Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-09
WHAT THE KAISER IS DOING TO YOU

The question as to what would happen if the kaiser
was victorious in the great war can be easily answered by
considering what he has done to the world and to Amer
lea up to this time. Of course most of us realize the
enormity of his o~ffenses against the peoples of Europe,
but not all of us keep track of what he has already done
to those in the United States. AS a starter just note that
he has taken half a million or more of the country's finest
young manhood across the ocean and placed them in the
trenches in France. He has taken a million others from
their pursuits and their homes and sent them into train
ing camps in order that he may get them over into Europe
and destroy them there, if he can. He has made the
American people subscribe $5,000,000,000 to the liberty
loans already floated, and is now compelling them to sub
scribe another $4,000, 100000 to maintain the armies he
has forced us to send to Europe. He has made us put up
half a billion dollars more for the Red Cross and other
organizations, to alleviate the sufferings and care for the.
wounded victims of his soldiery. He has sunk S6,O00,O00,-
600 worth of shipping, much of which belonged to people
of the United States and he has sent to the bottom of the
ocean along with these ships perhaps So, 000,000,000 worth
of wheat, meats and other ~foodstuffs grown and owned
by American citizens. These are a few of the large
things he has done to the United States and her people.
Outside of these what he is responsible for would make a
list longer than could be enumerated in a newspaper
story. He has added 40 per cent to the cost of the price
of beef the workingmans wife purchased for the family
dinner. He has doubled the price of bread for all the peo-I
pie in the United States. He has made pork products so
dear that the farmer who raised the "~makings" cannot
afford to buy them for his and his familys use. He has
reached his mailed fist across the tables of the poor and
taken the butter dish and its contents away. He has
added 40 per cent to the price you must pay for the milk
for the baby, and no doubt grinned as he did so, for
destroying or fODDlng DaDleS is one Oh UHe kalSeFS mOSIl
lovable traits. He has fixed the amount of sugar you may
use and added so per cent to the price of the small amount
he permits you to have. He has, as you are well aware,
forbidden you eating wheat products except in such
quantities as he directs. When it was coolest last winter
he forbade the use of coal above a certain amount, and
told freeborn Americans they must suffer from cold and
deprive themselves of coal mined III their own country.
These are only a few of the things the kaiser has done
to America and American people, what he has done to
you and me and all the balance. This too while not yet al
conqueror. He has done the same in Russia and there
while in a sense victorious, he has added to the things he
has done to a small section of Russia, Ukraine, an in
demnity Of more than four and a half billion dollars. If
he should conquer and get his mailed fist on the throat
of America her people would have to pay an indemnity
iflevied in proportion to that made on Ukraine of $60,000,-
000, 1000, or twenty times the sum Uncle Sam is asking his
people lend to help him t orever destroy this worlds
curse, the kaiser and his miitarism, You can figure out
at your leisure--if you can---where the inordinate greed
and the Unsuitable lust for power possessed by this Prus-
sian monster would stop once he had his heel on America
and the balance Of the world. When you have figured this
out can more readily dig down after the necessary funds
to drive this modern cerberls back to the gates of the
hell, where he belongs.