Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-11-22
ABDIGATI0N ENDS
KAISER'S DREAM
Insane Ambition Leads His Peo-
Pile to Ruin.
POWER WRECKED; HE QUITS

Man VINO Plunged the World into Wa
viii Go Down Into History as
Most Hated Ruler World
Has Ever Known.
The kaiser has abdicatcd and the
crown prince has renowned his right
TO the throne Of Germany.
The ~grandioSe scheme Of world con.
quest or downfall has ended in the
complete downfall Of German military
might ana Of the rule Of the Iiohen-
zOllernS.
For decades the milltarlstic Ollgarchy
Of Prussia, supported by philosophers,
historians, teachers, preachers and
men of business had directed the
moral, intellectual and material re-
sources Of the empire along consistent
lines toward the tremendous conccn-
tration and contamination Of organ
iZed force which In 1914 the kaiser let
loose upon the world.
Sought World Dominion.
He signed the order for the German
mobilization. He stood sponsor for
the terrorism and h]rigandage which,
under the Euisc Of warfare, raylshcd
Belgium, laid waste the cities of
France, dcpopulatcd and outraged Ser
bia and sent the Lusitnnia with her
freight of women and children to a
grave in the Atlantic.
Civilization will never forget that It
vas the miuionS Of the emperor who
officially shot to death Edith Cayell,
the English nurse who belricnded the
BelgianS in Brussels.
Against these his cry 81 did not will
the war; availed as nothing. Before
the bar Of humanity William was adj
judged guilty Of the greatest crime
since the cruciiyion, In him human
ity saw the last Of the autocrats, the
final Caesar.
Assertions that he was Mt heart
peaceful, so pcrsistcntly circulated for
years as 10 give them the stamp OF
German propaganda, became branded
MS false. He who had long proclaimed
himself the prince Of pence stood re-
vcaled as humanity's scourgc, ana
against him and all that he represent
ed rose the new world Of democracy
and freedom.
" Claims Almighty as His Ally.
Many doubt whether William was
entirely sane. He said repeatedly that
he possessed n divine mandate to rule,
that the Almighty was, his 'uncondl-
tional and avowed ally" It is not en-
tirely clear whether such outgivings
were the product of n 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-
mcnts of divine Judgment upon Ger
many'S enemies" were regarded by
many outside of Germany ms pieces of
rhetoric, intended only to deceive his
wv people.
Few statesmen realized that the en-
peror in his Shining armor," maneu-
vering his armies and fleets, building
up the German military system, CO.
menting the central empires and Tur-
key, and fostering the preaching of the
supremacy Of nutocracy, was erecting
a machine that one day would make
wal upon all civilization.
Yet the world was warned by some
far-Sighted men hat the emperor
would ont day bring catastrophe upon
the nations. These men saw in him
then and see him now as a mad invcn-
tor, given in his youth the most dan
gerous of all toys-his army and navy.
They were his ~playthingS. He de-
Veloped them throughout the years 10
the point where he had to put them
10 a test. Like n crazed inventor. no
feared the end Of his reign would find
his inventions untried, SO graSped the
first opportunity to wage Il world war.
Meantime the German war party
grew, with William at its head, and
the scheme of world dominion awaited
the hour TO begin It's attainment. 1t
came with the assassination of the
Austrian ArChduke Francis Ferdinand
and his wife at Sarajevo.
Recalled from Il yachting trim, VIII
liam presided at n conference ut Pots
dam Of representatives of the German
and Austrian armies, navieS and com
mercial interests, There, according TO
the best information o~btainablc, the
decision was reached to make the as
%Sassination of the archduke a prctense
for the world war fer 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 as one wishing
for peace bat driven TO war.
He signed the order for the mobilHa-