The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-10
ATTILA AND FIREBUG-HoW TO TREAT
A SNAKE, STEP ON ITS HEAD-WIL-
SON THE SNAKE KILLER.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE in wa.hiagton Times.

BY ARTHUR BRISBANE in Washington Times.
Begging for peace, burning cities and towns as his
armies retreat in disorder the kaiser is strange com
bination Of ancient Attila and modern frebug.
Atila, who went numbering through Europe, bOastng
that the grass grew more where hiswar horse had
passed. foolishy married young woman and that ended
him.
Some said the young lady killed him with poison to
avenge relatives murdered others that he ate too much
in honor of his wedding and died as other middleaged
men have done under similar circumstances The kaiser
queer, complicated mongrel a would-be world con-
queror by vanity usurer and murderer by inheritance
made his mistake when he took the crazy Boshevk for
his political bride.
He may get peace if he really accepts the Pres
dents program and anything else the President may have
thought of since that program announced.
He may have to stand up and take beating for
"a while longer-there seems no good reason why the
allies victorious armies should grant him any armstce
while his troops occupy soil taken from France and Bel
GUM by treacherOus surprise.
No matter what happens, whether peace be delayed
negotiated now the world the end of the kaiser
and kaisersm, and the kaiser knows it.
He and his line his divine right, preposterous claims
to world ruershp at this very moment part Of the
past extinct the dodo the great aux the hairy
mammoth. That mammoth also thought that brute powre
could rule It was mistaken; so the kaiser.
There isn't the fanest doubt that Prussia peace
must have it. The news of the ''ndescribable panic
without precedent that has broken out on the Berlin
stock exchange tells what Germany thinks of Germanys
condition. Germany thinks that nothing German is
worth owning just now.
And on the Berlin stock exchange Germans, vying
with each other in the effort to get rid of securities that
German, cut prices to nothing, showing what they
think German properties are worth
His war, in whic hthe kaiser, talking of glory and
artist thought to crafty his maniac vanity and steal
the property of other nations his ancestors had stolen
from their benefactors was in plain English money
making war.
From great mobiles at the top to German socialists at
the bottom, Germany enthusiastically followed the kaiser
on his expedition of thievery.
The land and property of the world to be stolen
divided among the kaser's dear Prussians.
And the United States, politely described as nation
of storekeepers to pay untold billions to the kaiser
as indemnity in return for peace.
That must sound like rather poor jocks to the kaiser
he remembers his Dragging his contempt for this
country which he said wouldn't dare fight and couldn't
send soldiers to France anyhow
Now with his helmet in his hand, looking over his
shoulder in terror of his people against
him, he approaches Woodrow Wilson, makes his appeal
directly to America saying: 81 accept your terms let
me have peace"
Murder does not pay any longer this earth, not
wholesale murder carefully planned and plotted
for forty years. this war; begun by Prussia and
soon to be ended by the United States.
When you see adder run by a heavy wagon,
wrthng in the roadway, making progress, you
snake that cannot live long. It's back is broken.
When you Prussia in panic from the kaiser to the
stoc kgambers from the stock gamblers the retreang
Prussian armies you another snake with its back
broken and you know that it cannot live.
But snake poison you long there
is any life in it. The careful man steps on it's head and
brushes out the remaining life
Woodrow Wilson is careful man.