Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-02
ONLY A PUSuL ANIMOUS FAKE

An Amsterdam dispatch says that Count Wilhelm
Hohenzollern is reported to be subject to frequent fits
|of violent weeping. Some days, says the correspondent,
he is unable to write owing to spells Of trembling.
Amsterdam has not been regarded Of late as a
source of very reliable information, but there are no ele-
nents in this story calculated to tax anyones credulity.
The state in which it pictures the former war lord Of
Germany is quite in keeping with his cowardly fight in
the night across the Holland border.
: What a contemplate. pusillanimous fake he is after
all! clustering and bloviating about his divine right;
asserting supreme authority over the lives and fortunes
of his submissive and weak-minded subjects; aspiring to
rule the world and hating at no step no matter how
vile or how cruel which seemed to him calculated to
give him power; struttng before the world in all the
arrogance Of a despot at the height Of success, he is come
in a few short months to reveal himself an arrant coward
and an empty fraud. When reduced to the defensive,
instead Of standing bravely by his army and fighting
desperately with the soldiers Of whom he was so proud
and who have sacrificed SO much for him, and going to
his death if need be with them. he sinks away to neural
ground like a whipped cur, hoping thereby to save his
deserves.
This is the man whom Germany held III awe and
followed with blind obedience, believing him to be SUI
perior to all others, and whom even a lot Of strangely
deluded Germans in America have held in such high
esteem that they have been willing to imperil their rights
of citizenship In his defense, to speak of him as the
greatest man in the world. and whose portrait has had
an honored place in many Of their homes.
What do they think Of him now? What do they see
in that trembling, snivelins. covering fugitive from the
wrath Of an outraged world and the vengeance of the
people betrayed by him to their utter ruin? Are they
going to continue to worship him in secret and accept
such a libel upon real manhood to remain the object Of
their generation? There are places in this state where
this will be a live question. An Unborn prejudice is a
hard thing to kill, but a feeling Of admiration of the
kaiser in the light Of the spectacle which he now pre-
SCENTS before the world wilIbe a difficult thing to keep
alive in any intelligent, self-respecting mind.
We demand for our objects Of respect that there be
something in them to which we can look up. Who is
sinking coward in Holland who dares not to face his
own people and is hiding from justice at the hands Of
he\AAies behind the protection Of a neutral flag Min
neapolis Tribune.
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Well well, we'll! Grim-v1saged war still wears
wrinkles on his face. He still is trying to stir up a little
backyard muss in South America.
Several hundred newspaper correspondents sailed
Sunday for France. More will leave tomorrow with
we'll covered"
II one could only have read the thoughts Of senator's
today az they listened to Fresident Wilson, one could fur
EnfSh some very excellent readino rna<tnr ~ .a