Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-03-29
ABDICATION D..
KAISER PREDICTED
Kaiser Obsessed with Thought
ofRlespon1sibility Re MS for War
He Deplored and Fought
Against Submarine Ruth
lessness- Fears Own Sub
jects.
tBy the Associated Press,

Paris, March 24.-The abdica-
tion of the German emperor is
forecasted by the former German
magistrate who wrote the cele-
brated book "J'Accuse," in an in
terview published in Oeuvre. He
says:
''The kaiser is obsessed by the
thought that he is responsible for the
war, a thought which poisoned his
whole existence. He feels that he is
menaced by three enemies at home
without counting those abroad; first
is the crown prince, the real author
of the war; second is the Junker,
Pan-Germanist-you cannot imagine
the smouldering hatred of the en-
peror for those whom he believes to
be the maniacs who are driving into
an abyss; third are the people, not
the socialist part but the people who
are starving and who, he feels, are
growing in number and rising little
by little against those who organized
the war.
''The. other day at the meeting OF
the parliamentary presidents and the
ministers of the federal sovereign, at
which the submarine war was decided
upon, the struggle between the kai-
ser's party and that Of Won Tirpitz
was most bitter. The majority
against the emperor was SO great,
however, that he was obliged to sub
nit and pretend that he was convict
ed, IN particular, he was personally
opposed to break with President
Wilson, but he was forced to consent.
Documents will be published one day
which will prove that secretly he did
everything not to bring America
down upon him and that he considers
that the rupture was an irreparable
mistake. The failure of the subma-
rine war will soon show that he was
right, but it will be too late.
"The people he fears most are the
anti-militarists, anti-Prussians. and
Liberal Republicans, who want the
reichstag to be based on universal
suffrage. That is why Wilhelm is so
anxious to convince the nation that
he did not want war. All his pro-
testations are made to appease the
Liberals and his famished and
ruined subjects whose murmurings
are growing stronger. He wants to
continue popular at any price, and
that is why he spoke the first word
OF peace. The people were grateful
for it, but the submarine war came
and spoiled everything. =
1T is hard to realize how this en-
peror. who enjoyed q popularity un-
exampled in our epoch suffered in his
pride. He alone perhaps in Germany
knows the whole truth since he alone
has in his possession the elements for
forming q judgment on the situation
as q whole. How can he resist NOR
ally and physically under such 9
strain certainly he hopes some time,
but less and less, for the success OF
the unrestricted submarine war
which he opposed. He sees the iso-
lation of Germany become more and
more complete.
.Once he tried to initiate peace ne
gotiations and failed. To try again
would be to admit and proclaim to
the whole world, but above all to the M
German people which he fears most,
Germany's real situation. II the
Allies solemnly declared, as they did
with Napoleon in 1915, that they
would refuse to treat for peace with
Hohenzollerns. 1t would be knock
out blow. Our German people. who
still believe in him., would abandon
him for peace at any price, will soon
be the unanimous and hidden thot
OF tortured Germany.
u ..What recourse is left to him but
a dramatic abdjcation in order to re-
tain the saympathies Of the German
people and save the political future
Of Prussia. He will say Issacrifice
myself to make peace. Without me
those only are responsible who desire
. savage war and the complete, isola-
ton OF Germany. those Who took ct |
the beginning my son O. their party
leader ana forced me to mobilise
MEASURE ] hesitat to 4 lie. !. ]! 4