Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-30

weeks as author of q satire on Kaiser
Wilhelm. Requests have come to him
from Tumulty, Secretary Daniels and
Roosevelt, and people in every State
of the union and in Canada for copies
of his article. 1t follows:
Ottumwa, Iowa.
"The Internal Region,
June 2, 1917.
"To Wiihelmn Won Hohenzollern,
king of Prussia. emperor of Germany
and envoy extraordinary of Almighty
God:
"My Dear William: l can call you
that familiar name, for l have always
been very close to you; much closer
than you could ever know.
"From the time that you were yet
an undeveloped being in your moth
er's womb have shaped your destiny
for my own purpose.
SIN the days of Rome ! created n
rough-neck known in history as Nero.
He was vulgar person and suited
my purpose at that particular time.
In these modern days classic demon
and efficient supernatural was need
cd and as | know the Hohenzollcrn
blood, picked you as my special in
strument to place on earth an annex
to hell.
81 gave you an abnormal ambition,
likewise an oversupply of egotism
that you might not discover your own
failures. twisted your mind to that
of Il mad man, with certain normal
tendencies to carry you by-a most
dangerous character placed in power.
l gave you the power of a hypnotist
and certain magnetic force that you
might sway your people.
al am responsible for the deform-
ed arm that hangs helpless on your
left, for your crippled condition en-
bitters your life and destroys all no.
bic impulses that might otherwise
cause me anxiety; but your strong
arm is driven by your ambition that
squelches all sentiment and pity. 1
placed in your soul deep hatred for
all things English. for of all nations
on earth | hate England most. Wher-
ever England plants her flag she
brings order out of chaos and the ha-
ted Cross follows the Union Jack
Under her rule wild tribes become
tillers of the soil and in due time
practical citizens. She is the great
civilizer of the globe and l HATE
HER l planted in your soul cruel
hatred for your mother, because SHE
was English and left my good friend
Bismarck, to fan the flame l had
kindled. Recent history proves how
well our woil: was done. 1t broke
your royal mothers heart, but l gain
ed my purpose.
"The inherited disease of the Ho-
henzollerns killed your father, just as
it will kill you, and you became the
ruler of Germany and tool of mine
sooner than l expected.
"ro assist you and farther hasten
my work sent you three evil spir-
its-Nietzche, Treitschke. and later
Observation-Disclosures teachings infam-
ed the youths of Germany, who in
good time would be willing and loyal
subjects and eager to spill their blood
and pull your chestnuts, yours and
mine. The spell has been perfect
you cast your ambitious eyes toward
the Mediterranean. Egypt, India, and
the Dardanelles. and began your great
raiylway in Bagdad, but the ambi-
tous archduke and his more ambi-
tious wife stood in your way. 1t was
then that / sowed the seed in your
heart that blossomed into the as
sassination of the duke and his wife
and all hell smiled when it saw how
cieverly you saddled the crime onto
Serbia. | saw you set sail for fords
of Norway, and knew you would
prove an alibi.
"How c'evcly done; so much like
-our noble grandfather, who also Sc
Ircd an assassin to remove old King
Frederick of Denmarck and later. |
robbed that country of two provinces |
that gave Germany an opportunity
o become naval power. Murder is
'lirty work. but it takes a Hohenzol-
'ern 10 make way and get by.
Your opportunity was at hand;
you SET The world on fire and bells of
hell ringr%; Your rape on Belgium
caused much joy-it was the begin
ming, the foundation of a perfect
hell on earth, the destruction of the
ncbie cathedrals and other infinite
works eff art was hailed with joy in
she Internal regions. You made war
on friends and foe alike, and the
murder of civilians showed my teach
'ngs had borne fruit. Your treach-
cry toward neutral nations hasten
ed universal upheaval-the thing l
u.