Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-01-09


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 entente and march
with them TO the Rhine and over II,
and "rest 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, will annihilate
Prussian junkerdom, and will starve
out the German people that thus they
may free mankind, for now and for
ever. from curse which rests upon
them with the weight of Alpine SHOWS:
from any insane criminal ON Il throne
who, by stroke of the pen. may
change millions Of men into corpses
and cripples, and ruin the industry and
welfare of "a nation; either this or you
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 will 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
h., lna
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
II 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 n 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 II 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 counerymen of hope
lessly deluded slaves, upon whom will
rest the blame for their own ruin and
for the annlhilation Of Germany.
EMPEROR WIckEDLY
DECEIVED YOU.
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 nj
legiance TO the German constitution.
The confederation which forms the
| German empire was established nc
c0rdlng to this constitution. ITO PRO.
TEcT THE UNITED PROVINCES
AND THE LEGAL RIGHTS THERE.
OF, AND TO PROMOTE THE VEL
FARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE"
/ To guard II Is the foremost, indeed the
only duty of the German emperor. II
this purpose cannot be accomplished
without war, then the emperor may de-
clare war, but not until then. But the
emperor wiekedly, wantonIy, by deceIV-
ing the German people, by nisrepre-
senting facts and by forging official
/ documents, by breaking sacred treaties
which he as the defender Of Justice
should have observed, has overthrown
Belgium, declared war on Russia,
France and Serbia, and has thereby
violated 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
leglance merely TO an emperor who Is
the protector of the German people
the guardian Of their constitution, the
true preserver of their welfare; II does
not mean allegiance TO burglars, muir
derers rascally drummers for greedy
cannon makers But you took no oath
against the German people whom Il
was this emperOr's duty 10 protect /;
whom you must now protect without
him and against him. miserable
wretch who betrRys his country In ,ha
hour Of greatest danger, who either
from stupidity or from cowardlce
works against the good of his people.
KNIFE AT GULLET OF
scoUNDRELs WHO RULE.
Let every man who loves fhe Ger
man people and the German fatherland
come over! The password which is to
he given a. the French posts Is:
REPU5Licl
He viii meet not only French and Eng
lsh md Americans, hut also German
patriots. whose concern II is that our
fatherlund the fatherland so shame
fully and treacherously sold by its
rulers by divine right. should not be
annihilated and he viii he welcomed
with honor by the French II he gives
this password, and will be- well treated
Comrades IN war. the knife IS at the
gullet OF the sconndrels who rule you.
and they would rather starve and bleed
the German people to death to the last
man than make peace. or even make
known the object Of their war. For
they know very well that the hour OF
reckoning has struck for them when
they can no longer suppress the truth
beneath their martial law. and trampie
freedom In the dust. Before we make
peace. therefore, and In order to make
peace, we must first reckon with them
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