The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-02

the destruction of German unity and
German discipline not SO much tho
physical victory OF the Entente DIS the
| spiritual victory of this atheistical
secret society. He reads a number of
books on the subject and his elo-
| quence about Free Masorery is as
earnest and didatic as in former days
was his denunciation of the Yellow
Peril, socialism and Slavism.
He sees in front of humanity
fearful abyss of agony and ruin to-
wardwhich the hidden hand of Free
Masonry is fast driving the uncon-
| scious masses of the world. He says
that two great powers still stand in
the midst OF the worlds ruin. the
Church of Rome and Free Masons
THE Church Of Rome at least
stands for law and order" he says,
but as for me, I am true to the
| church of my forefathers and the
Bible is all / need for guidance. My
grandmother, Queen Victoria, used to
say, too, in the Bible you will find
all that Is necessary; do not seek
elsewhere"
| He is convinced that atheism has
fastened political tenacles round the
body OF civilization and is preparing
I
sorry for him is satanism
This anxiety which chiefly con-
| Germs Germany, is the first and prin-
cipal preoccupation of the fallen en-
peror. He prays daily, almost hourly,
that his people may be saved from
the fate of Russia.
Second to this prepossessjon is his
eagerness to know what educated peo-
pie in England think about him and
say about him at their dinner tables
Does Lord So-and-So, does Lady,
does Mr., all former friends who
knew him intimately--do these people
really believe that he is a monster?
His love for the country life OF Eng.
land still exists. He likes to talk to
| his host about practices in England
they both know and people there who
were once their friends. He is con-
tinually exclaiming: But can they
i really believe all these outrageous
things that are said about me?"
! Then he will cry, almost with moan
Those were wonderfully happy days
IN England! Gone! Gone! Comet"
Mistakes Of His Past.
He never dreams that the happiness
OF the past can be restored Every
thing has fallen, everything lies bro
Ken at his feet. He has failed, and
his doom is lifelong. When he is in
these moods he speaks with freedom
and compassion of his past.
Il have made mistakes" he will say.
see now where might have done
better. But consider my difficulties
came to the throne too young. 1
really succeeded my grandfather the
hundred nf fof arse ro;, A.
not count. succeeded my grand
father, and found myself surrounded
by his statesmen. They were all old
men. They regarded me as a boy,
they treated me with the amused toll
erance which old men in those DAYS
employed toward their youngers. 1t
was really insufferable. I determined
to assert my power. l determined to
be the leader of young Germany, the
true king Of great people destined to
be mighty nation and the strong
rock Of law, order, and culture in the
centre OF Europe; the opposition l en-
countered made me headstrong. I can
see now how bad it was for me. l
became impatient, Incorporate, but in
spite Of my faults l did help Germany
to grow to great power, and | kept the
had not betrayed the world there
would be peace now. have made
mistakes, but no man is more innocent
of this war than t.
In Touch with Loyaists.
There is strong loyalist party in
Germany, and the former Kaiser is in
terested in its progress. He main
tains certain relations with it and is
in frequent communication with his
brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, who
supplies him with all new German
literature Of any significance. But l
think that no hope exists in his heart
of return to his throne, and that he
lie quite impersonally interested in the
future destiny of his country. He and
the former Empress would like to buy
place in Guelderland and there end
the evening Of their days in peace and
seclusion. The ex-Emperor is con-
scious that he has failed to save his
country from ruin, and that his reign
has eliminated in disaster fatal to
his fortunes
The end Of that reign, as one feels
it here in this Dutch village, is GER
tainly tragic enough. The once puts
SAINT and medieval Emperor, who
made himself the mouthpiece of God
and whose sword would flash from its
sheath on occasion like terrible light
ming that threatened thrones and ma
tons with destruction, sits on one
side OF hearth in Holland, talking of
Freemasons and shaking his white
head over the worlds lapse into athe-
ism. And on the other side of the
hearth, often struggling for breath,
sits the former Empress, whose one
task is to comfort and sustain her
fallen lord in his broken fortunes,
while her own heart is crying out in
secret for the presence Of her chill
dren and grandchildren, from whom
she now feels herself eternally parted.
These two human beings, paying the
penalty Of failure, discuss the world
across their fireside and are more re-
mote from the great world than the
village policeman lounging in front of
the cSstle gate. They are prisoners
and the jailer who turned the key on
their liberty is the world they discuss
in their prison cell. Whatever the ex-
Kaiser may think will be histor,,'s
verdict On his part in the war. no one