The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-07
CONF lDENCE IN
 GERMAN KAISER
 SEEMS TO W ANE
Swiss Prince Declares That
 People of Germany Are Losing Faith.

Washington. Nov. 3.-tConfidence in those who are directing the affairs Of Empire is beginning to crumble among the German people"
 So declares Prince Alexander Ho- henlohe in the Neue Zeitung of Eur ich, Switzerland. The writer belongs to one of the oldest and most aristo- cratic families in Germany and he 8 Ia son of the late Imperial Chancellor Prince gu Hohenlohe, who was suc- ceeded by Prince Buelow in 1900.
 Prince Alexander gu Hohenlohe de- clares the word revolution is heard daily among the masses of the people. He says:
 There is no doubt that the major ity of the German people are in favor of monarchial form of government. The different states of Germany are still more or less loyal to the state soyereigns according to the personal ity of those sovereigns. But it cannot longer be affirmed after these three years of war that their confidence in the supreme chief of the Empire is wholly intact.
 we should stop hiding our heads in the sand out of fear of recognizing the truth. Evading the truth can do no good. Confidence in those who are directing the affairs of the Empire is beginning to 'crumble among the Ger man people. The people do not know just what position the Kaiser takes with regard to the activities of those who pretend to call themselves patri- ots.
 The people are beginning little by little to ask themselves how it is that the whole world is in arms against them and who is responsible for this situation.
 The German people as a whole have no desire to annex foreign ter rftory. The only ones who are inter ested in territorial conquests are. the who get no sympathy from the masses of the people, but only from the uni versity professors, tte- officeholders and the well to do middle classes. Herr Scheidernann Ca well-known SociaIist) was recently called to or der when he spoke the word -revolu- 1 tton' in a speech in the Reiehstag. And yet he did nothing but repeat a word which is heard daily among the masses of the people. It is true that he rightly added we have not yet reached the point of revolution, But 1t would be childish to deceive our selves into thinking that we may not reach 1t if the men whe hold in their hands the destinies of the German n Empire are not big enough to assume the responsibility of their mistakes land wise enough to recognize and take IaeeeHnt of the necessities of the pres ent time,
 l Otherwise the moment will surely come when they will perceive with terror that it isf too late and that the German people have finally lost pa- tfenee,v
 The prince himself asks the foliew- ing auestiensi
 ! Where is the government ieadina us7 What does it want of us now that the menace of an invasion by Rus sfaH despotisn has disappeared Is il really for the defence of cur home l and our right to existence that we must still bear the sufferings we are enduringf Or does the government exact these terrific sacrifices from us in order to satisfy the unsuitable am bftioHs of the arfstocFacy and to save the already compromised prestige of the ruling dynasty?
 I If Germany is to retain what she
 has acquired in the war by force o1 arms, she will be obliged not only to
 maintain but constantly to increase
 her armaments and to add without
 end to her debt, which is already EovyerWhelminR,