Show A irr a kaises a lm BY t 6 6 dentist i oil 0 r t e ein yn qu ro 1904 the kaiser to 1918 from copyright 1191 1918 beahe by the mcclure newspaper NewE paper syndicate CHAPTER 1 IX continued 6 1 the ash defeats were naturally a great disappointment to hann these montenegrins Montene grins serbians Serb ians and bulgarians Bulga Rul garlans rians are wonderful ivond erful fighters he confessed io to me shortly after tho the war began e out of door people and they have the strength and giant 1 l ina which fighters rei require liflie if they ahey keep haep on themay th the eway way they re going I 1 be in constantinople enla in a week 1 confound those turks barks 1 we we furnished them guns guna and A ammunition and trained their r cers but if the NV OUt fight we cant make them we weve ve done oui our best il k 4 the defeat of the turks lessoned lessened their value to the kaiser kalser asan as an ally and he immediately put into e effect a measure 10 for r increasing the Ge german standing army from froin to to restore the balanced balance of power they said for this purpose a tang bior or increased armament tax was agag levied on capital and incidentally I 1 mas informed that I 1 would have to phy pay my share the idea of paying a tax aux to the germar german army which wll fich was already so powerful that ailt it menaced the peace of the world did did not appeal to roe me af at ill all and ad I 1 to ambassador gerard 0 about built it lie ile advised ma me to pay it under tinder protest agreeing with with mi me that there aris nor no reason why an american should be required to contribute to the german war budget budged however ahad I 1 had to pay it the german efforts at colonization which were more or less of a failure because the germans refused to inhabit the german possessions and the me measures a j adopted to conquer the commercial trier clat markets odthe of the world were an lri important part pait of the program of world which germany planned for herself addia addit and it Is not unlikely that if she khe lind had confined her efforts along those lines she might have progressed further along her chosen path than she ehe has ains advanced by bathing the world in blood 1 11 I have nearly people the kalser I 1 sald id ta me on one occasion I 1 and we shall haye baye to find room tor tor them somewhere when we became an rin empire england had her hands on nearly everything a now we must fight to get ours burs that Is why I 1 am developing our world markets just as your country secured hawaii end the philippines Philippine sas stepping stones to the markets of the far cast as I 1 understand it why I 1 developed the wonderful city of klao chau ills his plans in this connection were changed somewhat apparently by the developments of the present wari war for he told me that when it was over the germans would not emigrate to the united states any more 1 ano no more mora american emigration for us after the war lie he said my people will settle in the balkans dail ans oa 01 develop and control that country coti I 1 have hake been dowl there and I 1 h know hi Is a sand for our purposes purposes the keisers kaisers kai sers vion of the he part lie he w would 0 take ot i the iha reconstruction of stricken europe avris as indicated by P a rek i lie made to me in 1910 when 1 I was ifil visiting ting him at the army hedd head quarter sat pless here I 1 am nearly sixty years of ige age he soliloquized and must rebuild the whole of Eu europe ropel 1 although the kaiser so freely admitted his designs on the world tit at large he ee was impatient ot of any expansion on cm the part of other nations ild he often space of En glands grabbing i propensity and viewed with sus suspicion our annexation of hawaii and the philip nines n es and bifid our bur development of cuba after the spanish american war he professed to see in our new policy polley a after world power which was inconsistent with the principles upon i which ou our r government was founded he objected to our interference in mexican affairs although as was disclosed closed by the note to von eckhardt he be vas making every effort to have interfere with ours wit what n t right has president wilson allson to tb attempt to dictate the internal policies clesos of ak mexico cd he as asked ked why not let lei them tight fight their I 1 battles batt lesout but aanet none alluding to ame americas ricas threat to en 6 ter the present war he asked what right has Al to insist upon the doctrine of 0 america anil and then mix in european affairs let her recognize also also a monrae dob doctrine trine of dif bu rope and keep her hands butof out of this conflict 1 r there Is no doubt that tha the kaisor imagined that the great army and navy lie he lind had built up would enable I 1 lim him to carry out oot ills his ambitious program without effective effe cUve resistance instance the one power lie he most I 1 feared but for which lie ba professed the utmost cotil con tempt aa was england bd no he had bad nn an men idea that england would never dare to io rnea measure swords with germany nany and that he be conla donld pro provoke volie a war ivar when the opportune une moment came without T much uch fear of En glands intervention in 1911 when the international nt situation over the moroccan affair was particularly