Show THE KAISER AS I KNE HIM FOR fOURTEEN YE RS J II I I i Corruption of B Berlin c e WI Was as Caused Through ugh Rise ill in Price of Food and Clot lung hing While Robberies Became Common Cl as s fJ War ar Conditions I Caused Suffering in ill City City t. t BY DR A. A N. N DAVIS D. D D.-D. D. D. D S S. S I Copyright Ins 1918 1 by S. S S. S McClure Newspaper Syndicate CHAPTER CONTINUED CONTINUED V Will ill There Be a a. German Revolution I IlIA HAVE mentioned before that the German police although the time most arrogant in the thc world were ah a always s 's free from corruption in time lime of oC peace bilL but with vili the time changed tI living conditions brought about by thc the wai wart the tIm police yielded to temptation and not only exacted tribute and anti ac accepted bribes but brazenly appropriated the thc loot which they rec recovered from thieves cs andI and I robbers 1 One Olle of or the Iso police officers of or Berlin openly admitted to me toe th t It ft was no longer longcr pos possible for or to exist on his IsIs l O marks a month In view of the tho In Increase Increased Increased In- In crease creased prices of or food and clothing and nd that he lie was vas forced to cl clec e out a 1 livelihood b by by- resorting rc to corruption The food oo regulations which it was the r duty uty o of the police to enforce ce provided I an excellent opportunity for or briber bribery I In lii return for tor or allOwing civilians to Purchase or oi otherwise obtain more mote than the allotted of or foo food I th the police were able to extort liberal bo bonuses n u see 0 On the tIse 1st of or August Ul 1317 j three robbers entered 1 my house The They stole about oo lOO worth of or t gold platinum and sliver silver sl er besl besides es a typewriter some sorno eel cel- brushes an and other articles of ol lIttle Itlo value An AJ Idea of ot the lawless condition o of the cI city ma may be gathered from toni the fact that the band o of burglars bur hur- who io had bind entered m my place had no sooner readied reached the street than thais th they were set upon by another band o of ot but bur and relieved o of their boot The Tue group roup of or robbers turn turned ell out to ti h b- b lads of or 17 Ii awl and 1 IL 1 The They wore BO so incensed at being robbed themselves that the they made a cl clean an breast of or the affair to the tho first policeman the they came to and the whole lot o of them were arrested The second group of or robbers proved el to be soldiers on furlough h I Kept Gold Cold GoldI ColdI I appealed to the local police station polee for the thc return of or m my prop property rt They exhibited some o of It to me mc but hut told me inc 10 that 1 would woul have to 0 obtain It Il through police headquarters In an another another another an- an other part of or the cl city A few tew days later I called cabled there thero accordingly nn and was given Jhen the celluloid toilet toie articles an and other othel things of or nom nominal Inn I value but the thc gold platinum and ant silver sl er were re re- re tamed b by the police pollee and I was as made I to sign a paper to 0 the tho effect that I was I satisfied d with wIh the work the they ha had done one I in Ill apprehending the burglars and with wih I the property that ha had been return returned ell to mei me mr II Th i The saints samo sal night n the thet house of or Von Yon n the tho banker a few fow doors from rom mine was broken into by soldier I burglars and a large barge quantity of or sil 81 sil- sil vet ver removed remo Tho The police sal said thc they cap cap- I the burglars hut but re restored torel anI only I i in n a trifling part par of or the tile boot booty to the banker baneer The he fact tact that the they had captured captured cap cap- tur the time criminals ought to be enough the time police polee believed cd bele to satisfy the most exacting civilian lan cl but they made mado It Jt a 1 custom t. t to t restore some o of the cheaper articles to the victim of or the robbery robber figuring that hat as ho lie probably expected to tn lose all nI he would be well wel satisfied If J he Ie r regained part vart an and other similar cases suggested sug BUg este the possibility that the police were working as accomplices of at the criminal classes They were certainly becoming as much of ot a menace as tho ho law breaking class they were supposed to law suppress cass Tho Thu dissatisfaction of or the workers I In the factories was wn becoming greater every e cr day The director of at one ono of ot the larger arms stEms factories employing more than thais operatives told toll me tha t con conditions were becoming unbearable I r had Unc Trouble Its s 's Just living In iii a n lunatic asylum l he Ito explained to me inc An n explosion the theother theother other oIlier da day dab dabin In the lie vicinity of or our plant blew out nH k marks worth of or window window win win- dow doss pale panes an and the strikers n are de demanding de- de manding j 7 71 cents an hour hou increase What hat with wIh explosions blowing our pl plants to pieces and our hands constantly cunI cost con tant on strike the lot of or an employer em ens- Is not a n very ery happy ono One th these days dus a and nt It looks as us if Jt It J Is 01 going nJ to tobe tobe be le The ho fact that these employers were making ac vast profits and that the lan landowners land land- owners owners mine an and agrarians were using prisoners of or war to furnish labor laLor a at minimum cost lOSt was embitterIng embittering embitter embitter- In ing the wage earners to the break breaking In point The longer the war wat lasted the worse orse th their lr lot was as becoming Servants er erv- erv ants were taxed not lint only on their wa wages e but hut on oil an amount which was vas waI 1 supposed e to be equivalent to the value of or their board oar nn and the presents