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Show 3 Published Every Saturday BY G00DWINV8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr, L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico $2JK) per year, 0 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal $1-5- Union, $4.50 per year. 8lngle copies, 10 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, able to The Citizen. pay- 0 Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 31 Phone Wasatch 5409. Ness Bldg. at the Postofflce at 8alt Lake 8alt Lake City, Utah. CROWN PRINCE TRIES HEROISM AND ACHIEVES FARCE a magnificent gesture of heroism the former crown prince ruined by a littleness he could not conceal! His letter offering himself for trial in place of the 900 fellow countrymen demanded by the allies might have won for him in history the title of Frederick the Heroic had he not spoiled it all by a few words which showed that he was no more capable of chivalry than the lowest jailbird. Had he but had sufficient greatness of soul to omit the words If the allied and associated governments want a victim, he would have shone throughout the ages a fixed star in the firmament of princes. But because he was unable to assume a magnanimity he did not teel he will rafik among the imperial clowns. If, at his elbow watching him while he wrote, some aide with a mingling of liberality and cunning, had advised him wisely he might have been able to deceive history by achieving an augustness of demeanor which nothing in his mean life would seem to warrant. His blunder lay in his petty spitefulness. To appear noble and chivalric he should have thrown spite to the winds and assumed that the trial was to be conducted in accord with the most scrupulous canons of justice, and that punishment waS to be meted out, not as vengeance, but as the highest possible example of human justice. But to assume that the allies were simply demanding a victim was to as- -, cribe to them motives which they could not even seem to recognize as valid. He offered himself as one who would say : Since you are determined to wreak vengeance and to sacrifice victims to conceal your - own guilt and hypocrisy, take me. So far from being worthy of a prince, it was unworthy of a scavenger. Even though he was convinced that the allies were hypocrites bent upon the basest injustice, he should have assumed their purity of purpose, for only by doing that could he have made himself appear heroic. As it is he issues a challenge which he knows cannot be accepted, for to accept would be to admit the truth of his insult. When he wrote If the allied and associated governments want a victim, he knew that he was making it impossible for the allies to seemaccept his offer and he could gain no credit for himself without would be ing to believe that his offer would be accepted and that he in offering to ff. ; permitted to die for his friends. What heroism is there ' die for another when one is certain that the offer is not to be ac- WHAT cepted ? Like the foolish kaiser, in his cuirass and helmet of gold and dazon an zling white uniform of the Greanadier Guards, waiting vainly eminence for his troops to capture Nancy so that he might lead a march of triumph through the streets of the conquered city, so the crown prince, attired in all the spiritual panoply of heroism, strikes a godlike attitude before all the world and achieves only the clumsy gesture of a clown. But if the prince is to be condemned for pettiness what is to be said of the allies ? After winning the most titanic and desperate struggle of all time, the nations should crown their victory with a proper majesty. Instead of ferreting out each underling who mimiced the ferocity of imperial butchers the allies should display a magnanimity commensurate with the grandeur of their triumph. Nor should they insist upon the surrender even of the higher officers, for all the officers were obeying, so to speak, the combined orders of fifty years of militarism. And who are the allies that they should cast stones ? Are not the British atrocities in India comparable to the German atrocities in Belgium? The massacre of 500 unarmed natives, and the wounding of 1,500, at Amritsar, India, by British soldiers acting under orders, was as great an atrocity as any committed by the Germans in Belgium. The commander who gave the order thought that the slaughter was needed as an example. He applied terrorism because he believed it was necessary to maintain the imperial military system of Great Britain. It was the same appeal to necessity that the Germans made. In the view of the German militarist necessity excused the basest of inhuman acts. In all cases the commanding officers, German and British, were logical even though murderous. They saw that they could not maintain their systems without the use of the most tyrannous force. The demand of the allies for the surrender of the emperor is in a different class, even though it be unwise. The more the causes of the war are investigated, the more certain and hideous appears his personal responsibility. At all events, so guilty does he seem as the author of the most sanguinary and woeful of wars that the allies are not degrading themselves by demanding his trial. And they can conduct it with a majesty of justice that will commend itself to men of this and of all generations. . HOOVER AS RIP VAN WINKLE HOOVER of Unitania, having newly arrived on our has not been able to decide whether he is a Republican or a Democrat. Give me time, is his plea to the strange American public he meets after so many years of absence. It is related that Mr. Hoover, being asked what party he belonged HERBERT |