Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-12-04

slfusSie DetWeen medieval monarchy and democracy raging about him the kaiser was determined to yield not a little of his prerogatives. His auto- mobile still made it's coming known by its distinctive "tade-tatia- tn -ta'' and the royal palaces were maintained In all their accustomed pomp.
 But while the kaiser's armies were triumphant in the field, the principle which he was combating was every where gaining ground. On March 15. 19l7, the czar abdicated and Russia, whose autocratic form of government had long been the envy of the German aristocracy, became a repubicl "The downfall of the Russian em- pire was brought about by England because she feared that the ear was apout to make separate peace," the
 kaiser commented to me. "As mat ter of fact, however, neither the czar nor his government ever approached us on that subject, and when England | overthrew the Russian monarchy she defeated her very purpose With the czar on the throne Russia would prob- ably have gone on fighting us." When, few months later, the abdi- cation of the czar was followed by the abdication of King Constantine of | Greece, the kaiser sustained another blow which hurt him more than the defeat of one of his armies would have done.
 They are trying to force their rot ten form of democratic government on | Greece he declared fiercely. "The I way they have treated my poor sister, | the queen of Greece, is shame and
 disgrace. They talk about our inva- sion of Belgium, but their actions in Greece are infinitely worse. I have studied the English people for twenty
 five years, and they always try to cover their acts with religion and the l talk of benefits to civilization and hu-
 manity, but, hypocrites that they are
 they continue to grab all they can get
 their hands on just the same!'
 The fact that Greece had treaty with Serbia which required her to take | up arms if Serbia were. attacked and l that she had failed to meet her obli-
 gations in that respect was naturally
 of TO significance to the kaiser, to
 whom treaties were but scraps of pa
 per.
 The keynote of the kaiser's military
 program lay in the fact that he real
 ized that it was necessary for him to
 win in order to hold his throne. feel
 quite sure that if the allies were will
 ling to concede to Germany all the ter
 ritory she has onquered-Belgium,
 Serbia, Poland, RouLania, Russia and
 part of France, and restore all her col
 onies upon condition that the kaiser
 step down from the throne, he would
 reject the proposition without mo-
 ment's hesitation.
 Your country would like to make repubffc our Of Gefffnuuy,a. lss ;ss p4n-~
 mented, "a republic like France, Der
 haps, going down and down all the
 time-a country ruled by lawyers 1"
 And he mentioned half dozen of the
 great French statesmen who were
 members of the legal profession. Its
 a sad thing for a country when 1t gets
 into the hands of the lawyers. France
 and Italy are already controlled by
 them, and America and England are
 rapidly following their example!" The kaiser regarded the German l people as his own property to do with as he liked. When 1 referred to the
 German people" in conversation he | would delicately correct me by refer
 ring in his reply to my people, l When, for instance, I said on one oc-
 casion, "I understand, your majesty, | that the German people are anxious for peace," he answered. "Yes, Davis l my people are strongly in favor of peace, but they want q German peace l no allied peace!"
 l He believed that just as the universe 1 is ruled by God so should the earth
 be dominated by an earthly ruler and l that God had selected him for the task. To displace him in favor of a repub- l lican form of government, to substi- l tute ruler elected by the people for | a monarch designated by God was in
 his opinion the basest sort of sacrilege, and the unfortunate part of it all was
 that the majority of his people CO.,
 incded with him. They preferred to 1 be ruled by hand of iron rather than l to rule themselves. Some day they
 may be awakened to the blessings of
 self-goyernment, but up to the present | time they have not shown the slightest | indication that they would prefer to rule than be ruled, and because they submit so willingly to the kaiser's dom- | inatiOn he has become obsessed with | the idea that the rest of the world should follow suit.