The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-11-29
SOUGHT WORLD
DOMINION; WINS
WORLD HATRED
Kaiser and His Power Completely
Crushed by Hosts Of
Civilization.
PLUNGED WORLD into WAR
Once Mightiesr of Monarchs Leads
His People From Peace and Pros
perity into Ruin - insane
Dream Ends With His
Ahdication.

Ahdicasion.
William Hohenzollern. German en-
peror and king Of Prussia. has abdi-
Gated.
He was:
William III, German emperor and
king Of Prussia. sole arbiter over the
fate Of 7ooo0.ooo men. women and
children; commander in chief OF the
German army and navy. and supreme
war lord: overload of four kingdoms,
six grand duchies. five duchies. seven
principalities three free towns and
one "reichsland." Alsace-Lorraine. vir-
tual owner of 20s.7s0 square miles
with a total frontier length Of 4.570
miles; owner of dependencies in vari-
Gus parts of the globe aggregnfing
l.027 $40 square miles and ia.O0o,000
natives.
Now. and ever after. he Is:
Herr Wilhelm Extraordinarily the
grace Of his people.
dream of world dominion obsess-
ing the mind of Emperor William
plunged the world into war. Upon
him and the tremendous military en-
CINE of destruction of which he was
the embodiment. the exponent and the
leader. rests the responsibility of de-
iiberateiy planning and bringing about
the greatest conflict the world has
ever seen.
Sought World Dominion.
He signed the order for the German
mobilization He stood sponsor for
the terrorism and brigandage which.
under the guise of warfare. rnyisi.ed
Belgium, laid waste the cities of
France. depopulated and outraged Ser
bia and sent the Lusitania with her
freight of women and children TO q
grave In the Atlantic.
Against these his cry II did not win
the war" awaited as nothing. Before
the bar of humanity William was adj
judged guilty of the greatest crime
since the crueifixion. In him human
ity saw the last OF the autocrats, the
fiRal Caesar.
Assertions that he was at heart
peaceful, so persistently circulated for
years as TO give them the stamp of
German propaganda, became branded
as false. He who had long proclaimed
himself the prince of peace stood re-
veaied as humanity's scourge.
Claims Almighty as His Ally.
Many doubt whether William was
entirely sane. He said repeatedly that
he possessed divine mandate TO rule.
that the Almighty was his ''uncondi.
tionai and ayowed ally" II In not en-
tirely clear whether such outyivings
were the product of disordered brain
or were due TO unbounded egotism and
an effort to impress his subjects with
the idea OF reverent and unquestioning
submission.
His speeches to his armies In which
he asserted he and they were '.instru-
ments of divine Judgment upon Ger
many's enemies" were regarded BY
many outside of Germany as pieces of
rhetoric. intended only to deceive his
own people.
Few statesmen realized that the en-
peror In his shining nrmor," maneu-
vering his armies and fleets, building
up the German military system, &C.
menting the central empires and Tur-
key, and fostering the preaching Of the
supremacy of autocracy, was erecting
a machine that one day would make
war upon all civilization.
Yet the world was warned by some
far-sighted men that the emperor
would one day bring catastrophe upon
the nations. These men saw In him
then and see him now as mad inyen-
tor, given In his youth the most dan
gerous of all toys-his army and navy.
They were his playthingx. He de-
veloped them throughout the years to
the point where he had 10 put them
to test. Like a crazed inventor. he
feared the end Of his reign would find
his inventions untried. so grusped the
first opportunity to wage q world war.
seixes Pretense to Open War.
Meantime the German war marty
grew. with William at Its head. and
the scheme of world dominion awaited
the hour to begin Its attainment. IL
came with the assassination of the
Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand
and his wife at sarajevo.
Recalled from a yachting trim. WI
liam presided at a conference at Pots
dam Of representatives Of the German
and Austrian armies. nsvies and com.
mercial interests There. according 10
the best information ob,ainable. the
decision was reached to make the as-
sassination Of the archduke q pretense
for the world war for which Germany
had long prepared
In the diplomatic exchanges between
Germany and Austria on one side and
Great Britain, France and Russia on
the other William posed rs one wishing
for pearV buf driven 70 war