McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-01-04


the Dardanelles and you begin your
great railway to Bagdad, but the am
bilious archduke and his more ambi
tious wife stood in your way. It was
then that ] sowed the seed in you,
heart that blossomed into the assassi.
nation of the duke and his wife, anG
all hell smiled when it saw how clev.
erIy you saddled the crime on Serbia
| saw you set sail for the fjords Of
Norway and | knew you would prove
an alibi. How cleverly done, SC
much like your noble grandfather
who also secured an assassin to re.
move old King Frederick of Denmark
and later robbed that country of two
provinces that he might give Ger
many an opportunity to become a
naval power. Murder is dirty work,
but it takes a Hohenzollern to make a
wav and get by with it.
Your opportunity was at hand; you
set the world on fire and the bells of
hell were ringing; your rape on Bel
gium caused much joy; it was the be-
ginning, the foundation of perfect
hell on earth, the destruction of noble
cathedrals and other infinite works of
art was hailed with joy in the internal
regions. You made war on friends
and foe alike and the murder of civil
ians showed my teachings had borne
fruit. Your treachery towards neu-
trail nations hastened universal up.
heaval, the thing | most desired.
Your undersea warfare is a master
stroke from the smallest mackerel
beat to the Lusitania. You show no
favorites; as war lord you stand
supreme, for you have no mercy; you
have no consideration for the baby
clinging to its mothers breast as
they both GO down into the deep to-
gether to be torn apart and leisurely
devoured by the sharks down among
the corals.
| have strolled over the battlefelds
of Belgium and France. | have seer
your hand of destruction everywhere
it's all your work, super-fend that
made you. | have seen the fields Of
Poland; now wilderness fit foi
prowling beasts only; no merry chill
dren in Poland now, they all succumt
to frost and starvation. | drifted
down into Galicia, where formerly
Jews and Gentiles lived happily to-
gother. found but ruins and ashes
| felt curions pride in my pupil, fol
1t was all above my expectation.
was il Belgium when you drove the
lpeacefpl population before you like
cattle into slavery; you separated
iran and wife and forced them tc
hard labor in the trenches. have
seen the most fiendish rape commit
ted on young women and those forced
into maternity were cursing the fathel
of their offspring. and | began tt
doubt if my inferno was really up tt
date.
You have taken millions of dollar'
from innocent victims and called i
indemnity; you have lived fat on th'
land you usurped and sent the rea
owners away to starvation. You hav'
strayed from all legalized war meth
ods and introduced a code of you
own. You have killed and robbed
the people Of friendly nations and de
stroyed their property. You are {
liar. a hypocrite and buffer Of th'
highest magnitude. You are a pupi
Of mine and yet you pose as a per
sonal friend of God. All, Wilhelm
you are wonder. You wantonly de
stroy all things in your path and leav'
nothing for coming generations.
| was amazed when | saw you form
} partnership with the impossible Turk
the chronic killer of Christians, ant
yeu devout worshipper in the Luth
eran church. confess, Wilhelm. 20,
are puzzle at times. A Mohamedal
army commanded by Prussian officer
assisting one another in massacrin,
Christians is a new line of warfare
; When Prusslan officer can witness
nude woman who. disemboweled by
swarthy Turk, committing a doubl
murder with one cut of his sabre, an,
calmly stand by and see house full
of innocent Armenians locked up
the house saturated with oil and fred
then my teachings did not stop witt
you. but have been extended to .th,
whole German nation. confess m,
satanic soul grew sick and there AM