Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17

relations with statesmen from all
parts of the world. And after this
long intimacy with Kings and
Queens. with Princes and Ambassa-
dors, I do not hesitate to say that
William seemed to have the least
kingly mind of them all. 1 wit
messed his judgment of men and
events while l lived in his house and
listened to his opinions on world
affairs. I wondered at his admira-
ton for the Sultan of Turkey; I
saw his difficulties with the Gar
of Russia: his dissentions with the
Emperor of Austria; and all those
erratic outbreaks which kept his
Chancellor busy explaining. But
even his Chancellor did not know
enough TO study the psychology of
the greatest force on earth: Amer
lea.
Kaiser Aping Frederick
Before the war, I presume, from
time to time you have seen para
graphs in the papers setting forth
the Kaiser's aspirations to emulate
Frederick the Great. Though ana
chronistic, there is nothing discredit-
able in such an ambition; yet
members of the household. who like
myself, saw William grimacing for
halfhours at time before a mirror
hanging by the side of a life-size
portrait of Frederick, could not help
feeling apprehensive that behind
this there was more than vainglorI-
BUSINESS
AS a matter of fact, the monarch
of the end of the eighteenth century
and his successor of the beginning of
. ! 4rr-a f0tI, -,
mon, outwardly and inwardly, as
the second Ludwig of Bavaria and
the fourteenth Louis of France had,
That William, ocular disproof not
withstanding, insisted upon imagin-
ing himself Frederick's counterpart,
was but u phase of his monomania
of grandeur equivalent to the hallu-
cinationS of which his late mad
cousin was possessed.
That a General can do everything
was one of the Kaiser's pet phrases
because they, receive their in
structions from me-"
The court which is to adjudicate
the Kaiser's crimes should make a
note of this, for he has already COM
menced the towards game of shift
ing responsibility, of blaming his
tools and henchmen for executing
orders emanating from himself, and
which no one dared to dispute.
Berlin Cutters to Run With Blood
For Weeks
civilian said he liked the Sultan
as the embodiment of absolutism, as
ruler prepared to rule at the haz-
ard of seeing one-half of his people
dead OH the ground, that the other
half may learn to obey" If, ''he
continued, my grand-uncle, Freder-
ick William w had possessed but q
spark of the spirit that lives I'm the
so-called sick man, I should be
monarch in the true sense of the
word today, though Berlin cutters
might have run with blood for weeks
in succession during March. 49,"
Yet William did not attempt to
improve on Frederick william.
When in November, Berlin saw
red" he tamely sneaked off to Hol-
land and hired an extra typist to
take down his defence"
No doubt he meant what he said
at Frankfort, namely that he would
rather see his forty-two millions of
Prussians dead on the battlefield
than give up one foot of ground
gained by the Franco German war"
what are human lives to him?-
but as the forty-two millions and
some twenty-eight millions more de-
cided differently, he found it con-
venient to step from the heights of
the sublime to the depths of the
ridiculous.
Murdered Christians Don't Count
His hands red with the blood of
forty thousand murdered Christians.
the Sultan received a colored photo
graph representing the imperial
family in loving group,-Kaiser
and Kaiserin and all the children.
my MASTER" our Ambassador,
was ordered to say in his presenta-
ton speech, "hopes that this sim
pie souvenir may be acceptable to
Your Majesty as token of the
Kaiser's affection and eternal friend
ship" massacres or no massacres.
Twice the German envoy had tele-
graphed Prince Hohenlohe for fur
ther advices on this piece of dip
lomatic business: his first telegram
seemed to indicate that he looked
upon the picture as a belated valen-
tine gift, or something of the sort,
On being reassured OF its up-to-
dateness, he wired no would rather
resign than carry out SO degrading