12 MAKES APPEAL TO KAISER'S PEOPLE Writer of German Descent Tells Teutons That They Must Act For Peace This article was written by a German to be read by Germans. It was circulated In Germany through the efforts of German republicans in Switzerland who are working for the overthrow of Hohenzollernism and estab lishment of a German repubtc. A copy has just been received in this country and has been trans lated for the use of the press. Comrades in war! Three years haye passed since the German emperor plunged the world and his people into this most ground less, senseless and impious of all wars, into a sea of blood and tears. Trained from childhood to be a soldier, brought up amid the per verted views of the junker and office caste, dreaming of the laurels of the conqueror as the highest ideal, coun seled by generals, befriended by war contractors, and even with a finan cial interest in their profiteering, ho has since 1905 systematically paved \our Merchant's Name I on a VIM Delivery Car- i What does it meantol6i/? 1 It means that your storekeeper is cutting from = 3 ten to forty percent from the cost of leaving goods = at your door! E It means that he is able to make fairer prices H —and give you dependable service. E Because the Vim Delivery Car is designed solely for merchandise delivery—to keep running 3 every business hour—to reduce gasoline, tire and = 3 repair bills. 5 s 25,000 merchants who want to sell the best = goods at the lowest prices are now using VIM i = Delivery Cars. S Full information about the VIM Deferred Payment Plan 3 which enables the storekeeper to pay for the VIM gradually, p Si out of what it saves, on request. B Thoroughly equipped VIM Truck Sales and Service Station in this city for the benefit of VIM owners. K The chassis sells for $845. Complete with Open Express S z; body, $915; with Closed Panel body, $955. Twelve stand* 5 ZS ard types of body. All prices F. O. B. Philadelphia H ANDREW REDMOND, Distributor c s 3rd and Reily Sts., Harrisburg, Pa. 2133 > Dln| 4,,1 ■= 1 [ ,TTmillllll "i mni n 111 li i n 11; Omnipresent e = When the U-53 showed one morning in an astounded z Newport— - E When Kerensky of Russia was suddenly forced to pack - his bag and go— ~ t When Halifax Harbor exploded into ihe air— - Who was there, eternally on the job— to give the news i I to the world? : The Associated Press. i News has neither time nor place. z And the Associated Press has neither boundary nor Iz office hours. = It is easy to get some news. But to get all the news, all the time, from all the world—that is a record which ji belongs exclusively to - I Sty t Aaaorafrb pr^sa E It Knows I 5 The Harrisburg Telegraph Is the Only z Evening Newspaper in Harrisburg 3 - Served by The Associated Press I Cczjriglt. 1918, N, Y. Evening Pott (1m THURSDAY EVENING, the way for the war. He desired this war, he permitted the systematic cult of war in Germany by the pan-Ger manlsts and he has encouraged it He supported and fomented the almost daily quarrels of the other powers through the pan-German press by his inflammatory speeches. I>ast of all, he affixed his signature to the various declarations of war; he is fully and entirely responsible for them. "Germany Was Not Isolated." For nine years the diplomacy of our neighbors, consistently anxious for peace, succeeded in averting this disaster from the world. This was the polity which was falsely pre sented to your ignorance as the "isolation policy," In reality a peace policy in which Germany was always most heartily invited to participate. Germany was not isolated, but the German government, and in its wake the Austrian government, deliberate ly and maliciously, withdrew from the circle of civilized nations was criminals from human social circles. But not only the diplomatic circles of foreign statos but also German men of insight and lofty ideals have placed themselves firmly in opposi tion to the emperor's senseless an' extravagant lust for war, in spite of his wrath, and have sacrificed their positions rather than their convic tions. # This was true in the case of the president of the Reichsbank, Dr. Koch, and eveh of the emperor's brother, Prince Henry of Prussia. On the 31st of July, 1914, he urged the emperor to desist from the war, and when he failed in his attempt he flung at the emperor's feet his com mission as grand admiral and com mander in chief of the German navy. "No One Wished to Attack Us" Up to the last moment—England even held out until noon of the 4th of August, 1914, when the German FIRST PICTURE OF AMERICAN SOLDIER IN FRENCH TRENCHES SArirfY IN siGNAi/ POST, r J his picture, showing an American soldier in a signal post, is one of the first to reach this country of the boys on the actual fighting front in the Lorraine sector. The soldier is in the art of sending up a sig nal rocket intended to warn the Americans that a German attack is about to come army had already swept like a tor rent over the