Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
SATAN'SLETTER
HIS COMRADE,
KAISER WILHELM
Satire That Has Attracted At
tention Throughout
the World

When Louis Syberkop, of Creton
Iowa, wrote the satire on Kaiser Will
helm, which follows, he little thought
/. it would attract the attention which
it has. Requests for copies have
come to him from Theodore Roose-
velt Secretary of the Navy Daniels
Secretary to the President Tumulty
and other notables. The article is in
the form of a letter from his Satanic
majesty to the human prototype. II
says:
To Wilhelm Won Hohenzollern, King
of Prussia, Emperor of all Ger
many and Envoy Extraordinary OF
Almighty God.
My Dear Wilhelm: | can call you
by that familiar name, for 1 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 des-
tiny for my purpose.
the days of Rome I created a
roughneck known in history as
Nero. He was a vulgar character and
suited my purpose at that particular
time. In these modern days classic
demon and efficient supercriminal
was needed, and as l knew the Ho-
henzollern blood 1 picked you as my
special instrument to place on earth
an annex of hell. 1 gave you abnor-
NAL ambition, likewise an oversupply
of egotism that you might not dis
cover your own failings; I twisted
your mird to that of a madman with
certain normal tendencies to carry
YOU by, a most dangerous character
placed in power; | gave you the pow
OF a hypnotist and a certain magnet
ic force that you might sway your
people. | am responsible for the de-
formed arm that hangs helpless on
NQur left, for your crippled condition
embIttered your life and destroys all
noble impulses that might otherwise
cause me anxiety, but your strong
sword arm is driven by your ambi-
tion that squelches all sentiment and
pity: l placed in your soul a deep
hatred for all things English, for of
all nations on earth / hate England
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 be-
time practical ci liens; she is the
great civilizer of the globe and !
HAITI HER. 1 planted in your soul
a cruel hatred for your mother be-
cause SHE was English, and left my
gooG friend Bismarck to fan the
fame / had kindled. Recent history
proves how well our work was done.
1t bio ioke your royal mothers heart,
but | gained my purpose.
The inherited disease of the Ho-
II zollerns killed your father, just
as it will kill you, and you became
the ruler of Germany and a tool of
mine sooner than expected.
To assist you and further hasten
my work, l sent you three evil spirits
-Nietzsche, Tritschke and later
Bernhardi-whose teachings inflam-
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 east your ambitious eyes toward
the Mcditerranean, Egypt, India and
the Dardanelles, and you began your
great railway to Bagdad, b, the am
litiouS archduke q d his more ambi-
tious wife stood in your way. 1t was
then that | sowed the seed in your
heart that blossomed into the assassi-
nation of the duke and his wife, and
all hell smiled when it saw how clev-
erly you saddled the crime on Serbia.
! saw you set sails for the fiords OF
Norway, and knew you would prove
all alibi. How cleverly done, so
much like your noble grandfather
who also secured an assassin to re-
move old King Frederick of Den
mark, and later robbed that country
of two provinces that gave Germany
an opportunity become a naval
power. Murder is dirty work, but il
takes a Hohenzollern to make away
and get by.
Your opportunity was at hand;
YOU set the worlI on fire and bells of
hell were ringing; your rape on Bel