The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-09-26

American owed allegiance to his own
country.
In 1919 I asked him whether he had
heard that Mr.. Ford was on his way
over from America In q chartered ship
with a delegation. .
"Who, Peace-Fordf' he inquired.
/ told the kaiser what I had read Of
the Ford expedition.
"How a your country allow q man
like that to do this thing-a man who
has played no part In the politics Of his
own country and is entirely ignorant
Of international affairs-a man who, I
understand, was formerly in the b.
cycle business and knows very little
outside Of business matters1
n haven't the slightest doubt Mr..
Ford Is a. great business man." the
kaiser went on, 'and I am sure he
means oil right, but what a mistake
It Is to allow q man 80 ignorant Of
world affairs to do a ridiculous thing
like thisi"
I told the kaiser that It had been
suggested in some Of the American
papers that II Ford really wanted to
end the war, all he had to do was to
pay Germany $1O0yO00O00 and bug
Belgium back.
zone hundred million dollarsi' tho
kaiser repeated. and then after q mo
ment's reflection, 40 though he had
| hnon %1nr0ln0 nnrov aorno A~npon u haa
mind, mo, Davis, It win cost much
more than that to get Belgium back"
It occurred to me that II the kaiser
really meant what he said ON that oe-
caaon, all his talk about "peace with
out annexation" was obviously a myth
and that the only hope Of Belgium's
redemption lay In the military defeat
Of Prussia. Subsequent Developments
amply confirmed that view.
In the winter Of 1915, we were tain.
ing Of the sentiment In America and
the conversation turned to Won Berns-
tori.
won Bernstor6 has been doing very
good work in your country" the kaiser
commented
swell, your majesty" I replied, ut IL
said in America that II he had not been
such a clever diplomat he would long
ago have been compelled to leave"
"From all I hear" the kaiser said,
"he hasn't had a very easy time Of 1t.
The American press as a whole has
been conspicuously anti German, al
though I understand that one Of your
newspaper publishers has been friend
~ 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 doing"
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 r 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 I can find, who has
revealed the real conditions and told
the truth about them. My, I wonder
what the people have to say now that
Mr.. Hearst has finally exposed the
whole thing" It was only q short
time afterwards that the king abdicat-
ed and revealed Enthusiastically which
papers had correctly interpreted the
trend Of Grecian politics.
| Th1 I,ofoo~ c~11rn <1 mn vnn~- <1xonn
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."
I had to confess that there was
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
subsequently and in the meanwhile I
q aScertained that the man In QueS-
ton was the representative In Berlin
Of the Hearst newspapers and I sub
s%equently learned that he had pub.
lished a book called american Rights
and British Pretensions at Sea-" which
explained at once to me why the kaiser
was so enthusiastic about him.
In the course of one Of our many
conversations on the subject Of Amer
lean munitions, the kaiser paid his re-
spects to MI. Schwab.
"What can one expect from Schwab,
who is using the Bethlehem steel plant
to work against us?" he asked. HE Is
Of Austrian Jew extraction and would
work against anyone for the sake OF
the money that's In It'll"
I'm following affairs In America
very closely" he told me on another