Degenerates of German Throne

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 August 1916, Page 2

Degenerates of German Throne

BAD FAMILY HISTORY

First there is the so-called Frederick the Great, 'an insane ruler and brutal monarch if ever there was one, 1740 1786. Next, his nephew, Frederick William 11.. 1786-1797. « notorious evil-liver, bigamist and debe contractei. Then followed Frederick William 1\ .. 1840 18(51, who became mad and died childless, who was followed by a daughter of his brother, who married Maximilian 11., king of Bavaria, who had two sons. Lugwig IL. (a cousin of the present Emperor) who died insane, and the other King Otto of Bavaria who also died insane. Then there was Frederick A\ililmin IV.. succeeded by his brother William 1., 1861—1888. who became Emperor in 1871. his queen being a grand-d" • ter oil her mother's side) of Czar Paul., who died of cancer and whose wife was tlie eldest daughter of Queen Victoria of England, and he in turn was succeeded br the present madman, who we know, treated his own mother so cruelly and shamefully and hiafi since "sought to annihilate the very island home and glorious kingdom from which his noblo mother was sprung. Here we have the true record of a progeny, indeed, and of insanity oi diseased mentality from which the Kaiser has sprung *nd the unspeakable tragedy of it all is that Mich a mental degenerate should have been allowed, or even free, to bring about the present colossal war.