The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-08
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We may as well understand that the
moral side i largely lost sight OF IN the
citation that follows the sense of being
knit together" My country, right OF
wrong but right or wrong, my country,
Is somewhat unusually frank expires
sion Of this feeling,
There are those ~ America -and they
are not all Germans, cithcr-who say,
why not allow the German people 20
have the Kind Of government they want
Why send our boys thousands of miles
over land aud sea 10 suffer aud die while
killing and Gripping German boys who
love their lives, their liberty aud their
country as well as We do oursy"
II j. fair question and there are two
answers.
First. The German people do not have
and cannot obtain the kind Of govern.
mcnt they want because of the cruel and
rcsistless tyranny under which they suf'
fer. Before this war started 6,000,0oO
votes were east in Germany for radical
and socialist parties which oppose inn
perialism; and, but for the three.class
system voting, the wicked veto power Of
the royalty appointed representatives of
the government, and the relentless mill.
| tary oppression of which represent
and support Imperialism the common
people of Germany would have estab
lished free republic long ago. And
more OF the German people are sick OF
| imperialism since the war than ever be-
fore. The German people are held cap
tive in cruel bondage and part of them
| have been drugged by lies until they are
helpless. They need rescue by democrat
ic armies; and. America is proud To lend
her aid TO break down the iron walls Of
their oppression.
The German imperial government is
| like mad farmer who plants Canadian
thistles in his fields. sets fire To his ripen
| ing wheat, poisons the streams from
(which his cattle drink, and brutally out
RACES his wife and children. Will the
neighboring farmers say, Let him sow
thistles on his own land if he wants to;
let him burn his wheat, poison his cattle,
and beat his wife and children If he
will. II is his land, his wheat, his cattle,
his wife, his children, let him do as he
pleases with his owns No. they can
not say that; their pity for the mad
farmers family ard their desire TO pro-
tect the honor OF the neighborhood would
force them TO interfere. And besides
In the second place, the mad farmer,
and the imperial government, do not,
will not, can not, Keep their evils at
home. Ii one farmer raises Canadian
thistles the other farmers nearby are
compelled to do so too, for the evil seed
blows everywhere; and the only way the
neighboring farmers can keep their fields
free from the blight of the thistles is to
compel the mad farmer to cease raising
thistIes also. When the mad farmer sets
fire to his wheat fields the fire spreads
through the fences to neighboring fields
when the mad farmer poisons the water
brooks his neighbor's cattle also die, and
the man who brutAlly beats his own wife
and children is unsafe to have in the
community and such a man is dis
grace To the whole countryside. And
there is no doubt but that the farmers
of the neighborhood, for the sake of the
mad farmers family and for the protec-
tion of their own fields cattle and fam
lilies, viii proceed against him at law and
put the insane fellow in prison or the
asylum He cannot be allowed to be at
liberty to execute his crazy will upon his |
family and his neighbors.
The German princes are insane Grim |
mails Anyone who believes, as Emperor |
William does, that he rules a nation by |
hereditary divine right is crazy. The |
history of the ruling family of Germany |
for 500 bloody, terrible years is record |
of lying, intrigue, robbery and wholesale |
murder. They pretend that they have
the divine right" to do such things. BY |
such means they arose from the province
OF Brandenburg to the head Of the Ger
man empire The overthrow of rivals,
the annexation of land, the gaining of
power over other nations have been ac-
complshed for 500 years by methods
such as were used TO deyastate Belgium
and murder her people. Treaties and
of paper" if they disputed the royal 'di-
vine right" OF kings to grab all the land
and tribute they could take by force.
And the Canadian thstles, the ruinous
fires and the poison springs of German
militarism and intrigue cannot be kept |
at home. They have terrorized and
cursed all Europe for many generations.
Not a council of -.ate nor a parliament
in Europe has been free for a hundred
years to plan for sane progress. Always
the terrible menace of Prussian impe-
rialism oyershadowed them and shaped
their actions. They have been forced to
spend billions of dollars for diplomacy"
and armament which they needed for
other and better things, and they have
been forced to abandon high ideals and
glorious progress because of the Prus
sian menace. France, Holland, Poland
and Denmark. especially, have been
cursed, crippled, robbed and bound down
by the relentless power of the Prussian
Since this war started sew
eral other nations have been added to the
Russia being the last victim. There
can be no safety for Europe until this
aggressive despotism is made to bow in
the dust of humiliation and shame.
And now this malignant and mighty
power has broken loose upon mankind at
large. All peoples on earth are being
distressed by the economic troubles and
want incident to the great war; every
nation has been poisoned by the kaiser's
vicious intriguers and lying spies; every
nation now trembles lest this monster OF
militarism should win the war and be,
come more mighty and terrible toward ,
non militarist countries.
And the world must now decide wheth-
ar it will be ruled by democracy or des-
potism; by free peoples or by relentless {
armies. The world can no longer exist {
half democratic and half imperialistle.
The warts on to a finish now between !
democracy and despotism. The crisis OF {
world liberty is at hand. III
| am glad that President Wilson was
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