair nj
for the humiliation Of Germany.
EMPEROR wlcKEoLY ,
DECEIVED YOU. --s'l~S '''si ~ =
Comrades In war, you have taken an
oath Of allegiance to your flag. But the
emperor. too. took an oath>at the be-
ginning of his reign, an oath of al
legiance to the German constitution.
The confederation which forms the
German empire was established sac-
cording to this constitution, "TO PRO-
TEcT THE UNITED PROVINCES
AND THE LEGAL RIGHTS THERE
OF, AND TO PROMOTE THE VEL
FARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE"
To guard 1t is the foremost, indeed the
only, duty of the German emperor. If
this purpose cannot be accomplished
without war, then the emperor may de-
clare war, but not until then. But the
emperor wickedly, wantonly, by decelv-
Ing the German people, by nIsrepre-
sentins facts and by forging official
documents, by breaking sacred treaties
which he as the defender Of justice
should have observed, has overthrow
Belgium, declared war on Russia,
France and Serbia, and has thereby
vio.ated the laws OF Justice and the
constitution; has hurled the German
empire down to ruin and has wrecked
the welfare Of the German people. The
oath which you have taken means al
legiance merely to an emperor who IL
the protector of the German people.
the guardian of their constitution, the
true preserver Of their welfare; 1t does
not mean allegiance to burglars, muir
derers, rascally drummers for greedy
cannon makers. But you took no oath
against the German people whom 1t
was this emperor's duty to protect;
whom Won must now protect without
him and against him, miserable
wretch who befrays his country in the
hour of greatest danger, who either
from stupidity or from cowardice
works against the good of his people.
KNIFE AT cULLET OF
ScouNDRELs WHO RULE.
Let every man who loves the Ger
man people and the German fatherland
come Overt The password which is to
be given at the French posts is:
REPUBLIC!
He VIII meet not only French and Eng
lish and Americans. but also German
patriots, whose concern 1t is that our
fatherland, tie fatherland 80 shame
fully and treaeherously sold by its
rulers by divine right, should not be
annihilated; and he win be welcomed
q with honor by the French IL he gives
this password, and will be well treated.
Comrades in war, the knife is at the
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