GERMANS AND THEIR KAISER.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 January 1918, Page 5

GERMANS AND THEIR KAISER.

A DUTCH OPINION. "The Kaiser," said the Dutch cartoonist, Raemaekers, "-has been accounted a very brilliant, a very versatile man He is a very superficial man. He is stupid. He has skimmed this point and that point. He has had many teachers, many advisers. Flatterers have told him he was a great artist, a great musician, that he could write a wonderful play, that he could write fine poetry, that -he was a mighty military genius, until he began to believe that he knew all professions, all trades, and excelled in them. The .result has been confidence in himself, confidence in his leaders, and confidence in the German people. So he went to war in the belief that God called .him. And all the German people in Germany, and many of them outside of Germany, believe that. The Kaiser is mad, and the people of Germany are mad. The conscience of a mad man does not disturb him. , No one who talks of a peace without a defeated Germany understands the situation which confronts the world, to-day. Ami a defeated Germany must mean a military defeat so that the German people will understand it, and that is the only way they can understand it. The only way a German RepublTc can he built is upon the ashes of the G?r man Empire."