KAISER "TWADDLE"

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10064, 31 August 1918, Page 4

KAISER "TWADDLE"

DECRIED BY GERMAN-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER.

"How long, oh. how long." sighs the "New Yorker Voikszeitung" Socialist paper in the German language, in its leading: editorial of June 22nd, "will tho German people put up with their talkative Kaiser?" "Kaiser Twaddle'' is the title of tho "Volkszeituug's" editorial, which states: — "Tho German Kaiser, on the occasion of the anniversary celebration of his accession to the throne, has broken loose once more. Ho announced that the war is not a struggle of two armies, hut that two world viewpoints are struggling against each other. antl in explanation of what he means by two world viewpoints he added: ' 'Either German principles of right, freedom, honour ,and morality must be kept upright or Anglo-Saxon principles with their worship of Mammon must be victorious.' Every thinking person will side wth us when wo brand this Kaiser twaddle as idiocy. The principles of right, freedom, honour and morality arc not especially German principles, but are common to all nations of civilised mankind. And, as far as the "principles' of worshipping Mammon arc concerned, so these too, wc ore sorry to say, are not limited to the Anftio-Saxon nations. . . . And if we are reliably informed it was the successful worship of the Golden Calf in tho holy German kingdom that had much to dp with tho breaking out of this world war. . . . "It is the curse of the German nation that the great majority of it in August, 1914, forgot all the experiences which it had gone through in oho past with its monarch, and that it permitted itself even for a moment to believe what a Hohenzollern and his Government said. The German nation had to atone frightfully for this mistake. . . . But it almost seems as if the horrible lessons and consequences of the war may yet bring tho German nation to its senses. The protests against this Kaiser twadd]e which come not only from tho Socialist side and from the "Frankfurter Zeitung," but from the whole Liberal press, are evidence of this. To he sure, it is some distance from such protests to a concrete decisive and decided opposition against tEo destructive carrying on of the Hohenzollorns. And yet the German' people must finally realise that the rule of the Hohenzollerns, that the rule of any kind of monarch in Germany must be destroyed before it will see peace and happiness within its boundaries.!'