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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1918, Page 2

EXIT THE KAISER. The exit of the Kaiser is necessarily precedent to tile complete surrender of Germany. It is part of the toll to l>c exacted by tho Allies as some satisl'oc. tion for the war, it is part of the ton to be paid by tlie Kaiser for leading his people into the. Great War. The abdication of the Kaiser is some guarantee that the German people will have sane leadership and government in the

fut-iii 6 it- ia gte»i in tho tiofU drama, signifying the completeness of the Allied victory, and the dethronement of Ihe Kaiser will help the dullest mind in the Fatherland to understand that Germany has lost the war. The downfall of tho Kaiser has been foretold prophetically, and the London Mngazino. just to hand, reprints some or these remarkable prophecies. There is the mystic utteranco of one, Hermann a Brandenburg monk, who lived m j tho thirteenth century, and who fore- ; told exactly the course run by the lie- j henzollorns dynasty. He predicted the ‘ present Kaiser would ho the last- to , rule. The Hermann prophecies foretold j the rise of the dynasty, traced their J evolution froth mer© robber barons to electors, and from electors to Kings. Another pre-cast was made'by a French seer known as i( tho prophecy of Stress, burg.” This foretold the defeat of Franco, and the rise of the German Empire in 1870-71, and predicted the fall of the newly-fledged Empire at the end of a generation and a half which period is estimated to have now matured. Still another well-known prophecy, says in 1919, that “the Kingdom of a ruler who had six sons and who mounts his horse on tho wrong side, will be swept away. The Kaiser lias six sons and in consequence of liis withered arm, mounts his horse on the wrong side! All these prophecies have given way now to stern fact. The Kaiser and his heir have gone, and a few weeks will see a new form of Government established for the German Empire. Tho Kaiser by his abdication has met hut portion of the fate that is his clue. He staked his crowd nnd his millions of people against all that is best in human nature, and he lias lost the game—and must pay. The price of his crown might well he th© least of the penalties lie incurs to atone for all the suffering and misery he lias put upon the world by his mad act in provoking the Great War. The power he enjoyed in his own Empire, gave him the taste and desire for world dominion. Despite the commercial prosperity of the German nation and its expansion abroad, as the great. War-Lord of his Empire his whole object was concentrated on military nower. Germany became military ridden, and militarism dominated the country. This was the atmosphere in which the Kaiser lived and moved and had his being. The military surrounded him and he enjoyed a high senso of power and deriving might from the autocratic constitution, under which he ruled, governed his people by the nfajesty of his position alone. He created a fabric which could exist by force only. In the hour of clanger and peril and the prop of military power giving away the Kaiser’s fall has been immediate. The faith and confidence of his people he has uever enjoyed. What existed was a false sentiment created under unreal conditions and this has been swept away by the reality of the situation as it is now revealed to tile nation. The exit of the 'Kaiser is the first stage in the emancipation of the German nation from the military gang which lias work ©d so national a wrong within the Empire.