Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-11-09 | Page 1 | Kaiser's Dream Fades and His Kingdom Falls

A dream of world dominion obsessing obsess-ing the mind of Emperor William plunged the world into war. Upon him and the tremendous military engine of destruction of which he was the embodiment, em-bodiment, the exponent and the leader rests Ih responsibility of deliberately planning and bringing about the greatest- conflict the world has ever seen. It did not matter to the world that the emperor's personal share in the swift events immediately proceding the war had been obscured. The world convicted him or organizing, directing and maintaining at the lop notch of efficiency the great German military machine. It remembered that he signed sign-ed the order for the German mobilization. mobiliza-tion. It remembered that he stood sponsor for the terrorism and brigandage brigan-dage which, under the guise of warfare, war-fare, ravished Belgium, laid waste the cities of France, depopulated and outraged out-raged Serbia and sent the Lusltania with her. freight of -women and chil dren to a grave m the Atlantic. Civilization will never forget that its was the minion's of the emperor who official ly shot to death Edith Cav-ell Cav-ell the English girl who btriended tho Belgians in Brussels. Guilty Before Bar of Humanity. Against these his cry "I did not will tho war" availed as nothing. Before the bar of humanity William was adjudged ad-judged guilty of the greatest crime since the cruciflxiou. In him humanity saw the last of the autocrats, the final Cassar. Assertions that he was at heart peaceful, so persistently circulated circu-lated for years as to give them the stamp of German propaganda, became branded as certainly false. He who had long proclaimed himself the prince of peace stood revealed as humanity's scourge, and against him and all that ho represented rose the new world of democracy and freedom. Many doubt whether William was entirely sane. He said repeatedly that