boundaries of the neighboring countries on every side —the rulers, ministers and diplomats of England, Russia, France and Serbia did all that lay within human power, even to the utmost self-abne gation, in order to preserve peace for the world. This fact is clearly mani fest; the documents concerning it set forth in black and white to the gaze of the world. They are acknowledg ed as authentic by the German gov ernment, but they are naturally with held from the German people. No one wished to attack us, either then or at any later time. All that Austria could ask of Serbia with even the slightest semblance of justice was frecjy granted. Thus from the very beginning of I the war the sympathy of the entire world belonged properly to our neighbors who had been so wantonly attacked. But it did not stop at sympathy; the scoundrels who gov ern you and control you, by the colossal atrocity of their methods of warfare, by such brutality as in itself to be a menace to the whole neutral world, by disregard of all established treaties, managed step by step to en rage all civilized humanity to war against us. "This Murderer'' If a bloodthirsty maniac should be let loose on the streets i. ,so whom he attacked would defend them selves. All peace-loving men would hasten to their rescue; only cowards would slink timidly away. This is to-day the attitude of the world to ward Germany. There will be no peace, and justly so, until the mur derer is imprisoned and shorn of his power to harm. Comrades in war, this murderer is the German emperor and his gov ernment; that is to say, the men whom he himself has chosen for his infamous plan, without consulting the people, and without regard for their wishes, and these are accom plices he has selected after men of honor have refused their services. In the spring.of 1914, by an overwhelm ing vote of lack of confidence, the Reichstag showed its distrust of the only man whose signature the Em peror needed for mobilization and HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH •declaration of war, Bethmann-Hol- j wcg liis imperial chancellor. "Another Lackey Promoted*' In no modern civilized state would it be possible for a minister to re main in office after being openly branded by the representative of tho people as unlit, but in Germany any criminal may become and remain imperial chancellor at the will of the i emperor alone. Punishment nasal- i ready found him out. Another lackey i bas been promoted to lackey-in-chlef without consultation with the Ger- j man people and their representa-; ti\ es. This murderer is the German cm-I peror with liis accomplices; but not 1 the German people, the poor people; defrauded and exploited by their ; government; not the poor soldiers,' who are driven to slaughter by these j knaves under the iron shackles of; military law, like the miserable gal- J ley slaves of old. Comrades, how long is it your wish j to put up with this? When will youi rouse yourselves? When will you j take arms on the side on which i every man of honor must now fight; | on the side of humanity and civiliza-1 tion against this gang of slayers? I When will you free our poor, down- j tredden, famished people from its! tyrants, and again establish justice, j liberty, morality, reason and civiliza- j tion in Germany? "Reasons Wliich Hold You Hack?" Why not come over to ilght on the side of justice, of truth, of freedom, all of you; the side on which all civil ised nations as well as the noblest and most far-seeing of your own people have taken their stand? 1 know the reasons which hold you back: 1. Your ignorance; the false doc trines with which you were inoculat ed in your minds by the German press, whipped into line by a mili tary dictator; your implicit comi dence in your "God-given" leaders. 2. Fear of your masters, especially of your officers. Hut these hangmen of the kaiser are cowardly and hide themselves in time of danger be hind cover. Shoot them down like mad dogs if they get in your way. Rather that they die than the hun dreds of thousands of Honest indus trious fathers of families whom they have already hunted into' the jaws of death; a hunt which day by day goes on. 3. Fear of committing an unpard onable crime and of being unable to return home if you desert. But the laws by means of which these mur you enslaved will be done away with before the war is at an end, and you will be joyfully welcomed home without disgrace, and more than that with the highest honor, as true heroes and liberators of your coun try. 4. Fear of injuring our Father land if you go over to the French and English, and more than that if you fight on their side, which is a matter of your own choice. Comrades, I pledge you by all that we hold holy, I am a son of the Ger man people. I love them with every fibre of my being, more than ever n Hohenzollern loved them, and the honor and welfare of my fatherland stand above all else, and are the only lodestars of my destiny. I