1914-12-26 — Page 8

THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.

IS THE KAISER MAD ?

THE MATTOID MONARCH,

BY JEAN FINOT, EDITOR OF "LA REVUE," IN THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS.”

Like a pelty God

I walked about, admired of all

and dreaded,

'On hostile ground, none daring

my affront, Then swoll'n with pride into the

enere I fell...

of

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1914.

"the crowned assassin.

German manufacturers.

Sɔme B

...

Being affliated in addition by an hereditary disease of the ear, William It is predestined to furnish yet another recruit to the great army of balf-criminals, half-madmen. This conformation of the ear shows, it appears, a predisposition to crime and false

normale, angle

ceived as Ronan. But even he assiduous churchgoers. Kueeling would not have lacked the courage before the altar, he talked to confess his error. There is familiarly to his God, a God something infinitely humiliating beneficent towards himself, whe for humanity to have been duped guaranteed the success of his for so many years; for, let us exploits and covered him with his repeat it, the august charmer is, all-powerful protection. Boggia, after all, but a simple degenerate, condemned to death for several one of those maltoide who astonish dozen murders, wrote sermione, their friends by the versatility, and always preached Christ' the variety and the inconsistency ethica and religion, ordering all of their gifts and the absence of those who surrounded him to all morality.

pray at church. Let me make no comparisons. The crowned mate toid of Berlin, it is true, will have apon his conscience not a few dozen, bat hundreds of thousands of victims. It matters not. His invocations to heaven and his touching familiarity with the all- powerfal God all strangely

The mitigated madness, OF resemble those of Boggia. rather, to speak in the language of other times, the innocence, of Willism II shows itself in the universality of his talents, and also in the contradictions he makes every day. Under other conditions he would have become one of those graphomaniacs who are the plague of editors ant the punishment of readers att: iated by the titles of their works. Having inherited absolute power, he had early or late to bring about a ostaolyam amonget humanity.

The diminished conscience of

of the subject we are studying. a mattoid makes him refracto da

olling him in a great speech and the other on the banks of the matists who combined lying and Spree. I did not count very a lack of scruples with shrewd I was one of the first in France much on the direct assistinge of intelligence, wai, himself often to denounce the crimes of Abdal the German Sovereign, but 1 shooked by the methods em Hamid, and a vigorous article, load, with the assistance of the played by Willisa II. His reproduced by a number of world's Press, to be able all the lies and entire lack of loyalty papers, and published in Paris eams to rates a corner of the mye male the old master of in in 1895, on the "Peuples des torious veil which appeared to trigue blush. There are abundant Martyrs" brought me an open link these two august friends to facte. For instance, during the laster from Gladstone in the Daily gether.

Turko-Italian war Germany that News. This encouragement from My disappointment was great is to say, her Emperor, for he the Grand Old Man invited me when I learnt one day that Manir personally supervised the foreign valiantly to uphold my post as Pasha's action was dropped, to policy-never ceased from help defender of the Armenians. That the great joy of our Quai d'Orsay, ing Turkey-indby what Germany and that the Hohenzol which strack me most in this In order to soften my disappoint methods against Italy, her ally directly descended straggle between the Turkish ment at having thus lost the one The German ambassador at Oon leros were from Him. It was in His name monster and one of the most on- chance of my life of having an etantinople, the Baron Marschall,

he loved to speak fortunate nations on earth was action brought against me, Manir preached resistance to the Turks that

Bat it was the friendship and esteem that the Pasha, in the name of his rover German officers, inspired and peace

the Emperor William never failed to eiga, offered my collaboratora sad gaided the celebrated Enver, a A6, envoy of God also Father that he drew the sword. show to the Sultan. This gassi myself many high decorations, simple officer, who, having later Milton's Samson Agonistes. The Emperor of Germany and representative of Christ on earth which we naturally hastened to assassiacted his own War Minie hoed. According

ter, became on that secount even made by Frigerio with studie At the present time the men God being thus allied, William not only stretched out a brotherly refuse.

to the assassiu,

time afterwards the dearer to William's heart. The the anrioalo-temporal tion of the word Kaiser only thought himself invincible. His band raises dccra, yet a few months audacity of recent times is not at algar swindler who murdered Tarks, mora impatient and more Cavernment eten went so far as exceeds 90°, but is less with de-

rained Europe, and and

a Christian over more energetic than the to procure for the Tripolitans generates. And from the indis ago in the imagination of the all astonishing.