barly acute aan as a result of ger banys having sent a gunboat to lo aga dinto din to ate that slie ae ivas serious 1 in her ber demands m rinda the kaiser hod ha d pr i hiat wor PI alice might thus precipitated to ands and he was confident i that engla england fid would keep i eelpout out of it en england band would be afraid to io war var wit with il im he told me at the time tor fear of losing egypt india Indin and ireland Ii eland any nation would think twice before fighting my armies arales but england particularly ticul arly because she would not daro dare to risk the loss of ner overseas colonies 11 when the keisers kaisers kai sers ambitious project to dominate the world la Is co considered hl bid consistent opposition to ito the r sal disarmament proposals Is easily understood aitho without u aft a superior army arid and navy his who whole le plan would have to be abandoned nad and his dream of worldwide world wide wido dominion would bo be shattered on one occasion whence when we were discussing the carnegie pence peace efforts the kalse kaiser disclosed very positively just sheree rehe stood stood anthe on the proposition lookyat Lo at the history his fory I 1 odthe nations ong of the world he be declared the only nations wb which I 1 cheave chave progressed and become gr grea e at have lieen been warring nations those which have not been ambitious and gone to war have amounted to nothing I 1 1 I 1 shortly affer wilson had pointed the way to peace 6 ace in europe in I 1 none n one of his y notes to all 1 Ithe the belligerent powers the kaiser called to see roe me professionally and we it Is cussed i that latest phase of the situation the way to peace now seems perfectly clear 1 I ventured only your maje ever increasing army and navy standa in the way avay it germany will give up her armament it seems we would soon have peace peace that ls Is out of the question for germany replied the kaiser decisive decisively W we have no mountains like the pyre nees to protect us we have the oper open plains of russia with elili their vast hordes horde endangering us no we we shall remain armed to the teeth forever fore erl 1 CHAPTER k the laisers kaisers Kai Kal sers appraisal of public men no one aver ever speaks to the kaiser until addressed As that monarchs long iona ori on most subjects are fit firmly fixed ed and he will stand no opposition any erroneous idea he may entertain ls Is very apt to remain with him I its his advisers were apt to leave him in error rather than arouse his hig irp ire by attempting to set him right but for the fact that he was very fond of asking innumerable questions his store of anfor might have been extremely scanty in the course of my conversations with hlin him lie he frequently expressed his views of men who were in the public eye upon what basis they were founded he did not always enlighten UK ine lut but devoti when I 1 knew them to be erroneous I 1 realized it was useless to try to change them and I 1 did not often take issue with him when I 1 did his eyes would flash flash ore fire but I 1 had expected that and I 1 continued just the sanio same the kaiser always seemed to take n particular interest in american affairs and while he professed to despise our form of government he watched wiit ched very carefully the careers of our public men it Is not unlikely alint he imagined as I 1 have pointed out elsewhere in afi these pages that he could influence our our elections by swinging the german american vote in favor of the abo candidate lie he preferred and he made it a study pf af our public men in order that thai ho he might know which of them would be more desirable in office from the german viewpoint when mr wilson was nominated for the presidency the laiser kaiser was quite lve that he be elected perhaps the tact face that mr roosevelt for whom at al that time the kaiser halser had the greatest admiration was one of if mr Wll sons rl rivals als blinded him to the which elected wilson but the fact that the latter haddad had had little experience peri ence e in in international politics unfitted him in ia the kaisers keisers kai sers estimation for the gnip important i octant office for fo r which he was running i I 1 saw sav the kalser kalber shortly after mr Wil sorts election 1 I am very much surprised at the result of your election he be declared 1 I alani t think ali your yur people would be so idoll foolish sh ii a to elect a college professor as president what does a professor know about international 11 politics and diplomatic affa affairs irs I 1 1 I badent bavent the slightest doubt that the kaiser bals er pictured our president as i a counterpart of tho iho typical topical german professor a plodding impractical ambIt lous bookworm with no noho nope Peor or desire of ever earning more than UM a year and no yearning for bublic acclaim claim a recluse absentminded absent minded and self centered who spent the midnight oil poling ovey musty volumes and abid paid little or ts attention to what was wag going on around such a roan man the kaiser undoubtedly liell eved the united states had elected as its chief executive e and ills ids surprise was more or less natural in n those e circumstances when wilson sent C men to vera cruz the felt that lie had ex bedd bf ills lights ts what right hoi WR whann son