The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-06-06
KAISER A PARANOIAC
SAYS MEDICAL man
A Garrulous Swashbuckler
And Querulous Mad
Man.

alysis and the Kaiser" the editor of
ex-German Emperor was always a
garrulous old Paranoiac, boastful,
swash- blood-and-thunder
imperial hero. in no wise suited for
the role destiny had imposed upon
him" Following is the editors strik-
ing picture of the Kaisers mental
and physical makeup: For the
simplest explanation of the Kaiser's
grotesque personality one must go
to the most complicated Of sciences
psychoanalysis His interview, given
out to the world in a quarulous mo-
ment and retracted in the panic that
followed such an extraordinary self
revelation. must remain as a psyche
logic monument for all time. The
Kaiser was always a auerulous old
paranoiac. and the generals who con-
Quoted his pathetic career knew what
they were doing when they assigned
Karl Rosner to him as a press agent
and let him talk his heart out over
tear-stirring violets and such like
things for the benefit of the public
20 which Wilhelm had successfully
played for thirty-odd years.
The Bigbie Interview.
His interview granted to Harold
Bigbie was very much in character,
but for once the Kaiser spoke honest
ly. and Immediately afterward he re-
GREETED it, His denial that he ever
gave an interview to any one is Of no
avail; any student of character knows
that the strange things he uttered
were so genuine a product that it
could not have been manufactured.
To those who knew the man only as
q boastful swash-huckling, blood
and-thunder imperial hero. the whim-
pering. sniveling nature of his mes
sage TO the world must have come as
a surprise, but to the psychonanalyst
the man who acknowledged partner ,
ship only with Colt (and Colt the
junior partner was never a puzzle. /.
Long before the interview was made /
public a well-known disciple Of Freud |.
set him down as suffering markedly |
from an acknowledgements which is /
at the basis of all the Kaiser ever /
said. thought or did. 1T is common /
knowledge that Wilhelm Hohenzol- !
lern is a cripple. This scion of
Ill Il h.
come a ruler of an aggressive, master
full race OF Nietzchean blond beasts,
was in no wise suited for the role ,
destiny had imposed upon him,
How His Mind Worked.
His shrunken arm, his pathetically
puny figure, his whole unheroic and
unprepossessing makeup were con-
slant source of humiliation to him.
Realizing this. the one aim of his life
was to deceive the world, to draw at
tention away from those shortcom-
ings. to impose himself on the pub
lie as a giant, physically and intellect
ually, a colossus of courage and abili-
ty, as the perfect symbol of perfect
kinghOod. And every utterance of
his career, every act of his rule, was
designed toward this end. Charity
might betray weakness; he must not
be charitable. Kindness might be-
tray desire for sympathy; he must
not be kind An inclination toward
peace might indicate cowardcie; he
must become known as the greatest
war-lOrd of all time. Hence his cOali-
ton with the heartless war party to
Germany in the effort to build up
the vast war machine drained the re-
sources of Germany; hence his ia
nous Hun speech to the German |
troops, who were dispatched to China
during the Boxer rebellion; hence his
periodical, clustering challenges to
the world at every crisis in which his [
country was involved. And in time I
the world began to believe that the I
man was really modelled after a he t
role pattern Many able observers "a
were deceived. a
Imposed on Roosevelt. n
Even such a shrewd judge of I
character as the late Col. Roosevelt 5
was taken in. But the great test p
came when Germany lost the war and j
the Kaiser had to flee from his coun- 9
try. His career had come to an end. a
He was failure, he was found out.
And what defense did he offer to An b
undeceived world? What justifica- II
ton did this fearless hero offer for o
the course he had pursued so conf G
IDENTIFY for three decades? His ia y
mons interview is the answer. Rob a