“CRAZY WILLIAM.”

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 233, 25 June 1915, Page 2

“CRAZY WILLIAM.”

HOME TRUTHS FOR THE KAISER.

''lf anyone asks, 'Who lifted the lid off Hell?’ let. the truthful answer bo, 'William Hohcnzollern. ’ ”

That is the text of one of the mosr remarkable war pamphlets which have yet been isued, an which emanatec* from tlie pen of the late Elbert Hubbard, the American writer, who addresses a few home truths to the Kaiser, after tersely remarking, "Hell was made in Germany.” If you examine the present lUirOpean war situation caret6.l ly, acceding to Mr. Elbert Hubbard, you will find it stamped and stencilled, "Made in Germany.” The charitable view is to assume that the War Lord is a subject for the pathologst and the alienist. He is a warrior first and for ever. Bill Kaiser has a shrunken soul, and a mind that recks rvith egomania. He Is a mastoid degenerate of a noble grandmother. We are told that the Kaiser kept the peace for, 43 years. True—~ just waiting for this stroke at world domination.

Some of Mr. Hubbard’s general observations on the war for which the Kaiser is responsible are pithy gems, and although they will not be palatable to German eyes, seem to hit the mark every time. War, runs one of them, as a corrective for industrial jealousy, would be like making love with a bludgeon, managing a kindergarten with a whip, oc introducing faith, hope, and charity with the aid of thiimscrews. The one intent of modern commerce is to bestow a benefit. The one intent of war is a intimidate, cripple, malm, and destroy. Commerce stands for help and happiness, war symbols suffering and disease. War destroys your market, limits your territory, lessons your prospect. All the progress of the last thirtythree years lies a jumbled, tumbled mass of fears and tears, in the dust and dirt of the gladiatorial arena. Kero, the fiddling fiend, with jits carelessness in the use of fire, never burned property in all his pestilential career worth one-half that destroyed when the Kaiser’s troops applied the torch to storied Louvain.

Bill thinks he is a Superman, but some day the devil will explain to him that he is only a supernumerary. The crazy Kaiser will not win. The wisdom of the world backs the Allies, and St. Helena awaits. It must be so.