Doubts were universally expressed in America and in Allied Europe as to whether the Kaiser’s government would permit President Wilson’s crushing indictment of Prussianism to be published in Germany. One heard of picturesque schemes to drop millions of copies of the speech over the German trenches and towns from aeroplanes. In at least one widely-read German newspaper, the _Berliner Tageblatt_, a Radical-Liberal journal which has not entirely surrendered its old-time independence, the president’s speech was printed almost verbatim. In nearly every paper there were adequate extracts. But such effect as they may have been designed to create upon the German body politic--particularly the president’s insistence that America’s war is with "the Imperial German Government" and not with "the German people"--was nullified by the press bureau’s imperious orders to editors to reject Mr. Wilson’s "moral clap-trap" as impudent and insolent interference with Germany’s domestic concerns. Under the leadership of the celebrated Berlin theologian, Professor Doctor Adolf Harnack, meetings of German scholars and _savants_ were organized for the purpose of giving public expression to the "unanimity and indignation with which the German nation protests against the American president’s officious intrusion upon matters which are the affair of the German people and themselves alone." Or words to that effect. Meantime the so-called comic press of Germany, which to an extent probably unknown in any other country of the world gives the keynote for popular sentiment, engaged in an orgy of unbridled abuse of President Wilson, the United States and Americans in general. The _leitmotif_ of hundreds of cartoons, caricatures and jokes was that the "American money power" had "dragged" us into the war. _Simplicissimus_ epitomized German thoughts of the moment in a full-page drawing entitled "High Finance Crowning Wilson Autocrat of America by the Grace of Mammon." The president was depicted enthroned upon a dais resting on bulging money-bags and surmounted by a canopy fringed with gold dollars. A crown of shells and cartridges is being placed upon his head by the grinning shade of the late J. Pierpont Morgan. In the background is the filmy outline of George Washington, delivering the farewell address.