... and oretions of certain doctors it op world, not to mention that of the even pll the world united against nation, but he also covered him Germane, got rid of one of the two arms and ammunition German nation, that word was him, does not trouble him at all. with his regard before all Europe, brothers. And the other who re- farther, Germany, together with pears that with the Kaiser same angle is about thought to stand for something Is not the divine power on his What an astute diplomatist," mained in power, the Kaiser, dit Aastris, furnished Tarkey with the

exclaimed the shortsighted people not even think of intervening in submarine mines to sink Italian 68 degrees, a condition which is aldace powerful and formidable, side?

It has been wrongly thought when they saw the Emperor bar-favour of Abdul Hamid. And vassale. And, as though there was characteristic of degenerates in Not so long ago the Kaiser was even popular in France. He ar-that the Emperor has lately had a ter his honour to gain commercial more, when the Committas of no limit to his felony, Berlin sent general, and of forgera and peared to be a kind of modern sadden it of madness, but in advantages and concessions for Union and Progress were guilty German offer to Constantioriminals in particular.

of new Armenian miss ores at nople to lay mines in the Bos Let us not go as far as this. As Lohengrin, theincarnation of reality he has only given one more

Our conscience is not a cabinet Adans, the noble sovereign openly phorus. The Consult possesses the deductions of criminal an loyalty and broadmindedness, a manifestation of that slow and veritable Emperor of peace, even insidious disease that was under with separate hermetically sealed lavished his sympathy upon to-day all the documenta which thropology generally leave me as bo is in truth (the incarnate mining him. The history of his compartments... After the de- them. German diplomacy guided leave. no manner of doubt as to soeptical, I prefer to keep to reign is really a series of frenzied grading spectacle of a powerful by William adopted the members the auspicious proceedings which psychological indications and to spirit of war.

The incoherence of his grand- thoughts and actions. The Germonarch who, for the sake of the of the Uommittee, who became would be a disgrace to an escaped actual facts, drawn from the life

his gas nation, owing partly to an material interests of his country, almost cousias of H.L.M. the Ki-onvict iloquent language and

Lying and treachery, those two Now William's vicissitudes, to all sense of duty. Ho will theatrical notions always bad inertia created in the previous stretched out his band to a ser, William's moral insensibil.

bat. more. especially avowed assassin, justifying crime ity thus exceeded all that could venomous plants which war so his attitudes, his actions, his glorify, however, all his moral something alarming about them, reign,

laborious and per-

and weakening the public con- be expected from a mattoid. By strong with degenerates, have thoughts, are incontestably those principles in berangues filled with His speeches contradicted one an- to its

not science, the Emperor William use of his pen, his God, and his entirely overran the Kaiser. He of a degenerate in the trae ready-made phrases, borrowed other, and it was the same with severing qualities, has his sympathies and with his been rained, in spite of all the suddenly took a perilous sto, and sword, he still manage to hide practises them with the Isak of psychological sense of the word. either from the Gospels or instes. If his bristling moustache Emperor and his entourage bave passed into the doubtful region from the world te fragility of conscience of a nagpie stealing Instead of family and social from moralists of repute. lent to his face a look of decision done, She has been able to sup where he himself committed a his poor little co science and the pricious thing. He has deceived affections," the author of L'Hon-dut on the slightest pratart the will fall away, disquietiog var atuig of his ad and man and has betrayed me Grimine tells us," which in mask and energy, his dreamy eyes, port, in addition to the excessive reprehensible orime.

