mpany; their friends have been scholars
and heroes; but, in striking contrast, consider the friends selected by
the Kaiser.

To the Kaiser came a critical hour; at that moment he was at the parting
of the ways. It became necessary for him to make a choice of friends.
Like every man, his isolation was impossible and friendship became a
necessity.

The Kaiser had the whole world from which to choose. Yonder in London
were King Edward and his son, the Prince of Wales. In France were
certain statesmen and scientists like Curie. There was the old hero
living in the capital of Japan and two ex-Presidents known the world
around for their splendid manhood; and he could have made overtures of
friendship to any one of these brave men; but in the silence of the
night the Kaiser passed in review earth's great men, and finally
selected for his close friend the lowest of the low--the butcher,
unspeakable butcher--the Sultan of Turkey.

At that time the Sultan had just completed the butchery of many
Armenians. His garments were red with blood, his hands dripped with
gore. His house was a harem; his hand held a dagger. The sea-wall behind
his palace rose out of the blue waters of the Bosporus.

When an American battle-ship was anchored there and a diver went down he
pulled a rope and was brought up, shivering with terror, and saying that
he found himself surrounded with corpses tied in sacks and held down by
stones at the bottom of the sea.

In that hour the Kaiser exclaimed: "Let the Sultan be my associate! I
will go to Constantinople and sign a treaty with the unspeakable
butcher."

And so the Kaiser took his train, lived in the Sultan's palace, signed
this treaty, and hired the Sultan's knife and club, just as the Chief
Priest Annas chose Judas to be his representative upon whom he could
load the responsibility for the murder of Jesus.

Never was a friendship more damnable. Reared in a country that believed
in the sanctity of the marriage relation and in monogamy, the Kaiser
lined up with polygamy. The treaty that he made was thoroughgoing. He
sent out word to all Mohammedans, whether they lived in India or Persia,
in Arabia or Turkey, that they must remember that the Kaiser had entered
into a treaty to become their protector and friend. Having become a
Lutheran in Berlin, he became a Mohammedan in Constantinople on the
principle that "When you are in Rome do as the Romans do, and when you
are in hell act like the devil"--a