know the war—the events leading up to it, its causes and its progress—more than the kaiser's government liken. I as sure you that the welfare of the Ger man people demands that you come over; aye, that you turn your can non around, and that you join the entente and march with them to the Rhine and over it, and wrest out ]and from the claws of its destroyer for now and for all time." There are only two possible ways of ending this war: Either humanity, without you, without the 00-operatipn of the German people, will annihilate Prussian Junkerdom and will starve out the German people that thus they may free mankind for now and forever from a curse which rests upon them with the weight of Al pine snows; from an insane cirminal on a throne who, by a stroke of the pan may change millions of men into corpses and cripples and ruin the, industry and welfare of a nation; either this or you yourself will as sist in the task of freeing mankind. Peace will not come one hour before this goal Is reached, but not one hour ly.ter. "You Will Be Ground to Ruin"' But if this goal should be reached without you and in spite of you, you will bo ground down into ruin, and. what is more, the people of our Ger man fatherland will be given over to the will of the conquerors. Then your intellectual and political leaders, the true leaders who are not the lackeys Of the emperor, will have no right and no opportunity to interpose a word concerning the future order of the world and of Germany. But if you co-operate, and that with all your might, to carry out this purpose, the 'honor of the German people, which is to-day scorned as merely an insensate tool in the hands of murderers, will be Restored; and more than that, you will have a voice in the establishment of the new or der of the world and of Germany. And, take my word for it, we shall have peace, and we can have It on such terms that the German peopfe will be happier in the future than they ever were before the war. But leave us in the lurch, and we must recognize with sullen rage and scorn that we are the fellow countrymen of hopelessly deluded slaves, "upon whom will rest the blame for their own ruin and for the annihilation of Germany. Comrades in war, you have taken an oath of allegiance to your flag. But the emperor too took an oath at the beginning of his reign, an oath of allegiance to the German consti tution. The confederation which forms the Germau empire was cs- j tabllshed, according to this constitu tion, "to protect the united prov inces and the legal rights thereof, and to promote the welfare-of the German people." To guard it is the foremost, indeed the only, duty of the German emperor. If this pur pose cannot be accomplished with i out war, then the emperor may de [ dare war, but not until then. But | the emperor, wickedly, wantonly, by i deceiving the German people, by ! misrepresenting: facts and by forging I official documents, by breaking sac j treaties which he as the defender of justice should have observed, has | overthrown Belgium, declared war ; on Russia, Prance and Serbia, and has thereby violated the laws of jus l tice and the constitution; has hurled j the German empire down to ruin and i has wrecked the welfare of the Ger j man people. Mo Allegiance to Murder ! The oath which you have taken i means allegiance merely to an em ! peror who is the protector of the I German people, the guardian of their j constitution, the true preserver of I their welfare; it does not mean alle ! glance to burglars, murderers, rascal j ly drummers for greedy cannon mak i ers. But you took no oath against! j the German people whom it was this I emperor's duty to protect; whom you j must now protect without him and against him, a miserable wretch wno j betrays his country in the hour of I greatest danger, who either from stu ; pldity or from cowardice works i against the good of his people. The Password! ! Let every man who loves the Ger , man people and the German father | land come over! The password | which is to be given at the French j posts is: REPUBLIC! , He will meet not only French and r English and Americans, but also i German patriots, whose concern it is i that our fatherland—the fatherland | so shamefully and treacherously sold { by its rulers by divine right—should j not be annihilated; and he will be j welcomed with honor by the French i if he gives this password and will be I well treated. j Comrades in war, the knife is at !' the gullet of the scoundrels who rule you, and they would ratner starve and bleed the German people to death to the last man than make peace, or even make known the ob ject of their war. For they know very well that the hour of reckon ing has struck for them when they can no longer suppress the truth be ! neath their martial law and trample | freedom in the dust. Before we j make peace, therefore, and in or der to make peace, we must first reckon with them. 