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Show ', WHY DO THEY REJOICE? -L ' Chicago Socialists on Sunday celebrat- Ha.' e'd tho downfall of the German emperor V he list of speakers Including Victor Ber- ri w ger. What did the Socialists have to do HL with the downfall of the Kaiser? They mjj had thirtv-five per cent of the vote and Bril ' ftdly half the population of Germany Avhen the war was started and they stuck ito the Kaiser in Germany and every other oth-er country until the armies they tried ti keep from being raised in the United i States and the allied nations put in the lenock-out punch. The socialists pullecv Russia out of war, sold completely out to Germany and pa;d the Kaiser a big indemnity. They demoralized the Italian army and nearly put it out of commission Hj'l , last year.1 They tried to break down the Hp, " morale of France and England and thus B,, r bring about victory for the Kaiser and H H M H -' his cohorts. In the United St-os Ihc C j-cialists j-cialists have done all in the:- -r-;" '- weaken the American tiarcc. T':cy stuck by the Kaiser in Germany and held back the woi'k of defeating him in the ene,my countries, thus prolonging the war many months and causing the sacrifice of millions mil-lions of lives. The Kaiser is down and out in spite of them. Socialists were willed the Kaiser's estate in Germany. They launched no revolution until the allies al-lies and the United States had disposed of the German 'military forces. The Socialists So-cialists of the United Sjtates might be jus- tified in telegraphing their condolences to the Kaiser, but they have no part or lot? in the work of overthrowing him; for they did all they could to hinder and defeat de-feat the American people in that task. Having stuck by the Kaiser so' loyally when he was still on his "throne, it is a shame for the Socialists to desert liim now that they failed to break the will of the American people to defeat him, and he is only a private citizen who wishes to apove all else to remain private. National Nation-al Republican. i |