The Blot on the Kaisers Scutcheon | Page 3

Yorker Staats Zeitung by
placing his fealty to Germany first and subordinating his Americanism,
and that otherwise Ambassador von Holleben would found a rival
German paper that would have back of it "unlimited resources, to wit:

the total resources of the German Empire."
Here, then, is proof positive that the Kaiser began his efforts to
establish a pro-German movement against the United States for several
years before 1906 and that he methodically kept it up until the war
began.
Through it all he claimed to be our sincere friend; but he was then, as
he is to-day, an implacable and relentless enemy, with a heart laden
with hatred and bitterness.
2. The Kaiser's Character Revealed in His Choosing the Sultan for His
Friend
Nothing tests manhood like the choice of a bosom-friend. Criminals
choose bad associates.
Every Black Hand leader goes naturally towards the saloon, the
gambling house and the dens where thieves congregate. Dickens made
Fagin surround himself with pickpockets, burglars and murderers.
History tells us that Christianity has always kept good company. Its
friends have been architects, artists, poets and statesmen. Christianity
repeats itself through its friends in the Gothic Cathedral shaped in the
form of the cross, in the Transfiguration of Raphael, the Duomo of
Giotto, the Paradise Lost of Milton, the In Memoriam of Tennyson, the
Emancipation Proclamation of Lincoln. Christianity has never formed
any close friendships with jails, gallows or slave ships. Men like
Gladstone and Lincoln always kept good company; their friends have
been scholars and heroes; but, in striking contrast, consider the friends
selected by the Kaiser.
To the Kaiser came a critical hour; at that moment he was at the parting
of the ways. It became necessary for him to make a choice of friends.
Like every man, his isolation was impossible and friendship became a
necessity.
The Kaiser had the whole world from which to choose. Yonder in

London were King Edward and his son, the Prince of Wales. In France
were certain statesmen and scientists like Curie. There was the old hero
living in the capital of Japan and two ex-Presidents known the world
around for their splendid manhood; and he could have made overtures
of friendship to any one of these brave men; but in the silence of the
night the Kaiser passed in review earth's great men, and finally selected
for his close friend the lowest of the low--the butcher, unspeakable
butcher--the Sultan of Turkey.
At that time the Sultan had just completed the butchery of many
Armenians. His garments were red with blood, his hands dripped with
gore. His house was a harem; his hand held a dagger. The sea-wall
behind his palace rose out of the blue waters of the Bosporus.
When an American battle-ship was anchored there and a diver went
down he pulled a rope and was brought up, shivering with terror, and
saying that he found himself surrounded with corpses tied in sacks and
held down by stones at the bottom of the sea.
In that hour the Kaiser exclaimed: "Let the Sultan be my associate! I
will go to Constantinople and sign a treaty with the unspeakable
butcher."
And so the Kaiser took his train, lived in the Sultan's palace, signed this
treaty, and hired the Sultan's knife and club, just as the Chief Priest
Annas chose Judas to be his representative upon whom he could load
the responsibility for the murder of Jesus.
Never was a friendship more damnable. Reared in a country that
believed in the sanctity of the marriage relation and in monogamy, the
Kaiser lined up with polygamy. The treaty that he made was
thoroughgoing. He sent out word to all Mohammedans, whether they
lived in India or Persia, in Arabia or Turkey, that they must remember
that the Kaiser had entered into a treaty to become their protector and
friend. Having become a Lutheran in Berlin, he became a
Mohammedan in Constantinople on the principle that "When you are in
Rome do as the Romans do, and when you are in hell act like the
devil"--a simple principle which the Kaiser proceeded to obey as soon

as he reached Constantinople.
Every one knew that the Kaiser wanted to build a German railroad
through to Bagdad and the Persian Gulf; this would give him an outlet
for surplus goods to be sold in India. Serbia lay straight across the path,
and he had to work out some scheme to attack Serbia. Then he needed
the Sultan's friendship, and the end justified the means--and the end
was the Bagdad Railroad.
But the Turk tired of being the Kaiser's tool; he wanted more land; the
Armenian was in his way; the Turk was lazy, shiftless and a spendthrift.
The Armenian was industrious and hard-working. The Turk's method
of living made him poor. The