The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-13
THE MOST AMAZING REVELATION
OF NATIONAL DEPRAVITY IN
HUMAN HISTORY

HUMAN HlSIOkf
For its own ACKNOWLEDGMENT Ger
many, after years Of preparation, de-
liberately entered upon war to con-
quer the world. It's leading business
men were repeatedly called into con-
sultation with the Kaiser, and in con-
sideration of the promises made by
him and the military leaders Of Ger
many that they would be able to loot
thee world and enormously enrich
themselves II they would uphold the
Kaiser's proposed war, these men lit
orally sold their solids to the devil,
and for personal profit pledged their
hearty cooperation in war which
they knew would mean the death Of
millions Of soldiers, In war which
mean sorrow and woe such as the
world had never known. They enter
ed into this unholy compact with a
distinct promise from the Kaiser and
the military clique that within one
year from the beginning of the war
they would be able to reap the enor-
nous profits which were promised to
them, and dominate the trade of the
world, as Germany proposed to domi-
nate the nations of the earth.
In all human history there is no
record so damning and damnable of
1 nation which definitely committed
itself to murder, to outraglng, to pill
laying, to all the horrors Of world
war, for the individual profit of its
business men and the aggrandize-
ment of its military power
This is the blacklist story in human
history. 1t indicates degree of NOR
IL depravity of the whole nation
which found a fitting expression In
he fearful crimes in Belgium and
ance upon women and children, up
churches and cathedrals, and up
all civilization wherever the ac-
cursed army of these freebooters and
'ooters and outragers and would-be
'onquerors have marched.
And now that these murderers and
utragers and world robbers and
'ooters find themselves baked. and
ealize that civilization is create
han barbarism, that honor is greater
han dishonor, that an enraged and
'utraged world is making impossible
he carrying out of their plans for
ighway robbery and murder, plans
deliberately entered upon after years
study, efforts are being made in
lany directions, through pro-German
ctivities, and in other disguised ways,
o raise the cry of peace; and here
nd there suggestions are seen that
he Kaiser was forced into this war
y Prussian militarism, hoping in this
'ay to create a sentiment in favor of
aving him from the gallows or the
ring squad.
II behooves every honest-hearted
nan and every good woman ION the
ace Of the earth to set their faces
gainst this peace propaganda, and to
ow before man and heaven that there
hall be no talk of peace until the
rmies of the Allies and this, of course
leans our amies with the other
illies-have marched through Ger
many and Austria and by their pres
nee have proved to these nations
hat right is greater than might; that
righteousness is greater than I'M
ighteusness; that the heaven of
prosperity based on integrity and
honor is better than the hell created
1y the baseness and the vileness Of
Germany in which all of its people.
from the Kaiser to the lowest of its
peasants, united for the purpose r.
looting the world, for their indiyidua
enrichment, and the domination and
the damnation of the world under
German rule.
Any man in this country. or in that
of our Allies, who thinks peace on any
other terms than the unconditional
surrender Of Germany and its al
lies, who thinks peace except on the
basis OF death to those who have
brought this fearful war upon the
world, who thinks peace upon any
)ther basis than a penalty through the
lndemnities imposed upon Germany
and its allies which will tax to the ut
most Of their ability for generations
to come, will be q curse to civilization
and prove himself to be without NOR
al backbone. without honesty and In
tegrity OF character. II matters not
where the suggestion Of peace without
penalty may appear, In matters not
In what devious ways II may crop out
In church circles. In political circles.