Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-01-19
GERMAN CALLS ON HIS COUNTRYMEN TO GUST KAISER

lected after men of honor have refused
their services. In the spring of 1914,
by an overwhelming vote OF lack OF
confidence, the reichstag showed It's
distrust of the only man whose sigma
ture the emperor needed for moDiH-
cation and declaration of war, Beth
mann-Holweg, his imperial chancellor
In no modern civilized state would II
be possible for n minister to remain In
office after being openly branded by
the representatives of the people as I'M
fit, but in Germany any criminal may
become and remain imperial chancellor
at the will of the emperor alone Pun
ishment has already found him out An
other lackey has been promoted to
lackey-in-chief, without consultation
with the German people and their rep
resentatiyes.
This murderer Is the German EN-.
peror with his accompices; but not
the German people, the poor people
defrauded and exploited by their gov
eminent; not the poor soldiers, who
are driven to slaughter by these knaves
under the iron shackles of military law,
like the miserable galley slaves OF old.
Comrades, how long is 1t your wish
to put up with this? When will you
rouse yourselves? When will you take
arms on the side on which every man
Of honor must now fight on the side of
humanity and civilization against this
gang of slayers? When will you free
our poor, down-tr odden, famished peo-
pie from its tyrants and again estab-
lish justice, liberty, morality, reason
and civilization In Germany?
JOIN FIGHT ON
SIDE OF JUSTICE.
Why not come over to fight on the
side Of justice, Of truth, of freedom, all
of you; the side on which all civilized
nations as well as the noblest and
most far-seeing of your own people
have taken their stand?
/ know the reasons which hold you
back:
l. Your ignorance; the false doc
trines with which you were inoculated
In your school days In all matters OF
history. civil life and politics; the pre-
tentious lies of the German press
whipped into line by a military dicta
tor; your implicit confidence In youl
"God-given" leaders.
2. Fear of your masters, especially
Of the officers. But these hangmen o.
the kaiser are cowardly and hide them
selves in time Of danger behind cover
Shoot them down like mad dogs IL they
get in your way. Rather that the,
die than the hundreds of thousands O.
honest industrious fathers of fami
lies whom they have already hunted
into the jaws Of death; hunt which
day by day goes on.
8. Fear of committing an unpardon
able crime, and of being unable to re
turn home even If you escape punish
ment. BUT THE LAWS BY WHICH
THE MURDERERs MAlNTAir
THEIR POWER AND MAKE Yot
TRUCKING SLAVES SHALL BE
BLoTTED OUT BEFORE THE WAL
IS AT AN END, AND YOU WILL BE
JoYFULLY WELCOMED HoMI
WITHOUT DISGRACE, AND MORT
THAN THAT, WITH THE HiGHES-
HONOR, AS TRUE HEROES AMI
LlBERAToRs OF YOUR COUNTRY
4. Fear of injuring our fatherland
you 90 over to the French and Eng
Iish, and more than that If you figh
: on their side, which is matter 70
your own choice
Comrades, pledge you by all tina
we hold holy, | am a son Of the Gel
man people, love them with ever
fiber of my being, more than ever
; Hohenzollern loved them; and tn
honor and welfare of my fatherlan
stand above all else, and are the onl