The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-20
KAISER WAS A
 STUPID FELLOW
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 Davis the Kaiser never said but one intelligent thing. Looking out upon the estate of the Prince of Pless, over vast lawns, crystal lakes with swim ming swans, and flowers as far as the eye could see, his imperial majesty said: "Is it not beautiful?" It was. Dr. Davis vouched for it.
 Upon an occasion the Kaiser said':' Your president is a scoundreI. He must have his throat cut first"
 His imperial majesty suffering no doubt with toothache, or with dental fear, spoke of the miserable little British army. of the inability of America to enter the war. The Ger man army had been trained for a hundred years. IL could not be dUpli- cated elsewhere in a short time. If America. came in, my U-boats" would sink her ships.
 AS defeat came nearer the Kaiser thought those responsible for the war should be strung up" Every man his own tribunal
 It was a pitifu1 story. Habit dulls the minds of nations, as it does the minds of individuals. Here was Ger many, modern, filled with industrial ism and all the complex tools of in tensive civilization, at the mercy of a mediocre person with a withered arm, and a set of medieval notions of q most dangerous sort.
 The Kaisers notion of the world was infantile. His concept of mili- | tary power dated to the time of Ma poleon. It had never occurred to him hot | powers to the defensive.
 | He wandered about, getting his teeth | filled, babbling, like a child at a pie nic, unconscious of realities. The crown prince, more juvenile, was more human. My soldiers are standing 1 knee deep In water" How do you like the cut of my coat" A little fellow, strutting on a big stage, 1T 1 the presence of little people, witt the exception of the American dentist who watched him with amused anC pitying eyes.
 The Socialists were on hand, ask ing questions, sometimes in defiance of their own philisophy. Liebknech was the bone of contention. Why haC American newspapers praised him when he defied the Kaiser, and de nounced him when he led rebellion
 Liebknecht was overrated, said Den tist Davis. He was less in German, than he was made to seem in Amer ica.
 Had Liebknesht answered, he would have said, Economic determinism." |"
 "When the interest of America call ed for defiance to the Kaiser, tn . | ican interest feared rioting in Ger many and strange doings in the world I was cried down."
 "The government of Ebert will no last long" said Davis.
 There is danger of Bolshevism
 Germany must be fed. Thus tn
 Faiser's dentist came to the onl point, which for the moment ha
 much interest for the world Wha
 shall be done with the German peo
 pie? How shall the fire be extin
 guished that threatens mankind wit
 a. holocaust of it's cherished institu
 tions. Feed the Germans says tn lIaiser's dentist May his dental sym
 pathies not be with the German,
 Fourteen years is long time to liv
 among a people. But Davis has bee
 coming home almost every year. H , seems to be mostly American. Tn world must soon choose between rem edies It must take the advice of tn Naisers dentist and feed Germany; must let Germany stew In its 'ow juice. or, perhaps it must bring Ger ] many to utter starvation. To sue s important questions does the simpl r narrative bring us, which Is her scantily displayed.