The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-04

throne of HadeS in W1lhelmS favor,
which appeared in the columns
Of this paper recently. The
Lucifer letter attracted wide atten-
ton, and so will the reply, which fol-
lows:
Royal Palace, Berlin.
My Dear Lucifer: Your kindly let I
ter received and its contents noted. I
Indeed, my dear Satan, you flatter
me, but 1 cannot help but feel that
all your praise is not misplaced.
1 will tell you frankly, was a lit
tie incensed when you compared me
with Nero. To my mind Nero was a |
piker. But on a second thought 1 rea-
f! lie that he did not possess the many |
| advantages L do for carrying on his
deyilish work. He had no guns that |
would shoot for 20 miles, he had no
gas bombs OF flame throWers; he had
never had the opportunity to drop
bombs on school houses and kill lit
! tie children; he could not send aVia-
| tors over towns and drop poisoned
candy for the children to eat; he did
not have submarines by which he
could sink passenger ships and kill
hundreds of women and babies. TAX
ing all this into consideration, think
that Nero did pretty well, considering
disadvantage under which he worked
If 1 had lived in those days I do not
know as I could have improved on
his methods of raising hell, although
some of it looks crude to US now,
with our refined cruelties.
I thank you from the bottom of
my heart for your gifts to me, My alb
normal ambition has made me the
most hated man in the world. 1t has
sent my soldiers through peaceful
villages, bent on murder, rapine and
arson 1t has made a million mothers
childless. 1t has produced an army
of a million men MANNED, without
Z arms without lgs and without sight.
/ 1t has bereft some of their reason and
4 they will go through life with their
1 minds a blank. 1t has robbed thous
] ands of women of their virtue, and
! has brought thousands more into my
realms as slaves. My name is coupled
with curses in every cline.
Until now I have always cursed the
fate which left me with a withered
q arm, but now I discern your inscru-
q table wisdom. Without that I might
a have had human instincts, which
q would interfere with my ambitions,
q and might have made me show a sem
s blance Of pity as 1 saw the result OF
81 my fiendish work Without the twist
a in my moral makeup [ might have
u told my generals to treat the Belgians
q with confederation and kindness.
= might have told Tirpitz to order his
81 submarine con s1anders not to sink
3 ships without Warning and to give
M passengers a chance to save them
81 selves.
d Indeed, my dear Mephisto, I share
81 with you a hatred of all things Eng
"a fish. 1t was England that stopped m!
~ victorious soldiers at the Marine anC
q prevented me from conquering thu
= world and making all nations my vas
sails 1t was England that tried t.
interfere when I had my plans set TO
a world conquest. England has laugh
savage people Christianity and tn
, love of their feuow-men, while I hav
endeayored to fnstiI1 hatred into thei
hearts and make them fends in hu
nan form.
Ny hatred of England is only ex
a ceeded by my hatred for America
Had it not been for that country a.
- Europe would have been helpless a
my feet long ago. Shells made wit,
American money killed my soldiers
and for this can never forgive Amer
lea
So the secret is out. You hint tina
had hand in the Saravejo assas
sination. I f1attered myself that
had kept this covered up and no on
"a would suspect that had any hand i
"a it. Well, it is all right, 1 suppose
a. You inspired it in me, and have
right to share in the secret. You wi
have to admit that it was clever @
no me to be on my yacht at the time @
IL the assassination. 1t was a prett
OF clever alibi.
IN Your words of praise over my sub
le' marine warfare pleased me. 1 flatte
nj myself that you could do no better
p My trusted officers have described t
We me the death struggles of the wome
Oh and babies as a submarine sent ther
SITS to eternity. It pleased me much, an
my only regret was that l could M
ad be present to witness it in person.
ad You will have to admit that m
nd work in Belgium, northern France
ICY Poland, Serbia and Runaria has bee
to we'll done. Belgium was a peacefI
he country. filed with happy and limo
nd cent people, until l decided to TAX
liz a short cut through it to strike E
Nv France 1 am rather glad that it re
nd sisted, as it gave my soldiers an OF
nd pofSuhAV 10 carry oot my 1nsIr u
ity tiShs. hdd II not ieSlSIeu' "oui
~ have been forced to invent some e1
cuse for the practice of atrocities. TIL
civilian population of Poland mad
no resistance, yet you see what hay
done. My soldiers need no reasol
they merely ask for On excuse, and
there is none it is easy to trump u
n some charge.
~ My agents sowed the seeds, of di!
cord and treason among the Ru:
i'll slams and thousands of those PRAY
ion people persisted through treaehery.
ate Lueifer, you make me laugh
ties times You express surprise at N
ary posing as a personal friend of &c
the and telling my people that God wi
rH- help them to victory. Cannot you s.
my plans? My friendship with God
emf simply to delude the poor simple foo
to- who are dying that my an5aitisns ma
of succeed. I have to hand them tn
led bunk once ia a while to keep the
lad breasts barred to the enemy Witho
do it, they would quit fighting 1 tri<
iP- the same bunk en- the neutral nation
:. but they were too clever to believe
I have taught my people this eres
ord since cams to the throne. The ef