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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8178, 3 May 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

3 he Rev. John Snape, D.D., pastor of the Hollywood Baptist Church, Los Angeles. suggests the following as the Raise*'\s epitaph : “ Here lies n monster— William Hohenzoilern. For 30 years iie held sceptred sway over 70 mi'lion souls. •Swollen with pride and arrogance, and consumed with the lust of world-con-quest. he plunged the nations into war.

hot' four horrible years his legions stormed the gates of civilisation, battered at the foundations of democracy, and trailed their slimy way across the door-, ways of domesticity. They defiled virginity. despoiled temples, destroyed treasures, deported civi'ians, depopulated communities, and defied the world. But the king is dead, and his dream of cosmic nil© lies shattered like the crushed fragments of a fra,gib? vase. I lie monarch departs, hut the man lives

--a lugitive from his Fatherland, the ( ain of civilisation, the Judas of humanity. the monster of history. Ho Claimed familiarity with Deity, yet did llio Devil’s work. He sent his subjocts to destruction and his sons to safety. He started a conflagration that lacked but litt’e of burning up a world. He failed in his ambition onlv through Hie sacrifice of 20 billions of dollars and eight millions of lives. He lost bis crown, bis throne, his country, and gained the hatred of mankind. Cod lives, truth endures, peace reigns, freedom is estab'ished, justice vindicated, and the defenders of democracy are the saviours of the world."