Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-11-07

over from America in a chartered shil
with a delegation.
"Who, Peace-Ford?" he inquired.
told the kaiser what had read O
the Ford expedition.
How can your country allow mai
like that to do this thing-a man wht
has played no part in the politics of.hi!
own country and is entirely ignoran
of international affairs-a man who,
understand, was formerly in the bi
cycle business and knows very little
outside of business matters?
81 haven't the slightest doubt Mr.
Ford is great business man." the
kaiser went on, "and l am sure he
means all right, but what a mistake
1t is to allow a man SO ignorant OF
world affairs to do a ridiculous thing
like this !"
told the kaiser that it had been
suggested in some of the American
papers that if Ford really wanted to
end the war, all he had to do was to
pay Germany $100,O00O00 and buy
Belgium back.
kaiser repeated, and then after a mo-
/ ment's reflection, as though he had
been turning over some figures in his
mind, mo, Davis, it will cost much
more than that to get Belgium back !"
1t occurred to me that if the kaiser
really meant what he said on that &C.
casion, all his talk about ''peace with
out annexation" was obviously a myth
and that the only hope of Belgiums
redemption lay in the military defeat
of Prussia. Subsequent developments
amply confirmed that view.
In the winter of 1916, we were talk
ing of the sentiment in America and
the conversation turned to Won DeTns-
tori.
"Von Bernstorff has been doing very
good work in your country" the kaiser
commented.
"Well, your majesty" replied, at is
said in America that if he had not been
such a clever diplomat he would long
ago have been compelled to leave"
From all I hear" the kaiser said,
che hasn't had very easy time of it.
The American press as a whole has
been conspicuously anti-German, al
though I understand that one of your
newspaper publishers has been friend
ly to us. Mr.. Hearst, for instance, has
helped our cause very much in your
country. He has been telling the truth
about affairs, which is more than most
of the other papers have been dOingi'
Just before the king of Greece abdi
Gated, the kaiser referred to the atti-
tude of the American press again.
'The way the American newspapers
and the press of the allied countries
generally are presenting the Grecian
situation to the world is absolutely
false and a disgrace % he declared, bit
terly. "They are entirely misrepre-
senting the facts. Mr.. Hearst is the
only one, as far as / can find, who has
revealed the real conditions and told
the truth about them. My, l wonder
what the people have to say now that
Mr.. Hearst has finally exposed the !
whole thing" 1t was only a short |
time afterwards that the king abdicat- |
ed and revealed Enthusiastically which |
papers had correctly interpreted the |
trend of Grecian politics.
The kaiser spoke to me many times |
about the writings of William Bayard
Hale.
Have you been following Hale's ar
ticles?" he inquired. ''What he is
writing about the war is excellent and
Is really the best material published.
He voices my sentiments exactly, and
It would be well for every American to
follow this writer's work"
1 had to confess that there was one
American at least who was not only |
not following Hale's writings, but had
never heard of the writer, and the
kaiser seemed to be somewhat dis
pleased
He referred to Hale several times
and in the meanwhile 1
ion was the representative in Berlin
If the Hearst newspapers and sub
learned that he had pub
islfed book called american Rights
md British Pretensions at Sea-" which
explained at once to me why the kaiser
vas so enthusiastic about him.
In the course of one of our many !
on the subject of Amer
can munitions, the kaiser paid his re-
poets to Mr.. Schwab.
what can one expect from Schwab,
Who is using the Bethlehem steel plant
o work against us?" he asked. HE is
# Austrian Jew extraction and would
york against anyone for the sake of =.
he money that's in i'll"
I'm following affairs in America
cry Closely" he told me on another
ccasion, before we entered the war. Q
Not all of your senators are against I
S. Senator Stone, for instance, is Q
aking very strong neutral stand, I
Understand, and it is pity there are c
OF more like him." 7
Just before 1 left for my trip to
merica in 1916, the kaiser called on
le and 1 told him was leaving.
s"Well, Davis" he said, "be careful v
OF to run against any mines or be
,rpedoed You'll probably be pulled {