The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1917-10-26
KAISER WARNS
UNITED STATES
Says "AmerFea Tmd Beter Look OuI
After The War"
. wn.L sTAND No NoNsENsE.v :
Buy n Liberty Bond and Protect
Your Home.
IBy Bruce Barton, Every Weeks
Famous EdIlor.l

Famous Edltor.)
One paragraph In Ambassador
0erards book bored rIsclf deep into
my mind.
Il i5 in The chapter where Mr..
Gerard tells OF his interview with
the Kaiser--lhc interview that was
planned for q few minutes, and sgas
prolonged by Wilhelm 10 more lhsn
an hour.
II uas a care-worn. nervous, vim
dictive man whom Mr.. Gerard talked
with.
-Ile showed great bitterness
against the United States" Mr.. Ger
ard reports. 'and repeatedly said;
America had better look out after
this war and I shall stand no non
sense from America after the war;
This was before Americas en-
trance into the war. remember; be-
fore our destroyers had begun 10
check the German submarines; be-
fore We had landed a single soldier
In France.
Even before we had become on
enemy against him, Wilhelm was re-
peating over and over 10 himself
what ho meant 10 do 10 America
after the war.
can't seem 70 forget that Incl
dent somehow. II keeps coming
back 10 mo al ell sortA OF times
And every time | remainder II
shudder a Bit and wish had q
thousand times a. much 10 put into
Liberty Bonds.
Very early In the war. a very
prominent American told mo he has
met a great German Official In Lon.
don slK. years ago, And ihls greal
German Official said 10 him quite
casually: ~we shall have TO take on
England flrst and then II will b'
your turn"
When the prominent American
told me this story, ! doubted Il. II
seemed too absurd 10 ho believed
that an Official OF any government
should make 30 rash and foolish I
statement as that.
met that same man a few day
ago and he told n the story oyeI
again, and added: II understand tha
ilfly billion dollars Is lue amoun
they Intended 10 collect for us wheI
they came"
This time ] did not tell him tha
doubted the story. Up before m.
mind came that picture OF Wilhelm
nervous. angry shaking his head
muttering 10 himself, u shall stan'
no nonsense from America after In,
war" -.
Fifty billion dollars. Five hun.
dred dollars from every man. womai
and child Of W. Two thousand dol
lars right out Of my little hor@e q
holp pave the streets Of Berlin AM
pay the Krupps for guns for IN,
naxt war. Fifty billion dollars
gosh. Give mo a little moro OF tha
Liberty Loan,
have heard many stories % afro
cites IN this war, and ! have beel
waiting for the man TO come in VIII,
could say 10 me, u saw Il with M
own eyes"
Yesterday he camo, not from Eu
rope. but from Canada. Ho 10 M
friend; know him: he could no
lie. .
And in Canada he himself say
with his own eyes a Red Cross nirs
who had been unlucky enough I
fall into the hands OF our enemies
And as a record OF that moetinI
they cut OF one OF her hands at ID
wrist, ..
While he was telling me the Stor
there came 10 my mind again III
picture Of that bitter old man
Berlin, bis heart Allied with hate.
America had hotter look out afI
er this var he said, lt
A woman with her hand cnt OF
the wria. And there arc fou
women In our family, Ny moih'
and my sister and my wife and
BAH girl.
! wonder II there is any way III
] can mange = carry few moi
Of those Iib'hy Bonds,
They say this war Is noi popula
And they SO right. II is not pop'
,ilar With no. Not any more pop'
ter than fr,insurance on my HON
I hate TO bay out money for al
Of these thips just as hate 10 pI
nuney Tor liberty bonds at iol