Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1917 — German People Equally Guilty, Dr. Hill States. [ARTICLE]

German People Equally Guilty, Dr. Hill States.

New York, May 29.—Dr. David Jayne Hill, former ambassador to Germany, in an address to the tnistees of the American Defense society here today, warned that Germany is far from defeat and discounted the theory that the Hohenzollems alone are responsible for that country’s imperialistic ambitions. He asserted that the present war is a struggle of political systems. “The people of Germany.” declared Dr. Hill, “are more loyal to the emperor than the democratic party is to Wilson. The president has said that we have no hostility toward the German people, but do not the German people support the imperial German government to a man? Didn” a wave of general rejoicing go through Germany when the Lusitania went down? How many Germans in Germany can you find who are not im-» perialistic? I have never found one.” ‘"This,” added Dr. Hill, “is .going to be a different world if the central powers win the war, and it is by no means certain that they will not. Unless we conscript ourselves for this battle and lay our wealth and our lives at the altar of the defense of our institutions, we will find our descendants in the vortex of world dominating schemes of autocracy.”