The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14

erred, he declared significantly; "I recog- nize no parties. We are now all Ger mans"
 If anyone. imagines, however, that his il1ow-towing to the socialists in this in stance was evidence of permanent change of heart he little appreciates how deeply rooted is the Kaiser's abhor- renee of socialism and democracy. ln- deed, one of the principal things the <ai- ser hoped to accomplish by prosecuting the war to a triumphant conclusion was the blow it would deal to socialstic prog ress. He felt that victory would make his army the idol of the people and that their monarch would shine in the reflect ed glory of their martial achievements. A successful war, he believed would set socialism back a hundred years. CHANGE IN HABITS
 Certain it is, the war brought no change in the Kaisers personal habits Even to curry favor with the sociahstic clement he never unbent to the slightest degree in his outward display of kingly attri- butes In all his career. the German peo- pie never had seen their Kaiser other than in his royal uniform and at all military prrades or reviews, he always rode a white horse, that he might be most conspicuous, and bore the royal mace which his ancestors had carried cen turies before him. With the death strue- gle between mediaeval monarchy and de- mocracy raging before him, the Kaiser was determined to yield not a little of i his prerogatves. His automobile still made it's coming known by It's distinctive "tade- -tada-ta-ta" and the royal palaces were maintained in all their accustomed pcmp.
 But while the Kaisers armies were triumphant in the field, the principle
 which he was combating was everywhere l .s,.,. (1., ftlTE . l Czar abdicated, and Russia. whose auto
 cratic form of government had long been l the envy of the German aristocracy, be- l came republic
 "The downfall of the Russian empire
 was brought about by England because she feared that the Czar was about to
 make a separate peace" the Kaiser com 1 mented to me "As matter of fact however, neither the Czar nor his gov
 ernment ever approached us on that sub
 iect, and when England overthrow the
 Russian monarchy she defeated her very
 purpose. With the Czar on the throne, Russia would probably have gone on 1 fighting us"
 1 Although the Kaiser bore no particular i love for the Czar, whom he was fight ing, he had no desire to convert the em- pire into democracy, and his bitterness
 toward England for what he thought was ] her part in the establishment of the Rus sian republic was very pronounced
 SUSTAINED ANOTHER BLOW i When. few months later. the abdica- ton of the Czar was followed by the i abdcation of King Constantine of Greece, l the Kaiser sustained another blow which hurt him more than the defeat of one
 of his armies would have done.
 They are trying to force their rotten ] form of democratic government on Greece" he declared, fiercely. "The way l they have treated my poor sister, the Queen of Greece, is a shame and a dis- grace They talk about our invasion of Belgium. but their actions in Greece are
 infinitely worse. I have studied the EngA I fish people for 25 years, and they always i try to cover their acts with religion and the talk of benefits to civilization and
 humanity, but, hypocrites that they are, they continue to grab all they can get their bands on just the sane"
 The fact that Greece had a treaty with Serbia which required her to take up
 arms if Serbia were attacked and that she had failed to meet her obligations in 1 that respect was naturally of no signih- canoe to the Kaiser, to whom treaties were but scraps of paper.
 The keynote of the kaisers military ,r,orogramme lay in the fact that he realized l that 1t was necessary for him to win in order to hold his throne. I feel quite ! sure that II the dllteS were 4Wtllln2 10 I concede to Germany all the territory She has conquered Belgium. servia. Poland Rumania, Russia and part of France and ], restore all her colonies, upon condition I that the Kaiser step down from the throne, he would reject the proposition without a moments hesitation.
 l MAKE GERMANY REPUBtIC
 "Your country would like to make a re- public out of Germany" he commented, "a republic like France perhaps going down and down all the time-a country ruled by lawyersi' And he mentioned half dozen of the great French states linen who were members of the legal pro- fession "lt's a sad thing for a country when it gets into the hands of lawyers France and Italy are already controlled by them, and America and England are rapidly following their exampIen'l
 | The Kaiser regarded the German peo- pie as his own property, to do with as he liked When I referred to the Ger man people" i'll conversation, he would idelicately correct me by referring in his reply to ''my people, When. for instance, I said, on one occasion, "I understand your majesty, that the German people are anxious for peace" he answered. "Yes, l Davis my people are strongly in favor of peace. but they want a German peace no allied peace,''
 l He believed that just as the universe 
 is ruled by God so should the earth be fdominated by an earthly ruler, and that God had selected him for the task To i displace him in favor of republican form of government. to substitute d ruler elected by the people for a monarch des- ignated by God was. ill his opinion, the basest sort of sacrilege. and the, unfor- i tunate part of it all was that the ma iority of his people concided with him They preferred to be ruled by hand of iron rather than to rule themselves Some I day they may be awakened to the bless Iings of government, but up to the present time they have not shown the slightest indication that they would pre- fer to rule than be ruled, and because they submit so willingly to the Kaisers domination he has become obsessed with the idea that the rest of the world should follow suit.
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