Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-10
WilIn II Would Huue Made Ideal Monarch Three
 Hundred Years Ago, Says Author of "The Kaiser


 lures of William II, Kaiser of Ger ! many, which taken as a whole give as complete compendium of facts about this most interesting world ! charater of the day as has yet been issued The preface to this interesting work says
 Not since the days of Napoleon has one man SO captured the public imagination. never in the past cen- tury has a nation been SO personihed in one being; not since the time of the 'Corsican Ogre have the woes of Europe been SO frankly attributed to one ruler; never has a man been SO universally villifed and lampooned both in word and drawing. Then there comes the necessary reaction to this swift generalization We are told that the War Lord stained the call to arms with tears. We recall Che mdoubted services this men has rendered Go his nation.
 Like 1t or not the United States has become the Umpire With one accord the warning nations. as they draw swords and plunge into the din, CT yout to us to watch the struggle and see fair play Here work goes forward as usual and we sometimes forget the horrors of that struggle But whether rightly or wrongly. pub lie attention has focused on the Kaiser as the one who might have halted the trouble and did not"
 Different chapters in "The Kaiser take mp such subjects as The Kaisers personality. his background his rela- tions with his army and navy his for eigu DO icy his commercial expansion. his relation Go the German govern mcut. including a brief survey or Ger man civic government his relations to the Beicbstag and his relations Co the Socialists.
 Foreign Policy
 "Ir we wish 70 understand the for. cicu policy of Germany under Will liam II we win study in vain Che writings of Goethe. Schiller Lessiug Hegel and others who once were con. sidered representative of German thought and ambitions We need rather. to delve into th ehistory Of Carthage and other nations which rose to power through commercial expansion and world trading made possible and fomented by the great ness and boldnes sof victorious arm ies and navies
 No nation on earth so ongs foi Germanguled colonies as does the German Empire The very existence of this race, according to Kaiser vii liam. depends on such expansion. h Germany. as in all other countries the more ambitious. alert and euer getic of its people are the ones who leave the fatherlaud and cast tlej lot in new lands with greater 0ppor mnities Few of these opporuniue can be found in foreign lands now un der the German flag. The pressure o population has caused the migration from Germany of more than 30oQo 900 of her people. and owing to g DC culiar trait in the German character these thirty millions and their des cendants are lost to the German tu pire forever unless the nation which now constitute their places a residence are conquered and anneNe by Germany.
 "The Kaiser's colonial and othe foreign policies thave undoubtedI been greatly influenced by the wri ings and teachings of the Germa university professors. who hay played a most important part moulding public sentiment in th; country. a public sentiment to whic William II has eagerly responde Chief among the learned professor who have sounded the cry for a Grea CT Germany was Professor von Trei schke, the historian, who openly pr claimed that the destiny of German was thwarted by lack Of territOr and who never hesitated to pictU Great Britain a sthe nation whiD must be humbled before German could come into her own
 "Treitsehke considered the acqui ton of the Netherlands as the tr step toward entering on wor embracing policy The ruling Kais is known as a devoted admirer Treatschke. frequently quotes fro him. and tacitly appears to give a proyal to his bold and aggressive titude
 "The military policy of William .snd his war-loving clique Of Prussi officers forced an of Europe to sra on guard and to federate against [ blow which an intelligent observe knew was inevitable. When q. bow came the Triple Alliance and other carefully wrought agreemel were only scraps of paper Euro rose practically as nation as would have risen to subiugate m' archial maniac who had run anu It would have been the same it It sia had hurled her weight of ar for the conquest of a world which
 sired peace and was willing Co h' for it. The hour has struck for m
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