Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-10-15
MACMILLAN A HYPocRITE.
Says One Thing While Meaning Quite
Another

Says One Thing While Meaning Quite
Another
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Berne says:
"A letter in which Prince Max oi
Baden reveals himself in his true col
ors has come into my hands. After
reading 1t no one will any longer be In
doubt either as to the character OF the
man who wrote 1t or as to the reason
why the kaiser chose him for the role
he now has to play.
ION December II last, at the time
when many speeches were being deliv-
cred to stimulate the tagging morale
of the hungry Germans, Prince Max
made q speech about the Sermon on
the Mount in the chamber Of deputies
al Baden. He said:
Not hatred Of our foes. but rather
love Of Germany, should be the SOL
diers' true motive in fighting. The
sword alone cannot overcome the
moral offense of our foes. II the
world is to be reconciled to the great
ness of Germany's power. it must be
taught to feel that behind our power
stands not merely n nation. but a world
conscience. True, the whole history OF
spiritual Germany's feelings Of respon-
stbility to humanity shines like bea-
con. This is the sign we must inscribe
on our standards In this sign we shall
conquer
About a month later, on January
12, Prince Max wrote. the following
letter to his cousin. Prince Alexander.
Of Hohenlohe, to interpret the mean
ing of his Sermon on the Mount
speech:
Il am astonished at the various in
terpretations put on my speech in
various quarters. The Swiss newspa-
pers read into it a sort Of opposition
between the Hohenzollerns and the
Zahringers (the Baden royal family.
How nonsensical this Is. Is shown by
the fact that the kaiser-this is entire
nous-sent me a telegram congratulate
ing me and calling my speech a high
feat"
To Conquer World. -.si.5si
"'On the one hand the Pan-Ger-
mans fall upon me, utterly failing to
perceive in their wrath that with my
Interpretation of Christianity I am
really endowing their German swords
with a German spirit by means Of
which to conquer the world to their
hearts content. On the other hand
that hateful paper of the Frankfurter
Zeitung besmears me with his lauda-
tions. although l clearly enough held
up to scorn in my speech the popular
outcry for democracy" and all cur
rent party watchwords, especially
"parliamentarism."
THE world is out of joint and peo-
pies minds are unbalanced. Every
body is so hypnotized by these crazy
ideas that / cannot get them to take
in earnest my words Of practical COM
mon sense about applied Christianity
and the desentimentalizilg Of the con-
science Of humanity as whole
For many a day / longed to have
a good dig at our enemies and to hold
up to ridicule this affected judicial at
titude of theirs in the matter Of re-
sponsibility for the war. as we'll as
their care about democracy" For
many a day, too. 1 longed to confront
them and their pagan tricks with the
Sermon on the Mount and together
with this doctrine Of love to set in
clearer light the duty Of the strong to
guard the rights Of mankind.
"'Our enemies falsify the most sa-
cred principles with their lies and IL
bells. and we allow ourselves to be in
fuenced by their base Vaccinations.
The beginning and end of my speech
were therefore concerned in rebutting
the lies and false suggestions Of the
enemy's moral offense. AS my object
was also to laugh to scorn the demo-
cratic war cry Of the western powers,
l had to come to a sort OF compro-
mise with my audience about our own
internal affairs. AS quite decline to
accept any such thing as western de-
mocracy for Germany and Baden I
had perforce to tell my hearers that I
perfectly understood their needs. but
at the same time could not but warn
them that I had arrived at sort Of
political platform which gives me lib
erty to follow paths have marked out
for myself.