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Show Kaiser Suggests Dual Kingdom Answers Lucifer's Letter of a Pew We., ks ''A"- Kiects to fall on t.at;;ii in Near Future. lloyal Palace, Berlin. My De.ir Lucifer: Von? kindly letter received and its contents noted. Indeed, my dear Satan, Sa-tan, joii Halter me, but I cannot help .but ieu! ihut all your praise is not mi; placed. 1 will tell you frankly, I was a Utile in retired when you compared me with Nero. To my mind Nero was a piker, but on second thought I realize that he did not possess the many advantages I do for carrying on his devilish work. He had no guns that would shoot for twenty miles; he had no gas bombs or flame throwers; he had never had the opportunity to drop bombs on school houses and kill little children! he could not send; his aviators over towns and drop poisoned candy for children to eat; lie did not have submarines by which he could sink passenger ships and kill hundreds of women and babies. Taking all this into consideration, I think Nero did pretty well, considering consider-ing the disadvantages under which he worked. If I had lived in those days ! I do not know if I could have im-': proved on his methods of raising hell, I although some of it looks crude to. us j. now with our cultured cruelties. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your gifts to me. My ab- :, normal ambition has made me the ; most hated man in the world. Itl has sent my soldiers through peaceful peace-ful villages, bent on murder, raping and arson. It has made a million widows, and has produced an army of a million men maimed, without arms, without legs and without sight. It has bereft some of their reasons j and they will go through life with j their minds blank. It has robbed thousands of women of their virute and has brought thousands more into i my realms as slaves. My name is coupled with curses in every clime. Until now I have always cursed the fate which left me with a withered wither-ed arm, but now I discern your inscrutable in-scrutable wisdom. Without that, If, might have had human instincts which would interfere with my ambitions, am-bitions, and might have made me show a semblance of pity when I saw the results of my fiendish work. Without that twist in my normal make-up I might have told Tirpitz to order his submarine commanders not ' to sink ships without warning and ', to give the passengers a chance to save themselves. indeed, my dear Mephisto, I share with you a hatred for all things Kng-lish. Kng-lish. It was England that, stopped my victorious soldiers at the Marne and prevented me from conquering the world and making all nations my vassals. It was England that tried to interfere with my plans by proposing propos-ing mediation when I had all my plans set for a world conquest. England Eng-land has taught Christianity and the love of their fellow men, while I have endeavored to instill hatred into their hearts and to make them fiends in human form. My hatred for England is only exceeded ex-ceeded by my hatred lor America. Had it not been for that country all Europe would have been helpless at my feet long ago. Shells made with American money killed my soldiers sol-diers and for this 1 can never forgive America. I So the secret is out: You hint that j 1 had a hand in the Saravejo assassination. assassi-nation. 1 flattered myself that I had this covered up and no one would suspect that 1 bad a hand in it. Well, it is till right. 1 suppose. You inspired in-spired it in me. and have a right to share in the secret. You will have to admit that it was clever of mo to be on my yacht at the time of 1 1 1 e assassination. as-sassination. It was a prettv cicet alibi. Your words of praise ever my ti-tnarine ti-tnarine warfare pleases me. I '"hitter '"hit-ter mjself that you could do no better. bet-ter. My trusted officers describe.' o-i.io o-i.io the deatli struggles of the women! ard babies as a submarine sent them ' to eternity. It pleased me much and my only regret was that I could not have been present to witness it in person. You will have to admit that my vork in Belgium, northern France, Poland, Servia and Rumania has been well done. Belgium was a peaceful country, filled with happy and innocent in-nocent people, until I decided to make a shortcut through to France. I am rather glad it resisted, as it gave my soldiers an opportunity to carry out my instructions. Had it not resisted I would have been forced to invent some excuse for the practice prac-tice of atrocities. . The civilian population pop-ulation of Poland made no resistance, yet you see what I have done. My soldiers need no reason, they merely asked for an excuse, and if there is none, it is easy to trump up some charges. My agents sowed the seeds of discord dis-cord and treason among the Rus-sia.ns Rus-sia.ns and thousands of those brave people perished through treachery. Lucifer, you make me laugh at times. You express surprise at my posing as1 a personal friend of God and telling my people that God will help them to victory. Cannot you see my plans? My friendship with God is simply to delude the poor, simple fools who are dying that my ambition may succeed, I have to hand them this junk once in a while to keep their breasts bared to the enemy. en-emy. Without it they would quit fighting. I tried the same junk on the neutral nations, but they were too clever to believe it. I have taught my people this creed since I came to the throne. The children chil-dren are taught to hate all things not German. They are taught that Germany Ger-many is invincible and anything that I do is not wrong. I have disguised it under the name of kultur. My alliance al-liance with the Turks was a clever move on my part as it gave me an excellent opportunity to pass the bunk. When they commence slaughtering slaugh-tering the Christians no one connected con-nected my name with it, as the Turks had slaughtered Christians for centuries. cen-turies. You need not fear that your work will be slighted. I have six sons who are as capable of ordering cruelties as myself. Sometimes r believe the oldest boy has a little more subtile cruelty in his nature than I have. Some have compared me with Napoleon. Na-poleon. That makes me incensed. Napoleon never battered down historic his-toric cathedrals, the work of centuries. centur-ies. Napoleon never ordered his men to make war on women and children. Napoleon never left a trail of illegitimate illegit-imate children where his armies passed; pass-ed; Napoleon tried to spread civilization civili-zation in conquered countries, while 1 have spread kultur. His ambition was to rule Europe; mine is to rule the world. You talk of abdicating in my favor. Don't do it. Let us have a dual 'throne. Wii'.. your experience coupled coup-led with my nature we should he a Me to make a hell that would surpass al! previous efforts. And I am saying say-ing this in strictest confidence, I feel that I am soon to join you. I fea,' that 1 have overstepped my ambitious and 1 can see my ruin. A victory by my enemies will mean my end. Well, 1 do not regret it. It will put me in hell till Hie sooner, where I will be Willi kindred spirits. There is too much love and charity on earth to suii me. and when I join you I will be in my clement, I'll bring the boys, too, t am sure that you can find use for them. They are fine devils. Well, good bye, Lucifer, will see you later. WILHELM. |