The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-12
KAISER MALIGNED
 BY LINGO PRESS
 IN UNITED ST ATEs

iL I if III That tfe kaiser has been rnaligned and Tnisund erstood by the American sIs ! press is charged by the New Yorker staats- zeltur1g in an editorial this morning EI is course IS defended in de- tail as follows:
 TIE KAISER.
 4ranslated from the New Yorker staats- zeitung. 9ehe American people have formed a very strange conception of the po- sition and powers Of the German kaiser. He is looked upon assan9 auTs focrat who has but to give the com mana and all Germany will quake ITO Araericans he is the t.war lord. 4 ( I4 e. is the com rnander-in-chief of the Ger man army by law; in times of peace he is not even that. for the Bavaris11 corps is excepted from his command Only in times of war does the kaiser lstake over the chief command pr the troops war lord z and, indeed. with Ifar greater powers, is President Wil-s son of the United States as comman-. Ider-in- chief of the army and navy M Article XII of the German constitu- ! ttion reads: assThe presidency Of the confed eration Gas represente by Ger zAany). belongs to the king of Prus- sia. who has the title of German kais- l err The kaiser is on an equal footing with the other heads of the confed- ! 1 eration but ranks as the first among equals. This fact was brought out at zVersail1es, where the title G erman | kaiser was adopted instead of kaiser lof Gerrnany. which some contested l for.
 According to the constitution the I kaiser has the right to declare war in l the name of the empire, but only in case of an attack being made on i'm l periaI territories or the sea coast of ls5ermany; otherwise it is necessary to I have the assent of the imperial coun- I ci1, in which there are representatives Of each Of the federaeed states.
 The terms of the German consti- I tuition give an entirely different rep resentatfon of the kaiser's position j from that produced by the trnagina- i ton and lack of elementary inforna- I ton with regard to German condi- l tionS. The American press Is pie turing the kaiser's personality in a I manner that shows not only a lack of i definite knowledge, but a,nimosity. He
 is represented as an enemy to civil- izatior,5 as a. bloodhound-the same I man whoHn they 1auded as a Prince
 of Peace on the occasion of his twen- Fl ty- fifth anniversary a short time ago.
 What has caused this reversal of
 opinfonz Has Kaiser Wilhelm. II ever | tolerated any such programmes as I were tolerated by Czar Nicholas at
 Kischfnev? Did he tolerate the mur- Il der of thousands of women and chill II dren, as happened in Edward WITS regime in South Africa? He extended his hands across the sea when he sent
 his brother. Prince Henry, to America
 as an ambassador of friendship. He I erected an act of the greatest cul-
 tural advancement when, he brought
 albou the exchange professorships be-
 tween the United States and Ger
 many. The object of these exchange
 professorships was that both coun- si tries might come to understand each
 others peculiarities better and both
 work together for the advancement o1 world culture
 And this Is the same man who, ac- Icording to one of the local (New York; newspapers. feels at home in a bath Of blood. The same man who in the
 past twenty-six years has more than once silenced cooked guns is character lized as the s.scourge of rnankind.N His
 cour ASe and patience in facing the at tacks of his interruptions critics for the general good will receive the apprecia- tioh from historians that it deserves.
 The German kaiser declared war in i. accordance with the terms of the Ger man constitution because Germany was : lattacked. and the whole German people fare standing back of the war lord
 the com chief to staI the attack The German kaiser : declared war after the strong instru- nent in his hand, the German army could not longer maintain peace Ger.
 many is at war, not the German kaiser : It is a war of the German natior
 standing for culture, against Russis
 and barbarfsrn against the French who have been the hereditary enem. : since the days of Ludwig XIV, tn, F same French whose authority in Ger, lmany is still marked by counties