Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-05
KAISER REPLIES
TO THE DEVIL
Suggest They Share
Throne Together

"
and this is a copy Of the letter:
Royal Palace, Berlin.
My dear Lucifer:
Your kindly letter received and its
contents noted Indeed, my dear
Satan, you flatter me. but I cannot
help but feel that all your praise is
not misplaced.
will tell you frankly, ! was little
incensed when you compared me with
Nero. To my mind, Nero was a
piker. But on second thought / real
ize that he did not possess the many
advantages l do for carrying on his
devlish work.
He hal no guns that would shoot
for 20 miles; he had no gas bombs or
flame throWerS: he had never had the
opportunity to drop bombs on school
houses and kill little children; he
could not send his aviators over
towns and drop poison candy for the
children to eat: he did not have the
advantages under which he could
sink passenger ships and kill hun
dreds of women and babies
Taking all this into consideration, l
think Nero did pretty we'll consider
ing the disadvantages under which
he worked. If l had lived in those
days l do not know as l could have
improved on his methods of raising
Hell. although some of it looks crude
to us nov with our refined cruel
ties.
Thankful for Gifts
l thank you from the bottom of
my heart for your gifts to me. My
abnormal ambition has made me the
most hated man in the world. 1t has
sent my soldiers through peaceful viii
lagos, bent on murder, rapine and ar
son. 1t has made million widows,
and has made a million mothers child
less.
1t has produced an army of a mil
lion men manned, without arms, with
legs and without sight. 1t has be-
reft somc of their reason and they
will so through life with their minds
4 blank. 1t has robbed thousands of
women # their virtue and brought
slaves. Sly name is coupled with
curses i'll every cline.
Until now / have always cursed
the loathsome disease which left me
with a withered arm, but now | dis
Germ Your inscrutable wisdom
Without that ! might have had
human instincts which would inter
fere with my ambitions, and might
have made me show a semblance of
pity as | saw the result of my tiend-
ish work.
Without that twist in my moral
makeup | might have told my gem
erals to treat the Belgians with con-
Sidcration and kindness. | might
have told Tripitz to order his sub
marine commanders not to sink
ships without warning and to give
passengers chance to save them
selves.
Sharing Hstreds
Indeed, my dear Mephisto. / share
with YOU hatred for all things
English. 1t was England that
stopped my victorious soldiers at the
Marine and prevented me from con-
quering the world and making all
Nations my vassals. 1t was Eng =
land that tried to interfere with my
plans by proposing mediation when
had all my plans set for world con-
quest. II,
England has taught savage people
Christianity and the love Of their
fellowmen, while l have endeavored
to instill hatred into their hearts
and make. them fiends in. human
form,
My hatred for EnSIatd is only ex-
ceeded by my hatred for America.
Had it not been for that country all
Europe would have been helpless at
my feet long ago. Shells made with
American money killed my soldiers
and for this / can never forgive
America.
So the secret is out. You hint
that l mad hand in the Sarajero
assassination. flattered myself
that | had kept this covered up and
no one would suspect that had any
hand in it.
Well. 1t is all right. 7 suppose.
You inspired it in me. and have
right to share in the secret
You will have TO admit that it was
clever for me to be on my yacht at
the time of the dfscord and treason
among the Russians and thousands
of those brave people persisted
through treachery.
Handing Out the Bunk
Lucifer. you make me Taught at
times. You express surprise at my
posing as a personal friend of God
and telling my people that God will
help them to victory. Cannot you
see my planso
My friendship with God is simply
to delude the poor. simple fools, who
are dying that my ambition may
succeed. | have to hand them this
bunk once in while to keep their
breast barred to the enemy. With
out it they would quit fighting.
] tried the same bunk on the neu-
trail nations, but they were too clever
to believe it.
| have taught my people this creed
since I came to the throne. The
children in the schools are taught
to hate Ill things not German. They
are taug 1t that Germany is invinc-
lble and anything that | do is not
wrong. I have disguised it under
the name of kultur.
My alliance with the Turks was
clever move on my part, as il gave