Show socialists AND THE WAR leaders of the german government declare that equality of men is a chimera of all sins the most despicable that might alone and not right is capable of settling disputes that the german people are the chosen of god destined to rule the world and that the kaiser is his weapon that the balance of the human race is no better than dirt under the prussian heel and is fore ordained to be ruled by the house of zol lern and worse this doctrine has been so thoroughly pounded into the german people that they believe it with a faith that is absolute what power of reasoning gives the 1 I W W the pacifists paci fists and a large proportion of the socialists in this country their ideas against the present war where would their notions of equality land them under such a government as the german no theories no appeals to reason can make anything of the present holocaust holy caust except a just war and a struggle for democracy and the equality of men if the german nation win the balance of the world will be subservient to its will and personal liberty will be a thing of the past to americans the few who would be left should such a catastrophe befall our present freedom would be as a beautiful dream something which once existed but was not appreciated the germans will not win of course nevertheless a united nation demands the stamping out of the pacifists paci fists and of the incendiary cen diary methods of a small proportion of our population as a course which will materially teri ally shorten the struggle the entire world is war weary but there can be 11 no 0 permanent peace with the bloodstained blood stained monarchs of the central pu powers aers their existence is a menace to civilization and tile the sooner every dweller in america gets behind the government the better it will be for the future of the race and for hu humanity m anity boost for a war to the finish |