The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-26
Thirty Minutes
WORK FOR FAME
-. svberkrop Spent just That
Long Writing tho Little War
Article, "satan's
Abdication."
NOW Is QUITE FAMOUS
a,,e All over Country Are Sending
Him Letters Telling Row Much
They Appreciate His
Effort.

uaokuk people who read Louis
cvherkrops piece. "Satan's Abdica-
s,spa have been busy talking about
!; .o over since it appeared in print, and
!. .sose who haven't read 1t, have a
. .a good idea OF what it Is from
Ssorine their friends statement. How
Mr. Syberkrop came to write the
or, i is told by the Des Moines
canital which published the first
article. In the following:
81 wrote 'Satan's Abdication' in
thirty minutes and as result /
I hayen,t had thirty minutes peace
from that day to this" declared Louis
c,barkrop. Iowa patriot born in Den
mark who as the author of the satir-
zeal character portrait OF Kaiser
wilhelm found himself famou.
throughout the country almost over
n;oht when his famous letter from
satan to the kaiser was printed from
coast to coast. 1t appeared in the
Capital some weeks ago.
INV mail comes in bundles now
said MT. Syberkrop. and l try to
handle it all myself. l have receiv-
Cd between nine and ten thousand
letters from people all over the earth.
some of these letters are nasty ami
mean They are from Germans who
don't know when they're well off.
When they get too smart, / report
them to the federal authorities. Two
are in prison now.
"One Of these wrote me from Box
Is. New York City. He wrote with
big heavy down stroke. i thought
with such a fist as that he ought to
be easy to catch. l sent his letter
to the secret service and they had
him inside Of ten days. Some Of
these letters are most contemplate
and insulting. However, the greater
portion OF them are from loyal Am
orleans.
Dropped In Germany.
81 have sent out over 100000
pamphlets containing the 'abdication'
article, and the demand is increasing.
After most of the newspapers of tho
country had printed 1T the demand
was enormous and has been growing
ever since I suppose the thing will
run into the millions yet. They
have been distributed in far away
Egypt and know that 5000 of them
have been dropped in the German
trenches by an aviator named Du.
buchy in the French service.
Its a strange thing how I hap
pened to write 'Satan's Abdication.'
was sitting in the hotel office in
western town. We got to talking
about the war in Europe, this was
before we were into it over here. I
expressed the belief that the United
States would be drawn into the fray
and said we should prepare. A fell
low in the crowd flared up and gave
me to understand that IL I was get.
ting scared I'd better go back to
where came from This made me
hot. asked him when he was born
He replied 1888. I then informed
him that i voted for a president Of
the United States twelve years be-.
fore he was born and that / belonged
Eight here in America I also threat.
ened to smash his nose. The land
lord came and quoted us down
went away to a quiet spot and wrote
the letter to Wilhelm
Mr.. syberhkrop was born In Odense.
denmark, and learned to hate the
Hohenzollerns back in 1854 when as
Doy he had hand in the war in
which the Prussians appropriated
SchleswigIHolstein. He declared the
Danes would fight the kaiser in a
minute today if they had a ghost of a
snow With the coast Of Denmark
IN control of the Germans it would
De suicide, he said.
/. me author of probably the worst
ealing the kaiser ever got has Just
as as much love for his majesty as his
,plting satirical letter indicates. "The
Aalser must be put off the EARTH" he
-, INSISTED, mot only figuratively but
literally .,,s His life must pay the pen
ATTY and his war lords must be an