Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-15
REVEALS GERMAN kAISER'S DOCTRINE
New London Attorney Quotes From Hun Rulers Instructions to His Troops- Stirring Address at Open Meeting of Rev. Daniel Mullen Assembly Sunday Afternoon

s-~se. doctrine is concerned you have all qualified here tonight as past masters
 Conserve on Everything.
 Conserve on coal, provided of course you are fortunate enough to have any |
 with which to conserve. Conserve oi, ! tobacco and cigars as the boys across | the water will enjoy an occasional | smoke. Conserve on gasoline as that | is needed for our aer0planes and arn- | balances. Conserve even on, disposi- l
 ton by forgetting the past petty diff l ferences and let us all get together in I a spirits of. patriotic CO., operation and |
 above all things stand by your pres
 idefit in the conduct of this horrible conflict. Get acquainted with that
 wef1 known bit of advice of doing it now" Don't De like that ebessed gem tlenlar1 who was hurrying to the sta- .tiou and arrived there all out of
 breath and just in time to miss his last train for home. His friend ap-
 preached him and in sympathetic tone said, Well. Toms am sorry you lost
 your train but you did not run fast enough" "Oh. yes, I did, replied Jack,
 the trouble was that did not start in time" and so in our present situation time is very essential element to- ward q speedy and victorious termin- ation of this war.
 It is not releverft for us to discuss at this time the reasons pro and con why we are in this war. The facts stare each and every ote of us straight in the face and as has often been said, We're here because we're here. and we're here to stay to the finish, and must do our part well, whatever that part may be, so that when our boys return, triumphant, hope it cannot be said that we fell asleep at the switch Heavens knows We did not seek this trouble. On the other hand every possible thing was done to avoid being made a party un- til the insults, aspersions and acts of war cast upon us could no longer be endured by any nation. however pa tient, having a. drop of red blood run ming through it's veins. Every rule of l international law relative to the right of travel on the high seas had been purposely violated by Germany and lie 1 has become irnbued with the idea that | he had our country So we'll covered 1 with his agents that we dare not, and yea could not make 8. move least re- prisaIs would be practiced on our com tmerciaf and industrial I enterprises. | by our enemy before we did make any move. Losses began with the William l P. Frye. sunk January 29, 1915, fol- lowed shortly by the Leelanlaw, the lLanao Columbian, Housatonic, Lyman NJ. Law, Algonquin, Vircinamcia, City of Memphis, Illinois, Healdton, Aztey
 lMissouriari, and as many others had
 lbeen attacked by German U boats but
 managed after great hardship and
 danger to reach ports of safety.
 i Won BernstorH and His Gang.
 Ships and treasure in which Arneri.
 can property and lives were involved
 furnished numerous cases of loss with
 out trace. so that on April 9,f1917. ou1
 patience utterly exhausted and all en-
 treaties and diplomatic proposals dis
 regarded, our president felt compe1l- ed to declare that a state of war ex-
 listed and handed Won Bernstorff his papers with orders to proceed forth with to his fatherland, and Von Bern
 storff had not gone far before it wa.
 apparent that while he was beins
 tJined and dined here he was con. ttfnually at the head of a gang of tht most dangerous criminals that wa: ever allowed to run at large under : democratic government. The discoy l. cry of the plots and intrigues of thi. gang was certainly forceful illus 7 tration of the doctrine of biting of ; the hand that fed you" We know tn, nature, system and preparations of tn,
 :, German government.
 Fl We have been told in no uncertail :. terms the regard in which we are hel, ] by the German powers. The kaise
 himself has sent us word directI, through our ambassador that he vii ~t t-%r1 Arx = , Iwar. He is in this war as the repre sentative of the Almighty himself, 8 , he says. He rules not by virtue o any right bestowed upon him by au ], man power but rules simply and solel ' by divine right He says and he be !. lieves in might rather than right an ' he is the might. He snaps his fin : gures at agreements after he has soi !. emnly affixed his signature to then !, and believes and says that if there !, !, anything to be gained by them, h . will be honest but if deception is nee < essary he will be a cheat. Williar :" the Second in speech told the Chi
 necA Expeditionary force that the
 were to fight cunning people, an told them to take no prisoners but [ a use their weapons in such 8 way tha f for the next. thousand years no Chi o nese would dare look askarce upon o German. He told them to renernbe that they are the chosen people, tn : spirit of the Lord has descended upo Q 1 me because I am the emporer of tn f German people. I am the instrumeF 's of the Almighty. I am his swor n and his agent. Woe and death to a q those who shall oppose my will. We n and death to all those who do not be n lieve ii, me. Let them perish all tt | nf @11 ~ .o demands their destruction. God vii :, by my mouth bid you to do his vii
 - The triumph of the greater German 'o which some day must dominate all n Europe is the single end for which N \ are fighting.
 d Our Duty to Stand Stiff.
 d{ This is a casual glance at the inter II l tions and disposition of our enem h and his utterances and we must ! Q. convinced that there is nothing bl m force and universal cot operation th IS will avail against a government of once so interruptions so perfdious ar T. so ingenious; and even if we sent ie troops to France it is absolutely ce 1A tain that we could not maintain u t, intergrity of our owi territory unle 'ri we equipped ourselves with such z lA army and navy as would, defy attac Se IIt is or should be a we'll known ia i- that it is only the English Feet fh > has managed to prevent German su1 of marines from coming up through ol re Long Island sound and shelling Bridg
 a port. New Haven and our own beaut t. ful New London, and should he on Id Iget feethold in Mexico he could SCI e. his .Zeppelins from there to bon D. American cities as easily as he nc or bombs London and the coast towns