Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-24
Author of Celebrated Boo1l
"JAccuse' Gives Re.
markable Interview.
FEARS OWN PEOPLE
MORE THAN ENTENTE
Prediction Made That Emperor VIII
helm viii Quit Throne to Prove l5o
Was Not lnstisator Of War-SsskiNa
to Throw Blame Upon Crown PriWeoS
Opposed 20 Break With United
States.

Paris, March ei.-The abdication Of.
| the German emperor is forecast by the
former German magistrate who wrote
! the celebrated book "TAccuse," Ii, aa9
| interview published in oeuvrc. fIGs
says:
The kaiser Is obsessed by the
thought that he Is responsible for the
war, thought which poisons his whole
existence. He feels that he is menaced
by three enemies at home. without
counting those abroad.
First is the crown prince. the
real author of the war: second is the
junker pan n-Germanists--you can not
imagine the hatred of the emperor for
those whom he believes to be the ma
MACS who are drive him into an
abyss. third are the people-not the
socialist party. but the people who are
! starving and who he feels are grow
| ing in number and rising little by little
| against those who caused the war.
Bitter Struggle at Home.
"The other day at the meeting OF
the parliamentary presidents and the
ministers of the federal sovereign at
| which the submarine war was decided
| upon, the struggle between the kaiser,a
party and that of Won Tirpltz was most
bitter. The majority against the em-
peror was so great, however. that he
was obliged to submit and pretend
that he was convinced. In particular
he was personally opposed to a break
with President Wilson. but he was
forced to consent. Documents will be
published one day which will prove
that he did everything secretlv IN nre-
vent a break with tho United States.
The failure of the submarine war will
soon show that he was fright, but Il viii
kbe too late.
Fears Anti Militarists.
"rhe people he fears most ara the
anti militarists. anti Prussian liberal
republicans who want the reichstag to
be based on universal suffrage. That
is why Wilhelm is 50 anxious to con-
vince the nation that he did not want
war; All his protestations are made to
lappease the liberals and his famished
and ruined subjects whose murmur-
| ings are growing stronger. He wants
to continue popular at any price and
that is why he spoke the first word of
peace. The people were grateful for
| it but the submarine war came and
spoiled everything. 1t is hard to real
| ize how the emperor. who enjoyed
popularity unexampled in our epoch.
suffers in his pride. He alone. per-
ihaps. in Germany, knows the whole
truth. since he alone has in his possess
sion the elements for forming a tudg-
ment on the situation as whole. How
can he rest morally and physically
under such q strain? Certainly. he
hopes sometimes. but less and less for
the success of the unrestricted sub
marine war which he opposed. He
sees the isolation OF Germany become
more and more complete.
Peace Negotiations Fail.
"Once he tried to initiate peace me-
gotiations and failed To try again
would be to admit and proclaim to the
whole world. but above all to the Ger
man people. whom he fears most. Ger
many's real situation. II the allies de-
clared, as they did with Napoleon in
1915. that they would refuse to treat
for peace with the Hohenzollerns. it
would be n knockout blow. Our Ger
man people who still believe In him
would abandon him for peace at any
price.
| "What recourse Is left to him but q
dramatic abdication in order to retain
the sympathies Of the German people
and save the political future Of Prus-
sia? He will say: 7 sacrifice myself
to make peace. Without mo those only
are responsible who desired q savage
war and the complete isolation of Ger
many, those who took at the beginning
my son as their party leader and forced
me to mobilize. motion I hesitated
to take"