Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-05-09
GERMANS APPEAL TO THE GER.
MAN.

An old Germany friend Of ours
handed VI ths following for the Kai-
seritss to g,llp down: Il know Ger
many. Iwas born there. : went
to school.in the fatherland, and let
me tell you my good German friends,
that you do not know what you are
talking about when you support Ger.
man autocracy. If you are honest
about it you win nay that you and your
fathers fled from Germany, just as
mine did, to escape military tyranny.
know Prussianism. You may
have been born elsewhere in the en-
pirs but the brutal iron heel of the
government that has crene.lea this
whole world with blood in its war for
world power was the same power that
made evsry German who had little
cottage or mud hut, no matter how
poor he was, had to board German
soldier free Of charge. That soldier
was the autocrat in :.iat home. His
! sword was law. If he punished a
child or knocked him from the chair
to the floor the father must smile.
guest, who must have the stoeryvfe
To resent the action of the brutal
guest. who must have the best of
everything in that house. was to bring
dire punishment upon the. head of the
family. There was filled knapsack
hanging upon Ahe wall and loaded
gun in the corner and when call of
war did coma. that soldier, with 15O
others, knew just whe~e to run in or
der to form company ready for i'm
mediate service. That is n syps o.
the German organization .-or Won.
What ] have said cannot he denied.
Lat me tell you something else.
l have been asked so many tins. how.
can the German people who are reh-
orally so peaceful. have chanoe1 into
such murderers? / tell you that for
years and years there has not been G
minister standing in the pulpits of
Germany but has been se,ectei by The
government. Approved by the pow
ers, he has never preached to the peo-
pie without combining the name of
Kaiser William with God Almighty.
! The people have It preached to
them. 1t became part Of their re-
ligion. God had given them the
kaiser. It is part of their very train
ing as well, for not school teacher
or instructor in the schools of the
fatherland but is subject to the ap.
proval of the imperial German gov
ernment, and not session is heard
but the children ara taught that Ger
many must lead the world, that the
kaiser and God are inseparably con-
nected. tell you that the German
people have had so much of this doc
trine soaked into them by this con-
slant effort that they really believe
what has been taught, and cannot es-
cape from their virus.
i My mother carried me here in her
arms. She knew what militar,.
tyranny was, for she suffered until
we came to the land of the free to
live under the God-given stars and
stripes. Often have heard her say
in her heart-broken anguish over the
safety of her brothers who fought in
the German legions, con, why is il
necessary for people to fight and
keep great armies wilen al could BE-
SO happy?"
Her brothers were killed in battle
but our love went out to this great
country Of freedom which mas blessed
the world and which is ours today
!, How happy she would be were she
! only here now to know that three
sturdy grandsons are in the service
ready to follow Old Glory to greater
sphere of freedom than the world ha.
ever known. They have ta.:en sol
dier vow to follow our flag until il
floats in triumph over Dresden, if neec
he. And their march, my goot
r friends won't be the march of the Ger
mans through Belgium with its crime.
and its blood and it's tears, for tha,
will say to the German people:
: "Come, my brothers, into the enjoy
ment of the fruit of great freedom O
a world democracy that knows no di
vine right of kings and that shall meal
!. for all peace and happiness. We com,
not to rob you of your land, or you
noney. or to enslaye you in large
!, measure, that message which tn
angels sang on the night the dea
!. Jesus was born in old Judea: 'Peac
i on earth; good will toward men. ~ :