The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-02
FROM KAISER TO CHANCELLOR
My Dear Hertling:

My Dear Hertling
 Entrust to your best agent the or ganization of England and America.
 Things are going we'll in those duar ters but not we'll enough. Nothing is more important, We can afford tc let them take Berlin, impose any kind of terms and sequester for time my whole Potsdam family at St. Helena in fact it is very likely that this is Just what they will do-if only in do. ing 1t they let us transform them into what we wish them to become.
 To you l shall not conceal my rage over their conduct in this war What Bismarck gave me was a socialism with a powerful autocracy at the top, alert for development of industry and trade We at the top were to know exactly what we wanted and every in dividual in the empire was to do just what he was told. The theory was that in a machine like this we could overhaul the democracies in commerce and batter them into submission by arms We were overhauling them in commerce when we got ready for the battering process, and by now ('three -yearsD we should have been in New York, having taken London in three 4months' and Paris in three weeks
 l call your attention to the fact that we are not in New York or London or in Paris and it is my very secret hunch Esehr geheimnisvolle VOrahnung) that We are not going to be-this time. These democracies have not worked as I had expected and planned.
 Look at England. Here was a peo pie who for centuries had been taking one power after another away from their autocracy until shortly before we attacked their allies they had gone the whole length by eviscerating the house of lords. Nobody in England would do as he was told and if he would there was nobody to tell him 
 chuckle when I think about the mess they had made of themselves.
 And America! Masters they had none in three centuries from Plymouth Rock; discipline unknown, national feeling non-existent, every man for himself and public policy a weather vane.
 Plenty of Englishmen and plenty of Americans knew what I was up to and had known it for years. What difference did that make in countries where everybody's business is mo- body's business?
 We'll, no sooner tore up that scrap of paper than Englishmen from every where and nowhere swarmed forward the very Englishmen who had been doing as thep pleased and relying on themselves without any control from aboye-and built over night machine that stopped ours on which we had been at work for forty years. The
  been in the unrestrained and unguid- ed pursuits of industry, commerce and transportation, the more madly they fell over one another to report in for business of saving France and them selves America came in and ill a few months every business and railroad man in that country had turned over his plant, his organization and him self to the project as if it were ar affair of his own. It is not politicians that are conducting this war for tho United States but business men.
 Hertling, it must never occur again Democracies will not do. Not only dc they fight, as had hoped and believed they would not, but they develop me chanical and tactical warfare iron where we left off and checkmate al that we do. How are we 70 crush ant absorb such peoples? What would w'