The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-01-17
SAYS SATAN TO THE KAISER

When Louis Syberkrop, Of Creston,
Iowa, wrote the satire on Kaiser
Wilhelm which follows, he little
thought it would attract the atten-
ton which it has. Requests for cop
les have come to him from Theodore
Roosevelt, Secretary Of the Navy
Daniels, Secretary to the President
Tumulty and other notables. The
article is in the form of letter from
his Satanic majesty to his human
prototype. 1t says:
To William 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 / 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.
In the days of Rome l created a
roughneck known in history as Nero.
He was vulgar character and suit
ed my purpose at that particular time
In these modern days classic demon
and efficient supernatural was need
ed, and as / know the Hohenzollern
blood, / picked you as my special IN
strument to place on earth an annex
to hell / gave you abnormal am
bition, likewise an oversupply OF ego
tism that you might not discover your
own failings; l twisted your mind to
that of a mailman with certain nor
NAL tendencies to carry you by, a
most dangerous party placed I'M
power; | gave you the power OF a
hypnotist and a certain magnetic
force that you might sway your peo-
pie. / am responsible for the de-
formed arm that hangs helpless on
your left, for your crippled condition
embitters your life and destroys all
noble impulses that might otherwise
cause me anxiety, but your strong
sword arm is driven by your ambi
ton that squelches all sentiment and
pity; | 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-
come tillers of the soil and in due
time practical citizens; she is the
great civilizer of the globe, and !
HATE HER. l planted in your soul
a cruel hatred for your mother be-
cause SHE was English, and left my
good friend Bismarck to fan the fame
! had kindled. Recent history proves
how we'll our work was done. 1t
broke your royal mothers heart,
but l gained my purpose.
The inherited disease of the Hohen-
zollerns killed your father just as it
will kill you, and you became the ruler
of Germany and tool of mine sooner
than expected.
To assist you and farther hasten
my work / sent you three evil spir-
-Nietzsche, Tritschke and later
Bernhardi-whose teachings infamed
the youths of Germany, who in good
time would be willing and loyal sub
jects 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 Mediterranean, Egypt, India and
the Dardanelles and you began yoIr
great railway to Bagdad, but the am-
bilious arch-duke and his more amhi-
tious wife stood in your way, IT was
then that ] sowed the seed in your
heart that blossomed into the assas-
of the duke and his wife,
and all hell smiled when it saw how
cleverly you saddled the crime on Ser
via. saw you set sails for the fords
Of Norway, and / knew you would
prove an alibi. How cleverly done,
so much like your noble grandfather,
who also secured an assassin to re-
move old King Frederic of Denmark,
and later robbed that country of two
provinces that gave Germany an OPP
portunity to become naval power
Murder is dirty work, but it takes
to make away and get
BY.
Your opportunity was at hand; you
set the world on FIRE and bells OF he'll
we're ringing; your rape on Belgium
caused much Joy 1t was the begin
ming the foundation of perfect hell
on earth; the destruction Of noble
cathedrals and other infinite works of
art was hailed with joy in the infer
sal regions.
Yoa made war on friend and foe
alike and the murder Of civilians
showed my teachings had borne fruit.
Your Feachery toward neutral ma
tons fastened a universal upheaval,
the thing | most desired. Your un-
dersea warfare is a master stroke,
from the smallest mackerel pot to
the great Lusitania you showed no
favorites; as a war lord you stand
for you have no mercy you
have no consideration for the baby
clinging to its mothers breasts as
they both go down into the deep to-
gether, only to be torn apart and
devoured by sharks down
among the corals.
| have strolled over the battlefelds
of Belgium and France. I have seen
your hand Of destruction everywhere;
it's all your work, super-fend that
made you. l have seen the fields of
now a wilderness fit for
beasts only; no merry child
rem in Poland now; they all succumb-
ed to frost and starvation-I drifted /
down into Galicia where formerly
Jews and Gentiles lived happily to-
gether; | found but ruins and ashes;
felt a curious pride in my pupil,
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