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Show WILHELM, THE MAD KAISER. The world stands in wonderment at the glibness with which Wilhelm, Imperial Im-perial madman of Germany, chatters about his intimate relations with God It's rather hard on God, but the presumption pre-sumption is that He understands, and with greater pity than we can feel, sorrows that thekalser is mad For mad the kaiser surely is. Mad j with the inflation that comes from too I much power; insane with vanity that has stricken even stronger characters than he; mentally defective through j obsession of his "divinely appointed' connection, which all have been added I to by those insidious heritary and con j genital influences which have w arped his lntr-llect and withered his body. History is full of mad monarch Mftdnesi has been fashionable in cir-Clt cir-Clt I where 'iw;is a boast that God specially spe-cially hovered around their particular vicinity. Lombroso had a special sense for reading this specie of madmen. A perusal of his "Man of Genius" will do much to help home -folk get the measure of this Btuffy, poutlng-pigeon kaiser. In the parlance of the street Kaiser Bill l.sas mad as a March hare. And there is an old saying on the street and mayhap if is potent with meaning in Bill's case: "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad" Surely, he will go down into history as Wilhelm, the Mad Kaiser. |