The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-03-23
The scoURoE or GOD"
tBy Newell Dwight HILLS

and finance pays eight per cent Ger.
.many's war against Denmark, when
she seized SchlesWlgIlolstein paid her
Thousand per cent Her war In 1870
10 grab the iron mines OF Alsace and
. Lorraine paid her ten thousand per
cent Germany expected the var Of
1914 TO pay her twenty thousand per
fcrut We have made no investment
IKE oar wars, said Bernhard Let
Belgium found steel plants at Namur
and Liogea-we viii loot them Let
Nancy and Rheims and Arras fll stores
with rich goods and wp will grab
I them
/ This var had les origin Ia q meeting
/ held iH potsdam Palace Ia 1892 On
that occasion the Kaiser placed In the
hands of his friends a confidential doc
ument, at the head Of the document
were these words The pan-Gefman
Empire The second line read From
/ Hamburg on The North Sea go the Per
sian Gulf The third line aas Our
ultimate soaI-by 1918 100000 600 OF
people The fourth line Our ultimate
goal the Germanizatlon of all the
people Of the world On the opposite
page vas part OF the kaiseF's address
From nay childhood have been under
/ lbe influence OF Ave men Alexander
Julius Caesar, Charles the Fifth Fred.
efick the Great. aud Napoleon An of
these men dreamed their dreams OF
q Wofldpmplrr they failed ! have
dreamed my dream OF q worldempire
/ shall succeed
Gu the third page vas map Of the
old Roman Empire with Rome as the
capital, Caesar Augustus AZ the war
lord, and the once mighty states rub.
duen, win Carthage and Jerusalem,
Epheeus and Athens. reduced 10 the
level Of county towns On the
opposite page is the l9l5.to-l925 world
German map Instead of the Roman
Empire. you have the pan.GeFman
Empire Instead Of Caesar Augustus
you have Kaiser Wilhelm II And upon
the countries once named Russia,
Austria" France" aud Great BrI
tain. you have the word GERMANtA.
for retrograd, Paris and London have
become eountyseat towns
/ The Kaiser told Ambassador Gerard
that after this war was over he would
have no nonsense from the United
States, by which he meant that Ger
|mania would be- written across ouF
Icountry with the %" oil san Francisco
and the "A" on Washington To win
! this goal, the Kaiser has bent every
Ieuergy b. has turned his whole nation
into ole military machine with which
80 conquer the world
i
The cold ealalog Of German atgocl
tiles now documented and Ia the gov.
Ienment archives OF the different ma
tioua makes up the most sickenInR
page In history These atrocities also
waFp committed not I'm a mood of
drunkenness. nor an hbuF Of anger, bat
were organized by so-Called German
efficiency, aud porpetrated ola de-
, liberate cold precise. scientific policy
Of German ffiRhtfulness. The Germans
slaughtered old men and matrons, mu
tilated captiyes In ways that can only
be spoken OF by men In whispers
violated little girls until they were
dead finding a ealfskin nailed upon a
barn door to be dried they nailed d
babe beside u and wrote the word
! "ZHel'. they thrust women and chill
dren between themselves aud soldiers
coming Hp to- defend their native land
bombed aud looted hospitals Red Cross
buildings, violated the white flag
while the worst atrocities cannot even
be- named here.
When they had burned al the houses
aud rclreated. the next morning th,
Iprefeet Of Lorraine reached that Geth
semaBe. and photographed the bodies
nf thirty aged men lying az they fell
/ the bodies Of women stripped and Al
last slain. while In the next yillas,
stood the ruined square helfry int,
which the Germans had lifted machIn,
guns. then forced every woman an,
child sTj In number-into the tttlt
church aud notified the French soldier
that II they fred upon the machin,
, guns, they would xiii their own womei
! and children After several days hun
5 ger and thirst, Of midnight, these brave
! women slipped a little boy through thr
! church window, and babe their has
, bands Gre upon the Germans IN III,
. bpifry. saving they preferred death I,