The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-11-09
INTERESTING LETTER FROM
HIS SATANIC MAJESTY TO
THE KING or THE PRussIANs
Satire on Kaiser Wilhelm by Louis sy
berkrop of Iowa Wins Much Com
nent From All Sections
SATAN AND THE KAISER SEEM
INGLY COMRADES

SATAN AND THE KAISER SEEM
INGLy COMRADES
A satire on Kaiser Wilhelm written
by Louis Syberkrop of Creston Iowa,
has won the Iowa man much comment
during recent weeks. He has receiv-
ed from Joseph Tumulty, secretary to
the president, Secretary Daniels and
Colonel Roosevelt requests for copies
Of the article, which is In the form of
a letter from his satanic majesty to
the German emperor. The letter fol-
lows:
1.-THE Internal Regions,
June 18th, 1917.
ITO William Won Hohenzollern, King
of Prussia, Emperor of All Ger
many and Envoy Extraordinary Of
Almighty Gsd:
my Dear Wilhelm: can call you
by that familiar name, for I have al
ways 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 shaped your destiny for
my purpose.
In the days Of Rome created a
roughneck known in history as Nero.
He was vulgar character and suited
my purpose at that particular time.
In those modern days a classic demon
and efficient supernatural was need
ed, and as 1 know the Hohenzollern
blood picked you as my special in
strument to place on earth an annex
of hell. gave you abnormal ambi-
ton, likewise an over-supply of ego
tism that you might not discover your
own failings; / twisted your mind to
that of mad man with certain nor
NAL tendencies to carry you by, a
most dangerous character placed in
power; gave you the power of a
hypnOtist and a certain magnetic force
that you might sway your people. I
am responsible for the deformed arm
that hangs helpless on your left, for
your crippled condition embitters
your life and destroys all noble inn
pulses that might otherwise cause me
anxiety, but your strong sword arm is
driven by your ambition that quelches
all sentiment and pity; / placed in
your soul a deep hatred for all things
English, for of all nations on earth I
hate English most: wherever England
plants her flag she brings order out
of chaos and the hated 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 I
hate her. I planted in your soul a
cruel hatred for your mother because
SHE was English and left my good
friend Bismarck to fan the flame had
kindled. Recent history proves how
well our work was done. 1t broke
your royal mothers heart, but I gain
ed my purpose.
"The inherited disease or the Ho-
henzollerns killed your father, just
as it win kill you, and you became the
ruler of Germany and tool of mine
sooner than expected.
ITO assist you and further hasten
my work sent you three evil spirits,
Nietsche, Tritschke and later Bern
hardi, whose teachings infiamed 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 Mediter-
ranean, Egypt, India and the Darda-
nelles, and you began your great rail-
way to Bagdad, but the ambitious
archduke and his more ambitious wife
stood in your way. 1t was then that
sowed the seed in your heart that
blossomed into the assassination of
the ouke ana MS wife, and all hell
smiled when it saw how cleverly you
saddled the crime on to Serbia. 1 saw
you set sails for the fjords of Norway,
and know you would prove an alibi
How cleverly done, so much like your
noble grandfather who also secured
an assassin to remove old King Fred
erick of Denmark. and later robbed
that country of two provinces that
gave Germany an opportunity to be-
come naval power. Murder is dirty
work. but it takes Hohenzollern to
make away and get by.
"Your opportunity was at hand;
you set the world afire and bells of
hell were ringing: your rape on Bel
gium caused much joy. II was the he