The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-08-28

care is for my fighting forces on
land and sea-"
Such is the War Lord of the Ger
man Empire. A most remarka Bile
man, whose energy is proverbial.
He never rests and processes the
deepest horror of idleness. Some
call him a genius, others insist that
he is merely paranoiac. Certain
1t is that he is very vain, and always
wishes to be first in everything he
does.
He rises at FIVE in the summer and
in winter at 6. Two or three mobiles
wait upon him, and with their as
sistance 1t takes him about fifteen
minutes to get dressed. The only
English institution he tolerates is his
morning tub. One hour after rising
he sits down to his breakfast. which
used to be a very substantial meal,
but of late has been cut down by
his physicians orders to a cup of
coffee, with couple of eggs and
some bread and butter.
He has an Unsuitable passion for
work, and nothing is too small for
his attention. He can turn from
the weightiest state paper to select
a new model button for his guards,
and from his Weltpolitik to give the
world of masculin fashion a new
style of mustache; but, after all, the
hand that used the curling iron
showed no inability to WELD the
sword or hold the sceptre. In some
things he hardly seems to belong to
modern times. He abominates the
typewriter, and not only is one never
allowed within his hearing, but no
communication dare be sent to him
for his perusal with which the type
writer has had anything to do.
Such is the man who has plunged
Europe into war. Just twenty years
ago, in one of the most remarkable
inteIv views ever printed, Jules ST.
mon, the great French statesman,
was authorized to quote the Kaiser
as saying: II should consider as
mailman and a criminal whoever
drove our two countries to make
war"
AS Alfred II. Fried has so ably
pointed out in his book. THE Ger
man Emperor and the Peace of the
World" on more than one occasion
the Kaiser has used his great in
fluence for peace and prevented what
might have led to a general Euro
pean war. When England was fight
ing the Beers it was the attitude of
the German Emperor that prevent
ed Intervention by Europe. and in
1904 his policy toward Great Brit
ain was conciliatory in the extreme;
he did not take advantage of Rus
sia's position during and after the
Japanese war, but on the contrary
backed up Russian policy in the East
n a way that drew from Bebel the
aunt that Germany was Crawling
upon her stomach before Russia"
.oward France, however, his atti-
ude, which had always been one of
extreme forbearance, became more
aggressive.
On his visit to Tangler in 1905 he
declared that he was pre-
Jared to assist the Mohammedan Sui
an of Morocco in resisting French
control Finally he made direct
hreat of war against France, and the
'rice of peace was the resignation OF
)elcasse, Frances greatest foreign
minister of modern times. At the
of Algeciras the action
If Austria was evidently dictated by
Berlin, and in return she was given
he fullest support when the Turk
sh revolution made possible the an
lexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
n 1908.
At this time the Kaiser appeared |
Is the dominant factor in Europe,
lis support insuring the triumph of
Austria's policy despite the opposi-
ion of all the other powers. But the |
nasterful foreign policy of, Edward
III. was beginning to make itself |
cit and England. France and Rus
ia were drawn closer together and
he "the net of hostile forces" be-
AN to take shape. During the Bal
an war the Kaiser was careful not
o be drawn into the struggle, and
is policy undoubtedly put off the
catastrophe which has befallen Eu-
ope. England also displayed a de-
disposition to avoid hos
ilities and the existence of a strong
Ministry in England COM
ined with the traditional weakness
t the Liberals foreign policy, and
he serious Ulster situation which