Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-11

leader rests the responsibility OF de-
liberately planning and bring apou'
| the greatest conflict the world mas
ever seen.
| II did not matter to the world
that the Emperor's personal share In
the swift events Immediately pre-
ceding the war had been obscureo'
The world convicted him OF organlz-
,np directing and maintaining at the
| ION notch of efficiency the great ger
man military machine. 1t rememp.eroo e. :
| cd that he signed the oroer loL thS
German mobilization, for ~ rt fbe Terror
| ism and brigandage which. unuer un, ~ tne
| euise of warfare, ravished belBluili'
| laid waste the cities OF frahce' ues
nonulated and outraged Serbia aha
sept the Lusitania with her freight
OF women and children to a grave In
the ASIi Minion. XIII Edith Cavell
Civilization will never forget that
| n was the minions of the emperor
| who officially shot to death Edltn
| Cavell. the English girl who oetrlend-
ed the Belgians IN m Brusseisd rus I did not will
they war" availed as nothing. BetoIe
| the bar of humanity William was ad-
| Judged guilty of. the greatest crime
itv saw the last of the ,autocrats, the
| Anal Caesar. Assertions that he was
/ at heart peaceful. so persistently cir
| culated for years as to give them
| the stamp of German propaganda, be-
| came branded as certainly raise. HE
| who had long proclaimed himself the
| prince of peace stood revealed as hu-
manitys seo9rge: spsas5tsd ana agadlnse Tose H the
new world of democracy and freedom.
| Many doubt whether William was
entirely sane. He said repeatedly that
rule, rl that the Almighty was his "un-
| conditional and avowed ally" 1t is
not entirely clear whether such out
! givings were the product OF a disor-
| ed eRotism and an effort to impress
| his subjects with the idea of reverent
| and unquestioning submission. His
| speeches to his armies in which he
asserted he and they were ''instru-
ments of divine judgment upon Ger
many's enemies were regarded by
many outside of Germany as pieces
OF rhetoric. intended only to deceive
~ Cinims AFFINITY with God
Williams claim to close affinity
with God was the burden Of dozens
of his speeches hong before as well
as after the beginning OF the war.
d%efned de his claim that his notorious
| "diyine righth" speech delivered az
Erandenburg in. 1890. in which he SAID
he regarded the German people as
| feSDOnSlDlllIy
! by God and that it was my duty to
| increase this heritage. for which one
day / shall be called upon to give
account. Those who try to interfere
In ali this the world saw before
the war not a menace but comedy,
1t laughed with the then Captain
Joseph b. Coghlan of the United
the war with Spain and telling Of the
clash with the commander of the Ger
man squadron at Manila Bay. the
captain reeited the famous mo- ,na poem cen.
Guiding refrain was. in the supposi-
tious words of the Emperor;
"Gott pulls nit me-and l init him
/ - MEINSELF-Und. Gott.'
Few statesmen realized then that
the deluded Emperor in his shining
armor," manoeuvering his armies and
his fleets, building up the German
military system, cemenhng the Cen
ing the preaching of the supremacy
of autocracy was erecting a machine
that one day would make war upon
all civilization,
World Had Beed Warned
Yet the world was warned by some
far-sighted men that the Emperor
would one day bring catastrophe upon
the nations. These men saw in him
then and see him now as mad In
Ventor given in his youth the most
| dangerous OF ali toys - Ilb army huu
navy, They were his playthings, He
developed them throughout the years
to the point whore he had to put them
| to test, Like a orazed inventor,
he feared the end OF his reign would
find, his inventions untried; SO grasp
ed the first opportunity to wage Q
Meantime the German war party
grew with William as its head, and
the scheme of world dominion await
ed the hour to begin its attainment
1t came with the assassination of the
Austrian Archduke. Francis Ferdin-
and, and his wife at Saratevo,
Recalled from a yachting trip, Will
liam presided at . conference al
Potsdam of representative of the
German and Austrian armies. navies
| cording to the best information OBJ
| tainable. the decision was reached to
| make the ASSASSINATION of the Arch
duke pretense for the world wal
pared,
/ In the diplomatic exchanges be-
tween Germany and Austria on one
side and Great Britain, France and
Russia on the other William poseo
as one wishing for peace but drlVen tC
iNyar He signed the order Tor the
mobilization OF the German army and
| from. that moment war was inevitable
Thereafter he drove on MS arniet
relentlessly In the mad campaigns IoI
[ Victory. enCOuIdbihb NhOlLA !" -. - -
device and sometimes appearing on
the front to be proclaimed as personal
commander In a great offensive.
PubIication OF the Willy-Nicky
correspondence in. 1917. placed the
German Emperor in the light OF an
unscrupulous plotter. The telegramt
disclosed that Emperor William nae
Induced Empeor Nicholas of Russia
TO sign a secret agreement to which
he was to force the adherence oi
France In the perfection of an offen-
slve and defensive alliance against
and repudiated by Russian minis
ter, r,,.
Failing in his attempt. the German
,Emperor set upon himself, the task
of drawing England to his sid'
against France and Russia, How
we'll he though he had succeeded II
he wrote to President Wilson in 1911.
in which he said King George hat
promised Prince Henry of Prussia
on July 90, 1914 that England woulC
n remain neutral In war involving
the Central Powers with France anS
Russia,
Perhaps the most direct and .au
thoritative of the accusations agains
the German Emperor and the Pan
Germans are contained in the pub
lished secret memorandum OF Prince
Charles Max Lichnowsky.- who wa
German Ambassador. at London a
the outbreak of hostilities' Tn
biams bTlnSs for TnfSsv1C the war on Germany. an,
for his frankness was imprisonet
in Eilesian chateau, permanent!
expelled from the. Prussian House o
LoRds. which action was sanctioned
byrtae EmpegoE p,, anu pn~HF' wa