an League in Chicago
when he presented the society with a German flag and swore the members
to the old-time allegiance.

He says that in some way the editor of the Chicago _Tribune_ found out
about this meeting and wrote a very severe editorial, after which, he
adds, that von Holleben and himself had to be more careful.

Concerning the Milwaukee meeting, he refers to a conversation which
revealed his judgment that if ever there was trouble between Germany and
the United States the war would partake of the nature of a civil war.
The author not only gives an account of the conference held at the
Waldorf-Astoria between Ambassador von Holleben, Professors Munsterberg
of Harvard and Schoenfield of Columbia and himself, on the one side, and
Herman Ridder on the other, but he gives the instructions from Berlin
that Herr Ridder could only keep his subsidy from the German Government
for the New Yorker _Staats Zeitung_ by placing his fealty to Germany
first and subordinating his Americanism, and that otherwise Ambassador
von Holleben would found a rival German paper that would have back of it
"unlimited resources, to wit: the total resources of the German Empire."

Here, then, is proof positive that the Kaiser began his efforts to
establish a pro-German movement against the United States for several
years before 1906 and that he methodically kept it up until the war
began.

Through it all he claimed to be our sincere friend; but he was then, as
he is to-day, an implacable and relentless enemy, with a heart laden
with hatred and bitterness.

2. The Kaiser's Character Revealed in His Choosing the Sultan for His
Friend

Nothing tests manhood like the choice of a bosom-friend. Criminals
choose bad associates.

Every Black Hand leader goes naturally towards the saloon, the gambling
house and the dens where thieves congregate. Dickens made Fagin surround
himself with pickpockets, burglars and murderers.

History tells us that Christianity has always kept good company. Its
friends have been architects, artists, poets and statesmen. Christianity
repeats itself through its friends in the Gothic Cathedral shaped in the
form of the cross, in the Transfiguration of Raphael, the Duomo of
Giotto, the Paradise Lost of Milton, the In Memoriam of Tennyson, the
Emancipation Proclamation of Lincoln. Christianity has never formed any
close friendships with jails, gallows or slave ships. Men like Gladstone
and Lincoln always kept good co