Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — FIGHTING GERMANS’ FIGHT [ARTICLE]

FIGHTING GERMANS’ FIGHT

It seems to us that the Germans of America, who. are far enough removed from the kaiser’s influence so that they ought to see his action in- its true perspective, should rally around the Hag of freedom and have iP*g reater interest in the success of the United States in this war, and the dethronement of the dlohenzdllern family than any other class of persons in the world. The horror of a mad, monarch who has destroyed the lives 9 of their relatives and rendered them into glycmine and fertilizer for his own glory_. and 'power! Everything in this world either grows biggdb and biggbr, or it dies faster and faster.

Two great, ideas have been growing in the Western world., the idea of liberty, and equality, self government and accountability of the government to the people whose servants they are, as we have it in this country, and the old pagan idea of family domination as once squelched when Caesar’s family was routed out, which the Hohenzollerns had revived and have been for centuries working to accomplish. It has come to the grips where one or bther of these ideas .must begin to die. and there can be no question in the mind of any true American citizen as to which one it must be, nor any reason why a man out of the kaiser’s power should hope for his success. —Benton Review.