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Show KAISER'S SNEERS. That was not a very pacific speech which tho kaiser delivered to his troops on tho Alsace front. It wsis not calculated calcu-lated to mollify the foe. On tho contrary, con-trary, it was calculated to mako John Hull rotv as red as a fiery furnace with jipnplectic rngo. The character of tho kaiser hag become, be-come, much clearer to the world since the outbreak of the war. It cannot be Hjtid that he has revealed himself al-iviiya, al-iviiya, or even frequently, in a ploasant light. Ho has displayed those sharp and jagged points which are Buch repellent re-pellent features of the genius or the maniac. II is sincerity is not open to ! doubt, but ho is sincere about things that are intensely disagreeable to the J average man. In private life he for- ! merly was suave and kindly, and had a way of being all things to all men. Either he baa lost that characteristic or his public manner is totally different from his privato manner. If tho kaisor really desires peace he lms chosen tho most unseasonable of nil limes to flout and Kueer at the enemy. Instead of stirring them to rago he should try to placate them with honeyed words, lie should speak them lair and permit them to think that they are pretty good fellows after all. In---- stead, the emperor gloats over the capture cap-ture in Kumauia of grain for which the English have paid. ''The English paid for it,'5 he sneers. I "Wo eat it, and this has been called a I war of starvation." i Here is a double-edged sneer, for it j outs not only at England's futile deal j with Kumanin, but at the assumed fail ure of tho English blockade. 1 It may be that there is design in the emperor's flings at the English. If the i central empires could make a separate ! peace with Russia, France and Italy they might find it profitable to continue the war against England. It has been the Berlin policy in the last year or ( more to exhibit sympathy for the Ereuch, to deplore the loss of so many French lives and the reduction of France to the rank of a third-class power. Of course, such sympathy is hypocritical and counts on n world so confused by the din of war that it cannot remember remem-ber how Ci or many tried to extinguish 1 France altogether in the summer of 1014. Init as a pose helpful to the design de-sign of dividing the enemy it has its merits. Perhaps the kaiser has the same purpose in deriding the English. But all surface indications are that (..ermany is genuinely desirous of peace. If so, it is lamentable folly for the kaiser kai-ser to go abroad hurling insults like thunderbolts at a foe he should appease. |