The Red Cloud chief., 1918-11-21
SOUGHT WORLD
DOMINION; WINS
WORLD HATRED
Kaiser and His Power Completely
Crushed by Hosts OF
Civilization.
PLUNGED WORLD INTO WAR
once Mightiest OF Mondrchs Leads
His People From Peace and Pros.
perity Into Ruin - Insane
Dream Ends Win His
Abdica don.

Dream tndS WIKI MS
Abdica don.
William lluhpnzol,crn, German en-.
pcror and king of Prussia, has abdi-
Gated.
lie was
William II, German emperor and
! king of Prussia. sole urhitcr over the
fate of 7O,0O0,OOO men, women and
| children; commander in chief of the
! German army and navy, and supreme
war lord overload of four Kingdoms
six grand duchies. five duchicS, seven
| principaitlcS. three free towns and
| one "relchslnnd." Alsace-L Lorraine, vir-
| tual owner of 2OS,7S0 square miles
with Il total frontier length Of 1870
miles; owner of dependencies In vari-
Gus parts of the globe aggregating
1,O27,S 800 square miles and 12,OOO,OOO
natives.
Now, and ever after. he Is:
Herr Wilhelm Hohcnzollern-by the
grace of his people.
A dream of world dominion obscss-
Ing the mind of Emperor William
plunged the world into war. Upon
him and the tremendous military en-
CINE of destruction of which he was
the embodiment. the exponent and the
leader, rests the responsibility of de-
liberately planning and bringing about
the greatest conflict the world has
ever seen.
Sought World Dominion.
He signed the order for the German
mobilization. He stood sponsor for
the terrorism and brigandage which,
under the gulse of warfare, ravished
Belgium, laid waste the cities of
France, dcpopulated and outraged Ser
bia and sent 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" availed as nothing. Before
the bar of humanity William was nd
judged guilty of the greatest crime
since the cruciiiXion. 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 II divine mandate to rule,
that the Almighty was his ''uncond,
tional and avowed ally" II Is not en-.
tirely clear whether such outgivingS
were the product of disOrdered brain
or were due to unbounded egotism and
an effort TO impress his subjects with
the idea of reverent and unquestlOning
submission.
His speeches to his armies in which
he asserted he and 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
machine that one day would make
war upon all civilization.
Yet the world was warned by some
far-sighted men that the emperor
would one day bring catastrophe upon
the nations. These men saw in him
then and see him now as Il mad inven.
tor, given in his youth the most dan.
gerous of all toys-his army and navy.
They were his playthings. He de.
Veloped them throughout the years 10
the point where he had TO put them
TO test. Like IA crazed inventor. he
feared the end of his reign would find
ms inventions untrled, so grasped the
nrst opportunity to wage world war.
seizes Pretense to Open War.
Meantime the German war party
grew with William at It's head, and
the scheme of world dominion awaited
the hour to begin its attainment. II
came with the assassination of fine
Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand
and his wife at SarajevO.
Recalled from yachting trip, WI.
liam presided at conference at POTS.
dam or representatives of the German
anu austrian armies, navies and com,
merciai interests. There, according 10
the best information obtainable, rhe
decision was reached to make the as.
sssslnation of the archduke u pretense
for the world war for which Germany
had long prepared
In the diplomatic exchanges between
Germany and Austria on one side ond
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