| Show WILY WHY WE VE ARE AT ATT WAR VAR T AR M Many ny people do not understand why we are at war because incendiary Incendiary Incendiary diary bombs have not yet been dropped dropped dropped drop drop- ped on Chicago St. St Louis and Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City and it requires an explosion explosion sion to attract their attention but altho aItho we are at war we did not goto goto go I to war ourselves It was war that came to us People in this country are lovers of peace and would do most an anything thing to keep out of war except having our women and children children children child child- ren murdered Rather than g go goy to towar towar towar war some would prefer to be German German German Ger Ger- man slaves but the they are not in the majority We Ve are at war because In the year 1864 the Prussians and the Austrians stole Holstein Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark and got away with it If Prussia had not stolen the site of the Kiel canal we would not have been at war now When the Austrians and the Prussians Prussians Prussians had stolen Schleswig Holstein they quarreled over it and in the fight which ensued the Prussians put it all over Austria We Ve are at war because in the year ear 1866 Prussia gobbled Hesse Nassau Frankfurt Hesse Darm stadt and Hanover and got awa away with them all They are now all serving in the German army We Ve are at war because the Prussians Prussians Prussians also gave a dirty beating to Bavaria to Wurtemburg to Baden aden making all these countries subservIent subservient subservient to Prussia and their population population population tion works overtime for their conquerors conquerors conquerors con con- in the German army We Ve are at war because Prussia made mince meat of France in 1870 Bismarck inveigled the French into war with a bogus bogus telegram With might they could not conquer Paris but starvation did The Germans gobbled and Lorraine and a billion dollars Had the Germans not beaten France we would have been at peace today Then began the new German em em- pire The world conqueror had come All the German states were united The Prussian conquest looked looked look ed as tho it was their conquest Forty Forty Forty For For- ty years ago the German empire set about making preparations to conQuer conquer conquer con con- quer the earth and we are arc at war because the they came near doing it Germany is great upon indemnities and staked out the United States to pay about ten billions of oC dollars and w we are at war because we prefer to topa pa pay out the money for the Red Cross and Liberty Loan A We Ve are at war because the German German German Ger Ger- man government government used the French money to prepare for war The war prepared for was not against 41 anyone In particular but against every every ev ev- ev- ev ery cry nation The United States w was to be he conquer conquered d the some as Eel Del glum gium The more peaceable the nation nation na na- na- na tion was the more liable to con con- quest Under conquest the German German German Ger Ger- man nation was to dominate the I world Forty years was necessary to prepare prepare prepare pre pre- pare for a war that could not fail fall Time was nece necessary for death to take two Kaisers The third the chosen Instrument of the almighty and pulling together in blasphemous equality Is the manipulator of the scheme The Emperor of Austria Is Isa Isa isa a nonentity the King of ot Bulgaria is isa Isa isa a pawn the Turkish government a purchased tool all stand with bow bow- ed cd heads before the awful majesty of the Supreme V War r Lord For ef effect effect effect ef- ef he celebrated twenty-five twenty years of peace which he could not help and afterwards waited the opportunity to strike at one weak nation after another He he had the sword the torch the poison polson gas the ammunition ammunition ammu ammu- all ready and all at once his associates in the intended crime threw him into HItO the fire of his own making We are at war because for forty years German emissaries have undermined undermined undermined un un- un- un all nations more or less Their was and is very every every every- where They were sent forth or al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed to go forth fort with the understanding understanding understanding under under- standing that by hook by crook or orby orby orby by war pestilence or famine Camine all nations nations nations na na- na- na must be They made the cool calculation that as all I nations loved peace the they would not make full prep preparations rations for war The calculation was to gobble up a nation nation nation na na- na- na tion at a time They knew know they they- had control of oC Austria because Austria was full of oC pro-Germans pro and political political ical leal dissensions Th They y also had pro-German pro traitors at St. St Petersburg Petersburg Peters Peters- burg Ahtens and Bucharest An accident of oC assassination which we heartily condemn was the immediate immediate immedi immedi- ate cause of oC the world conflict Archduke of Austria was assassinated in a country just the Uie crime then committed was supposedly supposedly sup- sup but not proven connived at ator by or Servian arm army officials The Germans Germans Ger Ger- Germans mans forced the Austrians to make demands on Servia with the Intention of invasion 1 if the demands were not acceded d to Servia back- back d d by Russia refused the demands Out Jut of this Germany found an ex- ex ms use to attack France and Russia ind md Austria started the war on Ser Ser- via Th Thus us far it was a European affair which might lead in any direction without the United States butting in ut Germany soon began var against countries not at first in the war and the Unit Unit- id d States was one of them There vas vaa a little country between Ger- Ger nany and France governed by a the Grand Duchy of Lux- Lux m and the Emperor of Germany Germany Ger- Ger many invaded and stole it There was a country that under treaty was obliged to be neutral and was