to mix mis ln la 11 an A hile roal Titia ul os nt ho he as asked keil why lie he allow them to fight it I 1 out among amon g 1 themselves liem selves it Is their affair not inot his I 1 germany had many financial interests inie interests rests Jn MexIco and looked with avith disfavor upon any move we av made hadeln in that direction when however the war in europe started the kaiser made every effort effort to io have fieve america mix in international affairs provided we wd fought an on tier her side when I 1 saw h him lm just Jus after tafter the war started smarted fies he said did we we ought to seize the opportunity to annez annex canada and mexico cant your president see the wonderful opportunity no now AN for combining with us and crushing england he asked with our fleet feet on one side and americas on the other we could detrey En glands sea sen power this Is americas great greab opportunity to dominate the western heiriss hero sphere and ybur president must see lil ills chance to take canada and mexico I 1 As the war progressed and reports lepor ts reached the kaiser of our bur increased shipments of munitions to the al allies allias libs the keisers kaisers kai sers impatience with allson became more difficult to repress and there was hardly op an interview I 1 had with him in which lie he did not give vent to its his feell feelings ngi in that connection ti on my off officers leers are becoming so incensed at americas attitude he told me it will be impossible for m me e to restrain them much longer and when on another occasion he be accused mr wilson of discriminating against germany he made the remark wilsons Wll Wil sons in the hands 0 ot the wall street group ill 1 but perhaps the most bitter denunciation nuncia tion I 1 ever heard him make of wilson w was as shortly after we entered the war I 1 had been summoned to the greal great army ii headquarters ead quarters to see him and when he entered the room lie he appeared to be in a towering rage indeed his condition was so apparent that the kal serin serla who was also present sought to excuse him with the that much upset and had been sleeping very poorly and she asked me to treat him gently gentle and tried to soothe him at the same time rime but bit he be told tier her to beave the room end resented her showing iob that she petted him we said little while I 1 was aas at work but when 1 I was through and was pro pre g to leave the kaiser stepped leward inward me and sald davis wilson Is a real scoundrel I 1 my face flushed I 1 suppose at this insult to our president and my resentment sent ment was so apparent that the th kaiser immediately patted mo me on my right shoulder and apologized 1 I beg your pardon davis he declared lu a quieter voice 1 I know youre an Ameri american cati and I 1 bes beg your pardon tor for hurting your feelings but if you only knew you would realize what a scoundrel your president Is when it comes to throat cutting witson should have bave his whenever the sun clione for the kalser kaiser he grew so optimistic that he called to pay the slightest attention to the clouds gathering on the horizon after the italian collapse for instance lie was so enthusiastic about his mill wry success in that arena that lie he failed to realize that america was slowly but surely forging the thunderbolt that was to strike him down now how foolish it was avas for your president to bring your country into tills this warl he said americans will avill now see when it is too late what fools they made of themselves when they elected fleeted a professor for president now america must pay the bills 1 in tills this r mark and others of the same import the kaisers keisers kai sers expectation of being able to exact an e normous enormous indemnity as p rrt rt of ills pence peace terms wits was clearly indicated dica cica ted and he felt that america having profited the most and suffered the least of any of bf the belligerent powers would bould be in the best position to fill his depleted coffers co the last time I 1 the tho kaiser kalser when he mentioned the he president was in this tit fal of 1917 shortly aifer after wilson had replied to the p popes 0 lips peace bro proposal wilson Is an idealist and an idealist can accomplish nothing I 1 was his fils comment ile he wen ft ent tinto into the war that he might kave gave a alseat sent at the peace table but lie he ww win never get it I 1 shall sha prevent it I 1 of wilsons Wll Wil sons pence peace notes which were issued before america went into the wat wa the kaiser remarked IT 1 I think I 1 am right the others think right acylia has all the money kullson really wants peace let him pay the h who and take care of the les nna ibe he war will be overt it asvery Is very simple elma was vas no man of ahou aho kalser kaiser seemed to so s nuch much before the war as ex es preslin roosevelt the kalser kaiser was convinced that roosevelt had lind prevented war with alth japan by sending uio american fleet around the world and showing that it this brilli brilliant atif stroke of statesmanship litan shIP ts As the kaiser termed it was avas n topic that he referred to ou on several occasions it was a forceful til alon on that was wad very much after his bis own henrt heart alint ahat I 1 mr ili 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