ntry?

"Now, all this is entirely different in Germany, where they do like
colored people, where they treat them as gentlemen and as white men, and
quite a number of colored people have fine positions in business in
Berlin and other German cities. Why, then, fight the Germans only for
the benefit of Wall Street robbers and to protect the millions they have
loaned to the English, French and Italians? You have been made the tool
of the egotistical and rapacious rich in England and America and there
is nothing in the whole game for you but broken bones, horrible wounds,
spoiled health, or death. No satisfaction whatever will you get out of
this unjust war. You have never seen Germany. So you are fools if you
allow people to make you hate us. Come over and see for yourself. Let
those do the fighting who make the profits out of the war. Don't allow
them to use you as cannon fodder. To carry a gun in this service is not
an honor, but a shame. Throw it away and come over to the German lines.
You will find friends who will help you along."

THE PROPAGANDA FAILS.

Such a piece of infamous treachery scarcely deserves comment; for, if
the Negro had been the least inclined to be a traitor, he could not
forget the atrocious treatment accorded the black man in the African
colonies controlled by Germany. For the Negro well remembers the
treachery of von Trotha, who invited the Herero chiefs to come in and
make peace and promptly shot them in cold blood. And the words of his
cruel and inhuman "Extermination Order" directing that every Herero man,
woman, child or babe was to be killed and no prisoners taken. All of
which had the sanction of Berlin.

But, aside from his intimate knowledge of German treachery and
duplicity, a still higher principle inspired the Negro; for to forget
the loyalty to his own native country in this hour of trial and darkness
would be scandalous and shameful and would blacken the Negro in the eyes
of the whole world. Of this class of treachery, the Negro is absolutely
incapable. They have endured some of the greatest sacrifices and
humiliations that could be demanded of a people, but, they always have
kept before them ideals, founded on loyalty and devotion to duty, and
never, in their darkest days, have they sought to gain their ends by
treasonable means. For the path of treason is still an unknown path to
the Negro. Their duty and their conscience alike bade them be faithful
and true to their government