leutral In the earlier between russia Prussia and France but Germany Belguim and that coun- coun ry is under the brutal heel of the tie Hun We Ve are at war because of the Jerman erman brutality of Belguim Germany Is conducted governmentally govern- govern governmentally mentally by a Kaiser surrounded b by Nhat is called an autocracy autol The autocrat in his mind is a military who dominates all others f f a civilian is in the way he is kick kick- id d aside It is not uncommon for a swaggering to beat labs ians with a sword The Germans ire a docile people and stand lots of or ticking but some of t them em escaped to America We are going to v in the war be- be ause the official Germans su prom rom the big head They rhey also have havethe the lie thick head They try their on the wrong kind of peo- peo ale ile lc The Kaiser was off handed with the and see what he got for it He said he would make he lie German name feared in China but the only name they do not fear fearn n n China is the German The German German German Ger Ger- man Ambassador tried tred his hand on Roosevelt but had to back baek down again A German admiral took particular pains to be nasty to Admiral Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral Dewey In Manilla Bay but he had to back into obscurity The rhe German officers omeera used to drink to the theda da day would send the British British Brit Brit- ish navy to the bottom of the sea We are at war because German officials officials out out- dale have annoyed and brow-beaten brow everybody and carried a chip on the shoulder until somebody must knock It off The situation resolved Itself self to this The world v had to lick the Germans or be enslaved by the Germans and Is why we are at war Under the German Kaiser the Turks started murdering Christians again We Ve are at war to stop that We Va are at war because the tho gov gov- forces of are malignant mali mall gnant liars and assassins of ot women and children We Ve are at at war be- be ause the German autocracy has dIsgraced disgraced disgraced dis dIs- graced the human rata raca rac are We-are at because the German autocracy forced their soldiers to cut down apple trees in France because they feared a French child might eat ea an apple We Ve are at war because the German cruiser shot down th the thc o- o American flag In American waters and threw breadstuffs breadstuff's into the sea We ought to have been at war with the day after It happened We re are arc areat areat at war because the Germans deliberately deliberately deliberately sank a passenger ship with the loss of over a hundred American lives men women and children We Ve are arc at wr with Germany because because because be be- cause the people of this country know when they have had enough We had more than enough of German German Ger Ger- German man official insolence The patience patience patience pati pati- ence of Job was not a fraction to the patience of oC Wilson Vilson The German government they were dealing with dumb animals They They the I worm would not turn They sank our ships deliberately and without warning and our people would take it as a joke They had a playful playful play play- ful Cui wa way of turning guns on the few sailors trying to escape from the torpedoed torpedoed torpedoed tor tor- vessels When we were at peace with them the they conspired to turn other nations against us and we caught them In the act We areat are areat areat at war because we do not intend to allow them to conquer France We Weare Weare Weare are at war because we are going to force Coree them to make restitution to Belguim We Ve are at war because we are going to force them to get out ut O of he the l Grand Duchy Duchy of Luxemburg Luxemburg Luxem Luxem- burg and we are at war because Luxem-I Luxem we will make malee them and the independent country of Servia We Ve are at war with them in France because we do not want to wait until the they have troops to send to Massachusetts We Ve are at war with German autocrats because they are Inhuman brutes and we are not going to have the Germans who came cameto cameto to America for or freedom disgraced by them We Ve are at war with them until the they will not have material left lert to make a zeppelin We Ve are arc areat areat at war with them until the business of organized murder and piracy is I a lost art so far as the German junker junk junk- er or autocracy Is concerned and ana we I ought to be at war until all the professional pro pra- murderers of the German government obtain the punishment they deserve In language language language lan lan- guage we are at war to make malce the world safe for democracy which means that the military autocracy of Germany German will have to be reduced to to if helpfulness even lf in doing in-doing doing so it Is necessary to kill every soldier in Germany German In order to have peace I in the world In conclusion we are arc at war var forthe for forthe forthe the purpose of releasing the German nation from the curse of oC militarism and no one knows b better what t that means than the Germans who have found refuge in the United States of oC America Note by the he Editor This This article Is written in sorrow and und not in anger an an- ger For nearly three years we have allowed the daily dally and weekly newspapers to tell the people about the war The dally daily newspapers have neglected their and this article is forced from us in answer to the positive question which was Why did the United States butt in on this war wary The question shows that an answer is nes- nes essary This country stayed out of or orthe the war until Washington Patrick Henry Jeferson Jeterson Lincoln and Mckinley Mckinley Mckinley Mc- Mc kinley were turning in their graves We Ve are at war with tho the German government government government gov gov- for the same reason that we are at war with wolves and snakes If It we do not tame them them they will kill us We are at war because If we were not at warwe war warwe we would be ashamed to look each eachl I other in the face The The National National Farmer and and Stock Grower I |
