Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 34 | Karl and Wilhelm

: KARL AM) WILIIELM. Kl8r Karl is taking revngo upon V Raitxir Wilhelrn theso duys. li 110th-I, 110th-I, (ng succeeds like miccosa, so nothing :- fails io moeh as failure. It required a :: German failure to release Kmpcror s! Charles Bomcwhat from the bondage of ? tho Oermans. The cool, arrogiint as-' as-' umptioa of dictatorial authority over 'I Austria-Uungary by the German em- i peror was accepted as inevitable in the day of his success and it was generally i declared that Emperor CharleH had be-(; be-(; come a moro Taesnl. ; It is too mne.h to say that the Haps- j' borg monarch has froed himself at one (: atroko from Hohciinollern control. The c! proeoss of assuming control has been ao )'!' loaift continued, especially in the Aus-s Aus-s ttrian army, that Umpcror Charles enn I'' froe h.i empire only by taking advau-'' advau-'' tagc, as he has dono io this instance, J of German failures. At best, howove-r, ;,; hia plight is deplorable, for Gorman , failure means allied success and the ;; Hapsbnrg dynasty can hope for little ''; from the entente powers. They hae c clearly indicated their intention of dis-?i dis-?i tuemboring his ompiro and dividing it ? np among the sepaxato and disagroo-!' disagroo-!' vg nationalities. Emperor Charlos and his advisors i wont to the great German hoadquartiirs .VI, in response to a cry for help. Tho Ger-man Ger-man high command insisted that fifteen divisions of tho best Austriun troops ;', be sent to France as reinforcemonts for T; tic German army. j As tho two emporors faced each other they could not but remcmbor SI their former meetings. Emperor Wil-,i Wil-,i liam had gone to Vienna on more than n! ouo occasion in fine fettle over Gor-man Gor-man victories to complain of Austrian defeat and general inefficiency. He 7' had dictated tho reorganization of the v Austro-Hnngarian army by German of-' !l t'icers, man of whom wore given high eomniajid. Always in a crisis the Ger-' Ger-' mans had gono to the rescue of the f, beaten Austrians and had given them 1 viotoi-y or at loast saved them from com-J com-J plcte disaster. Tho Uapsburg soveroign must havo shrunk back on his throne and shrivo'.od up to small proportions -'-! when tho great kaiser from Berlin 5! came storming in to boast and to ad-moniih. ad-moniih. He was a real war lord in shin-M shin-M ing armor and "terrible was tho clank r of his golden spurs," if wo may para- phrase a lino from the Iliad. Only two months ago, following the ! collapse of Austrian arms on the Piave, tho hanghty Gorman generals were denouncing the incompetency of tho Anstrian military leaders and wore demanding that a German "1 general be placed in command of all I the Anstrian armies on tho Italian 1 front. A genoral was selected and of-r'ored of-r'ored to Vienna. It was then, for the .. first time, that Charles and his ad-i ad-i Vis-frs stiffened their backs against Ger-" Ger-" maTi encroachments. But about that H time a new treaty of alliance, offeu-j offeu-j rare and defensive, had been signed by ' rTmporor Charles and the German kaiser -' j which gave Germany virtual control for r-- twenty-five years over the army of ; Austria-Hungary. c T Germany is defeated the treaty J -vilt be less than a serap of paper. Km- 1 i peror Charles has shown that even a 1 German revciso strikes off some of his ! shackles and restores him to a position of dignity and power. o- it is Ger-, Ger-, : manv that kneels. begiiiiiLj:. And the crafty Charles decides to drive a hard bargain before he bids his brother ot C- Berlin rse. Charles must havo a free j hand in Foland. Germany, which " sotight io dictate who should sit tt1 upon the new throne at Warsaw, must needs relinquish its claims and. concede 2 to Kmpcror Charles the rn-bt to select ; an Austrian archduke as king of Po r li.iiil. Tn addition ('ha-les bound Ger- 2 ir.nr'' at lr-ist so we are informed fi om Teutonic se;'ices to restore and indeni-' indeni-' nify PeTgtnm and bein a strong move-V move-V irterL for p-;ire. We may expect to see several re. t) phases of the relationship betwe.-n the 1 Raisers before the v.ar ends, t'ne day I Wilhelm will be on top: then Knrl, then ; Wiihelni acain And as the tort.iues ol' rear shirt their position- no love wil! pe lort between tttem. I'hcv have lived j according fo the rule of ntiht :ii"i have 1 discarded the law of love. All be ) ! -.-:l.;.-,, b.-l ,, , f, lh.-m mi i. I.:,,''- of i.iiiti 1- -'Mii'iii. '!in- v.'-aL 'Aill t-'o to I I in- v. !'. ': li" fittt will ,-'ir i'e. Ami ! tli. 11 tin- allio-, till aliov the l'itt. -t.