Evening star., 1926-11-28
EX-KAISER LOSES ADHERENTS
AND HOPES FOR THRONE FADE
Industry and Ex-Service Men Throw in
Lot With Republican Government
-Royalists Back Youth.

BY Cable to The Star and New York Word.
BERLIN, November 27. - William
II, ex-Kaiser of Germany, is the ma
tional bogey-man. Republican mothers
frighten their naughty children with
the threat, THE Kaiser will get you if
you don't watch out" Ardent Ma
tionalists threaten equally ardent Re
publicans with what will happen to
them when the Kaiser comes back. )"
But most bogey-men are scare
crows and the eX-kaiser is no excep
ton. They look dangerous from afar
The distance from Berlin to Castle
Doom, Holland, is the measure OF the
threat Of William lis restoration. The
farther he is from Germany. the more
dangerous he will look to the Repub-
lican Reich. The closer he comes, the
more will be he revealed as q man Of
straw.
Moreover, people seldom try to
frighten others with threat which
they believe can, or will, materiallZe.
Emperor Is Dim.
So 1t is with the ex-Kaiser. Today
the prospect of his being Emperor
again is neither good business, nor
good romance. For him the time is
out of joint. so far as the tempera-
mental and romantic-minded mon
archists are concerned. And indus
trial Germany is too dependent upon
the foreign money market to risk
,haking it's credit by unnecessary
political disturbance. Kings are out
of fash on. Dictators are the thing
today. Militant Nationalists are be-
ginning TO envisage a Mussolinl,
rather than monarch.
DR.. Paul Silberg, influential Ger
man industrialiSt, and one Of the
directors of the great Federation OF
German Industries, recently finished
the antimonarchist job which the
late Hugo Shines, one-time indus
trial car Of Germany, began. Sew
eral years ago, at secret and highly
important meeting of the German in
dustrial leaders, three Of the person
ages present outlined to their col
leagues a detailed plan for a Hohen-
zollern restoration. SHINES was the
last man to speak at the meeting, and
he had the last word. He threatened
to make public the plot and pledged
all of his great resources and strength
to fight the scheme unless it was
dropped. He fatty told the as
semblage that for him Nationalism
meant conservatism. not mOnarchism.
The plan was scotched.
Industry Backs Republic.
Silberg. in his recent speech to the
annual conference Of the Federation
of German Industries, revealed to the
public this change of sentiment. His
invitation to the Social-Democrats to
join the German Government, coming
from such a "big business" man,
created the greatest sensation in the
Reich. But this fiat declaration that
the German industrialists now recog-
niZed and supported the republican
of Germany was really
the most important and more highly
part of his remarks.
On the sentimental and tempera-
mental side of the Kaiser question:
Two of William lis hitherto strong
est supporters have now deserted
him: Admiral Alfred Won TirpitZ, the
German naval war leader, and Capt.
Ehrhardt one of the leaders of the
kapp "Putsch" and the new presi-
dent of the Stahlhelm, the extreme
organization of war vet
Grams and young milita1stic nation
alists. This detection from their al
legiance to the man who remained