THE EX-KAISER.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1918, Page 7

THE EX-KAISER.

HIS PERVERTED RELIGION.

Dr. David Payne Hill, who for years was United States Ambassador at Berlin, finds an explanation of the esKaiser's badness in his perverted religion. Ho says: He is a "soul accursed by one great wrong idea, and the purposts, passions, and resolutions generated by it. A mind distorted, led into captivity, and condemned to crime by the obsession that God has bnt one people, and they are h.i 3 people; that I tine people have but one will and that is 'his will; that God has but one purpose and that is his purpose; and being responsible only to the God of his own imagination, a purely tribal divinity, tho reflection of hk own power-loving nature, that he fcas no definite op.eaponsibijity to men." There is a 'limit to the world's endxtranca of brutality, arrogance and injustice. Thepationee of the civilised world for soma time with tIM-3?ofcsdami megalomaniac and his gang; But Germany Ih-as risen iu revolt, and, execrated by his people, the Kaiser Abdicated and his;wretched son has renounced the tli rone. This abdication is probably limited to his position of German Emperor, and he may joi Prussia, but the. fires of insurrection blaring in Prussia may speedily burn up his Prussian throne. He may have been glad to abdicate /to . escape the humiliation of surrender, jSuid if so, there is no nobility about . the... end . of Kaisership. But he has not seen the end of tihe day, for he shpuld face justice and judgment. Henry 1 Seton Merriman has said: '"Justice is very quiet; patient as death itself.. She holds her hand for years—sometimes for a generation—but she strikes at last." And the American poet has sung:

In the shadow, year out, year in, TSie silent headsman waits for ever.