The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-11-22
Sought World Dominion.

He signed the order for the German
mobilization. He stood sponsor for
the terrorism and b~rigandage which,
Belgium, laid waste the cities of
France, depopulated and outraged Ser
bia and sem the LuSitania with her
freight of women and children TO a
grave in the Atlantic.
Against these his cry 81 did not will
the war" walled as nothing. Before
the bar q humanity William was adj
judged guilty of the greatest crime
since the crucsixion. In him human
ity saw the last of the autocrats, the
final Caesar.
Assertions that he was at heart
peaceful. so persistently circulated for
years as to give them the stamp of
German propaganda, became branded
as false. He who had long proclaimed
himself the prince of peace stood re-
vealed as humanity's scourge.
Claims Almighty as His Ally.
Many doubt whether William was
entirely sane. He said repeatedly that
he possessed a divine mandate TO rule.
that the Almighty vas his "%uncond1-
tional and avowed ally" 1t is not en-
tirely clear whether such outgivings
We're the product of a disordered brain
or We're due to unbounded egotism 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 inc 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 his
own people.
Few statesmen realized that the en-
peror in his shining armor,' maneu-
vering his armies and fleets, building
up the German military system, ce-
menting the central empires and Tur-
key. and fostering the preaching of the
supremacy of autocracy, was erecting
a machine hat one day would make
war upon all civilization.
Yet the world was warned by some
fa~r-sighted men that the emperor
would n day bring catastrophe upon
the nations. These men saw in him
then and see him now as a mad inven-
tor. given in his youth the most IAN
of all toys-his army and navy.
They We're his ~playthings. He de-
veloped them throughout the years to
the point where he had to put them
to a test. Like a crazed inventor. he
feared the end of his reign would find
his inventions untried, SO grasped the
first opportunity to wage a world war.
SEXES 9retense to Open War.
Meantime the German war party
grew, with William at its head. and
the scheme of world dominion awaited
the hour to begin its attainment. Ii
came with the assassination of the
Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand
and his wife at Sarajevo.
Recalled from a yachting trip. VIII
liam presided at a conference at Pots
dam Of representatives of the German
ind Austrian armies, navies and COM
mercial interests. There. according to
the best information obtainable. rhe
was reached 10 make the as
sasSination of the archduke q pretense |
for the world war for which Germany
had long prepared.
In the diplomatic exchanges between
and Austria on one side and
Great Britain, France and Russia on
the other William posed as one wishing
peace bat driven to war.
He signed the order for the mobiliza-
ton OF the German army, and from
momen war was inevitable.
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