The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-09

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& THE DOWNFALL OF GERMANY :
To the News scimitar:
Once Germany boasted Of its culture,
its art, its science, it's military eff
ficiency and its mechanical genius; for
30 years she planned and plotted to
grind the world under her heel, and
take possession of all its wealth and
honors. She trained her youths to
hearts, and to fight to kill. While our
boys were trained to football and gym
nastics and the higher arts and in
business education. German children
were trained to shoot, to plot and to
kill, to dominate their adversaries. Is
it any wonder that they could relent-
lessly wade through human blood and
carnage and crime in manhood in their
deluded hope of victory?
They were taught to worship the kali
ser, and in their implicit faith in his
power n greatness, they never doubt
ed and did not falter in executing his
demoniac demands. So, with the great
est and most beastly ferocity, they
ravished the countries and tortured
their victims with unheard of cruelty
and brutality.
Germany's glory is gone, forever; the
blood of babes and women and the ma
tons tears, came like a great cataract
and swept it all into the black and
Shiny gulf of the hatred and contempt
of every combined nation Of earth, and
now, instead of the shining monument
to her civilized achievements, a whited
sepulcher stands over the grave of
downfallen Germany, n Germany's
blaCk-winged, blood-stained ghost
stalks screeChing over its desolated
lands, while the slaves of the kaiser
l ara hapUinu nc for hraad npI few ,,.aroyy
The cloven-footed kaiser, who shat
tered every civilized ideal and broke
every sacred law, and walked hand in
hand with the devil; with the chalice
Of communion he dipped bitter, burn
ing, seething gall from the caldron Of
hell, and poured the scalding poison
over all the lands; he waded through
the blood of infants, blew up hospitals
and made harlots Of helpless women,
and ~blasphemed the name of God by
associating that holy name with him
self, Me und Colt" God had no part
in such work, he should have said:
Me und Beelzebub-me bruder."
God was going hand in hand with
Woodrow Wilson; God was with the
right, and the right won. The once
great tyrant kaiser, who thought the
world was a little hobby horse he was
riding, has been pitched over the little
live mustangs head, just over the fence
of his little old world he planned to
conquer so soon, kicked into nowhere,
he is now an outcast, so b~loodstained
and blood drenched that the hell hounds
of vengeance are seeming his track
to devour him, while the name Of
Woodrow Wilson is a dazzling star of
the first magnitude, in the clear. blue
skies of the worlds v%eneration and
alteration, which will shine with fade
less luster down the dim vistas of all
the future ages, and thousands, mil
lions, yet unborn, will rise up to call
him blessed, and to emulate his wis
dom, justice, mercy and greatness,
while the great-grandchildren Of our
little Sammies will b%oastingly tell their
children Of the unsullied flag, the gal
liant valor, the bravery and the imper-
ishable victory that their great-grand-
fathers, under these great generals,
won, under the greatest difficulties any
warriors ever had. The golden stars in
the service flags will never grow dim,
but shine, to light for others, the paths
of glory; and the Red Cross will shine,
from Calvary's Mount, as a blazing
chariot of fire, leaping up into glorious
light to heaven through all the coming
years, JOSIE N, MASON,