The Bossier banner., 1918-11-14
THE END or PRUSSIiNISM.

The Kaiser's dream of world-power ended
with his alidication last Saturday. For thirty
years he ruled the German Empire with rod
of iron-brutally. mercileSsly: As matter or
FORM his eldest son renounced his rights TO
the throne This. however, was not necessary,
for. with the forced ahdication of the Kaiser.
the entire family of HohenZollerns must CO.
The world has had more than enough OF this
u,start brood The Kaiser his wife, and their
family of six sons and one daughter are now
refugees They may be. and should be, captured
and imprisoned. The Kaiser is now about sixty
Years old and naturally, cannot do the world
much more HARM but he should be placed where
he would he entirely powerless to plot against
the peace Of the world. He should be placed
in a military prison. securely guarded ana
never permitted to leave it while alive. He was
mainly instrumental in punging the world into
war of more than four years duration. III
which millions Of lives were sacrificed and bill
lions of dollars worth of property destroyed
For more than third of a century, or from
the beginning of his reign, he has been prepar-
ing for a war which would give him the do
minion of the world. The Empire Of Germany
was not threatened with INVASION but it had
defeated France and wrested from that country
the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, and laid
the government under heavy tribute as pay
nlent for its own invasion. This conquest whet-
ted the appetite of the German beast, and Its
cry was for more territory-lnore plunder.
When ready for invasion. pretext was found
in the murder of the Archduke of Austria.
which, it is stated on good circunlstantial evi-
dence was instigated by the Kaiser and his
court officials. Then, the Kaiser issued the
order putting his army in motion, and the world
knows the rest. He then insolently Informed
this government that after conquering France
ha
war from us We see how he has collected 1t.
The war was conducted with barbarity un-
known to civilized nations, and not exceeded In
brutality in the ancient world The sinking of
the Lusitania will ever stand out as one OF the
hackest if not the most brutal deeds in the
history of the world. For this. the Kaiser ex-
pressed no sorrow. but ordered such inhumane
work to he continued
Had the Kaiser, who was the ruling power.
desired to conduct the war under the rules of
war and according to humane principles it would
have been DONE for no one would have dlsOheyed
his orders. But his orders were to devasteate
Belgium. France. and all countries that opposed
the advance of the German army. And this was
done with vengeance and completeness wor-
thy of EarEaf'ians of the most brutal type.
As the German people wrought this destruc-
ton. they should lie made to pay for the dana-
ges. The Kaiser. and his military staff, and
about one hundred of the leaders should be
tried by military commission, and imprisoned
or shot. That is the usual punishment for those
who start out for conquest plunder and world
power. Napoleon imprisoned Oh the lonely
rock of st. Helena; Maximilian. an Austrian
adlventurer who usnrped the throne Of Mexico.
was finally overthrown, and tried by a military
commission and shot to death. 1t was the GUS
tom of the Romans and of Oriental countries.
tc imprison captive kings and generals in iron
cages. and thus carry them through the coull-
tries they sought to conquer. While no one de-
sires to see this brute in the form of man. it
would lie hut just to put him in cage and
there let him remain in solitary confinement
despised by the world