Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-10-10

| places as Newport In summer and
Palm Beach in winter. To come In
/ contact with our statesmen and diplo-
mats, Washington would naturally be
! the most likely place to visit"
The kaiser thanked me for the In
( formation but did not enter into fur
/ Their details as to the object he had
| in mind or which son he had planned
! to send across.
It was to curry favor with America
that the kaiser had his yacht Meteor
built in our shipyards, and it is a fact
| that more American women were pre-
scented at the German court than those
of any other nation.
/ When he presented statue Of
Frederick the Great to this country,
| in McKinley's administration, 1t ere
ated a great stir in congress. What
could be less appropriate, 1t was ar
gued, than the statue Of a monarch in
the capital Of a republic? The statue
was not set up in McKnley's admins
tration, but Roosevelt accepted it in
the interest OF diplomacy and had 1t
erected in front Of the Army building.
Seeing that his gift had had Just the
opposite effect TO that intended, the
kaiser reprimanded his ambassador
for not having interpreted American
sentiment more accurately.
A few days after the death Of King
Edward, Roosevelt arrived in Berlin.
Despite the fact that all Europe was
in mourning, the kaiser arranged the
most elaborate military dress review
ever given in honor Of private citizen
to celebrate Roosevelt's visit. The re-
view was held in the large military
reservation near Berlin. More than
100000 soldiers passed in review be-
fore the kaiser and his staff and their
hOnored guest.
How far the kaiser would have gone
in his attentions to Roosevelt had he
not been in mourning it is impossible
TO say. but 1 don't believe he would
have left anything undone to show his
admiration for the American express
ident and to curry favor with this
country.
But Roosevelt was not the only
American to whom the kaiser made
overtures. He was constantly inviting
American millionaires to pay him |
yachting visits at Kiel or wherever
else he happened TO be.
He sat for q portrait by an Ameri- |
can painter, which was exhibited with |
a large collection Of other American /
works under the kaiser's auspices.
There was nothing that the kaiser |
did not do in his efforts to ingratiate
himself with this country in the hope |
that he would reap his reward when |
the great war he was anticipating /
eventually broke out.
Taken individually, these various in !
cidents seem trivial enough, but 1 |
have every reason TO know that the /
kaiser attached considerable impor |
lance to them. know that there was /
a good deal of chagrin in the Trades |
he delivered TO me against America for 4
her part in supplying munitions to the 4
allies-chagrin at the thought that the /
seed he had sown in America had /
failed 10 bring forth better fruit /
When we finally entered the war and /
he realized that all his carefully nur-
tured plans of years had availed him
naught, he could not restrain his bit
terness nor conceal his disappoint-
ment.
"All my efforts to show my friend
ship for America-exchangin profess
sors with your colleges, sending my
IN, afl-an for :
nothing!" he exclaimed, disgustedly.
after we had entered the war.
On another occasion he showed even
more clearly how far America had fall
len short Of his expectations:
"What has become Of those rich
Americans who used TO visit me with
their yachts at Kiel and come to my
entertainments in Berlin?" he asked,
sarcastically. NOW that we have
England involved, why aren't they
utilizing the opportunity to serve and
TO make their own country great? Do
they think put myself out to enter
tain them because 1 loved them? I
am disguised with the whole Anglo
Saxon racer
The kaiser couldn't understand why
the United States did not seize both
Canada and Mexico. Apparently, from
the way he talked from time TO time,
if he had been sitting in the White
House he would have grabbed the en-
tire Western Hemisphere.
That the kaiser followed American
politics very closely, especially after
the war broke out, was very natural.
The fact that there was a great Ger
man-American vote in this country
was not overlooked in Potsdam. and /
haven't the slightest doubt the kaiser
imagined that he could exert consider
able influence in our elections through :
his emissaries In this country.
I returned to Berlin late in October
of that year. Within day or two .
after my arrival / received q telephone
message from the Reichskanzler Won
Bethmann-Hollweg to the effect that
the kaiser had sent him word of my
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