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The Kaiser as I Knew Him
for Fourteen Years
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By ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. D. S.
(Copyright, 111, fcr the MeClura Newspaper Syndicate.)
Every stool steamship turned out in our hundred and mora
shipyards han more than a million rivets, and the rat-tat-tat of
the riveters' "pint" swells in chorus with the clicking of the
machine guna in France to drown the dying German cheers
over their itihmariue exploit.
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a ahriller voice to that chorus and further lower German
morale.
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If anyone Imaftlnes, however, that
hi kowtowing to the socialists In this
Inxtnnre wan evidence of a pi-rmsnent
change of heart, he little appreciate
how deeply rooted U the kaiser's ab
horrence of aocliillDtn and democracy
Indeed, one of the principal thing the
Icnliwr hoped to accomplish by prose
cuting; the war to triumphant con
dition waa the blow It would deal to
aoclallHtic progress. He felt that
victory would make bis' array the Idol
of the people and thut their monarch
would ahlne In the reflected glory of
their martial achievement. A auo
cetwful war, he believed, would set so
cialism back a hundred years.
Certoln It I the' war brought no
change In the kaiser personal hablta.
Even to curry favor with the socialis
tic element he never unbent to the
sllghtext degree In his outward dis
play of kingly attributes. In all his
career the German people had never
seen their kaiser other than In bis
royal uniform, and at all military pa
rades or reviews be always rode a
white horse, that he might be most
conspicuous, and bore the royal mace
which his ancestors had carried centu
ries before him. With the death
struggle between medieval monarchy
and democracy raging about him the
knlser was determined to yield not a
tittle of his prerogatives. His auto
mobile still made Its coming known by
Its distinctive "tnde tnda-ts-tn" and
the royal palaces were maintained In
all their accustomed pomp.
Iiut while the kaiser's armies were
triumphant In the field, the principle
which he was comhntlng was every
where gaining ground. On March 15,
1017, the czar abdicated and Russia,
whose autocratic form of government
had long been the envy of the German
aristocracy, became a republic!
"The downfall of the Kussinn em
I plre was brought about by England
because she feared that the czar was
about to make a separate peace," the
kaiser commented to me. "As a mat
ter of fact, however, neither the czar
nor his government ever approached
us on that subject, and when England
overthrew the Russian monarchy she
defeated her very purpose. With the
czar on the throne Russia would prob
ably have gone on lighting us."
Although the kaiser bore no particu
lar love for the czar, whom he was
fighting, he had no desire to convert
the empire Into a democracy, and his
bitterness toward England for what
he thought was her part In the estab
lishment of the Russian republic was
very pronounced.
When, a few months later, the abdi
cation of the czar was followed by the
abdication of King Constantino of
Greece, the kaiser sustained another
blow which hurt I)Iit more than the
defeat of one of his armies would
have done.
"They are trying to force their rot
ten form of democratic government on
Greece," he declared fiercely. "The
way they have treated my poor sister,
the queen of Greece, Is a shame and a
1 disgrace. They talk about our Inva-
slon of Belgium, hut their actions In
! Greece are Infinitely worse. I have
j studied the English people for twenty-
! five years, and they always try to
! cover their acts with religion and the
' talk of benefits to civilization and hu
i manlty, but, hypocrites that they are,
they continue to grab all they can get
their bauds on Just the same 1"
' The fact that Greece had a treaty
with Serbia which required her to take
up amis If Serbia were attacked and
that she had failed to meet her obit
gatlons In that respect was naturally
of no significance to the kaiser, to
whom treaties were but scraps of pa-
Der. '
The keynote of the kaiser's military !
program lay In the fact that he real
ized that It was necessary for hlra to
win In order to hold his throne. I feel
quite sure that if the allies were wil
ling to concede to Germany all the ter
ritory she has conquered Belgium,
Serbia, Poland, Roumanla, Russia and
part of France, and restore all her col
onies, upon condition that the kaiser
step down from the throne, he would
reject the proposition without a mo
ment's hesitation.
