The Washington times., 1918-02-21
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THE KAISER TODAY.
When This Changes

Cyrus H. K. Curtis publisher of the Philadelphia
Ledger announcing serial publication of new book by Am
6assador Gerard publishes striking picture of the German
Emperor, and underneath it this from the Kaiser:
From childhood I have been influenced by five men
Alexander the Great Julius Caesar Theodore H. Fred
erick the Great Napoleon Each dreamed of world
pire. They failed have dreamed of German world do
mnlon and my mailed fist shall succeed. William H.
The one of thousand rulers that have taken
models the great successful killers and rulers Alexander
Caesar NapoeonAand been led destruction by dream
of power beyond their capacity.
AS the Kaiser recalls this quotation chosen by Mr. Cur
It's and admirably describing false ambition he must
Ger what happened to his plan, vision, dream.
The three great WGTd waTrQTs had one thing in com
What they began they fnished-at least until the end
overlook Gagged at St. Helena Caesar mnr
killing his best friend in drunken brawl.
The Kaiser now in the fourth year of his attempt to
the matter.
Alexander did not begin war; march little way in
it. and then still with his people starving year after
year. HE WENT THROUGH.
Does it perhaps the would be Napoleon of Pots
dam that he Of the wrong period wrong breed and wrong
kind?
Does he forget how easily Napoleon played with the
present Kaisers Hohenzoern ancestorsabout efficient
against Napoleon as SO many brewery wagons against
modern military ''tank?''
The Kaiser overlooked the fact that the whom he
admired became great because they DID NOT MODEL
THEMSELVES ON OTHERS.
Alexander the Great did not look up any killer his
great model The that he admired Aristotle, the
Greek philosopher and naturalist More than he in
heted from his father Alexander spent researches
natural history collections and other work carried to
please Aristotle.
Alexander would not have been Alexander if he had
been fighting maniac, with fighter his model
Of greatness.
And Caesar not fighter. He states
man. meeting with intelligent counter plotting the
keen intelligence of Cicero dealing with and overcoming the
opposition and hatred of the conservative senate handling
understanding, and using the people-WITH THEIR CON-
SENT AND APPROVAL
And Napoleon the Corscan boy made wise by watching
the French revolution how different he from the autocrc
me and Cod nheritor of Bismarck power and army
Napoleon was fighter That was only one part.
See letters he wrote the people that he sent rule
Germany for hm-he did bother go himself it wasnt
necessary What the Hohenzolens and the other Germans
had built up he could handle with the little finger of his left
hand.
Study Napoleon and you find man merely planning
wholesale murder He wanted to conquer the world part
of other plans. He awmaker he strange sur
vva of the Italian period Of Benvenuo But he half
German, half Hun, wholesale murderer.
He a thinker.
What will history say of this Hohenzouern- William
the Second the last that will possess and exercise power
the earth?
What will be written about him when the change shall
have occurred that you in this picureha mustache
eyes flesh gone-and only the bones and teeth left resting
perhaps in royal grave rong perhaps in ditch
where the mob will have buried the would-be world
ruler?''
The world VIII say that this Kaiser was as much out
Of date the occasional wolf found civilized country
the stray bear that wander down into Cats village from
the mountains