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Show KAISER'S POSES. . Imperial camouflage to hide the ,liideousiiess of the Hoheuzollerns will be attempted from time to time until the end of the war. The moro the Iluns :itre defeated the more essential the ; kaiser will consider repeated coats of , whitewash: Wo read thut .Emperor William has refused to receive Count Luxburg, former minister to Argentina, who wished to justify himself. Luxburg has mndo his name everlastingly infamous in-famous by his message to the home government gov-ernment recommending that Argentine ships be sunk "without leaving a trace." The emperor, steeped in the hypocrisy of his family, dramatically stamps Luxburg as a criminal, although the real criminal is the emperor himself. On tho same day that this information informa-tion was wired from Berlin a dispatch was sent from Santander, Spain, telling of a German submarine, which, after torpedoing the French steamer Lydie off Zumaya, rammed the lifeboats in an effort ef-fort to destroy traces of the sinking. Forty of the crew of forty-six lost their lives. The emperor, who is trying to exculpate excul-pate himself by making a scapegoat of .Luxburg, has permitted all kinds of 'atrocities from the very first declaration of war. It was he who allowed a medal to be struck in glorification of the sinking sink-ing of tho Lusitania before that vessel had met its fate. He permitted the atrocities in .Belgium, the use of gases that kill and gases that make life worse than death. ' It was he who told Ambassador Am-bassador Gerard that "no gentleman" would have sunk the Lusitania with its ' precious freightage of innocent women and children, but it was he who sanctioned the resumption of unrestricted unre-stricted U-boat warfare. He thinks, forsooth, to paint himself in the colors of virtue while making earth a hell. The monster who is mainly responsible for all these woes imagines that he can transform the world s opinion by a few cheap tricks such as the snub of Luxburg. Lux-burg. To employ a popular phrase ha "oan't get away with it." The emperor should be kept in the pillory of public opinion until the close of the war. Whenever he attempts to shift the guilt that weighs upon his soul his tricks should be pointed out. Mephistopheles enacting the chivalrous gentleman will be more and more the pose of the kaiser as the time approaches ap-proaches when he must give an accounting. account-ing. Let us hold him to the accounting from now until the end. |