The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-24
(Associated PresS.)

Paris. March 24.--Ine aOulCdllon
of the German emperor is forecast by
the former German magistrate who
wrote the celebrated book. "JAccusc,'
in an Interview published in Oeuvre
He says:
Feels He is Menaced.
'"The kaiser is obsesSed BY the
thought that he is responsible 1or
the war, a thought which poisons bis
whole existence. He feels that he Is
menaced by three enemies at home,
without counting those abroad: First
in the crown prince, the real author
Of the war; second, in the Junger Fan
Germanist-you cannot imagine the
smouldering hatred of the emperor
for those whom he believes to be the
maniacs who are driving into an
abyss and third. the people, not the
Socialist party, butt the people VINO
are starving, and who, he feels, are
growing in number and rising, little
by little, against those who organic
ed the war.
Obliged to Submit.
''The other day at the meeting ol
the parliamentary presidents and the
ministers of the federal sovereign, at
which the submarine war was decld'
ed upon, the struggle between the
kaiser's party and that of Won Tlr-
pitz was most bitter The majority
against the emperor was SO great,
however, that he was obliged to SUB
nit and pretend that he was convlnc
ed. In particular, he was personally
opposed to break with President
Wilson, but he was forced to con-
sent.
',Documents will be published some
day which will prove that secretly he
did everything not to bring america
down upon him, and that he considers
that the rupture was an irreparable
mistake. The failure of the subma-
rine war will soon show that ne was
right, but it will be too late.
Submarine War SoiIed A'i
"The people he fears most are the
anti-militarists, anti-Prussians. liberal
republicans, who want the reichstag
to be based on universal suffrage.
That is why Wilhelm is so anxious to
convince the nation that he did not
want war. All his protestations are
made to appease the liberals, and his
famished and ruined subjects, whose
murmurings are growing stronger. he
lants to. continue popular at any price,
and that is why he spoke the first
word of peace. The people were CRATE
full for It, but the submarine war came
and spoiled everything.
Isolation Becoming Complete.
"It is hard to realize how this en-
peror, who enjoyed popularity unex-
ampled in our epoch, suffers in his
pride. He alone, perhaps, in Ger
many knows the whole truth, since he
alone has in his possession the ele-
ments for forming a judgment on the
situation as a whole. How can he re-
sist morally and physically under such
a strain? Certainly he hopes, some
times, but less and less, ror the sue
cess of the unrestricted submarine
war, which he opposed. He sees the
isolation of Germany becoming more
and more complete.
A Real "knock-out."
'tJnCe he LFleu W llllLldtS PCdS0 Ao
gotiations and failed. To try again
would be to admit and proclaim to the
whole world. but above all. to the
German people, which he fears most,
Germany's real situation If the Allies
solemnly declared, as they did with
Napoleon in 1915, that they would re-
fuse to treat with peace with the Ho'
henzollerns, it would be a knockout
blow. Our German people, who still
believe in him, would abandon him
for peace at any price. and would soon
be the hidden thought of German tor
ture."
What Recourse?
"What recourse is left to him but
a. dramatic abdication in order to re-
Itain the sympathies Of the German
people and save the political future
Iof Prussia. He will say:
Il sacrifice myself to make peace.
without me, those only are respon-
|sible who desired savage war, and
the complete isolation OF Germany,
those who took at the beginning my
son as their party leader and forced
me to mobilize, measure l hesiat-
ed to take"