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Show u KAISER STANDS ALONE The kaiser faces the dismemberment of his dream of world empire and the end of a personal power that has for many years threatened civilization with the present war. He is another of the long line of reactionary figures fig-ures who have taken the feudal doctrines of the- middle ages and tried to drive back the irresistible growth of individual rights and human liberty. George III was a small character and stupid. Napoleon Napo-leon the First was a magnificent tyrant. Napoleon the Third was scheming and petty. But none of these though they lived in supposedly less civilized times, ever descended descend-ed to the inhuman and the conscienceless beliefs and practices prac-tices which the kaiser has adopted to reach his ends. In modern times he stands alone of all rulers, either of those who inherited power or those who acquired it by their own abilities damned in a class by himself. World's Work for April. o |