Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-30


TO do with the bringing up OF Prince
William hold him in horror ana oe-
testation. | have had numerous proofs
Of this, altho / have never been able
TO fasten upon any specific reasons
for II. Their dislike for him is bascu
on a general conception of his char
acter This view is that he Is utterly
cold. entirely selfish, wantonly cruel,
young man without conscience or
compassion, or any softening virtues
whatever.
That he has great abilities they all
admit, but they stop there. Heart he
has none. upon their reckoning Ana
am bound to say that II you look
into his face with this preconceived
notion Of the young mans character
you can find plenty OF signs which
seem to substantiate IT,
An old acquaintance Of mine here
who was at San Reno a fortnight ago
told me something which he saw with
bis own eyes. It was Sunday morn
ing, and the imperial family were
starting from the front door of the
little English villa Zirio TO go TO the
chapel on the esplanade TO attend An
glican service. Prince william ann
his mother (Victoria Adelaide) came
out OF the door together ahead of the
others. AS they stepped outside she
made a movement as IL to take his
arm. He drew away, said something
TO her iu low tone OF voice, and
walked down the broad graveled path
alone in front OF her and the rest
1t transpired later in the day tnat
what he said to her was in substance
this: "I am here as the personal rep
resentative OF my grandfather. the
German kaiser. That being the case,
1t is fitting that I should take pre-
cerence. There Is nobody who could
properly walk beside me except my
grandmother, the Kaiserin Augusta"
"what VIII He Do?"
This anecdote does not reveal a nice
boy. But. after all. when a young
man stands upon the threshold of an
imperial career, and we all know thar
II is a mere matter OF months before
he will be the autocratic master OF
/ two million armed men. IL is not OF
so much importance whether he -
| What will he do?'
The most common answer Is that he
will overrun Europe. One OF the
really great essays of the decade,
| Taine's recent study OF Napoleon, mas
It's basis in the idea that the Corsicaii
marvel was n freak OF heredity-a
strange. posthumous brother OF the
l nltultNtl neTCtutTN SOluitI OF
II seems very probable that some fu-
| ture Taine a century hence. perhaps,
will write to show that William II OF
| Prussia and the German empire was
a mysterious belated survival OF the
antemedieval Goths and Vandalism
II Attila born n thousand and more years
after his time.
Under the kaiser who was buried
last week the German army was IN
ft. mo nr-Qn 70 90 a.
and It is no less today under the noble.
broad and enlightened kaiser, VINO is
so painfully and manfully striving "a
do his duty TO the German nation and
the world from within his sick cham
Der at Charlottenburg.
But nobody with eyes In his head
could have passed the week Just enue.
in Berlin without recognizing that If
firehrad comes to the throne the ma
terials are close-crowded upon him for
a terrible conflagration.
Promise Of Blood and Iron.
Kaiser William II, in the glamor OF
his youthful distinction OF face and
figure. OF his deep Teutonic predju-
dices, OF his all controlling belief in
himself and his race. and his destiny,
could hurl n practically united Ger
many east, west or south n month af-
ter ne had ascer "a the Hohenzonern
throne. The WINE German nation,
from Basic to konigsberg. would risc
TO his enthusiastic support livery
young man from Thorn TO Coblenz
would burn 10 ride with him for con-
I quest and glory.
This is not n pleasant or humane
conclusion. but II is a necessary one.
The lesson taught by Prussia's success
by the rise OF the Hohenzollern
dynasty-is an object lesson in olood
and iron which has not been lost on
any German mind. Every youth.
from the humblest field laborer in
Thuringta to the crown prince. who
waits upon the door sill OF imperial
power. has that lesson ingrained IN
every fiber OF his being. That is why
this young heir to the German i'm
perial dignity has seemed 10 me better
worth studying than anything else in
Berlin.