The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-27
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

There seems to be kind of divine justice that the Emperor who broke the peace of the world should have to fly to Holland for refuge and rest in the shadow of The Hague tribunal
 It seems strange that any of the great powers could have been fooled for quarter of a century with the HohenzoI- Tern peace talk when every hour was being used in the preparation for war, and yet, somehow he even got for him. self the name of the apostle of peace.
 Thirty years ago when he was crowned at the Reiohstag he was looked upon as the firebrand of Europe, for he imrne- diately devoted himself to military af- fairs with zeal which. if used in the saved Germany from her awful humilia- tion and kept back the Armageddon which has drenched Europe in blood
 
 have always carried him in my mind as the soldier, for during my student days in Berlin this was the character in which I saw him almost daily as he rode past the university en route to the Tempelhof parade grounds from the new palace at Potsdam, where she lived. IS miles away, necessitating him to be in saddle every morning at 6 in order lasting from until 1 o'clock, began.
 Just word about the famous Tempel- haf parade grounds, one of the most re- markable sights in Berlin, and one of the most potent in showing the trend of the Kaiser's thinking, and of the part militarism plays in the life of Ger many. Here are 5000 acres of land set apart, since 1721, for purely military pur- poses-it is parade ground and nothing more-now on the edge of one of ths newest and most rapidly growing sec tions of the capital city.
 The mere thought of this vast tr. q ct land, worth hundreds of dollars as square foot for building purposes, beins used exclusively for military purposes would cause the average American realtor to throw r fits and try and over- turn the government It would be an issue in every municipal and state elec- tion, but the overburdened Berliner tax payer had to go down in his pockets and dig up the coin to give the Kaiser a chance to drill his army
 
 Now here is the divine justice which has overtaken Emperor William III and made him plain MT William Hohenzol- Tern, man without job, and at pres ent an unwelcome visitor even in Hol- land-for he with the aid of the militar- ists from Bismarck down to Hkndenburg made the German people believe that war was a good paying business. It looked as if it had been in the near past for that's the way they got Schleswig and Holstein and Alsace and Lorraine And so in plain sight of the German l citizens for half century or mora the 1 Kin aud Ealrerors drilled as they delgea aaG Nafked and furnished the 1 naeaey % Tag', feed, clothe and equip |
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 Gsss German people cannot claim that trey are without guilt in the matter and 1 fa t their troubles are due entirely to < e Kaiser, for they would not have tood behind his milit4ristic programme if they had not been bewitched with the Idea that they were supermen aRAs that I it was their high destiny to spread their 1 kultur and be rewarded by the -ncauisi- tion Of an empire In the afitteleurQpa