Show Is the Kaiser r Poor P ERIL tho the financial condition of the former L kaiser is nobody's business but his own yet jet newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper correspondents have o a habit of oI pr prying ing int into other persons' persons affairs to satisfy the curiosity of the tho great reading public and notorious characters Uk like Wilhelm could never bo be overlooked overlooked- There is a n delightful uncertainty about tho matter that only serves to whet the curiosity of tho the public generally generally gen gen- and add zest to the tho pursuit of knowledge ge concerning concerning con con- emmO the deposed monarchs monarch's 8 actual financial status So far as ascertained the kaiser does docs not himself know Imo whether he ho is rich or poor He may be worth millions Ho Uc may not be worth a n. cent The dech decision ion of the Prussian Prussian Prussian sian diet will win soon tell tho tale talc Before the tho war the kaiser was dra drawing ng a salary of a year for his services as king of Prussia He received nothing for his services ser as ns emperor of Germany Gennan But in addition Wilhelm had another million dollars a ci year Yem income from his private holdings It is is this latter income that he ho is exceedingly anxious to get et his bis hands on now as ns of or course the salary was WiS relegated ed cd to oblivion with his abdication Wilhelms Wilhelm's private property was reckoned reckon d as worth about Tho The royal castle in Berlin alone alono was wa estimated to be worth five or six millions Besides this castle he possessed two other residences in Berlin and three thirty large and valuable buildings for the most part situated in the tile heart of the business district Then there were yere about forty castles and ond country seats of or which he was the sole owner scattered ab about ut tho the pro inces The castles ensUes of course were unproductive but buthis buthis buthis his other holdings brought him hint an income of a year vear He lIe also drew an income of a year from froma a trust trost fund which had bad been established by his great great- rell- rell grandfather Frederick Wilhelm ill III He was justified therefore in assuming that he possessed a million million-dol- lar a private income The Tho question as to ho how much of ot this if anything should hould be g given cn the former kaiser is being debated in inthe inthe inthe the Prussian diet now Some members wish sh to give him his property outright Others wot would d devote it fo to charity and let Wilhelm work ork for a living Jiving Meantime 1 the are arc hard presse pressed for ca cash lt The dispatches dis lis- lis patches sa say that horses carriages cu and harness belonging belonging belong belong- ing to the former fonner emperor arc are offered for sale in Han- Han But whether the time property properly is turned back to him or 01 not the thc kaiser must be bo in a n much better beUer frame of mind than he lie was a n year ago when the time allies were planning what bat sort of death eath would be the most agonizing for him and most certainly fit the tile crimes and atrocities committed by his command It is a charitable old dd world after alL nIL Justice demands that he be forfeit everything everything every every- thing in in the interest of those he lie has pauperized I He c gains more moro consideration than iban he lie is entitled to whim when he escapes with his bis life |