The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-08-10
Alfred Henschke Paints Picture
Of the War Lord That Is Far
From Being FIattering
URGES MONARCH TO
's'' READ SIGNS OF TIMES
Renounce the Right To Be Sole
Arbiter Of Peace and War, Fa-
nous Novelist Advises Emperor

II is not often that Wilham TIohen-
zollern, Emperor Of Germany and chief
exponent Of the Divine Right of Kings,
has the truth told to him, especially
WHOM the truth is not flattering TO his
ambition maddehed soul. But there Is
one Ger;nnn who is not afraid to tell
Wilhelm II what is the matter with
him and what b. "hould do for tho
benefit Of his people In kindly man
per brit with words that burn he paints
q verbal picture of the war lord for the
latter to gaze upon. @.w.
The man who has dared to do tais
thing is the German novelist Alfred
Henschke, once the bosom friend of the
Kaiser, who writes under the name o.
"Klabuhd. " An open letter from him
TO the Kaiser has been published in the
Meme Zurichter Zeitung. This is a
translation of the letter: q, IL .ss,.
An Open Letter to Emperor William
II. BY "Klabund" (Alfred Henschlke)
Your Majesty! @
Upon You are fixed today the plead
ing, appealing, imploring eyes OF the
whole world--mOre so than you in
YOUR DOlllltdl anu luulNluudt ioOlhbiOi
and loneliness can imagine.
True, the press hostile TO you is-stiD
pictuFing you as a vandal and barbar
ian; incompetent or. anaemic diplo
mats who are more correctly eharact-
erized as cripplcs of the state, may
still be fostering the foolish plan TO
drive out the devil Militarism with
the Beelzebub Imperialism, to destroy
the under devil Mechanism through
the super-devil NatiOnalism. ...
Nevertheless, in all countries the
eyes Of the people-those that have
remained human-the eyes of the
muiiks, poilus, and Tomniies, of the
field gray and the olive green al!
look to you.
For you, your Majesty, hold IN
your Hand the restoration of an carly
peace to the world.' -.. -"
You point out that once before, IN
November Of last year, you were ready
{. for peace. II -
Indeed, you did offer your hand tC
the enemy to shake and make peace,
but the hand was fist; it was not a
human hand through which pulsed tb'
rod blood Of mankind. 1t was the iron
fist of Goetz Won Berliehingen." 49,
Reads RIGHTLY
Your Majesty, read rightly the
signs of the time: in them the blossom
Of eternity! Realize that in this wal
all ideas of Powcr-all, without ex
ception, no matter in what camp they
were entertaincd--havc been ship
wrecked. ,
Might where it Is not alive will
bencv olence, justice and humanity, II
bronze fetish. .F.r f.,
Forever gone must lie the principle
Of Might and its satellites, tyranny
arrogance, police spirit fetish wor
ship, byzanthism, mammonism-7-(a l
of which invariably grows togethe'
parasitically). 49,.
Sire! Your Faster message bright
cncd the hearts of the German people
made furrowod foreheads glisten will
IA weak ray OF dawning light, u.s.
But you must realize, your Majesty
that to people that would DO free
and that is hOnOred ann Tesported-
one should speak as freeman TO free
men. 80 IL Az" ~.
You, however, speak as free
master (Freiaherrlich), In O., the open
and secret cabinets OF Berlin thu
principle of ''subjectso still hold
forth. Aud you were ill-advised wher
you keyed your Easter message to thu
tune of mercy. r...".' 49,.
Rights Are Inherent
Rights, your Majesty, are not grant
ed. They were there originally, the!
exist. 3L r.,
Give up the belief in Divine RICH
and go as man among man. Throw of
the purple of solitude and don thu
mantle of the multitude, of brOtherf
love. Erect the true peoples king
dom of. the HohenzolIerns. Tear your
self free from your ancestors; FIRE,
from the hallucination that you en-,
lean upon a small capitalistic junker
ish clique 'recruited'' from official
dom and the higher officers corps,
clique which with its drums aud fan
fares would drown the nation = cry o
pain, 1t is this clique which in trutl
will shatter the throne aid tormen
the blinded Samson until one day h,
fells the pillars of the state,
Today, Sire, you are shadow king
For you stand in the shadow of tn,
autocratie barOns and the plutOcrati
ammunition manufacturers.
As a Christian, out OF heart over
flowing with love: thus you must Civ
10 your people, whose servant yol
should be, the freedom Of its will an,
OF its soul. Voluntarily Not AS Al
act of mercy, but as a proof of mutua
trust and brotherhood. -.
What an Understandable joy wOuI
sweep the lands if il were said:
Wilhelm II, renounces the anti
quated, fateful human right TO be tn
sole arbiter of war and peace. II
requires the o-operation, the consent
of the people in such grave decision
affecting the people g welfare. II
wishes no longer to he tho master O
the German soul, but wants TO be Il
servant The army will hereafter b
sworn in the name Of the fatherlan,
For ii IS a peoples army. The di,
ami reiehstag will meet immediatel
20 prepare for the Reconstruction
the constitution in such manner IN,
under the equal direct aud umVers
suffrage (under which the Inajori