Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1918 — DEATH TOO GOOD FOR KAISER, SAY HIGH OFFICIALS [ARTICLE]

DEATH TOO GOOD FOR KAISER, SAY HIGH OFFICIALS

Never Can Shrive Himself of Crimes and Henceforth Shall Be Pariah. ALL OF KIN ARE OUTCASTS Dynasty of Hohenzollerns Forever Ended, With the Hapsburgs Soon to Follow, Is the Opinion Expressed at Washington. Washington, Nov. 11— "The king is dead” —but there are no cries of "Long lived the king.” The world has done with kings of the Hohenzollern’s type and the news of his abdication has evoked in the nation’s capital no word of sympathy for fallen greatness. Nor has it Caused unmixed rejoicing, for there follows i<n‘ its train the threat of anarchy and civil war. In and out of administration circles, however, there is sober and profound satisfaction at the passing from autocratic power of the last human obstacle to world peace. “It is the fall of anti-Christ and the wreck of absolute monarchies,” said a high civil functionary. “Upon the hands and hears and head of this man rests responsibility for the! slaughter of more than 4.000,000 of his j fellow men and thy crippling of perhaps twice as many more. Henceforth Is Pariah. "He has divested himself of the symbols of power, but he cannot, so long as he lives, shrive his soul of the crimes he has committed against humanity. From this day henceforth he is a pariah, and ail those who carry the taint of his blood will be social outcasts. "His punishment is inypeasurable. Those who cry out for his trial and condemnation and death are really pleading for mercy for him, for death would be sweet release to any mortal. In his position. “For the sake of all humanity the kaiser that was should be permitted to live and suffer. He is mankind’s terrible example of the results of abuse of power. Some of us will say that so Tong as he Jives he will be a menace. I do not believe it. "His rule has not endeared him even to those nearest to him, and his sons •without exception are as heartily hated and distrusted. The military party has fallen with him, and the junkers to save thetflselves and ttieir properties will out-radical the radicals. Dynasty Forever Dnded. “The German people, having been freed of an incubus and having tasted the elixir of liberty, will never again submit to autocratic power. The Hohenzollem dynasty is ended, the Hapsburg dynasty will follow and then we ehall have Come to the end forever of the rule of Norse, Caesars and czars. Peace that will be enduring is shining through the bloody mists that have lowered over Europe for nearly four and one-half years.” Wants Another St. Helena. Senator Ashurst of A/lzona said: “The kaiser should not be let off with a mere abdication. He and Von Hindenburg, Ludendorff and Von Tirpitz should be sent to St. Helena for life. The Prussian autocracy should by reduced to such a condition of ■feebleness that it would be immaterial whether they kept the peace or not.” ... Senator McCuinber of North Dakota said: “I certainly hope the report of the abdication is true. I hope that it means not only the kaiser, but also the entire royal family. “The abdication of the kaiser will hasten the coming of peace, and I am very glad that the kaiser has at last decided to quit.” Must Be Punished. Senator John Sharp Williams said: “The emperor of Germany has violated in the most ‘frightful’ way the essential laws of humanity and civilization and of necessity he must be punished. We need not call in the mob and rend him limb from limb. But before the high tribunal of international justice he should be solemnly summoned to appear and stand trial. “The evidence should be heard, the facts should be weighed, the verdict should be rendered with dignity and decision and this arch enemy of civilization should be punished before the world as the magnitude of his crimes against the world demands.”