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Show Trial of Wm. Hohenzollern 1 ' . . ' By Berton Braley . s B.fr a German jury and a Carman judoe, William Hhnsl- lorn had been put n trial fr incompetency and criminal miamanaga-mnt miamanaga-mnt of th werk he had been intrusted with by th German people. After th attorneye fr th etate and th defendant had mad thir e'eaa, the magiatrat charged th jury a fllwc: THE CHARGE TO THE JURY itf ENTLEMEN, the evidence plain to rvery inti-lligent man. VJ clearly shows that tlvt defendant. William Hohenzollern, took b frugal, efficient and industrious people who were rapidly eouquenng the world comraereially and scientifically under conditions condi-tions of peace, and plunged them into war with the statement that he was seeking 'a place in (he sun.' With the effect of this action upon other nations this court cannot deal, the defendant in on trial simply f-r what he has done to Germany. And what do the facts 4 ill., hr heii aurnmnl'"""1 f'T tlertnanv hv this WBTT T RIIUW II". IIBIB-BeJJpaiaiaiB m m iimpn " -iaan"aa-. I "They show indisputably that he has piled up a debt of some i 0.000,000,0H) ; that he has caused the death of at least 2,000,000 i of Uerriianvs best men and the maiming of 5.000,000 more; they i show that his act wrecked an immense and grrviii; trade which ; was making Germany a hive of industry; that it instantaneously removed from the seas and tied to the wharves a magnificent and i profitable merchant marine, ami presently lost to the fatherland ! practically every colony she possessed. 1 - "The facts, gentleman, show further that as a direct result of j this war act of the defendant's, the country was compelled to go ou rations rations which, as the war progressed, became slimmer and slimmer, until they left effeuts of undernourishment from which it will take the German people generations to recover. So much for the material side of the matter. ! " When we come to the moral consequences of the defendant s acts, we find evidence still more damning. We find that his cynical cyni-cal disregard of the treaties ami covenants between nations has ' made all the world regard Germany as unworthy and impossible to 1 trust; that his ruthless barbarity in conducting war and the vast I and cosmic destruction wreaked by his orders ou land and sea have served no military purpose and have banded the whole world t in alliance against the system that perpetrated them; we find, further, that the defendant's clumsy conspiracies in the name of diplomacy have irritated the few neutral countries left, and that the deliberate savageries of his agents in France, in Belgium, '.n Serbia, in Rumania ami in Poland have made the name German synonym for Hun, Vandal and Goth, and given the (icrman people an evil and malignant fame which it will take them centuries to live down. "In brief, we find that William Hohenzollern. as king of Prussia and emperor of Germany, has taken his nation from its plaoe in the sun and east it into a gloom out of which, it will no emerge in your time or mine, and that quite aside from what he has done to the rest of a once fair world, he has mined and betrayed be-trayed the country he ruled. These geatlemen, are facts which any intelligent man must perceive, and it is for you to determine whether they are sufficient to warrant a conviction." I Th Jury returned a vrdict f guilty without leaving their Mate ! Of eouree it eauldn't happen, but wouldn't it b a wonderful thing fr Germany, and th world, if it did? 'I ' |