Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-03-02

| took him and his royal ancestors
some forty years of constant edu-
cation in schools, churches and
presided over by teachers and pro-
fessors appointed and paid by him.
TO steal away their individual souls,
but he seems at last to have done
it.
So that he, himself mad de-
generate in mind and body, bends
the soul OF Germany's men to his
dire purposes The deeds done by
his men in France and Belgium go
10 prove beyond question how he
has turned them into beasts. Obe-
dent to his will wives were yio-
lated in the sight of their help
less husbands, babies impaled on
bayonets or nailed to barn doors,
women repeatedly outraged by
officers and men alike, and their
bodies horribly mutilated. The go
ing OF German soldiers through a
town was perfect saturnalia OF
lust and slaughter AS one soldier
writes in his diary, I'VE swilled
and raped the entire street along.
The officers egged on the men
turned them loose on the booze and
starving wolves never waged
slaughter on harmless sheep Little
children with their hands hacked
on-the helpless wounded were
murdered in cold blood for the order
was to" take no prisoners. Men
and women were herded In the mar
ketplace and shot down wholesale.
Most of this was done deliberately
and by order-done as part of a
plan of frightfulness-done to fright
en- people who would not scare but
died rather than yield.
II want our German Americans to
know the truth. To know that these
things were not British lies, but that
they were actually done. / want them
to know that the public thinkers of
Germany, the writers of her books,
the editors Of her papers, the preach
ers in her pulpits, the teachers in
their schools and colleges the mem
bers of her legislative bodies, all OF
them writing, speaking and working
under the lash Of the kaiser and his
military gang, have filled the souls
of great majority of the German
people with an holy lust for world
conquest and world power.
1T is because we do not want this
curse to blight America that we must
continue to fight kaiserism with a
vim and will, with eyes that never
sleep and feet that never tire, fight
out faithfully to the bitter end this
great war for human liberty and hap
piness, The trouble with our Ger
man people Is that they can't be
brought to believe these awful
things They don't want to believe
them, they fight against believing
them. number of our German
American subscribers have stopped
their subscriptions to the English
language newspapers simply because
they couldn't endure the horror and
pain that the awful truth inflicted
llytf fc
our shutting our eyes to the fac,s,
sooner or later we shall be forced +.
we know 1t and get our lives adjusted
in harmony with 1t, the better for us
all.
There ought to be no question as
to the absolute loyalty of every Ger
man American to the stars and strips.
We came from land where we had
no chance at all and because we had
no chance, to this fair land Of pror,
Use that insures to every hard work
ing, saving. earnest man real success
In life. Most of us have realized well
upon this very assurance. Many Uf
us have become wealthy under the
opportunity which America gave Us.
1t is true we earned what we have
earned 1t by constant hard work
through days filled with long hours
Of unremitting toll, and by means OF
saving our pennies and denying our
selves many of the so-cailed pleasures
of life Vet in spite of all our hard
work and self denial we never could
have succeeded unless, great. good,
kind and loving America had given
us the chance to do so.
In return for this chance which
she gave us we owe her our last dol
lar and last drop of life's blood In her
great war against system of gov
ernment that forbids instead OF CIV
ing its people, privileges and oppOr-