Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-05-22
Some History of the Kaiser.

Mr.. Editor: Pm going to give
you a lesson IN history about the
Kaiser. If you will look at the
black ~cancerous growth of German
despotic imperialism during the
present war gathered in Belgium
and Northern France, Russian Po-
land and a large strip of Russian
territory which extends almost to
Petrograd 1.-THE Russian capitaD,
it has gobbled up Romania. Serbia,
and in it's march Southwark its tena-
cles have hooked in Bulgaria and
European Turkey, for you must
remember these so-called allies r
merely German vassels, the Gar
of Bulgaria being a German prince
and the Sultan of Turkey a mere
profit. The tentacles of the octup2s
have crept too, into Asia minor,
reached out almos. to the Suez
canal on the west and dug down to
the Persian gulf on the South
east. Thus the Prussian sword has
been thrust through the vitals of
Europe the belt resting on the gray
north sea and its point piercing the
very heart of Eastern Asia ana
and resting on an arm of the In
dian ocean.
Now understand. this war is a
war of peoples against knights, of
democracy against despotic auto.
cracy. The Anglo-Saxon ideal,
which is our ideal, is based on the
conception that the government is
the servant of the people and exists
only for their benefit. The Anglo
Saxon ideal reached it's fullest ex-
preston and full fruition in the
American Declaration of Indepen-
dence- Our forefathers dedicated
their lives to that ideal and sealed
it with their blood. The German
ideal of government is diametrical.
ly opposed to ours. There the in
dividual is the servant of the gov
eminent and exists only for the
benefit of the State-and the state
is the Kaiser and his junker aristo.
Gratis. In Germany the State is
everything, the individual nothing,
nothing but a cog in a vast ma
chine, and oiled only so the ina
chine will run smoothly. Such in
dividual liberty as Germany enjoys
is permitted only, if it does moi in
t~erfere with the Hohenzallern inter
est and the kaiser's devine rights.
If the German people had got the
habit the British had, and the
French got a little later, of cutting
off the heads of Kings, and &C.
quired the French and British
yearning for self-government, we
should have the United States Of
Europe. world democracy, and
there would be no Kaisers and no
war to-day. From Hamburg to
Bagdad," Is the triumphant cry of
the Pan-German. Soon if this in
ternational burgler is not restrained
he will sweep across the Suez
Canal into Africa and China, and
later on we are to be %enslaved, and
then the cry will be Hamburg to
cape Town, 10 the straits Of Mag.
elan" This looks like a very big
world to you, but to the German
General staff and the Kaiser it is a
place little bigger than an orange, and
they have decided, unless you re-
sist, that they will swallow it all.
Prussia has not attempted to cancel
her intentions as regards this
country.
Listen, if you please to what our
Ambassador Gerard, who repre-
scented this Government in Germa-
ny for four years, has to say in his
tremendously interesting book,
My Four Years In Germany" i
had an audience with the Kaiser in
October, 1915. At that time he
rose, walked over to me and, put
ting his face three inches from mine
said: Remember when this war is
over, I'll stand no nonsense from
the United States, Just bear that in
mind" On another occasion he
told Ambassador Gerard he'd
make short work of the United
States when he got through with
Europe" Here is the Prussian
threat against the world embodied
in three brief sentences. One
month for France, one year for
England and three years for the
United States" Then liberty and
foolo- nor 70 dio Pruecian hpl.