Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-05-10
The Devil Has Resigned.

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written by Louis Syberkop of Creston,
Iowa, and published in the st. Paul
Dispatch Sept. Is, 1917.
The Internal Region, June %, 1917
To William Won Hohenzollern, King
of Prussia, Emperor of all Germany
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 mothers
womb | have shaped your destiny for
my own purpose.
In the days of Rome l created a
~roughneck known in history as Nero; he
was a vulgar character and suited my
purpose at that particular time. In
there modern days a classic demon and
efficient supernatural was needed, and,
as | know the Hohenzollern blood, l
picked you as my special instrument to
place on earth an annex of hell.
l gave you abnormal ambition, likewise
an o~versupply Of egotism, that you might
not discover your own failings; | twisted
your mind to that of a mad man with
certain normal tendencies to carry you
by a most dangerous character placed in
power: gave you the power of a hypno-
fist and a certain magnetic force that
you might sway your people.
I am responsible for the deformed 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; l placed in your soul deep hatred
for all things English, for of all nations
on earth l 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 become tilIers of the
soil and in due time practical citizens;
she is the great c%ivilizer of the globe
and l Hate Her.
l planted in your soul a cruel hatred
for your mother because she was English
and left my good friend Bismark to fan
the flame l had kindled. Recent history
proves how well our work was done. 1t
broke your royal mothers heart, but l
gained my purpose.
The inherited disease of the Hohehzol-
lerns killed your father; just as it will kill
you, and you became the ruler Of Ger
many and a tool to mine sooner than l
expected.
To assist you and farther hasten my
work, l sent you three evil spirits,
Neitzche, Treitscke and later Bernhard,
whose teachings infamed the youths OF
Germany, who in good time would be
willing and royal subject and eager to
spill their blood and pull your chestnuts,
yours and mine; the spell has been per-
fect-you cast your anxious eyes toward
the Mediterranean, Egypt, India and the
Dardanelles and you began your great
railway in Bagdad, but the ambitious
archduke and his more ambitious wife
stood in your way.
/ 1t was then that | sowed the seed in
your heart that blossomed into the
assassination of the duke and his wife,
and all hell smiled when it saw how
c~leverly you saddled the crime on Serbia.
| saw you set sail for the fiords of Nor
way and l knew you would prove an
alibi.
How c~leverly done, so much like your
noble grandfather, who also secured an
assassin to remove old King Frederic of
Denmark, and later robbed that country
of two provinces that gave Germany an
opportunity to become a naval power
Murder is dirty work, but it takes =
Hohenzollern to make a way and get by.
Your opportunity was at hand; you
set the world on fire and bells of hell we're
ringing; yourrapeof Belgium caused much
Joy, twas the beginning, the foundation
of a perfect hell on earth, the destruction
of noble cathedrals and other infinite
works of art was hailed with Joy in the
internal regions.
Your treachery toward neutral nations
fastened a universal, upheaval the
thing | mostdesired.
Your under-sea warfare is a master
stroke, from the smallest mackerel pot to
the great Lusitania youshow no fayorites;
as a war lord you stand supreme, for you
have no mercy, you have no consideration
for the baby clinging to its mother s
breasts as they go down into the deep
together, only to be torn apart and
leisurely devoured by'sharks down among
the corals.
| have strolled over the battlefelds of