things ought to be driven into the hottest corner of hell, 

 where you must appear in person. You cannot hire a sub- 

 stitute, who would take the punishment for you. 



And oh, when this European War is ended, those that 

 were the cause of it, now wish they were out of it. The 

 enemies of Germany they know, now, that their army and 

 navy are not capable of earning for them the glory that 

 they had plotted out. Their proud cries that we are bound 

 to win have changed to that we may win. An English lady 

 in a letter to the Times, says : "The people of England are 

 treated like little children, shielding carefully from them 

 any breath of trouble, trying to make us think it is all gold 

 that shines and all the battles fought are victorious for the 

 Allies. They keep the public in ignorance as to what is go- 

 ing on in the battle fields, and when or where their rela- 

 tives are killed, and so forth, and do you wonder why I'm 

 writing about the European War. Let me tell you the 

 reason why, it is the intensity of my feeings that compels 

 me to say something in behalf of the Fatherland, just as I 

 am writing about the horse, and that his right may be re- 

 spected, and to let you know who was the cause of this war 

 and who started it. Russia started the war while England 

 was the cause of it. We here in America are led to believe 

 that the Kaiser was the cause of the war and in behalf of 

 the Kaiser and Fatherland, I want to say we put the blame 

 on the wrong man. You may now read the Official Text 

 of telegrams that Kaiser Wilhelm sent to the Czar of Rus- 

 sia, the King of England and to the Republic of France, 

 before war was started : 



It should convince you that the Kaiser earnestly strove 

 for peace until the last, when he was forced to go into this 

 war for the defense of the German Empire, because Russia 

 was marching into Germany from the East. The French 

 were mobilizing and going through Belgium to strike at 

 Germany at the Rhein, and the Belgiums joined the French 

 for the same purpose. Then England saw Germany was be- 



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