The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon

s the coming together of the priests and Judas for the piteous tragedy of the death of Jesus. Witness that midnight meeting of the conspirators in Floren

that day has ended in

to encourage the ambition to make Berlin a world capital, Kaiser Wilhe

teen billions of dollars, Germany had climbed to greatness upon ir

many the Kiel Harbour, the Kiel Ca

provinces of Central Europe. The war with France ha

ith her coal mines, Rumania with her oil fields and Russia with her wheat granaries. And once Central Europe became a Middle-Europe German Empire there

tacles be so easily swept away. To make Berlin a world-capital

gue and educate the leading men of Germany-the ship owners, bankers, merchan

held, papers read and reports made. Slowly people of the middle class were included in the league.

, the cities on the mouth of the Rhine in Belgium, the coal and iron mines of France,

thing, would when Germany was victorious become a landowner, live in a mansion and drive his own automobile. Then he would have Russians and Frenchmen to

h, and when the fruit is ripe then we Ge

broad. It took twenty years to thoroughly inculcate every individual of the German race with this feverish a