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Show KAISER THROUGH AS GERMAN RULER EVEN MONARCHISTS DO NOT WANT WILHELM AT HEAD OF COUNTRY, SCRIBE 8AYS. Former Ruler of Germany Will Never Sit on Throno Again, Is Belief Be-lief of Many German Cltlzer New York Wllholm of Uio house of Uohonzollcrn, now sawing wood at his exllo homo Haus Doom In Holland hns Just as good a chanco of going back to Germany ns kaiser as I have. Tho difference In the two cases Is that I can't and don't want to, whllo Wll-helm Wll-helm can't, but may want to Americans ask tho question, "Will Wllhclm come back?" perhaps more frequently than any othor about Germany. Ger-many. Tho answer Is an unequivocal "no," if words and deeds of the days slnco tho revolution in Oermnny are any criterion. Germany doesn't want Wllhclm bnck. Not qven tho men who frankly strlvo for restoration of tho monarchical system In Germany want him to head It. To the Socialists of Gormany and they are legion Kaiser Wllholm Is a quitter. Ho fled like a coward In the uatlon'i darkest hour, thoy Bay, nnd any attempt on his port or that of ovcrzcalous friends to restore him would bo met with overwhelming opposition. op-position. Germany proved what It thought of monarchists when It put a crimp in Herr Kapp's private promonarchlstlc "putsch" last yoar; and since that tlmo tlio national feeling hasn't swung any moro In favor of return of a moarchy. The Erzbcrger demonstration, n demonstration dem-onstration against reaction, showed that tho junkers and tlio rabid monarchists mon-archists who seek to restore the old order through assassination and terrorism ter-rorism linvcu't a chance. I would scarcely venture to assert that a constitutional monarch, such as England's, would not one day come to Gormany. But at tho moment the consciousness of the people Is for a democracy. Tho eight-hour day about the only fruit of tho revolution pleases pleas-es the German worker, nnd ho knows If a monarchy, returns be will exchange It for nn Industrial slavery of twelve to fourteen hours a day at low wages. The men who want a monarchy back are, for the most part, disgruntled disgrunt-led Individuals, who have lost money or position through 'the overturn. Released Re-leased officers curse uio now regime. But for tho avorago man, the republic repub-lic Is Ratlsfactory. Its overturn might porlmps come about through over-heavy over-heavy tax burdens, for tho promon-archlsts promon-archlsts appeal to the Ignorant with tlio plea that things wero bettor "In the old days" neglecting to point out that a lost war with a staggering debt and now economic conditions would not mako the common man's lot easier, easi-er, even under a kalnor. The monarchists tulk or tho crown prince's son as a possible throno candidate; can-didate; others would have n Bavarian monarch. But tho monarchists them-sclvos them-sclvos with, of course omo exceptions excep-tions nny, "Lot tho ropuollc carry the hod, repair tho country, nnd then lot us In, say ten or twenty yours, seek to restore a monarchy." |