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Show EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has just issued is-sued another proclamation to his subject! assuring them of his absolute confidence in German- ' ability to win the war. and instructing them to it light" and keep on fighting. Just how long the common people peo-ple of Germany can be held in subjection and made to yield up their lives and treasure by this sort of sophestry, cannot be told j but it looks as if they would soon have reached the end of human endurance, and that they would rise up and call for a halt of the awful aw-ful carnage. The trouble we suspect, however, is that there are few able bodied men left in Germany, outside out-side of those bearing arms, and they are too well trained and disciplined to know or think of anything aside from their orders handed down through their superior officers from the military machine that holds the country in its grasp. But once let anything start, and it will be all off with royalty and autocracy in Germany, and the way will speedily be cleared for a world peace, which is impossible so long as the present pres-ent government is in control there. (R |