The Tupelo journal., 1917-07-13
NOMINATING SPEECH TO BE
MADE IN BEHALF OF KAISER
WILHELM.
Orchard H. Edmonds, Editor Manu-
facturers Record.)

Will Tic 1uilcS vi UuIillHS u
as incense, the Ruler of Hell sur
veyed the nightly throng of kindred
spirits. They had been called in
from their work throughout all the
universe to report on all the evil that
they had been able to accomplish or
that i'm their devilish ingenuity they
had been able to plan. From the
imyriads of peopled worlds where
Satan's minions had been irving to
put into action all of the evil in
fuences upon which, through the un-
numbered centuries, they had fed
their imagination, came the leaders
of Satan's kingdom.
One by one they sought to win the
favor of the Ruler of He'll by telling
of diabolical deeds, each trying to
surpass the other as they told of sins
that had never before been heard of
even in these internal regions. AS
Satan listened to these chosen spirits
with all their hell-born devices to
pull down virtue and uplift sin, there
crossed his c~ountenance the faint
glimmer of a smile in a region where
laughter is unknown-the Satanic
smile of satisfaction at how well his
messengers had learned their lessons
and improved on his teachings.
Drooon%1xy hoxyoxyo~ fhora oayoa
one who, despite the effort to sup.
press him, demanded a full hearing.
This region" said he, "has too
long been ruled by incompetence
and m~ediocrity.
Through the ages we have been
taught that Satan held his position
and his power because in all the wide
universe there had never been found
a demon who could match him in
vileness or who could, sometimes in
the guise of a saint and sometimes
in that of a friend, work such hides
cribable horrors upon all of Gods
creatures.
"We have been told that no other
demon in all the universe had the
Imagination to plan or the power to
wreak upon the innocent such sorrow
and suffering as Satan.
eve have been told that for devil
ish ingenuity in devising new sins
and new ways of destroying virtue,
in tearing down all that is good, and
in spreading broadcast through I'M
numbered worlds amending sin and
suffering, Satan had never been
matched.
"But though this may all have been
true in the past, it is no longer true.
The right rulership by reason of
superiority in evil no longer belongs
to him who has dominated us.
81 have come from earth, where
for nearly three years it has been my
mission to study the work of one
who has devised more evils and more
sin and more sorrow and suffering
than any of us have ever before
known in all our wide travels from
world to world.
81 have found n who o~utclasses
Satan.
81 have found one in comparison
with whom as a devisor of evil and
sin and the creator of sorrow Satan
is but a cheap piker.
II have brought with me the one,
who, by reason his abilities to muir
der innocent women and children and
to cause such outrages upon them
that murder itself seems angelic by
comparison, and with unmatched
hypocrisy claims that he is a copart-
ner with the Almighty in his devilish
work, is justly entitled to rule this
region.
"Since the beginning Of time there
has eve before been one who glor-
led in such campaigns Of murder and
outraging of women and children as
he has gloated over.
"Other men have committed these
crimes, but in doing so they have
shrunk back abashed before even the
devils themselves.
"But / have found one who glor-
les in these achievements.
81 have found one who has %rejoic-
ed in unspeakable outrages commit
ted by his army upon innocent wo-
men; one. who has covered the world ,
with ~voiceless woe; one who has made
rape an honor and murder a crown
Of gleFs:
Il have fo,und one who has made
the HsS,e Of his people, honofed in
the past, now a Kissing Ana q by
word hated by all the woffd; ,despised
as have, been no other people IN all
human history; a stencil III Ve nos
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