The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-11-14
High Light In Life OF
Ruler Who Plunged
World into War.

WOrlQ into war.
| \ dream of world dominion obses
sing the mind Of Emperor William
plunged the world into war. Upon
him and the tremendous military en-.
CINE Of destruction Of which he was
the embodiment, the exponent and
the leader rests the responsibility OF
deliberately planning and bringing
about the greatest conflict the world
has ever seen.
1t did not matter to the world that
the Emperor's personal share in the
swift events Immediately preceding
the war had been obscured. The
world convicted him Of organizing.
directing and maintaining at the top
notch of efficiency the great German
military machine. II remembered
that he signed the order for the Ger.
man mobilization. Il remembered
that he stood sponsor for the terror
ism and brigandage which under the
guise Of warfare, ravished Belgium,
laid waste the cities of France. de
populated and outraged Serbia. and
sent the Lusitania with her freight of
women and children TO grave in the
Atlantic.
Civilization will never forget that
1t was the minons Of the Emperor
who officially shot to death Edith
Cavell, the English girl who befricnd-
ed the Belgians in Brussels
Against these his cry. II did not
will the war, availed as nothing. Be-
fore the bar of humanity William was
adjudged guilty of the greatest crime
since the Crucihxion. In him human
ny saw the last Of the autocrats, the |
final Caesar. Assertions that he was
at heart peaceful, so persistently cir
for years as to give them the |
stamp of German propaganda. be-
zane branded as certainly false. He
Sho had long proclaimed himself the
Prince of Peace stood revealed as
scourge, and against him
md all that he represented arose the
lew world Of democracy and free
lom.
Claimed Affinity With God.
Many doubt whether William was
ntirely sane. He said repeatedly
hat he possessed divine mandate TO
ule, that the Almighty was his "un-
additional and avowed ally. Ii is
ot entirely clear whether such out
wings were the product of a disor-
cred brain or were due to unbound
d egotism and an effort to impress
is subjects with the idea of reverent {
nd unquestioning submission His |
peeches TO his armies in which he as \
srted he and they were instruments
divine judgment upon Germany's
nemies" were regarded by many .
Inside of Germany as pieces of
letoric, intended only to deceive his I
yn people. {
Williams claim to close affinity r
it'll God was the burden Of dozens $
his speeches long before as well as
tier the beginning Of the war OF b
ese, perhaps, none more clearly de- c
ned his claim than his notorious "
Irvine right" speech delivered at {
in 1890 in which he &
id he regarded the German people L
"a responsibility" conferred upon 4
m by God and that 1t was my duty v
increase this heritage for which n
lie day | shall be called upon to give o
count. Those who try to interfere o
it'll my task ! shall crush. o
In all this the world saw before the
ar not menace but a comedy 1t er
ughed with the then Capt Joseph b
Cogolan, Of the United States 81
lvy, when, returning from the war
III Spain and telling of the clash NJ
tn the commander Of the German ol
uadron at Manila Bay, the captain II
cited the famous poem, "Hoch Der Fl
iiser." In this the concluding re- h,
ain was, in the suggestions words
the Emperor: 81
Colt pulls NIT me-and nit Him a
Meinself-Und Colt" al
Few statesmen realized then that II
? deluded Emperor in his shining fr
NOR maneuvering his armies and OF
fleets, building up the German tn
ltary system, cementing the Cen ye
i Empires and Turkey, and foster pc
, the preaching of the supremacy
autocracy, was erecting a machine
It one day would make war upon ex
civilization. ga
World Given Warning u
Yet the world was warned by some de
sighted men that the Emperor to
uld one day bring catastrophe up an
the nations. These men saw in de
n than and son in him po,, aa a a,