Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-20

! NliC GG1UIdIl1C confederation. IN 1907
the chance came. Persuading weak
minded Austria to go into partnership
| with them in one of their brutal wars
| of conquest the two great powers
threw a powerful army into Denmark,
and though little Denmark resisted
braVely it was speedily overrun and
the two rich provinces of Schleswig
and Holstein We're torn away Then
the two robbers quarreled over the
swag and Prussia jumped on Austria;
beat that country in a six weeks war
and took both provinces. A few years
later, Bismarck, the Prussian Chan
cellor one of the greatest minds of the
age, and one of the greatest scoun-
drels, whose wicked brain was used.
however, solely for the aggrandize
ment of the Hohenzollern family,
worked up plot against France, and
that country falling into the trap de-
clared war on Prussia, which Bismarck =
had planned for it to do, knowing it
to be unready, and Prussia which had
driven Austria out of the Germanic
Confederation joined all the German
forces together, beat France most
thoroughly taking from it the prov
inces of Alsace and Lorraine and ex-
acting 1000 millions of dollars as a fine
or indemnity
When Bismarck's yillainy was ex-
posed a few years later the old scoun-
drel took pride in it; so shameless
was he that one might suspect him Of
having Hohenzollern blood in his
veins Out of the Franco-P russian
war grew the German Empire @ompos-
ed of Prussia and the twenty
lesser states in Germany with the King
of Prussia as Emperor, and the title
made hereditary in his family.
One would think that their ambi-
ton was at last satisfied The Hohen-
I1nl ,J3,
ership of the most powerful nation on
the main continent of Europe through
the practice of mountainous yillainy
and by shedding Of rivers of blood
But they were not more than COM
fortably seated in their new dignity
when they began to plan for the great
est title ever conceived by man, that
/ of Emperor of the World" For 40
years the world was deluged by their
spies and their insidious propaganda
was pushed in every corner of the
world. Their new slogan was World
Power or Downfall" This brief his
torical statement has been given here
that you may understand clearly why
say that the Hohenzollern family
and the Hohenzollern lust for power
caused this world war
When the Day Came.
In 1913 the high toll takers" were
lEcLOy 1IlSy iiclQ Tile greatest ARMY liz
the world, ready to the last button and
the second navy of the world. Austria
Bulgaria, and Turkey had been be-
guiled into becoming their subservient
tools. But the Kiel canal was not
quite in the shape they wanted and SO
they waited another year. Then they
struck. There was no real cause for
war, and England, France, Italy and
Russia fairly abased themselves before
Germany, trying to avoid war But
the Berlin Gang" knew they could
never find better chance and SO they
declared for war. England had ready
little army of 10000 men and the
Berlin Gang" figured that England
would not fight. and even if she did
could not put an army of any conse-
quence on the continent.
They knew the French army was far,
below theirs in numbers and equip
ment. They knew that the Russian
government was rotten and incompet-
ent and its army in bad shape. They
figured on quick and easy victory,
first, over France and then over Rus
STA, with rich territorial gains both
from France and Russia and an in
demnity in money which would make
Germany wealthy beyond any other
European nation.
Where We Came In.
Germany demanded of Belgium right
of way through that country for it's
armies on their way to attack France.
Germany, France and England were
all under treaty pledged to Belgium's
neutrality. Belgium was at profound
peace with all the world and to per-
nit Germany to invade France through
its territory was to take part with
Germany i'll the war. Belgium refused
to permit the passage of the German
armies; whereupon Germany promptly
broke faith with Belgium and attacked
it savagely. The world knows OF
Belgiums heroic defence and its hor-
rible suffering at the hands of the
hordes of brutal barbarians controlled
by the Berlin gang The three weeks
gained by the heroic sacrifice of the
Belgians saved France from instant
destruction, and the world from Prus-
sian rule.
The Belgian atrocities and develop
ments opened our eyes just a little bit.
Then Italy which had been leagued
with Germany and Austria refused to
follow it's allies in a brutal war of