The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
Crown Prince Friedrich Is
Fnebrand at Head Of the
Greatest Army Of De-
struction.

The most dangerous man in the world.
Who deserves this bad eminence. If not
the man who will control the miGhtiest
fighting organization Of today. and who
openly prociaims his belief that his great
army should be used in the aGgrandiZe-
ment OF himself?
The yellow peril palcs and disappears
in the light Of the fierce, blazing torch
which the kcenest publicists' of the globe
believe Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm
Of Germany to be.
With the German army nearing the
5000, 900 mark and with the possibility that
this may he doubled by the accretion of
Austrian states at tho death of the aged
Franz Josef. the specter of the Teutonic
banner waving from the Tower of Lon
don does not seem the product OF a dis
eased imagination
He GlorIcs in the sword.
For here is the man who made the
Kaiser a conservative. Here is the map
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 numerous imprison-
ments have utterly failed to abash. Here
is the man who Slories in the sword and
who believes the arts of peace are ma
tons chiefest danger.
Not long ago Gerhart Hauptmann de-
stroyed most of his great popularity in
Germany by a play dealing with Napol-
comic times in which. his fellow country
men believed, he praised the French con-
queror too much and the German patri-
OTIS OF the time too little.
Leading the attack upon the German
playwright was the crown prince. The
piece was taken off. Friedrich Wilhelm
proclaimed his detestation Of Napoleon
and his veneration of the liberatOrs of
the fatherland.
BUTT is to be noted that as a youth
the crown prince had ardently admired
Napoleon. Why did he now despise him?
Simply because he had come TO realiZe
what "Frenchman' meant
II any one doubts this, If any one does
not believe that the heir to the Kaisers
throne admires as much as ever the
genius Of Napoleon, let him read the
crown PRINCES introduction to the vol
ume Germany in Arms, which fell like
bombshell on the kaiser's much-trou-
bled head. The crown princes words
could be taken. whole paragraphs at a
time, as an apology for Bonaparte and
his cruel wars of empire. Friedrich Will
helm writes:
"A fighting spirit has always been an
attribute of our people. This warlike,
loyal and proud spirit We must cultivate
and bedueath to our children as a sacred
inheritance.
Condemns Peace Lullaby.
eve are living today in an age which
proudly lays stress upon its advance in
culture, which only too willingly boasts
OF its international cosmopolitanism, and
which delights In enthusiastic dreams of
the possibility of a permanent universal
peace. This conception of life is I'M
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 lessenedSS 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 for wealth
gained such Roadway with us that it can
be viewed only with apprehension. Solid
service as such ranks unfortunately to-
day lower than inherited or acquired
possessions. And hardly ever now is the
question asked how wealth has been OBJ
tanned. go.
1.-THE old ideals. even the credit and the
honor of the nation, are made to suffer;
because for the undisturbed making of
money peace is required. peace at any
price. And still the study of history
teaches us that all of those states which
gave their undivided attention to purely
commercial interests have suffered ig-
noble defeat
Let us consider the comfort and lux
ury which we. as children of this age
of ours, SO advanced in science and so
rich in practical discoveries. enjoy merely