This was during his triumphal brain.

his own people.

criminals are completely extin The emptiness of his mind will which he was wont to fix upon burden of armaments, all the

A great moral perversity never. It ia William himself who pro- guished or are present in a siste appear in the savagery of his sets his interlocutor with a disconcert- failings of the Emperor, including voyage to Constantinople. The ing immobility, his garrality, of his desire for greatness, but foal Sultan Abdul Hamid, past-master failed to show itself in William claims the news of French ag of unstable balance," there are and his aspirations, the satisfac ten insipid and nearly always ly the evil genius conquered, in the art of buying consciences, at all periods of his life. Ingression, "the overranging of other dominant passions less tion of his vanity and of his no- nervous, and the rapidity with Germany's greatness, founded resolved to acquire for ever that gratitude, the astoril conse Belgium" by the French, the noble but extremely tenacious. limited, unhealthy ambition will "And above all otherschereie vanity, constitute the only restraint in which he changed the subject, upon a morbid megalomanis and of Emperor William. All the quence of the despairing condi- attack on the German outpat

whole more generous in that he offered tion of mind of a mattoid who at by France before the declaration or rather an excessive conception his life. An emperor, William greatly troubled those who en directed against the countered him. If ons had the civilised world, has been mortally valuable articles which did not tempts everything but can only of war, of "the aggression of of their own personal value, a violates by premeditation The ourage to look at the man behind struck and is fading and dispera belong to him, Abdul Hamid be faithful to his oxa fixed un- French aviatora on Metz and sentiment that amongst men neutrality of Larembarg and of growa stronger in inverse ratio Belgium, and causes his soldiers the sovereign, one found that he ing. The Emperor, ill him- showed himself singularly liberal realised idea, appeared almost Nuremburg"

In the same way, in 1906, at the to their merit.

to commit atrocities which pat appeared hardly normal-in fact, self, was surrounded by general towards the imperial German innate in the Kaiser.

One has almost forgotten the time of the Conference of Algecir-

It is also said that with this type them on a level with simple who had not heep at all deceived the integrity and independence of other things, treasures belonging tragicomio history of the great as, he telegraphed personally, to of person the moral sense is bandite or lower than savages. quite unbalanced. An ambassador decay. The old German virtues, couple. He offered them, amongst by his pretensions to be a demi- her judges, the morality and re to the Ottoman people, precious Polish lord Koscielski, nicknamed the different Fowers that France almost entirely lacking. If they In the same way by his ordem one day that serve of her inhabitants, have son- jewels, diamonds and pearls of the the Admiral" for biving made had been abandoned by all-that lie, commit thefts or forgeries, a most respected woman, the urge told me

orowa worth, in the estimation of superhuman efforts to secure th the whole world found her in the even if they murder, they always Dowager Empress of Russia, was William reminded him of the sibly diminished.

experts, more than five million vote of credit for the navy from the wrong.

believe they have right on their made to submit to an outrageous Venetian harlequins who used

francs. William II. could not Polish deputies, The Emperor, He telle bis troops that they are aida. According to them the insult, and the representatives of solemnly to inaugurate the carai

have been ignorant of the origin already seized with the idea of going to Belgium to defend her fault liga with their victims. From foreiga Powers were abused and Someone had the inspiration to

of these things. Neither was he surpassing the English feet, had against a French invasion. Ex-Mandeley to Enrico Ferri and arimes were ordered and tolerat publish some time ago a collection

18orant of the erimes of bis done everything to overcome the posed by the first reverses of the passing by Lacassagne and so ed which will cause him to be "Brother." The Emperor took resistance of the Pules who could war, the Emperor, instead of many other psychologies of hated and despised by all the of William It's speeches, the con-

away from Constantinople a small turn the balance in hii favour. marching at the head of his army criminal follies, we shall find a world. tradiations and the flagrant in-

fortone and the contempt of many The "Admiral, William's in se his grandfather did, takes to disturbing unanimity of symp The moral decadence of modern ocherance of which profoundly

