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Tho Kaiser went on to say : " America had

better look out after this war. I shall stand no nonsense from America after the war." There we have autocracy expressed in its most naked form. The All-Highest in a fury owes no allegiance to popular deliberation, but announces out of his own whims and personal caprices that be will "stand no nonsense," even though the price of " no nonsense " may be the bankruptcy of the world and the sacrifice of several million more lives. Our last choice of a quotation falls on the humane and gallant remark of the Kaiser, when discussing the blockade of Germany, that before he would allow his family and grandchildren to starve he would " blow up Windsor Castle and the whole Royal Family of England."