"Your country would like to make a
republic out of Germany," he com
mented, "a republic like France, per
haps, going down and down all the
time a country ruled by lawyers I"
And he mentioned half a dozen of the
great French statesmen who were
members of the legal profession. "It's
a sad thing -for a country when It gets
into the hands of the lawyers. France
and Italy are already controlled by
them, and America and England are
rapidly following their example 1"
The kaiser regarded the German
people as his own property to do with
as he liked. When I referred to the
"German people" in conversation he
would delicately correct me by refer
ring In his reply to "my people,"
When, for Instance, I sold on one oc
casion, "I understand, your majesty,
that the German people are anxious
for peace," ho answered, "Yes, Davis,
my people are strongly In favor of
peace, but they want a German peace
no allied peace I"
He believed that Just as the universe
is ruled by God so should the earth
be dominated by an earthly ruler and
that God had selected hlin for the task.
To displace him In favor of a repub
lican form of government, to substi
tute a ruler elected by the people for
a monarch designated by Uod was In
his opinion the basest sort of sacrilege,
and the unfortunate purt of It all was
that the majority of his people co
incided with hid). They preferred to
be ruled by a hand of Iron rather than
to rule themselves. Some day they
may be awakened to the blessings of
self-government, but up to the present
time they have not shown the slightest
Indication that they would prefer to
rule than be ruled, and because they
submit so willingly to the kaiser's dom
ination he has become obsessed with
the Idea that the rest of the world
should follow suit
CHAPTER VII.
The Japanese.
According to the tulk of the German
diplomats before the war the expecta
tion was that Japan's power would be
used against America at .the first op
portunity. Whether the object of this
campaign was to stir up trouble be
tween Japan and America or only to
awaken this country to a sense of the
danger which the Germans professed
to believe threatened her I don't know.
I do know, however, that prospect of
a Japanese-American war seemed to
worry the Germans considerably more
than It worries us.
The day England declared war
against Germany, August 5, 1914, the
Prince von Pless called to see me pro
fessionally.
"There will be two wars fought," be
said, oracularly. "The present one, by
which we shall gain control of the con
tinent of Europe forever, and then a
war with the yellow races, in which
we shall probably have your country
to assist us I"
That this opinion was more or less
general In Germany may account for
the fact that from the time War was
declared until August 23, 1014, when
Japan declared war against Germany,
the Japanese residents In Berlin were
made the subject of the most sicken
ing attentions. It was reported that
Japan was going to attack Russia, and
the Germans could not do enough to
show their newly born admiration for
the yellow race which they had hither
to so deeply despised. The Japs were
carried through the streets on the
shoulders of the populace and kissed
and cheered wherever they appeared
in public.
And then Japan declared war against
Germany 1 Instantly there was a wild
demonstration in the streets of Berlin,
which would have resulted most disas
trously for the Japs who hud so recent
ly been hailed as friends but for the
astonishing fact that every single Jap
had succeeded In getting away from
Berlin before the news of Japan's en
try Into the war became generally
known.
In the absence of Japanese upon
which to vcut their spleen, the Ger
mans did everything they could to
make life miserable for those who re
sembled Japs. ' The few Chinese who
were there were terribly treated either
because they were taken for Japs or
because they were of the same race.
The Siamese minister, Prince Traldos,
who was one of my patients, told me
that when his wife and children went
out on the streets the crowds followed
them, and Jeered, referring to the Jap
anese as monkeys and using other op
probrious epithets. They even went
so far as to spit In Princess Traldos
face, and the minister flnully decided
to send her and the children to Switzer
land, although he himself remained at
his post
I saw the kaiser shortly after the
Japanese declaration of war, and he
was very bitter against the United
States because of that development
"What Is your president thinking of
to allow a yellow race to attack :.
white race 1 Now the Japanese are at
tacking Klau-Chau, and America could
have prevented It All that America
had to do was to raise a finger and
Japan would have known enough to
keep her place 1
He spoke In this atrain on several
subsequent occasions.
When Klau-Chau fell he again crit
icized the United States for not having
stopped Japan.
"How can your president allow
Japan to Increase In power at the ex
pense of a white race?" he asked, In
dignantly. "Now China is lost to the
world, forever. America is the one
power that could have prevented it,
but now JnpHn has got her fingers on
China and she is lost to us forever I"
After we were In the war, the kaiser
expressed to me his opinion that our
object In taking this step was four
fold: : "First," he said, "Wilson wants to
save the money you have loaned to the
allies.' Second, he wants to have n
seat at the peace table. Third, he
wants to give your army and ntivy a
little practical experience unfortu
nately, at our expense. And fourth,
and principally, he wants to prepare
for the war with Japan which he
knows Is inevitable. The Jncanese org
(To be continued)
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