The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-12
THE KAISER CAN
NOW DECEIVE ONLY
THE CREDULOUS

At the beginning of the war,
when the treaty guaranteeing the
neutrality of Belgium was mention
ed to ex-Chancellor Won Bettman-
Holweig, the Kaiser's mouthpiece,
he pronounced it "only scrap of
paper"
Since then the whole world has
learned there is nothing sacred with
the Prussian autocracy.
The following was found under a
cartoon in a fraternal magazine:
"Kaiser Visiting Satan): You
promised me when | sold my soul to
you that you would make me EN-
peror of the World. So | muir
dered, raped and burned my neigh
bors. Then you broke your part of
the bargain.
Satan Qaughing): Treaties and
bargains are only scraps of paper.
Nothing is sacred with the Kaiser
and the Devil. The Kaiser will have
to take his own medicine.
We publish the following as show
ing how, one by one, leaders of
prominence and lovers of peace and
fairness to all mankind are becom-
ing convinced that no faith can
be placed in Prussianism as repre-
scented in Bill Hohenzollern and a
nation which has been educated to
and does stand solidly by him;
by Eugene Debs.)
The German war lords, their
junker allies and the military hordes
that do their bidding, no longer are
in disguise with reference to the
Bolsheviki. They have shown to
he world beyond cavil that they
purpose to annihilate social demOc-
racy in Russia and reduce that great
people to nation of vassals. That
; their naked shameless purpose
n violation of their own treaty, and
If the German people.
The Russian proletariat under Le-
cine and Trotzky looked hopefully
70 the German Social. is to follow
their example and overthrow the
Kaiser, as they had ovelthrown their
Gar. But alas! instead of rising
in their might against the Internal
HohenZollerns, they suffered them
selves to be used by the Hohen-
zolerns in invading Russia and
crushing freedom, their own free
dom.
We have patiently waited and fer
vently hoped for something to come
out of Germany. We had been led
to believe that the great social dem
ocratic movement of that country
was but waiting its opportunity to
strike for liberty. But nothing has
come or is likely to come in the
wav of revolution from the Germ an
social democracy. 1t has been dem
onstrated over and over again that
the German movement is anchored
to natonalism and is ready to shed
is blood at any time and for any
purpose the Kaiser may decree for
he glory of the "fatherland."
The Kaiser first and Socialism
| next, expresses their attitude in
fact if not in words. They are so
completely cowed and terrorized I'M
Ter Prussian militarism that they
1are not take revolutionary stand
on any issue in the present war If
he rank and file venture out on
strike to paralyze industry as a be-
ginning of social revolution, their
inundated leaders hastily order
them back again for fear of being
shot like dogs by their own Social
st comrades, the military hirelings
of the brutal Kaiser. And all this
for the fetch of nationalism and the
glory of the kaiser and the father
| land!
The Russian revolution may be
crushed, the unarmed proletariat
overwhelmed, and the noble and as
piring peasants and workers re-
duced to vassals the Bolsheviki
may be overthrow, and the nascent
democracy may lie weltering in its
own blood and ruins; province after
province may be wrested from sub
jugated and helpless people Poland
may be outraged, Finland seized,
and Bohemia prosecuted; Liebknecht
and Rosa Luxembourg may be
thrown into prison; every Socialist
aspiration may be strangled and
every blood bought democracy ground
beneath the iron heel of the Kaiser,
but the German people may not
audibly protest. The much-vaunted