Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-03

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blood"
"One shudders, he continued, "as
one pats the mild, contemplative head
o. the bloodhound solely because of the
stories that have been told Of the ter
rible ferocity which turks under this
sleek and gentle exterior. In the same
way you look into the face Of this
|young heir Of the Hohenzollerns and
remember with wondering reservations
the malignant tales which have been
told of his inner nature by those who
know it best Apparently all the wo-
lmen-at least all the English women
who have had to do with the bringing
Iur of Prince William hold him in hor-
ror and detestation. l have had num-
erous proofs of this, although have
never been able to fasten upon any
specific reason for it.
Their dislike for him is based on a
general conception of this character.
This view is that he is utterly cold,
entirely selfish, wantonly cruel; a
4 young man without conscience or
compassion, or any softening virtues
whatever That he has great abilities
they all admit, but they stop there.
Heart he has none, upon their reck-
oning. And | am bound to say that if
|. you look into his face with this pre-
conceived notion of the young mans
character you can find plenty of signs
which seem to substantiate it.
Saturated With Prussianism.
"Of course the root of this pro-
found antagonism to him to be found
among the little group OF English and
Anglc-German ladies in the court cir
cles here in Berlin is his unflial atti-
tude toward his mother. He has, APP
!, parently never liked her-at least
since he has attained manhood. The
Inner reasons for this estrangement
it is naturally impossible to discover
or determine. The outer causes-or
are they effects-are more obvious.
; William is very deeply and thoroughly
!, Prussian. He is a living, breathing
!, embodiment of all the qualities and
lack of qualities which, through pre-
: cisely two centuries have brought the
little mark of Brandenburg up from a
puny fief, with poor, scattered pop
ulation of 100000 to the state of a
, lgreat kingdom ruling nearly 100000
people, and giving the law to all Eu-
! rope.
HE is saturated with all the in
| stincts and ideas which have raised
this parvenu Prussia to its present
eminence, and his character is the
crown and flower of these two ceftu-
ries of might and ruthlessness and
spoilation exalted into a creed
Williams Hatred of His Mother.
The correspondent shows that Will
liam hated his mother, the pro-English
daughter of Queen Victoria, and con-
temptuously spoke of her to his asso-
ciates as "the Englishwoman." He re-
lated an anecdote of the princes rude
ness to his mother, and continued:
This anecdote does not reveal a
mice boy. But, after all, when young
man stands upon the threshold of an
Imperial career, and We all know that
it is mere matter of months before
he will be the autocratic master of o.
100000 armed men, it is not of so
much Importance whether is nice or
not. The real question is, What will
he do?'
THE most common answer is that
he will oyerrun Europe. One OF the
really great essays of the decade,
Taines recent study of Napoleon, has
its basis in the idea that the Corsican
marvel was freak of heredity-a
strange posthumous brother of the
medieval mercenary soldier of Italy.
1t seems very probable that some fu-
ture Tame a century hence, perhaps,
will write to show that William H.
of Prussia and the German empire, was
Ia mysterious belated survival OF the
ante-medieval Goths and vandalism
Attila born a thousand and more
years after his time. The young man
lis practically all German in blood, 1t
is true that his mother is called Eng
fish. but as matter of fact, one has
to go back among her ancestors to
Shakespeares time to find strain Oh
ANYTHING but Teutonic blood in the
Guelphs. It is true also that his
great grandmother was a daughter OF
, the Gar Paul. But it happens that the
Romanoffs hae scarcely a trace OF
Tartar blood in their veins, so steadily
have all the males for ten generations
; married German wives"
: Materials For Onfla7ratiOn.
Mr.. Frederic said that nobody with
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