Tarks who knew of the trans-separable companion, pleaded the himself the work of a second-rate toma in the case of William II. A Germany brought about by the impressed specialists in mental

cause of the fleet so eloquently journalist. Ho foods his people profound observation of Sue, action of her Junkere, the in diegases,

My regretted collaborator and that the Poles, allured by the with oceans of false news. And which was later taken up and fluences of the Court and of her At the time I was passing the remains of a past which is ten friend, the brilliant writer, Garah- proinise of sotas just reforms, yet how can one be surprised at confirmed by many psychologista, soldiery, and, above all, the oult through Turin, and in a conver-centuries out of date. The ed Boy, to whom Maurice Barres voted as a single man. The vote this penultimate phase of Wil was that malefactors have a bor of the doctrine of the might in sation with Ossare Lombroso, he brutality and supremacy of a has devoted pages of incompr once obtained, the Kaiser forsock liam's life, after having followed ror of all recitals in which there is right," have made possible these gave me his opinion of the Ger- militariam of the lowest type des able and touching beauty, first the "Admiral, who, deceived the vicissitudes of the sad exist any mention of immorality or acts of savagery, of cruelty and of man Emperor. To the celebrated troyed the dignity and paralysed told me of this affair, euch a com- and ridiculed, lost all his inence of a degenerate sovereign? Crime Remember, then, the bestiality which we are witness founder of criminal anthropology the life of the labouring classes, promising one for the Band of Enence with his compatriots and Coming to the throne when the fer-hatred which the realistic Frenching. No one can doubt the direct William was

nothing but a who constitute the richness and Sovereigna. A few months later retired to his estates. If we ments resulting from the war of novel and even the realistic Ger- influence of the Kaiser. It is typical mattoid. He was con- genius of Germany. Behind a I received confirmation of the in wished to recall other authentic 1870 threatened to corrupt and man play inspired in the alleged to day that all theas vinced that we ought to publish brilliant facade all was concident from an eminent Tark, facts which combined to show as dissolve the old German virtues. The religion of a mattoid is only tolerated bat executed by

Emperor.

orimes against humanity are not a payohiological study of the fusion.

who at the same time farnished the Emperor as the most ungrate this crowned invalid could do sovereign, Bince, owing to his at The Emperor struck out viol me with a list of the presents fal and the most notable of nothing save exasperate the bad peculiar to himself. He creates order. tacks of verbo-manis and megalo ently in all directions. At times stolen from the Ot oman nation. mortale, we should exceed the instincts of his people and lead a God in his own image and It is enough to read the protest mania taken in combination with he acted as though he belonged to

The secret baving penetrated limite of this sketch. 11 them to ruio, Ph

annexes him, for his own profit, of the Government of the French his hereditary disease, he had al- the twentieth and at times as through to Europe, I spoke of it He frequently interfered in The world with the unreasoning His God has a special solicitude Republic to the signstory Powels ways been a cause of anxiety to though to the tenth century. His openly some time later in an affaire outside his Empire in logic which directs our acts and for his interests, he must second of The Hague Conventions and the psychologista; but we decided morality, both public and private, article in which I had related which he had no concern thoughts is always pitiless to the him in his enterprises and thus the report of August 20th, 1914, for political reasons to postpone was disconcerting.

some new misdeeds of His enthusiastic welcome of small, and paradoxically indul- make the most blamable acts sent by the General Commanders wegend in-Chief of the Eastern Army, the publication of such an article. European modern history has Abdul Hamid. It aroused the Count Witse, the leading Bussian gent to the great. Here is a respectable and holy

