Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-10
Passing of the Dynasty
 Of the HohenZollernS
Fmperor William Il of Germany lhe last of the Allied Kings That Entered the World War
 to Either die or Lose Their Thrones

sibility of deliberately planning and bringing about the greatest conflict the world has ever seen.
 IL did not matter to the world that the Emperor's personnel share ill the swift events immediately preceding the war had been obscured. The . Wolld convicted him of organizing directing and maintaining at the top notch of efficiency the great German military machine It remembered that he signed the order for the German mobilization. 1t 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 seEt the Lusitania. with her freight of women and children to a grave in the Atlantic.
 Can Never Forget.
 Civilization will never forget that it was the minions of the Emperor who officially shot eto death Edith CaVell, the English girl who befriend- ed the Belgians in Brussels.
 Against these his cry T dil not will the war; availed as nothing. Before the bar of humanity William was ad- judged guilty of the greatest crime ty saw the last of the autocrats. the final Caesar. Assertions that he was at heart peaceful, so consistently cir culated for years as to give them the stamp of German propaganda, be- came branded as certainly false He who had long proclaimed himself the prince of peace stood revealed as humanity's scourge, and against him and all that he represented rose the new world of democracy and free dom.
 Doubt His Sanity.
 Many doubt whether William was entirely sane. He said repeatedly that he possessed a divine mandate to rule. that the Almighty was his unconditional and avowed ally" It is not entirely clear whether such cuteivings were the product of a dis-ordered brain or were due to un- bounded egotism and an effort to im- press his subjects with the idea of reverent' and unquestioning submis- siCn. His speeches to his armies in which he asserted he and they were instruments of divine judgment up on Germany's enemies" were regard ed by many outside Germany as piec- es of rhetoric, intenden only to de- ceive his own people,
 Williams claim to close affinity with God was the burden of dozens of his speeches long before as we'll as after the beginning of the war. Of these, perhaps, none more clearly defined his claim that his notorious ''divine right" speech delivered at Brandenburg in 1890. in which he said he regarded the German people as "a responsibility conferred upon him by God and that it was 'my duty to increase this heritage for which one day 1 shall be called upon to give account Those who try to interfere with my task I shall crush"
 Saw Only Comedy.
 In all this the world saw before the war not a menace but comedy. It laughed with the then Captain Jo- seph B. Coghlan of the United Sta tes Navy when, returning from the war with Spain and telling of the clash with the commander of the German squadron at Manila Bay. the captain recited the famous poem. ''Hoch De Kaiser" In this the con- cluding refrain was, in the supposi- tious words of the Emperor:
 "Gott pulls init me-and l init him
 MEINSELF-Und Gott."
 Did Not Dream of His Plans.
 Few statesmen realized then that the deluded Emperor in his shin ing armor" maneuvering his armies ana his. fleets, building up the Ger man military system. cementlng the Central Impires and Turkey. and fos- tering the preaching of the supre- macy of autocracy was creating a machine that one day would make war upon all civilization.
 Yet the world was warned oy some far-sighted men that the Eni- peror would one day brlng caCas- tronhe upon the nations. These men saw in him then and see him now as a mad inventor given in ms youtn the most dangerous of all toys-hls army and navy. u s They were his playthings. He de- yeloped them throughout the years to the point where ne hau to put them to a. test. Like-a crazed lnven- tor, he feared the end of his relgn would find his inventions untrleo' ; so grasped the first opportunity to wage a world war.
 War Party Grew.
 Meantime the German war party grew with William as it's head, ana the scheme of world dominion await cd the hour to begin it's attainment 1 It came with the assassination or the Austrian Archduke. Fnancls ferol- rand. and his wife at Sara1evo. ,.,
 Reoalled from a yachting trip, VII. liam presided at conference at Potsdam, of representatives or tne German and Austrian armies. navles and commercial interests. Tnere. ac- cording to the best information oD- 4 a TA0RnAn