The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-11-15

! garded by many outside of Germany
as pieces of rhetoric. intended to de-
ceive his own people.
/ Williams claim to close affinity
with God was the burden of dozens
of his speeches long before as well as
after the beginning of the war. OF
B these. perhaps, none more clearly
defined his claim than 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 l shall be called upon
to give account. Those who try TO
interfere with my task l shall
crush
In all this the world saw before
the war not a menace but a comedy.
1t laughed with the then Captain
Joseph B. Coghlan of the United
States navy when. returning from
the war with Spain and telling of
the clash with the commander OF the
German squadron at Manila Bay.
"Hoch Der Kaiseer." In tn ) the
concluding refrain was, in the sup
positions words OF the emperor:
"Gott pulls nit me-and | m { him
-MEJ\SEI Find Cott
Few statesmen realize than that
the deluded Emperor in his Shining
armOr." maneuvering his armies and
his fleets. building up the German
military system. cementing the Cen
trail Empires and Turkey. and fos-
tering the preaching Of the supre-
macy 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 up
on the nations. These men saw in
him then and see him now as mad
inventor given in his youth the most
dangerous of all toys-his army and
navy.
Publication of the "Willy-Nicky"
correspondence in 1917, placed the
German Emperor in the light Of an
INSCRIPTIONS plotter. The telegram
disclosed that Emperor Will am had
induced Emperor Nicholas of Russia
10 sign a secret agreement to which
he was to force the adherence Of
France in the perfection OF an Of
fensive and defensive alliance
against England. The treaty was
discovered and repudiated by Rus
sian minister.
Failing in his attempt, the EN-
peror set upon himself, the task of
drawing England to his side against
France and Russia How we'll he
thought he had succeeded in this
may be gathered from letter he
wrote TO President Wilson in 1914
in which he said King George had
promised Prince Henry Of Pruss a,
on July %. 1914, that England
would remain neutral in a war in
volving the Central Powers with
France and Russia.
Perhaps the most direct and au-
thoritative of the accusations against
the German Emperor and the Pan
Germans are contained in the pub
lished secret memorandum of Prince
Charles Max Lichnowsky. who was
German ambassador at London at
the outbreak of hostilities. The
prince unequivocally placed the
blame for the war on Germany, and
for his frankness was imprisoned in
a Silesian chateau, permanently eX,
pelied from the Prussian house Of
lords, which action was sanctioned
by the emperor, and, finally, was ex-
lied to Switzerland.
Emperor Williams domination
over German statesmen, diplomats
and the high command of the Ger
man army was emphasized by DR.
Willie elm MuehlOn. former director
OF the Krupp works, the great Ger
man munitions factory, in his book
on The Devastation of Europe" In
Germany for bad faith and crit cized
the German army for its brutality
but asserted that in the German for
eign office "only he who did the en-