KAISER EXPLAINS KULTUR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 249, 30 March 1915, Page 6

KAISER EXPLAINS KULTUR.

MYSTERY CLEARED m\ Kerr Ludwig Ganghofer, who .is the Kaiser's special journalistic confidant, I states in the Munich Neueste Nachrichten that even in moments of the greatest excitement the Kaiser never loses control of his tongue. "Regarding a certain calmuny," says Herr Ganghofer, "I heard his Majesty say, 'That is strong, but fortunately the truth is in the long run always the more prudent and the quicker.' ! "Chivalrous conduct to his own particular enemies rejoices him. Regarding Great Britain, I have never heard from the Kaiser a single intemperate word uttered in anger. To a representative of a neutral State, the Kaiser said:— " 'You are a sportsman. If in a race all the weaker competitors fall out and only two of the strongest horses contest for -victory, have you ever seen the jockey of the horse dropping behind whipping the jockey on the better horse?' ,The sportsman shook his head, and the Kaiser continued, 'Why does England whip us and not his own lazy mare?' "The following is another of the Emperor's remarks: "'Many who, judging us by outward appearances, term us barbarians, do not seem to know the great difference between civilisation and Kultur. Great Britain is the most highly-civilised nation. One , perceives that fact in the drawing-room, but to possess Kultur means to possess the deepest' conscientiousness and the highest morality. My Germans possess that.' " 'When people abroad say I intend to found a world-empire, that is pure nonsense, but in the morality, conscientiousness, and industry of the German dwells that conquering power which will open the world to him.'"