Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-19
KAISER BILL AND
 UNCLE SAM FARLEY
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 l You shouldn't sell ammunition ,t my enemies,' says Ka:ser bill tc uncle Sam, You're Violating neu- trallty when you do so"
 , am maintaining iii the European war the same attitude 1 have toward MeXlco, and you approve of that, retorts Uncle Sam. 'fWe sell to all factions in Mexico, and wsll sell to all European belligerents, but they must carry home their own pur- chases.'
 But, l don't need your ammuni- tl2n, complains the kaiser. T can manufacture all the, ammunition | need, if you will only force England to let me get from you the cotton | must nave to make powder and gun cotton, and force her to let ne get food for n-combatants, so these. people will not consume the supply have for my armies. If you'll force England to let my ships or your ships bring me the food and cotton need, and will step selling my ene- mes ammunition, l will get along all right, and will approve such course as being entirely neutral'
 "Nothng doing, Kaiser Bill. Pm neutral new. but you cannot see it. l offer to sell you the same things I'm selling your opponents under the same conditions. Buy here and take your kackages home This is an opel market, but we don't deliver the goods to anybody.
 fO yrH11 fri. win n square deal, Sam. Your manurac- turers are getting rich selling guns and shells used to murder my peop.e. You shouldn't let them get money tainted with blood, Sam. It's wrong. These fortunes are st6eped in blood Horrible!"
 "What about the Krupp fortune, Kaiser Bill? Where have the Mo hammedans procured the weapons they used to slaughter Christians? :? Where did Italy get the guns she is new about to train on you? Didn't hear you cheep about blood money, Bill, SO long as you were selling most of the stuff.
 "You're seeing things, Bill. That's the trouble with you. We're willing 10 sell to anybody. Getting the stuff home is the buyers business; not mine. Your people have big fleet of big ships here. Buy all the cotton and food you want. load 1t cn your ships and carry it home. l know you will make gun powder with the cotton, but that's not my affair. The allies are hauling their purcnases home in their own ships. You ought to be able to do the same thing But if you cannot, don't hurl complaint at me. It's not my fault that your enemies have scared your merchant msn off the seas. You can do the same to theirs, if you care, and tPll not complain. But you must observe the rules, Bill, and must not kill any of my people in hitting back at your enemies."
 '1Sam, you're aligned With my enc mics. You're trying to crush me. Else ycu would put an 'mbargo on arms and ammunition-I don't need enemies to let nc get food and cot ton, that my army might eat and my depleted supply cf explosives be re- neWed. And if you weren't pfe]udlc- ed, Sam, you wouldn't raise objection when I kill a hundred or more of your people in my effort to enforce retaliatory blockade, even if I did violate the law of nations, by failing to give the -combatants chance for their lives. You're against me, Sam: I can see that.'
 "You cSn see anything. Bill-any- thing you want to sec. But if you could see with eyes of justice. you would see that I am not against you. Your complaint, is not that 't am against you. but that I am not for you. You are complaining, not be- cause am not observing neutrality. but hecause I am observing it too we'll"