The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-02-01
ABUNDANT EVIDENCE
PROVES KAISER INSANE
World Beginning to Accept the
Truth Of Statement.


Kaiser is starry, staring mad.
From time to time We have had
hints of this. We have read stories
OF the Kaiser's startling pranks. Of
his frenzied outbreaks and amazing
folIies. But few believed half that
was said and printed. BY some the
stories were set down to prejudice.
We had quite forgotten scores of
unquestioned facts which might and
should have made us guess the
truth. We had forgotten, among
other things, that, in his lusty
youth, Prince Wilhelm (now the
Kaiser), with party of choice Prus-
sian friends. had bounded poor
devil of fellow officer to suicide.
after badgering and humiliating
him in one of the royal and Prussian
palaces. We had forgotten the gross
inhumanity with which, on his ac-
cession to the imperial throne, the
new Kaiser had treated his own
mother, and the revelations which
connected him, at one moment,
though perhaps unjuotly. with the
strange doings of those vile knights
of the Round Table," the zu Eulen-
bergs and the won Moltkes.
Nor had we remembered, among
other facts of interest. that from his
childhood up the Kaiser had been
afflicted with malignant ear trou-
BILE; that his father, the high mind
ed Friedrich, died victim Of some
cancerous disease, complicated by an
even more terrible malady, and that
his grandfather, old Wilhelm, had
inherited the same taints from his
proud ancestors.
There has been more than want Of
balance in the actions, words and
ways of the reigning Kaiser, more
than megalomania and the inflated
lust Of power. A man who claimed
his right divine to rule his fellow
man in this twentieth century could
hardly have been sane or really nor
NAL. Those blasphemous pratings
about God and Me, the suppressed
interview with DR.. Hale and that
latest of the imperial proclamations,
vouching for Gods peculiar love and
gracious favor for the German
santanists would Of themselves have
more than warranted his removal to
the discreet seclusion of a lunatic
asylum.
But by the Germans and by hosts
of good Americans until quite recent
ly such things had been accepted as
mere outbursts of an unbridled will,
IL they had not indeed been admired
as proofs of genius. 1t is only now,
after years of blood and dread, that
the whole world 10 slowly beginning
to perceive what those who have
seen the Kaiser at close range have
always suspected--and indeed have
known.
KING EDWARD KEPT SILENT.
There is nothing in the least
strained or improbable in the theory
and, might add, the assumption
that the most monstrous of all
crimes In history was due to the
initiative of an untrammelled GRIM
inal mailman. DR.. Hale, beyond
question, grasped the significance of
the Kaiser'g conduct when he had
that interview with him. King Ed
ward may or may not have kept his
counsel out of Difference to his fami-
ly. But he undoubtedly knew what
was wrong with wilhelm. The poor
kaiserin has always known the
truth. Prince Bismarck knew it.
Wilhelm's tutor at least once ex-
pressed his conviction that his pupil
was in me to an American friend of
his. And Sir Morell Mackenzie,
with whom (when a very youthful
special correspondent of the New
York Herald) once rode alone from
San Reno to Paris and discussed
many vital matters concerning
Prince Wilhelm and his then almost
dying father, believed in the in
sanity of the future Kaiser, though
he refused as was but natural, to
attach his name to public utterance
on the subject.
II has been my fortune, or mis-
fortune, to be mixed up here and
there with the present Kaiser. II
was ON the platform of the station at
San Reno long ago when he ar
rived from Germany, bursting with
his own Importance, to dictate to mis-
father his imperial end pleasure as
to whether the then kronprinz
should or should not submit to an
operation.
The impression he made on me
and on the Italians who had met to
welcome him was painful. 1t was
still more painful to his capable
mother. who snubbed him ruthlessly
and closed her door against him.
Once. after had cabled some I'M