Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-06-16 | Page 6 | The Wrath of Wilhelm

THE WRATH OF WILHELM. What a bad tempered kaiser the Gar-man Gar-man people have. Ho is in a furious rage just now because the allies have lifted King . Constantino from his throne and cast him into the outer darkness. It makes Kaiser Wilhelm boil over with rage as he thinks of it. He "nurses his wrath to keep it warm" in a letter of sympathy sym-pathy to the deposed king a letter of wrath, and extreme irritability. The kaiser considers the act "insolent," "inso-lent," a theft and a few more things of deep-dyed guilt. He cannot restrain his fury and he must needs wrap it up in a package and dispatch it forthwith to his good friend and ally, Constan-tine. Constan-tine. If the allies have been in any doubt as to whether they did the right thing in ejecting Constantinej the venomous ire of the kaiser should remove all misgivings. Evidently the blow struck home to the heart of the Prussian autocrat, auto-crat, for nothing which has occurred in the war has wrung from him such howls of baffled fury. The kaiser promises that he will replace re-place Constantino on his throne. But we wish, gently but firmly, to call the madman's attention to tho fact that a number of his promises have gone awry. He promised to be in Paris in three weeks; he promised to sink enough ships to bring Great Britain to its knees in sixty days; he promised his soldiers that he would take Verdun and that the war would then be brought to an end. None of these promises has he kept. Not to be outdone by a kaiser in making promises, we venture to promise prom-ise a few things in behalf of the American Ameri-can people. We promise that the kaiser kai-ser shall lose his own throne and that the German people shall be free. We promise Europe that this royal megalomaniac megalo-maniac shall have no power or authority left to curse the world of tomorrow with militarism. We promise that Europe Eu-rope 6hall be so reconstructed that every people, the Germans included, shall have a "fair chance of life and liberty, " but no special privileges. And we promise all this on our record as a liberty-loving and just nation. We promise it by the revolution, by the war against human slavery, by the war to free Cuba. Let us on to victory.