Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-06-13
''TO He'll With The HapSburg
And The HOhenZOllernv'

industries. secretly through his diplo-
mats plotting not merely foreign but
civil war against us, and. as we now
know, seeking to foment servile and
racial Instruction; then openly upon
the high seas 1evying murder upon
our people and visiting all our rights
and claims with scorn and insult
with scorn and insult unspeakable-
at this moment pretending to f1out us
with ignominy and contempt. Where
would the honest pacifist draw the
line?
Surely the time has arrivad-many
of us think it was long since overdue
for calling the braves to the colors.
Nations must cen take stock on occa-
sion and manhood come to show
down. 1t is but truism to say so.
Fifty years the country has enjoyed
surprising prosperity. This has over
commercialized the character and hab-
it's of the people. twenty-five years
the gospel of passvism. with bust
ness is business for is text, has not
only been Observation-Disclosures
-oracularly-witho let or him.
drance, but has been richly financed
and potentially organized. 1t has es-
tablished a party. 1t has made cult,
justifying itself in a fad it has called
humanity-in many ways most
spurious humanty-and has set this
above and against patriotic inclina-
ton and duty.
Like bolt out of the blue flashed
the war signal from the very heart of
Europe. Across the Atlantic it's rever-
berations rolled to find us divided,
neutral and unprepared. For fifteen
years q body of German reservists
disguised as citizens have been
marching and counter marching.
They grew at length bold enough to
rally to the support of a pane German
scheme of conquest and pro-Ger-
man propaganda of "kultur," basing
it's effrontery in the German Ameri-
can vote, which began it's agitation
by threatening us with civil war III
we dared to go to war with Germany
There followed the assassin sea mon
sters and the airship campaign of
murder
All the while we looked on with
either smpering idocy or dazed
apathy. Serbia? 1t was no affair of
ours. Belgium? Why should we
roaring-everybod making money
the mercenary the poor of heart, the
mean of spirit, the bleak and barren
of soul, could stMl plead the hypocrisy
of uplift and chortle: II did not raise
my boy to be a soldier" Even the
sense of danger and arouse us from
the stupefaction of ignorant and
ignoble self-complacency.
First of all, on Bonded knee, we
should pray God to forgive us. Then
erect, as men, Christian men, soldier
ly men, to the flag and the fray.
wherever they lead us = over the
ocean, through France to Flanders,
across the low countries to Koln,
Bonn and Notwithstanding the
fortress of Ehrenbreitstein into the
Rhine as we pass, damming the
mouth of the Mozelle with the debris
of the ruin we make of it-then on,
on to Berlin, the Black Horse Cavalry
sweeping the Wilhelmstrasse like
lava down the mountain side, the
junker and the saber-rattler flying
before US, the tunes being Dixie"
and yankee Doodle" the cry being
Hail the French republic-Hail the
republic of Russia-Welcome the
Commonwealth of the Vaterland-No
peace with the kaiser-No parley
with autocracy, absolutism and the
divine right of kings-To hell with
the Hapsburg and the Hohenzollern"