Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1918 — All People Called Upon to Unite Under Banner of Universal Liberty [ARTICLE]

All People Called Upon to Unite Under Banner of Universal Liberty

By BARTOW A. ULRICH,

Chicago

Overthrow monarchy and autocracy by force, through the combined action of all democratic governments, and the masses in every nation oppressed by despotic rulers. Send forth the universal cry of “liberty,” calling upon the people of all the nations of the earth to unite under the banner of universal liberty, asking them to join the armies of the United States, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium and Great Britain, in order to foyce every king, emperor and czar off his throne, if now ruling his people by the old archaic one-man system of absolutism, denying the people a direct representation-in a parliament or congress of a representative constitutional government, the ministry to be accountable to parliament and not to a king or emperor, as in Prussia. Call upon the people everywhere to come,out from under the bondage of war lords, dukes, princes and Other rulers claiming the inherited right to govern, and join a triumphant international army fighting for liberty. The Hohenzollerns have been a menace to Europe and to liberty since their earliest advent in Germany. They will continue to be a menace, not only to Europe but to the Americas and the world, unless exterminated, root and branch, for all time. It only requires a few hours’ study of history concerning central Europe to find this out. Back of this international army there must be formed and organized an international congress or parliament, composed of representatives from those free nations forming a league, in order to regulate and determine as to what actions should be taken in every case, and to issue the final decrees for action. Methodical and efficient physical as . well as moral force must be used to rid the world of imperial and autocratic dynasties. Instead of mobs and revolutions in single states seeking liberty, like ’France at the time of Louis XVI, and Russia at the time of Nicholas 11, the people all oppressed nations must, call on this league to enforce liberty and free democratic systems of government. And it must interfere and change by force the existing tyrannical government and substitute a free republican method of government.