Show The Pious sous Devil IThe tt 11 By KATE JORDAN 01 Ot The Visitant Vigilantes a ice ice e that June day in 1914 when the the at gave as kaiser and the cormorants o led wi with th him over the them for the m local ll tables the opportunity mankind for which they preparing for fifty years ears we were I Ii i re had him described quoted pho- pho 1 Tap lied hed by the highest men of many l men men of honor whose word t be questioned vanity is colossal something colossal something to Raymond t.-RAymond Hitchcock described t hen as fiS a reason for his having de the war he Ile explained that the lithe theer all dressed with noto no- no Ser ser er was up cre to go ge He De Is alwa always s 's dressed l ither as an nn hussar an admiral Sis thiS or that and lately even as ns a rj rg Yes Yes William Is aZy JM about himself He likes the P he carries the duds nth r vanity there Is always arro- arro mus h 1 ice and he Is arrogant His Ils mus- mus b bt he t ends alone are damning evIl evi- evi l aee of that The points point up at atIt n iX-It iX It is evident too in his addle addle- a to posing on a horse horse horse-he he can cnn look and ride over oyer an anything on foot iruh ith vanity and arrogance trench trench- makes akes a good third In his own nd the first two traits set him apart gl glorified d unit a law unto himself it hat Is therefore just common deicy de- de 1 icy to to other men has no meaning for fore forel e el who ho is law Because of this he hea a break his wor word lie cheat steal Ird lyder r turn of the game game game-as as h has S r done from the first moment These Sese rhese three traits could not exist th ut breeding cruelty The German en to suffering in others In Ine lIDS ms ms large in the all nil ier- ier savagery he has outdone the tit barbarous Turk that ever er lived li has directed the slaughter of mil mil- ns nor of m min n. n And not only of his eneM ene- ene M make no mistake of that Hee He lIe e directed the slaughter of his own wf and artisan armies wI with th as lr trembling a finger It might be beu u 11 for or the Germans in this country la 10 secretly yearn over the father father- d to think of this The The German teer iser does not spare his people He riders his own own own-as as a ca cat t eats I its ts' ts own h hen n the Idea seems good for aristo- aristo tt ti and reasons t arrogance treachery and oets Surely these ar are enough of ofIl Il uT to exist in one man But there is flier and It reeks from the brew brewi brew brew- 1 i hypocrisy tes tes es this man of lies and torn I ties whose armies were directed eat reat the betrayed Belgians as h hy- hy treat the graves they pull to tos s for bones this killer of of babes I m murderer of the wounded wounded wounded-is Is us 11 If one were to believe him I Jf of f his horrors has had Gods God's au- au ng ding ring ing tills this last year ear he has grown old ld and white of hair Some late graphs of him that have reached country show no arrogance at all he be ie Is now markedly sanctimonious r- r fiery very ry very sad No wonder He Hed Hend nd d God have God have not had the easy e that hat he expected I ou Olsee see 1 he ue had the restaurant pick pick- l d the date set for his tribal tri tri- hal bal jal dinner In Paris around Christ Christ- 1914 There Thele was reason for his hist l t h so BO sure When he started ss Belgium killing and burning l r e his i ls Is path he was most hideous hideously Y red ared Jed for the fight he knew hald he ha hel e l ld meet jn in France 11 haPs aps It Is not generally known J how prepared he was in a onel one one- l infamy From sure authority l iv le e recently read of the tons of ed wIre 15 years yem's In the making 4 1 v ent with those first troops fiery c y German soldier as he took step over the Belgian frontier rat is as his goal had In his kit tt lot y o of f liquid gas and a perfectly r gas mask also years and andin 1 In in the making When the kaiser j oat ed on the liquid gas that was J 9 otoe olne as a surprise upon his de- de 1 tess ss enemies while his own men U SUpermen immune Is It any er th a t the his nis mustache f p f le fn n n a sweet slow smile Any 1 cr e that hat nt he saw himself In Paris l 1 eating sauerkraut pre- pre 1 by a Ii French chef ell I In spite of ot all that he has hasto J ht to make solid sand his loathsome 1 ton on n. n ho he is not In jn Paris He is 1 4 1 1 or near It r and glad to stay j hadn't co counted anted on England England and and o E d s 's i navy bottled up his ports lons poured over o the channel hi Irn m. m td was SUre Italy would hold to o a R sort ort of promise to back him up 4 w Were ere good Italy thought him d bad and so 50 she wc went t after h him im Vast I t afraid al 1 of or America Amer Amer- SS as as t too busy mal making too i f in money a I r selfishness and lu luxury r an and ace i America w would uld never fight as like Je an nn overfed cat asleep inCe in InO inot Jut But O Ce ot from the time he sank e t i R i America has really been r 1 With him in spirit as she is Full ut t reality her hend When she did wake u up p hen henold old d under the pump and re d nhe fhe Water made her vIsion so n 0 could r could see nothing but the thea nna d a gun ISO J In n spite t ot of vanity and arro- arro t and ana treachery and and nd cruelty el a cr sY n i-n-n P ady way he hc ha hasay M has with not of our God w we e full say with j. j irr r r though though m v. v h he a has succeeded In rj 1 rL I lInos aos nos r W upon the world he has han iI gained nothing instead he has lost 1091 much I And he ne will ill lose more If n necessary th the whole Orld doln down Something world TOd will in the rIse to P put him I soul of m man an could not tolerate toler te sub subjection to anything anything any any- thing so visibly monstrous What will G Germany be when the war a S over ncr Industrially and 1 iy ly a n cripple and a mendicant And how many centuries must pass before the German people by right richt liv liv- lag Ing ng and fair thinking can wipe away the stain this pious devil d evil has put upon n their name |