Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-10-24

Wlllie's Letter Has Become Famous.
We print below letter composed by
some wag, not without his gift of hu-
NOR. The letter is in great demand
and we run it for the benefit Of those
who may have missed seeing it else
where, as well as for those who have
seen it and want copy to keep:
Somewhere in France, On der run.
Dear Papa
am writing on the run, as the brave
and glorious soldiers under my com
mand have not seen der Rhine for so
long hat dey have started back dat way
and of course | am going NIT dem O
Pap dere has been some otFel dings
happened here in France. First,
started in my big offensive which was
to crush de fool Americans, but dey
know so liddle about military tactics
dat dey will not be crushed just like |
want dem sent my men in de fight
in big waves and when dey get to de
Americans dey all boiler boo, as loud
as dey could Ven, according to what
you hat already toldt me. de Americans
should hat turnedt and run like blases,
but what do you tink, dem fool Ameri-
cans don't dnow a ting about war In
stead of running de odder way dey come
right toward Us.
Some was singing something about
1--WE won't come back till it over over
there" or some other foolish song; some
were lafng like fools. Dey are so ig-
norant. But dey are ofrel reckless nit
der guns and when dey comes toward
US, it was den my men took a notion to
go back to der dear old Rhine. We
don t like the dirty little Marine anyway.
And, oh. Pap, dem Americans use
such ofFel languare. dey know nothing
of kulture and dey say such oifel tings
right before us. And dey talk bias.
dhemy too, What do you tink dey saic
right before my face? One big husk,
from a lidde town dey call Wisconsin,
he said oh, papa, hate to tell you
it was SO otrel be said, ITO hell with
the kaiser. Did yov etTer hear any.
thing so offel? 1t made me mad. !
would not stand and hear such so
turned and run NIT de others. Was ]
right. Pap?
And, oh. Papa, you know dem brest
plates you sent us can you send as
some to put on our backs? We are
going de other way now and de breast
plates are TO good. The cowardly A
mericans are shooting US in der back.
Some of der boys put de plates on der
backs but de fool Americans are play
de Star Spangled Banner with machine
guns on dem plates Can't you help us
You remember 10 your speech you said
nothing could stand before the brave
German soldiers; papa, don't believe
desc ignorant Americans has read your
speech for dey run at us like we was a
lot Of rabbits. Vot you tink of dot
Can you send dem some Of your
speeches? Dey don't know how ter
rible we are Could you move my army
back TO Belgium where we got our
glory? My men can whip all the Bel
gums, but desc Americans are so rough
and ignorant we can't make them un-
derstaud dat we are dc greatest soldiers
on earth and when we try to sing
Deutschland Uber Allies dey laH like
a lot Of monkeys, but we are getting
the best Of de Americans we can out
run dem. Pap. t we are not de best
fighters on earth, we are sure the best
Nobody can keep up with us
when we tnk Of dc dear old Rhine. and |
my army never did tink so much Of dat |
dear old river Let me know by return 1
postotHce what to do
CROWN PRINCE WILLIE.