Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-15 | Page 4 | What the Kaiser Has Accomplished

WHAT THE KAISER HAS ACCOMPLISHED One of the most accurate statements state-ments descriptive of the achievements of the German IwiFrr is the following, the author of winch is unknown to us. "'There is no la v. but nr. law, no will but my will.' the Kaiser told some of his soldiers in a recent interv lew And while that is not Btrictl true. It is a fact that from the beginning of his reign Wilhclm baa been almost absolute It is he, more than ,m other man. perhaps more than any dozen other men that must be credited cred-ited with the two supreme achievements achieve-ments of the modern German cmpir its perfection of armament and Its perfection of industry "Wilhelm has loved the army, and the army him. lie has rai.sed it to the highest military efficieHcj attained at-tained in modern times, More than this, he has created a navy from nothing, within a single generation, it might almost be said that in the face of tremendous obstacles he has willed into existence a naval power second only to Up at Britain's, and ship for ship apparently superior to it For that we must, credit his ambition am-bition for world power and partly his inborn love of the sea. "For these achievements the outside out-side vvorld is inclined to hate or rear the Kaiser For bis other great work, tho turning of a notion of dreamer.', into the most efficient Industrial so CidtJ on earth, few nrricans will deny him praise. Frori thf begin ning he has steadily and Intelligently fostered the industry and commerce of Germany Autocrat though he is. he has gone far beyond most of our reformers In using his power to put through radical measures for the protection pro-tection and welfare of workmen Sometimes he has led and sometimes he has been driven. It is one of the strange contradictions of Wilhelm's reign that while he has Steadfastly fousrht. reviled and persecuted the Socialists, who constitute the strongest strong-est political oarty in ti e emn'r- he has persistently stolen their thUnder and has organized and interwoven industry in-dustry and state admin Stratlon until the machinery could almost run itself. it-self. "Whatever blame may be due the Kciser for -he origin and conduct of th's war, it will never be forgotten hat !t was under his direction that ?he worklni people of Germany won Guarantees of honorable livelihood for 'hem9rdvps and their families under I ill circumstances whatever, while our own industrial classes aro, for the most part, etill helpless in the face of unemployment, sickness, disability , md old age."