El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-24
HEIR To The
THRONE HAS
AMBITIONS
Believes Men Are Made to
Fight, and Would Stir
Up Many Wars.
OFTEN MAKES THE
EMPEROR FURIOUS
Does Not Admire Peaceful
Rule of His Father; Is
Feared in Germany.

N ERLIN, Germany, Jan. 24-The
most dangerous man in the world
Who deserves this bad eminence,
il not the man who viii control the
mightiest fighting organization Of to-
day, and who openly proclaims his be-
lief that his great army should be
used in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of him
self?
The yellow peril pales and disap-
pears in the light Of the fierce blaz-
ing torch which the keenest publicists
of the globe believe crown prince
Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany TO be.
With the German army nearing
the five million mark and with the
possibility that this may be doubled
by the accretiOn Of Austrian states at
the death Of the aged Franz Josef, the
spectre Of the TuetOnic banner wav-
ing from the Tower of London does
not seem the product OF a diseased
imagination.
GIories IN the Sword.
For here is the man who made the
Kaiser a conservative. Here is the
man whom nothing can deter. Here
IS the man who presumes to dictate
to the most autocratic potentate in the
world. Here is the man whom numer-
Gus .imprisonments have utterly failed
10 abash- Here is the man who glor-
les in the sword and who believes the
arts Of peace are a great nations
chiefest danger.
Not long ago Gerhart Hauptmann
destroyed most Of his great popularity
in Germany by a play dealing with
NapOleonic times in which. his fellow
cOuntrymen believed, he praised the
french cOnquerOr too much and the
German patriots of the time too lit
Leading the attack upon the German
playwright was the crown prince. The
piece was taken off. Friedrich VIII
ne1-- Lot , Z
pOleon and his veneratiOn of the liber-
ators Of the fatherland
Butt is to be noted that as a
youth the crown prince had ardently
despise him2 Simply because he had
come to realize what "Frenchman"
meant.
If any one doubts this, II any one
does not believe that the heir to the
Kaiser's throne admires as much as
ever the genius Of Napoleon, let him
read the crown princes introduction
10 the volume Germany in Arms"
which fell like a bombshel on the
kaiser's much troubled head. The
crown princes words could be taken
whole paragraphs at time as an
apology. for Bonaparte and his cruel
wars Of empire. Friedrich Wilhelm
writes;
Believes in Fighting Spirit.
"a fighting spirit has always been
an attribute Of our people. This war
like, loyal and proud spirit we must
cultivate and bequeath to our children
as a sacred inheritance.
I'VE are living today in an age
which proudly lays stress upon its ad-
vance in culture which only too will
tngly boasts of its international cos
mOpolitanism, and which delights in
enthusiastic dreams Of the possibility
Of a permanent universal peace. This
conception of life is un-German and
Unsuited to US. The German who loves
his country and who believes in the
greatness and in the future Of our
home and who never wishes to see its
credit lessened, cannot indulge in such
visions, cannot allow himself to be
sung to a slothful sleep by the peace
lullaby Of Utopians.
Already has the struggle Of wealth
gained such Roadway with us that it
can be viewed only with apprehension.
Solid service as such ranks unfortun-
ately today lower that inherited or ac-
quired possessions. And hardly ever