All the same it was difficult to been stained by the reign of a Red Sultan. Contrary to his habit, Minister, on his retorn from the young man who comes to power As there is hardly ever an which prove that the Germs a escape from this nightmare of a sovereign of whose numerous he brought an action against me United Sistae, where he had con after having publicly played the atheist to be met with amongst troops have killed a large number crowned mattoid whose caprices misdeeds no one any doubt. for lose majeste. His Ambassador cluded the peace between

between Russia part of a moral parricida. He malefactors, so most mattoids ara of wounded by shots fired point ruled the world. I trembled for This wee Abdul Hamid. The at Paris, Munir Pasha, one of the and Japan, will be remembered, had not only poisoned the exist to be found in extremely familiar, blank in the face, and that other International peace, this most "Red Sultan," as he was come shrewdest diplomatiste of last Extolling this diplomat to the ence of his noble father, but he relationship with their Providence, wounded have been tramplos en sacred treasure of humanity thus monly called, bad on his con- century, who, whilst totally lack skies, he called bins "Bemasok never ceased to abuse his Casanova has stated in his Mc and kicked. Further, they have confided to so fragile a conscience! science not only thousands of ing in scruples, had more than the Second." But what is always memory; he to attached himself moires that all those who carry systematically burnt villegos Having the impressionable mind maiders committed at Con- enough intelligence, lodged an forgotten is that the Count was ostensibly to his grandfather as on an illicit profession have without the slightest reason, and of a deranged person, at times stantinople, but oleo some action against me in the name of turned out of power owing to though he to whom he owed his an exaggerated confidence in forced the inhabitants to precede sane and at times frenzied, wae hundreds of thousands of the Sublime Porte before the William intrigue. A docum- brilliant fortunes was only a myth their God. And this is their scouts, Re-read the Belgian not the Emperor William capable Armenians killed by his orders, Procureur of the Republic. My ented historian of to-morrow could without substance. His attitude even more frequent amongst proteste and you will fad tha of anything, even, I admit freely. A degenerate Machiavelli, he joy was indescribable when, called foraish a page on this subject towards Bismarck was almost as mattoide who i

o are at liberty. In same facts, the same conduct, the of good and great dotions caused whole tribes and colonies before a juge d'instruction, I had worthy of a Saint Simon. After monstroue. And, finally, what is the same way as malefactors think some ignominies. Peaceful in Nothing in him astonished me, to be assassinated. He confiscat to swear my defence, which de- this who can wonder at the Em- to be said of the sufferings and to procure divine grace by wear habitants are massacred, unfortie not even his.strange God, whom of the fortunes of his subjects and fence only aggravated my offence. peror's behaviour to his German humiliations he imposed upon his ing amulete or burning tapers, fed places are ombarded. be invoked as a sort of inferior appropriated them without any I made the great mistake, how servants? Bismarck, Caprivi, Von poor mother?***

a crowned mattold will, with a gay villages and towns are rapsoneds fanotionary in order to legaliss form of judicial procedure. Hoover, of citing a dozen witnesses, Balow and so many others were The civilised world, conquered heart, spread flame and fire Har soldiers descended to the the extravagances of his speech perpetrated more crimes than all commencing with the Emperor forced to give place to a Bath by his verbosity and his Lohen throughout the world. But he level of simple bashi bazouku or and of his irresponsible actions the convicts in New Caledonia William and ending with Clemen-mann Hollweg,an obscurexobody grin-like attitudes, appeared to will make a whole nation prey, of Bulgarian comitad In his troubled state of mind he together. Gladstone, whose high cean, the brilliant Premier of that who became the docile instrument forget his crimes and to think which must naturally disarm the what has happened to appeared really convinced that position as chief of a party de- time, who could throw some light in the hands of his bizarre and only ofhis theatrical charm. For the divine anger and cause His power under the glorious reign of her. the true God, the God of mercy manded moderation of language, upon the actions of the two " no- | abnormal master

Test heated his part like a great to be used in his favour, and of brotherly love, had confd- could not prevent himself from ble brothers, one of whom lived Prince von Balow, who belong-artist and drew enthusiastic com- Varzoni wão strangled several (Continued on (onday) ed to him the task of ruling over

on the banks of the Bosphorus ed to the older school of diplo ments from spectators as unde women, was one of the most

vals of Venice.

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From time to time certain scan- dalous trials give indication of thia deoay, In the same way that from the outward signs of certain fraits we know they are destined to be invaded by disease. In imita tien of her master, Germany has become unstable and inconstant. Hercommerce and industry which is most modern is grafted on to

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