The Brunswick news., 1919-08-23
THAT ENTRANCE INTO LONDON
Brought before the beak" at Old

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the naughty Kaiser whose wocf ct
command dominated the heart Of
Europe and arouse apprehension OF
/ the world! The ex-Kaiser has been
in London before as the flatterrd
guest of royalty and the chief at.
/ traction of a vast demonstrat on
There have been unpleasant sdspic-
ious that he then abused his hospi-
tality AMI played the spy in the house
Of his blood kin. Doubles, in any
case he looked around upon the fat,
complacent comfortable domain OF
England and pleasantly contemplate ]
theday on which it would become
with all its wealth and productive
capacity, a chained vassal Of the
Prussian monarchy. Then he would
return to London as a patronizing
suzerain.
But now he is to Quincy to Lon
don in a quite different fashion from
the dazzling glory of hi dream. He is
to go as a prisOner-not a prisoner
of war captured after gallant lesis-
tance on the field of battle. but a
prisoner taen by the police and
brought to trial for the sordid crime
cf contract-br breaking, For that is
the plain English of it. He de-
faulted on his signed and sealed OBJ
legation. He is precisely in the po-
5ition of an ordinary citizen who
-hould repudiate an agreement or
dishonor a note, The only difference
Is that the Kaiser's defalcation cost
millions CT lvies and amin calculate
amount Oh treasure,
If we are to measure crimes by
their consequences there is no pos
hibility of adequately Furnishing the
ex- Kaiser inside tho limits CT a hu-
man lifetime. or his real punish
nent, we must send him to a tribu-
ral whose sentences can outlast time
and outlive the human race,
The purpose of all sane human
punishment is to deter. Mr.. Lloyd
George says that this is the obpect in
view in bringing the Kaiser to trial
The idea is to serve notice on all flu
ture mass -murderers that. no matter
how thickIy they cloak thei rcrime in
patriotic argan CT how mapesticare
the titles under which they proceed
to the shambles, they WILDE Gried
= ! punished . the full me- ~" "i
., :;:ce then ac;.1i1y the human
eff they fail
That is the Gi.fe,Gnoc hetwcrr
SIS murderer al Il r,cHil mn''rt-
Ycu can ha /" a fe!a;- mtr'er
- even if he succeeds But if Il mass
.a,.1derer succ seG :, ne car hug the
,ases and the p1ry anl the exa1u-
ianer himself. Thus it i. much more
m3ortapt to discourage mass mur-
lor than retail murder.
No one expects that the ex-kai-
gcd will be hanged The reason Will
IN the any survival Of awe for his lost
mperial trappingg or any tenderness
for his person. 1t will be basel up
IN psychology and have special reH-
erence to the possibility of missing
the main purpose of punishment by
making a martyr of what we all hope
is the last of tnt Hohenzollerns.
There is one way in which the Al
lies can defeat their righteous de-
3rin in striving to render the late
Of the dishcnhEd Kaiser an OBJ
iect lesson in the high advisability
Il trying to set up world-despot~
ism, and that is by 50 treatiny the
Kaiser that he will achieve the pos
thumous revenge of Napoleon. Nepol
con was taken from France treach~
erous criminal, cordially hated, flocd.
thirsty tyrant of whom she was well
pleased to be rid. He returned in his
coffin an immortal hero in the ilag
powered Invalides, an Irresistible in
spiration to Frenchmen to lift Ggair
the tattered flag of Imperialism
which they did under Napoleon tho
Little. who led them through SO