The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-01-03

you might not discover your own fail.
ings. | twisted your mind to that of
a mad man, with certain normal ten.
denotes to carry you by-a most dang.
erous character placed in power. I
gave you the power Of a ~hypnotist and
a certain magnetic force that YOU
might sway your people.
Il am responsible for the deformed
arm that hangs helpless on your left,
for your crippled condition embitters
your life and destroys all noble i'm.
pulses that might otherwise cause
me anxiety; but your strong arm is
driven by your ambition that
squelches all sentiment and pity. I
placed in your soul a deep hatred for
all things English, for of all nations
on earth | hate England most. Wher-
England plants her flag she
brings order out of chaos, and the
1ated Cross follows the Union Jack.
nder her rule wild tribes become
oilers of the soil and in due time prac-
tical citizens. She is the great ~civiliZ-
or Of the globe and | hate her. |
planted in your soul a cruel hatred
or your mother because she was Eng
lsh, and left my good friend Bismarck
10 fan the flame | had kindled. Re
. n history proves how well our
work was done. 1t broke your royal
mothers heart, but l gained my pur-
pose.
The inherited disease of the Ho-
henzollerns killed your father, just as
it will kill you, and you became the
ruler Of Germany, and a tool Of mine
one than | expected.
ITO assist you and further hasten
my work | sen you three evil spirits
Nietzsche, Treitschke and later on
Observation-Disclosures teachings inhamed
the youth Of Germany, who in good
iects and eager to spill their blood
and pull your %chestnuts, yours and
mine. The spell has been perfect
YOU cast your ambitious eye toward
the Mediterranean, Egypt. India and
the D~ardanelles, and you began your
great railways to Bagdad. but the am
bilious archduke and his more am
bilious 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 cleyerly you saddled the crime
INTO Servia. | saw you set sail for
the fjords of Norway and | knew you
would prove an alibi.
How cleverly done so much like
your noble grandfather. who also Sc
cured an assassin to remove old King
Frederick OF Denmark, and later rob
bed that country of two provinces that
gave Germany an opportunity to be
come a naval power. Murder is dirty
work, but it takes a HohenZollern to
make away and get by.
Your opportunity was at hand you
set the world on fire and bells of hell
were ringing; your rape on Belgium
caused much joy-it was the begin
ming: the foundation of a perfect he'll
on earth, the destruction of noble
~cathedrals and other infinite works of
art was hailed with JOY in the infer
nal regions. You made war on friends
and foes alike and the murder OF
civilians showed my teachings had
borne fruit. Your treachery toward
neutral nations fastened a universal
upheaval-the thing I most desired.
Your under-sea warfare is a master
stroke; from the smallest mackerel
boat to the great Lusitania you show
no favorites. AS a war lord you stand
supreme, for you have no mercy; you
have no consideration for any baby
~clinging to it's mothers breast, as they
both go down into the deep together
only to be torn apart and ~leisurely
devoured by sharks down among the
corals.
Il have strolled over the battletields
of Belgium and France. l have seen
your hand of destruction everywhere;
it's all your work, super-fiend that
made you. | have seen the fields OF
Poland, now a wilderness, fit fol
prowling beasts only; no merry chill
dren in Poland now; they all sue
cumbed to frost and starvation.
drifted down into Galicia, where form
erly Jews and Gentiles lived happily
together; | found but ruins and ashes
| felt a curious pride in my pupil, fol-
it was all above my expectation.
was in Belgium when you drove the
peaceful population before you like
cattle into slavery: you separated hus
band and wife and forced them tC
hard labor in trenches. | have seer