The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-14
FATHER IS A BROKEN MAN"

Can anyone imagine William Hohenzollern, emperor OF
Germany. standing on the Belgian border before his leglons
nrossod and saving. 1.-THE die is cast! will win or die in
exilei" =.
When the audacious Caesar, who also "was ambitious,
crossed the Rubicon, he said: 1.-The die is cast! Had ne met
defeat afterward instead of becoming the foremost man d all
the world there is no doubt that he would have died flghtng
OF the field of battle. Caesar led one lone legion into Italy.
After 40 years of preparation, choosing his own time, TAX
ing what he considered to be the most opportune moment 1or
a bid for world power to be won on the field of battle, the
kaiser sent his hosts across the Belgian frontier. He lost ana
now his son. speaking for him, says: You Englh are trying
to get father from Holland. We are down and out. Father
is a broken man. Is not that enough punishment" Decd
edly it is not enough punishment.
OF Caesar, Mommsen says: He worked and created as
never any mortal before or after him, and as he worked and
created he still, after 1000 years, lives in the memory of the
nations, the first and unique Imperator Caesar!'
Caesar said: "The die is cast!" He won Rome. me
kaiser said: Woe and death unto those who oppose my will"
After DESERVING the nation for which he gained the hatred OF
the world, he now whines like the whipped dog that ne is to
be permitted to die in exile. His son says for him: "Father
is a broken man." And "woe and death" for the nations that
opposed his will were this not so.
Napoleon was a vulgar conqueror. He was permitted to
die in exile. But Napoleon vas a man and ne and his armies
fought like men and not like beasts.
In the days of the Roman Coliseum the defeated gladiators
were permitted to live when they had fought Clearly and well
before 10000 spectators, and today America admires the goved
gladiator who falls after a battle well fought.
But the kaiser, with his armies trained for almost half a
century. equipped to the minute and directed by the pick of
the products of the German military system, fall on an UMPIRE
pared world at a time and on ground selected by himself and
lost. He fought neither Clearly nor we'll. For the fact that
he lost, the world could perhaps excuse MN, u o te Idct
that he made women and children his prey he and the men
he selected to lead his armies deserve death.
Holland proposes to place the archicriminal OF all time and
his son, who is no better and perhaps worse, on an island.
German rOpagandists in the United States claim that the
exkaiser and his son should be permitted to live "as an ex-
ample" When a murderer, and William Hohenzollern is a
murderer, is found guilty he is not permitted to live "as an
example" Murderers are hanged, not for revenge, but as ex-
amples.
England will demand William in the name of all the allies
and America, and then, not as the ex-kaiser, but as William
Hohenzolern, a common man charged with murder, lie should
be tried. If he can clear himself of the crimes of which he
stands accused, he should be released, and if he is found gull
ty in an international court he should be hanged.
While Holland talks now Of putting William on an island,
the spectacle of England permitting him to be placed on an
island or anywhere else without first facing England for his
deeds would be q joke, and the British empire does not joke
with characters such as William.