Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-06 | Page 6 | Cowardly Course

1 COWARDLY COURSE. , The I'nrrner cnnvn prince ol Ciei'iaany , ; ids up a poor i)m;;h in an interview ; '.villi a representative ut the London jlhtily Mirror. ''Vou J n l; 1 i k. h clamor to 'rfc fa i her and n;e away from Holland. I W e air ilovn and out, and my father : is a broken man. , JMi't lhat puni.-li-a.ctit emeah.'"' lie a-ks. Any criminal '.hnse plans failed to work Could claim t lie same thiu'. Hein down and out and i- tiur can e lit are -1 iie first steps toward punishment, not tin., real punishment pun-ishment i tse! f. Tho exdieir up pa rent went on to say that he always favored an :i:;rcciuent between (I or many and KuLiland and wished them to work to-1 ether. Incidentally, he declared that many of his best friends were in England, Eng-land, and he only wished he could live thero a.s a private citizen. It is not to be expected that tho "best friends" referred to will rush forward to make acknowledgments, and nn donbt they -clifrih the hope th;it Frederick "Willi "Wil-li elm will not men lion their names, which would certainly lie embarrassing. J u his desire to pet on a friendly .foot-in;,' .foot-in;,' wifli the Hulish, tho former crown prince continued: "I . quarreled with my father in repard to Ureal Britain. L told him the Kritisli would be against us. He never believed this and would not take into account that possibility.'1 This shows a disposition upon the part of the undutiful son to square himself at 'the expense of his sire, who has quite enough sins of his own to answer for. The i nter view has caused considerable interest and no end of comment in Knf-laud, Knf-laud, the newspa pers showing t he utmost ut-most contempt for the pri ncelin who would exculpate himself at the expense of others. Ids own father anion the number. The former kaiser' has sum- ' moned a physician from (lermanv and is said to be broken in health and spirit. 1 li '4 he may a!s? be shamming in order to pain sympathy. There is no hope for either father or son1. They-deluded tho earth with blood while thev had vast armies under their command, and now that they have been beaten they should take their punishment like men and not be accusing each other or this, that or the other statesman or military leader of responsibility for starting the war, and" all the crimes committed while the conflict was in progress. The former for-mer crown prince cuts a sorry figure in his internment.