Grand Forks herald., 1918-09-03

WHAT TO DO WITH THE KAISER

It may not be particularly profitable just now but
1t Is always interesting to speculate the the
German kaiser after the close of the Whatever
to be done with this greatest the ages will
be necessary the old says to first catch
your kaiser That the leading up it.
uray the chief business of the hour can be
letting up or letting down in that
But when the proper time comes, what shall be
done with the kaiser? Charles England Louis Of
lena Nicholas of Russia shot What shall be done
with William of Germany? Really, the more one thinks
Of it. the less it to matter.
That which call punishment as imposed by the
law, has as its purpose Of three objects
Society is to be protected against repetition
lenses of the particular individual Society pro-
tected against ofenses by others are to be
by the knowledge Of the punishment meted out to
mer criminal. And it is possible that by course of
sautary criminal himself may be reformed
and made useful member of society,"
Not one Of these considerations can govern in max
ing disposition of the kaiser 1t will not be necessary
take his life him of his liberty in order
to prevent him from plungng the world into another
war If is declared circumstances that
any monarch running at bring another war;
peace will have been declared soon. The German
people must be trounced thoroughly completely
in this dozen kasers could not drag
them into another one.
The object lesson Of any treatment that may be
given the kaiser will not be needed prevent other
rulers from leading their people war; The world is
having its object lesson sufficiently impressive
character experiences through which we
passing, the punishment meted out to one man will
be and pitifu as its moral effect is con-
cerned.
AS reforming the kaiser-the less said the better
hat then CHI ck,1
the ancient days and torture order to
him squrm? That would be a barren ana dsa n
pointing process Ransack the darkest history
for the most ingenious devices which men have pre-
pared In order to cause suffering to other men,
poy them all to the limit of human endurance
no" weak and inadequate they would seem when we
think of the rivers blood have flowed of peace
full taken from their slaughtered on the
field of battle; of children and mutiated; of
women outraged of ruin and misery brought to mil
honsk
That seems to exhaust the possibilities Naturally
something will have to be done with William as mat
ter of convenience, and of fitness But in the matter
Df real punishment the kaiser is hands If
he is executed his death will have been ANTICIPATED
merely by months years is subjected to actual
physical suffering the nadequacy of any possible
nent will merely make that course exasperating And
yet the punishment of this is as sure
Is is the march of the planets accustomed
man suffers when he the destruction of that
which he prizes, when the plans for which has lived
and labored to naught. can be no more
terrible suffering for being that to which
the emperor of Germany is doomed failure of all
his ambitious plans the his ambitions and the
knowledge that he, the egotist who set him
self up as god earth is neither loved nor ad-
mired nor feared but is object of loathng
and contempt. Milton put into the mouth of Iucifer
the words:
The mind is its place, and in itself
Can make hell Of heaven, a heaven Of hell.
o William of Germany has made his own hell. and he
cannot escape from it.