Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02
GERMANS BERATE
PRESIDENT WILSON
U. S. Executive Bids Fair to
DispIace "John Bull" as
"Best Hated Man."
CALLED GRUFF BLOCKHEAD
BY THOMAS NJ. JOHNSON.
1917. All rights reserved.)


WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, December Frequent quo
tations from German newspapers
cabled to the United States have
doubtless shown long ere this that
President Wilson bids fair to displace
John Bull as the best hated enemy of
Germany.
He has been Knocked, berated- treated
with affected indifference. earicatured
with all the invective of a govern
ment-controlled press expert in such
work. Never, however. have the little
group of officers of Gen. Pershing's
star whose business it is to keep track
of what the enemy says about US found
anything to equal a poem that German
newspapers are now widely publishing.
1t was published originally in klad
deradatsch of Berlin. the German idea
of humorous publication, and was
first copied by the Magdeburger Zei-
ting an organ of the national liberal
or center party. The author Is ono
Paul Warnke. These officers made
literal translation of the poem. which
scarcely reveals all the brutality and
hatred that it would convey to a Ger
man.
How Poem Is Inscribed.
The poem is inscribed. ITO Gruff
Blockhead-the President of the United
States
1T is good for you. squatting be-
be reached by German fists, you
hypocrital sIob without equal" it be-
gins, you who are boxing at us with
filthy phrases; contemplate. corrupt
Independent lip the people which has
understood how to defend itself
strongly against you and your breed.
you dare to insult them through their
emperor.
You are attempting to spread mis-
trust and deception because in this one
point you were wise in your realization
of the fact that people steeled in wars
forced upon it could be conquered by
itself alone. This people that clearly
understood its mission that called the
hero of FehrbeIlin it's own, which he of
Zorndorf and Of Rosbach led, that chose
such heroes for its rulers and whose
king once laid in Bismarcks hands its
which today also proudly shows its met
tie in the storm you desire to destroy
treacherously, by worm.
"Poor scoundre1" One Epithet.
What have you ever done, you poor
scoundrel, who dare such impudence,
that you should have the audacity to
defame a royal race that has given TO
its people so many men: you. whose
hands are entirely stained with blood,
who boldly govern state according to
your will. who would shrink from no
lie?
You pretend to be noble angel Of
peace! Why, you wretch, we have got
your number. You doubt the German
word OF honor. you high priest Of the
conscious lie? You. who have continued
Q @ int ~ erNNA
tory of evil through which your people
has gained such rich profit; you are not
worthy to unite the strings Of a poor
Germans shoes. We do not need you
and your kind to mold the fate Of our
children. There still lies among US, you
vain wretch, the high spirit of the old
man Of the Saxon VALID
1t is well for you. squattfng behind
the pond. that you cannot be reached
by German fists! Meanwhile. let US
send you this greeting-'Lick the blood
from your dirty hands,"
Product Of "Kultur."
There It is, true product of German
kultur. Hard things have been written
of the writer's hero ruler" the kaiser.
in American newspapers, but surely
could approach this. The officers who
discovered it-and they are close stu
dents Of German newspapers and Of
other things German-rather think, how
ever. that Mr.. Warnke was a bit uneasy
as to the possible effect upon his read
ers Of one message after another from
the "grun blockhead'' telling them to ret
rid Of the kaiser. Perhaps, they think,
1T was that uneasiness rather than
righteous German hate that prompted
him to write the poem; or. perhaps, 1t
was not prompting. but orders that made
him write 1t.