The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-11-21
DREAM OF WORLD
! DOMINION ENDS
| IN ABDICATION
Power of HohenzoIIerns Again
to Set World AfIame
Is Ended.
Plunged World Into Greatest War In
History and Now Goes
Into Oblivion.

History ana NOW Goes
Into Oblivion.
The abdication of the kaiser and the
Remuneration of the crown prince ends
the power of the two men solely re-
Sponsible for plunging the world into
the bloodiest conflict in all history.
y The kaiser sought world dominion
and Won-world hatred The military
Headers of Prussia, it's philosophers,
teachers, preachers and business men,
for years directed the moral, intellec-
tual and material resources of the en-
pire toward the tremendous concen-
itration and consummation of organ
azed power which in 1914 he let loose
upon the world. His armies crushed
by the hosts of civilization, his empire
torn by revolution, he now retires to
private life with the record of being
the bloodiest-minded and most hatred
ruler the world has ever known.
Sought World Dominion.
He signed the order for the German
mobilization. He stood sponsor for
the terrorism and brigandage which.
under the guise Of warfare, ravished
Belgium, laid waste the cities Of
France, depopulated and outraged Ser
bia and sent the Lusitania with her
freight of women and children to
grave in the Atlantic.
Civilization will never forget that 1t
was the minions of the emperor who
officially shot to death Edith Cavell,
the English nurse who befriended the
Belgians in Brussels.
Against these his cry 81 did not will
the war" availed as nothing. Before
the bar of humanity William was ad-
Judged guilty of the greatest crime
since the crucifixion. In him human
tty saw the last Of the autocrats, the
final Caesar.
Assertions that he was at heart
4 peaceful, so persistently circulated for
years as to give them the stamp of
German propaganda, became branded
hs false. He who had long proclaimed
+ himself the prince Of peace stood re-
Healed as humanity's scourge. and
8 against him and all that he represent
ed rose the new world Of democracy
and freedom.
Claims Almighty as His Ally.
Many doubt whether William was
/ entirely sane. He said repeatedly that
he possessed a divine mandate to rule,
that the Almighty was his "uncondi-
& tional and avowed ally" 1t is not en-
,I,ofh stInh tpyiU
were the product Of disordered brain
Ior were due to unbounded egotism and
an effort to impress his subjects with
Z the idea of reverent and unquestioning
Submission.
III His speeches to his armies In which
be asserted he and they were "instru-
ments of divine judgment upon Ger
hany's enemies were regarded by
many outside of Germany as pieces of
Rhetoric, intended only to deceive his
bwn people.
% Few statesmen realized that the en-
beror in his Shining armor," maneu-
Kering his armies and fleets, building
hup the German military system, ce-
menting the central empires and Tur-
Key, and fostering the preaching of the
Bupremacy of autocracy, was erecting
= machine that one day would make
war upon all civilization.
Yet the world was warned by some
far-sighted men that the emperor
would one day bring catastrophe upon
the nations. These men saw In him
then and see him now as a mad inven-
tor, given in his youth the most dam
gerous of all toys-his army and navy.
They were his playthings. He de-
. veloped them throughout the years to
the point where he had to put them
!. to q test. Like a crazed inventor, he
Ieared the end Of his reign would find
Ms inventions untried, so grasped the
ifst opportunity to wage world war.
|. Seizes Pretense to Open War.
XMeantime the German war party
ew, with William at its head, and
ltM scheme Of world dominion awaited
the hour to begin It's attainment. 1t
kame with the assassination Of the
Austriaa Archduke Francis Ferdinand
md his wife at SaraJevo.
~ Recalled from a yachting trip, Will
ham presided at conference at Pots
dam of Representatives Of the German
ana Austrian armies, nayies and com-
mercial interests, There, according "a
the best information obtainable, the
decision was reached to make the as
sassnation Of the archduke pretense
&or the world war for which Germany
ad long prepared.
ln the diplomatic exchanges between
frmany and Austria on one side and
feat Britain, France and Russia on
e other William posed as one wishing
peace but driven to war.
X6igned the order for tha nlohilIxa-