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Of this agent, a noted physician and scientist of Washington, IJ. C., said, In an address before the American Therapeutic Society: "That the aged sufferer passes hia .nights like in the I days of his prime * * * is the rea ( sJreek^_Mlch. FREE TRIAL COUPON FRANK J. ICEbIiOUG CO., lir>4 Hoflfmnster lllk., Battle Creek, iWleh. Kindlv send me, Free, a 50c box 1 of Kellogg's Brown Tablets. I I enclose 6c In stamps to help pay postage and packing. Name Street % City State ! Advice to the Lovetor^ HOI.I) TO TOUR IDEALS DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: > We arc two young girls, members of a club, and, although the girls seem to be very nice, still they allow privileges which we do not approve, such as kissing the boys good night, etc - . We feel as though we have no right to judge them, so we are asking your advice. "PUZZLED TWO." No, you have no right to sit in judgment on your girl friends. Per haps their homo training has not been as good as yours. Perhaps they have not as much strength of character or dignity in their natures. Don't judge them, but don't copy them. What Is cheaply acquired is never highly valu ed. Girls who let their boy friends kiss and caress them make those boys feel that a kiss is nothing muth, and that a girl who bandies her kisses about lightly is nothing much, either. Not only this, but cheap love-mak ing dulls the capacity for tender feel ing. you know perfectly well that beautiful scenery startles and en thralls you the first few times you see it, and that after awhile you take it for granted. That is life and human nature. Save your love-making for love itself. Don't cheapen your ca pacity for sacred and line feelings. If your girl friends are too undignified and bold in their manners eventually association with them may lower your standards or give you unpleasant reputations. Supose you show the girls my let ter to you, talk the thing over with them and try to influence them toward flnor Ideals. To-morrow, Friday Morning The Well-Dressed, Men of Harrishurg will be welcome to take their first view of this modern manufac turer-to-wearer Quality Clothes Shop, with styles 5 hours from Broadway. v , 1 . QUALITY CLOTHES SHOP POLICY WHA TIT MEANS TO HARRISBURG This Is the Era No single store with its buying power and selling volume re stricted to its business in the one city only can compete with a chain f ji "'^ of stores. v. W THE QUALITY ORGANIZA TION IS financially among the f J§ strongest. The Harrisburg Store , JjPpvm i is another link added to the chain £ of stores, all of which co-operate to j bring down the high cost of clothes ——V by selling DIRECT TO YOU from maker to wearer, MINUS ALL IN- 5 ! |9^lKr'\ \ BETWEEN CHARGES. 11 mBF , i We Specialize in s Clothing Exclusively Saving You From $5 to $lO on Every Garment We have been manufacturing : clothing for 11 years. We concen trate our minds, energy and capi tal upon making best possible clothes. By Selling Direct to You we eliminate such expenses as travelling salesmen, salaries and retailers' profits. And by having no charge accounts we further eliminate expense of office force end possible losses of unpaid accounts. i See Our Broadway Models when this manufacturer-to-wearer shop throws open its doors to morrow for inspection only. TOMORROW NO SALES WILL BE MADE, for we want to spend the entire day in getting acquainted. Remember, you can't spend a penny here to-morrow. But do come in order to inspect the new store. COMAKER TO WEAKER) QiUALITV CLOTHES SHOP II MARKET ST. NEXT TO COURT HOUSE MARCH 14, 1918 Kills Pennsylvania Trackwalker Passenger tra.n No. 5 enrouto to Harrisburg yesterday afternoon struck and instantly killed Salvator Caputo, a Pennsylvania railroad trackwalker. To was walking west and failed to hear the approach of the passenger traini because of a passing freight train. Caputo was 51 years of age and is survived by a wife and sister. He resided at Paoli, not far from the point where tho accident occurred, and had only a short time before left his home to inspect his section of track. FOVK GET K> DAYS That Mayor Daniel I* Keister in tends to enforce his edict to the ef fect that loafers will be arrested and committed to jail, was shown in police court this afternoon, when four alleged "panhandlers" were commit ted to jail for ninety days. The names of the men are: John T. Sulli van, Mike Murphy, Richa?W Cooper and David Lowe. PATRIOTIC Pit A Y Kit SUIIVICK The weekly half-Hour service "of in tercession for national and personal needs will be held at. Pine Street Pres byterian Church, Friday afternoon, at 5.15 o'clock. These services, in com mon with similar meetings all over the country, have been held since America's entrance into the war on ! the sixth of last April. The singing will be led by George Sutton who will also sing as a solo, "In Thee, Oh Do I Put My Trust," by Adolph Frey. 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