The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-30

Ono Of the Stanchest Monarchist Pa.
pers Gives Space to a Sensational
Article Obviously From an Authori.
tative source-says II William Had
Been Born Laborer He Might Have
Perished as Tramp-Worries Other
Crowned Heads.
Significant indeed are the signs of
the times when the most resolute of
junkers and most loyal of monarchists
seriously and publicly discuss the
question of William Won Hohenzol-
lern's sanity. For many years, indeed
ever since early in his reign, oppo-
nents have impugned his sanity. They
have recalled the acknowledged strain
Of insanity which showed itself in for.
mer generations of his family, and
have also stressed the well-known fact
that for nearly all his life he has suf-
fered from chronic and most severe
affection Of the ear, which might read
lily involve lesion Of the brain. But
now it is not his foes but his friends
who are saying these things.
The most sensational o. such ut.
terances appears in that stanchest
of monarchist papers, the "Berliner
Staatsbuerger Zeitung," which gives
conspicuous place to a communication
obviously from an important and au-
thoritative source. In part it follows:
"A mere layman is generally quite
incapable of detecting any mental de-
rangement, or, if he does perceive it,
of giving the sufferer suitable treat
ment. When, some twenty years ago,
l visited an asylum for the insane In
the Rhenish provinces, and was shown
by the director through all his wards,
was so strangely affected that actu-
ally began to doubt my own mental
sanity, and finally asked if there really
existed any mentally normal men.
The director was open to conviction.
1t seemed as though he had expected
my question or as though he himself
had often thought of it. Incidentally,
ten years later he himself became in
sane.) He replied that perfectly nor.
NAL men We're in fact very rare. But
to this circumstance lie attached little
Importance. In the world there 20
about men who, though abnormal, are
not suspected Of insanity. Confined
in the asylums are the patients who
are dangerous to the community,
though some of them may seem sane.
THAT the violent insane are danger.
Gus TO the community needs no de.
tailed explanation. Many patients
need only the temporary care Of an
asylum.
The Ex-kaiser's Mania.
The ex-kaiser suffers from psycho-
pathic vagans, or travelling mania. An
internal unrest urged him to lead a
vagrant life. Men afflicted with this
disease are not capable of performing
their duties in regulated work. Had
william been born as laborer he
might have perished as tramp AS
member of the middle class he could
have become, under certain circum-
stances, capable commercial tray
eler. His abnormality became danger
Gus for the community only through
the circumstance that, in accordance
with tradition and usage, he had to
adopt the calling of his father and
lead the destinies of a people of Co.
100000, which he was not able at all
to do. That the thing went wrong was
really not his fault, but the fault of
the monarchial German constitution.
which does not intrust the direction of
the reich to the most capable but to
the man designated by birth.
when the ex-kaiser fled to Holland
his passion moved him to disregard
safety with his big travelling auto
mobile. Holland is little country
and the imperial car ran at speed of
30 kilometers an hour, and the i'm
perial horn signal sounding every
where made the Hollanders nervous.
The Dutch government thereupon,
without moments hesitation, in
termed the kaiser in its Amerongen
castle. The order for, confinement was
automatically made, for the alleged
reason that only in this way could the
Dutch government assure the kaiser's
safety. The confinement to the prem.
ASS5 VI SAAO SuoIAS was IOT Lie DdIlcnC
the hardest blow of his life. Since
then he has spent great part of the
day roaming about in the wood and in
the meadows, or reading books of
travel so as to procure for himself a
substitute for his passion.
Nut on Travelling.
Travelling was to such a degree a
fixed idea of the kaiser that when af-
fairs of state or the fact that there
wss no one to be visited. made travel
Ing Impossible to him he sometimes
passed night in his parlor car, which
stood in the railroad preserve, only five
minutes from his new palace, under
tile pretext that lie had to be in Berlin
at an impossible hour the next morn
Ing. At the beginning Of the summer
OF 1895 he INDUCED in this strange
pastime uheh one evening in June the
empress found the courage, when he
was about driving to the station, to
threaten that she would visit him in
1Nr IL.