the they received at al Christmas while the aristocrats aris aris- II I living in lit pl plenty nt went comparatively commar- commar tax tree free Civilian patients In the Interior hopia hoi boa pia Is especially the older ones died In such alarming numbers that toul loul play was aa beginning to he be hinted at Less mouths to feed meant Je less s of or a burden hurden I on oil al the nation naton as a whole an and It I was quite Quie In iii accord With h the thc German Idl Idea that the tho weak weal should be bt be sacrificed for forthe forthe the ho sake ake of the time strong J I low How much mud worse vorse Internal conditions might aught g get gel t without bringing about a serious conflict between the hunger hunger- craze crazed war suffering civilians an and the lie authorities It I was impossible definitely to In say but ut It was quite Quio evident 6 that no 80 disturbance could over ever r accomplish anything for tor the liberation of or tho Iso people people peo peo- from the he yoke of or militarism while i ithe I the army remained lo loyal al and c unequipped tl what whal could the civilIan civil civil- J cl I Ian In population at Ion made up UT as It I was of or ithe I Ithe the aged the tho Infirm and anc the Immature youth o of the land accomplish against the time veterans or of the German arm army A A successful revolt re ol against the or organized military forces would woul be out of oC trio toe que question ton I C na n S ronI Another factor actor that must be le taken take Into lute consideration In lit II connection with the he suffering and ali privation was wasso wasso so 30 general In German Germany at this lila time is that there lie was a strong stron undercurrent of ot patriotism still working against tic oC discontent that lint was de elopIng There was a feeling ellis that ise hc JO government govern ern ment melt was doln doing all all that it could coul to I alo to conditions hat civilians ou ought ht to bo ho 10 as aM willing to for Ot tile the fatherland just a as tho Lisa at Vie lle front do lh The weak point II In the time foundation upon which the the German empire rests toda today tolay lies les In iii II I my opinion In tho the fact that the loyalty of the people hits haM been hien retained Ii by deception and armb ml tation En Ever I o tho time war wal started in the government Jo talon hU has sling feeding lies les to the people and the he people have have a ai- ai H them at their belt thel face ac value alle What hat will wil happen when tho Germans that their own government o iia has wickedly wick vick- edly deceived them time With Uh the sol soldiers ler returning from limo tho front on furlough turlough and the propaganda of or the tho allies slowly but Lut surely begin begin- to circulate c among tho the people the task tank of ot concealing the time truth front from tho ho German people becomes Increasingly difficult A Already I rc 11 the people are be becoming becoming becoming be- be coming restless Hs IH is It possible that t tho y tte o oare are arc about to wako vako up bat What will wi lil the people do O when hsen It beIns begins begins be be- gins Ins to dawn on them that thal the be war Wits was WiS started nOt h by 13 th thu European powers to tu stran strangle lc Germany but ii by bythe 1 the tIme kaiser and his lila war lurch lords to dominate domi nato nat the world What will wi th they thoy do when thc tile they realize that tIme the success of tho U-boat U campaign cam has been en woefully exaggerated rl right ht from Irons the start start What will wil ili tho they thoy tb do llo when wIle they realize that thaI America came camo Into the war out OU I of or the time purest motives that ever e In Inspired Inspired Inspired In- In a nation What will wi thc they the do when the they learn lern that lint Americas America's power growing every evelY everyday day dar will eventually e be bo great great enough In Iii combination with the time allies to tu smash the German Cerman empire Harden Tool Toot of laler What will wUl happen when shen the German Geman I people realize that the they have havo o h been the pitiful victims of or the time Insatiable thirst of ot the kaiser 31 er and his supporters for tor world word power and that the lie sacrifice they bob have hao b bees been compelled como to make mako must mo Inevitably prove utile futile What hat will wIl the they hey do iio wise when the lie they begin to un understand that hat fifths our tour of or the tie I I wor world ii ID 16 arrayed agall against t Germany not notI notto notto to destroy destro the German people but lut to I emancipate it The leal kaiser er t and his Isis supporters have used vcr very effective tools In their ef efforts of- of forts torts to keep keel the truth from the people and nd up till ti now the they have been re remarkably re- re successful How cleverly erl thc they have used Maximilian Maxi Maxi- milian Harden the ostensible champion cham pion plot o of republicanism to fool th the people peo plo pIc lma has perhaps never neer occurred to the tIme outside world worl but hut I 1 am firmly of ot peo-I peo the opinion that this vaunted pillar Ilmar of or democracy de Ge- 1 Is to a n great reat extent a wol in clothing I Ills Ils fearless criticism of or the time government government govern govern- o ern ment from fromn rol tm time to time has naturally I stamped him In the eyes eye of oC tle world as as the time mo most moat t outspoken of at German Socialists So and amid the lie bitterest of enemies of ot tho tilo r regime Unless I am Yer very much flinch mistaken however hoe this able I writer has been one of or the most niost valued val Va- al tied tools of th the th government nt anti and ha has Io been bee us used to accomplish th the th kaisers kaiser's ends while ostensibly working to frustrate frus rus rate them hem To Tu Do Dc Continued Tomorrow |