Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-04-18
BOOSTING
FOR GERMAN
DEMOCRACY
An Organization in America
to Help Gust the Kaiser.

New York, April 16.-An organ
ization known as the Friends of
German Democracy, has been formed
in this city to further democracy in
Germany by aiding the people Of
that country establish a government,
responsible to the people and not a
military autocracy. The object of
this American movement is received
by Germans thruout the United
States with appreciation generally,
for they realize to what dire extrem-
tiles the terrible power and burden
OF a military autocratic rule, has
brought the people of the Father
land, and also what fearful burdens
for the future, will have to be sus-
tanned by the German people, IL the
will of their war lords Is further i'm
posed upon that nation as it has been
in the past.
The resolution adopted at a mass
meeting held by friends of German
democracy In New York urged on the
German people to rid themselves of
their autocracy, and establish dem
ocratic government. 1t also pledges
allegiance to the principles for which
America is fighting, and a vigorous
prosecution of the war.
Every German society in the coun-
try has been sent copy of the res
oluti0ns and urged to take up the
matter with friends in Germany and
to promote the cause of the German
democracy, in every possible man
ner. Thousands Of signatures have
already been received to these petit
tions, urging the German people to
act for, themselves In this great
world movment, and not allow Ger
many to sbe ostracised and become
an outlaw among the civilized ma
tions Of the world, thru the selfish
and cruel schemes OF her present
overlord rulers.
The advisory council for this move
ment in America comprises leading
German citizens Of eastern and
western states, including professors
in. universities and men high inspub-
lie. estimation thruOut. the country
The president of the society IL
Franz Siegel, the headquarters at 80
Union Square, New York. The. fol-
lowing is a copy of the
Resolutions.
We, the undersigned, citizens of
the United States, do hereby declare
our fervent belief in the great prin-
ciples for the defense and victory of
which this Republic has drawn the
sword, and we pledge ourselves to do
all in our power to further vigor-
Gus prosecution of the war until the
just cause Of our country has tri-
umphed.
Though we are Of German descent
we yield to none of our fellow citiz-
ems in our detestation of the German
military autocracy which has
wrought so much ruin and havoc in
the world, which threatens to per-
petuate and increase the causes of
national animosities, and which is
the chief obstacle to a just and dem
ocratic peace.
We believe, with President Will
son, the chosen spokesman of our
country, that this is a war for de-
mocracy and against autocracy, a
war against the autocracy which do
inmates the German people and de-
sires to enslave the world.
We assure the people OF Germany
that it is the profound conviction
which has unified us as a people and
which gives unyielding strength to
our resolve.
We assure the German people that
our American people, tho they loathe
the military autocracy of the German
Empire, do not hate the German peo-
pie, that racial hatreds have no place
in the heart Of nation composed of
all the races of the earth.
y, We assure the people of Germany
that they hope in vain to attain peace
before their military autocracy has
been destroyed.
And we urge the German people to
assert their right as freemen and rid
themselves of their autocrats in or
der to establish a democratic Ger
many, the best guarantee of a just
and peaceful world order.
COPIES of this manifesto with sig
natures attached shoulS- returned
to the Friends oi German Democracy
80 Union Square, New York City,
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