The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-12-17
KAISER SILENT
ON BALKAN WAR
Cannot Forget That He was the
Guest of the Former Sultan
of Turkey.

BERLIN, November SO.-"Dc- Reid
ekaiser" is silent. Not word as
been heard from. his lips during the
whole Balkan war, which has stirred
up such a sensation in Germany, and
"der Reidekaiser" has practically, Te.
manned within the walls of tho tlace,
with the exception of nhorr trip for
the purpose of defeating a church in
Hamburg, followed by rush to viii
helmshaven, where he unveiled a statue
of his famous ancestor, Admiral Gas
pard de Coligny, whose greasrgss rs 4
| Christian hero and martyr he euloglzet,
ending with the dramatic sentence
Loyalty towards king and monarchy
only thrives in the soil of genuine f;utL
and sincere belief in the I,l"l 'nality of
J Christ
These words seem to indicate that at
| this very moment of the struggle be-
, tween the cross and the crescent he
! wanted to emphasize that his personal
sympathies are on the side of the cross.
But no amount of religious phrase will
: wipe out the memory of tie famous
speech he once made at Damascus.
/ 1t will never be forgotten that the
kaiser on. his pilgrimage 30 the Holy
Land was the welcome and honored
guest of the deposed Sultan Abdul
Hamid, whom Gladstone justly called
! the Armenian assassin. At the mag
nihcent festivities the kaiser behaved
/ not as Christian prince or holy cru
sader. No; he was the worldly diplo-
mat who endeavored to undermine the
| influence of the western powers at the
Golden Horn, the imperial merchant,
! booming the German banks and finan-
ciers interested in the Bagdad Railroad.
The Kaiser's Dream.
1t is possible that Wilhelm, during
the silent hours OF the night, when the
Intoxication of the festival had left
him, dreamed of Christian kingdom in
Jerusalem where the green standard of
the prophet had driven out the lilies of
the Bourbons and the banner of the Ho-
4 henstauffens. But when the crowds of
mussulmans cheered him madly he for
got these thoughts, forgot that he was
walking on soil drenched with the
lifeblood of thousands and thousands of
Christians. 1t was not so many years
since the Mohammedan rabble and the
bashi bazouks OF the sultan had MUIR
dered Christian men, violated women
and cut little babies to pieces in their
mothers arms. But when, in Damascus
Sheik Abdullah in the fowery Ian
guage of the Oriental welcomed Ger.
many's mighty ruler and greeted him
as the best friend of the sultan and
all mussulmans, Wilhelm replied that
the three hundred millions of Moham-
medans all over the world must always
feel convinced that he would always be
ready to act as their faithful friend
When enthusiastic cries of "Jaschal' .
from the thousands of threats arose
about him the romantic kaiser In mo-
ment of ecstasy praised Sultan Saladir
of the Crusades in these words:
"That great sultan, chevalier who
had often surpassed his adversaries IN
chivalry, and often taught them the
real virtues of true knighthood.
1t appears that the kaiser's ideas OF
Saladin were built on the frail FONDA
ton of Walter Scott's description OF
him in "The Talisman," and German
French and English papers were moi
slow in pointing out that historian
like Leopold Won Ranke had depicted
Saladin as a sly and crafty ruler, who
conquered by arousing his enemies mu
tual jealousy, and that after the battle
of Tiberias he had thousands of Chris
tian knights murdered and with his owl
hand killed the defenseless Rainold d.
Chattilon. 1t is also an undisputec
fact that this "chevalier sans peur anC
sans reproche' tried to poison Barba
rosa Is crusaders by sending them 6O'
bushels of poisoned flour.
Friend of Mussulmans.
! That the kaiser's knowledge of his
} tory is very slight is a fact which
everybody knows and which in itself i
unimportant, but angry feelings agains
, him were aroused when the kaiser, VIII
! is always fond of posing as the defende
of the faith and pios son of tn
} Christian church, entered in brother
) hood with 300,000,00 of Mussulman
! living under Russian, French and Eng
lish rule.
Only with the assassin Abdul Hami'
and his creatures the speech of the kal
, ser found favor and there was tim
when German influence was all powerful
: at Constantinople, when Colmar Won de
Goltz and Marshall Won Bieberstei
r played the principal parts in Turks
$ military and diplomatic circles.
But, as often before, the old Germa
proverb. "Viel Geschrei und Weni
WOLFE" characterized Emperor Wi
liam, who is a man of words, not deed!
Islam soon realized this, for at A
geciras he turned over Morocco t
France; he did not move finger to pre-
vent Italy from seizing Tripoli, and h
will do no more when the Turks ar
fighting for their very existence.