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kaiser took him.
Prussia has been the black flag {
Germany for more than 400 years.

Hohenzollern has been prominent in
Germany and not one single good
deed is placed to their credit. More
than 400 years ago the head OF that
house was thieving, robbing, cut
throat of a baron, too lazy to work,
too proud to beg, and he lived upon
plumber. But he was always blood
thirsty and cruel; he was always
known as cruel master, a devilish
fighter. Some one Of the weaklings OF
the German empire needed him, need
ed cut-throat, needed coldblOoded
butcher and he took him up and gave
him the position of holding the stir
rup of the kings saddle when the
kaiser wanted to go riding. Now the
house of Hohenzollern had streak
of haughtiness in the beginning and
so this one said: Il am only the
servant Of the kaiser, though he has
given me all have; what can I do
to become Independent and go riding
with him when he, goes riding and not
be his servant and walking afOOt
when he is on his horse?" He saw
an opening and an opportunity in the
east where there was a people who
I were at war and he gathered his cruel
army and went and conquered them
and took the title of king in addition
to Graf Won Brandenberg. Then he
said to the kaiser: 81 am king now
and if you want to go riding get
somebody else to hold your stirrup,
for am going riding too"
The German people have been
taught to look upon Frederick the
Great as a great man. Great! Why?
Great because he was libertine, be-
cause he was a butcher, great be-
cause for years and years he kept
Europe in a turmoil. OF all the STU
dents of Frederick the Great, none
have caught his spirit better and
none have sought to initiate him
more than the present German en-
peror. A maxim of Frederick the
Great was this: II love treason
though l despise the traitor" Do you
know why our land has been overrun
with spies? Do you know why thous-
ands and thousands of men have
been approached by Germany asking
them to betray that flag? Because
Wilhelm has sat at the feet of the
great Frederick, so he calls him and
initiates him and wants to be like
him. M
Can you tell me why Germany al
ways fights her wars in the other
mans country? Why, she is never
prepared, of course; and how can she
get there. Why, Wilhelm told me he
was not looking, ,,for, war He said !:
j"Our people, We're living in peace and
of course we didn't look for war, but
we had to go into this to defend our
borders, to save ourselves from
slavery" Where is the war being
fought? In the Rhine provinces? In
Berlin? No, no; not yet. They are
fighting in France and they are. fight
ing upon enemy soil, because Prus-
STA was ready to move on seconds
notice.
Prussia had no respect for religion
although the Prussian king would
like to have us think he was the
head of the church. They have made
the Lutheran religion the state re-
ligion, taking their liberties from the
reform people; he made it a state
church, an dthe king of Prussia ap-
points a minister of religion who him
self appoints every minister in his
domain. The people have no voice in
the management, although it is sup
posed to be a democratic church.
The German kaiser has planned
this war since 1890. In 1890 the Ger
| man government organized the Pan
German association and it was for
the alleged purpose of gaining place
in the sun. Bismarck said that there
was one thing for which Prussia
would contend, one thing which the
4 German people would demand OF the
other countries-a place in the sun.
In 1894 this association met: In
order to properly develop our coun-
try" they said, land give our people
the place which they are entitled IN
the world, we must have India, we
must control Asia Minor and Mespo-
tamia, because we are the chosen peo-
pie of Cod" and they there started
the doctrine of kultur. Now you and
I have seen that word "kultur" many
times and some of you Americans
have thought that it meant culture
It is the doctrine that the state is
all and to the state all must be given,
and in 1894 a plan was laid and ap-
proved by the German emperor 1or
s~1.