El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-04-21
HAVE YOU READ
ELBERT HUBBARD?

sstis *# The Roycroft Shops, Of
East Aurora, New York "The Roycroft Shops" is the
name Of the editorial house founded by the late Ebert
Hubbard who does not need any Introduction to the
American literary world, his deserved fame and re-
noWn are not merely national but International universal
Indeed Where in the civilized world not familiar among
good readers the Of the autor Of "A message to
Garca?" AS forceful writer doubt Elbert Hubbard
stands first IN America among the literary figures of his
Time.
i The life of this typical American like romance:
po3r boy tramp writer of genius convincing orator.
cessfu business man. social refomer of original ideas.
He finally left in the dramatic fashion becoming an
extraordinary man: he went down with the "Lusitana
and people say that the Kaiser sent his submarines
out with special instructions to sink the boat in which
travelled the whose pen wrote this:
IF any asks Who lifted the lid off of He'll? let
"the truthful answer be, William Hohenzolern.
"Had this used his power for peace instead of in
"vadng neutral country there would have been
England would have joined with Germany in checking
= "Austrias beigerancy.
' "Bu Wilhelm wanted war, and>war he has, He was
''Who used the bung-starter.
70 "Bi Kaiser has Withered hand and running ear
He is mastod degenerate of a noble grandmother.
In degree he has her power but not her love He has
persistence, but not her prescience
He is swollen, like drowned pup, with pride that
"stinks
He never wrote letter OF message wherein he did
not speak of God if the Creator was waiting to
him in the lobby God is with us'.-God is destroying
our enemes.-I am praying our God to be with you'-
God is giving us vctories'-1 am accountable only to
my conscience and to God
Special interest in him marks the megalomaniac;
"and the idea that the nations laying for him. is
the true symptom of paranoia.
ah His talk Of Slav invasion is stall stuff subtle and
"sy, to divert attention from his crafty designs.
rs Slav invasion to be dreaded than Germa-
s~"pic? Ask Belgium
Water in the master piece who Lifted the Lid
off Of Hell wrote this prophet: The crazy Kaiser will
"no The wisdom of the world backs the Allies and
Saint Helena awaits 1t must be So * Disarmament
must come. This awful chain of wars will make World
Federation necessity. 1t need not longer be argued
"for Not woman earth but knows
Federation and disarmament the safety Of the
trace"
We have said prophet because those lines of Hubbard
written during the darkest hours Of the conflict To
a great portion of the civilized world the triumph Of
Germany the sllrest thing, borne out by facts.
Remember Hubbard perished with the "Lustania" At
that time all too much terrified to think of Saint
Helena forthe Kaiser the League of Natons but the
clear vision Of Ebert Hubbard distinguished the future
and he predicted these and many other things with mathe
matical certainty
M Hubbard the American Plutarch wrote many biogra-
phies of great men, and would like to thinking
Porto Rcans reading them We dare say without hesta
ion that the day when able to read and compre
lend writer like Hubbard, shall be fully prepared
for sef-government.