Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-11-21

never gone more than ten minutes at {
time.
| did not think he looked exception
ally well. He seemed to be very tired
and he had very little to say-in itseli
an indication that he was not exactly
normal.
When my work for the morning was
over and his valet, who had assisted
me, had been excused, the kaiser
gazed at me for moment or two and
then, aprOpOs of nothing, burst out
with the rather remarkable announce
ment: '"The man who brought this
catastrophe on the world, Davis,
should be strung up by the neck, and
that man Is not i, as the world seems
to think! The car of Russia and The
King of England, when they were at
the wedding of my daughter-guests
at my own house, mind you, and my
blood elatiyes-hatched this plot
against me. They were envious of
my power, but they will now learn
what that power is"
In the same breath almost he made
h
will never be able to raise an efficient
army; it took Germany one hundred
years to accomplish what she has
donew
Some time after this, one of the big
gest merchants In Berlin told me that
he had heard on the stock exchange
that the kaiser had made the remark
that the king and car had Matched
the plot against him, and as / had
repeated the kaiser's statement to no
one, l realized that he must have told
the same thing to others. If this YER
sion of the starting of the war was put
into circulation with the idea of abb
solving the kaiser, it certainly didn't
carry conviction even among the Ger
mans themselves. The merchant who
spoke TO me about it, at any rate, made
fun of the idea, and never heard the
point seriously raised by anyone else
of influence.
Before l left the kaiser that morn.
Ing he spoke of the Anglo-French loan |
which had been fioated in America |
and condemned US severely for coun-
tenancing it. When l told him that |
Germany had also floated a loan in
America, he replied: But ours was |
only S10.000,000, while theirs is $780,
OOO,O0Ol'' to which 1 naturally rejoined
that the size of the loan could GER
tainly not affect the question of our
neutrality in floating it
He criticized our bankers who ham
died the loan, and when asked him if
he had ever seen the number of Ger
man names that appeared on the list
Of bankers who were interested in 1t,
he said he hadn't read the list, but he
was quite sure there was one bank in
New York which wouldn't touch it.
That bank wouldn't touch anything
hat would be detrimental to Ger
nanyl" he added.
Several months later 1 was called
% Pless again and was shown to the
same room had visited on the former
When the kaiser entered he
stood erect, with his hands to his side, |
clicked his heels together and saluted
ne as soldier salutes superior off,
,er, smiling as he did so, and 1 knew
lie was in good humor.
Nevertheless he had but little to say.
His criticism of Mr.. Wilson on this &C.
aston l have recorded elsewhere in
hese pages.
In June of 1917, after the great army
headquarters had been removed to
1omburg V. d. Hohe, and Krenznach '
two neighboring villages) was called
here to see the kaiserin, and three
Eeeks later l went there again to see {
he kaiser. noticed at the station the !
aiser's private train composed of five l
ark green cars upon each of which {
'aS plainly marked the imperial coat 7
arms. The cars had special folding /
teps. c
Two rooms were assigned to me on t
ne of the upper floors of the palace &
nd my meals consisted of the same t
ind of food as had always had be-
)re the war, although the hunger cpl C
emic was raging throughout the coun- o
y. 1t was almost worth the trip for f
lie sake of the meals alone. b
After had treated the kaiser in the a
w hihc hChl " lOOlhS, dS L huth ! -
would be three o'clock before he 4
ould be ready for me again. He never p
lowed anything to interfere with his d
nap.
After the kaiser had had his sleep, 1 W
as summoned to his dressing room. q
e entered the room attired in a red q
lnnel undershirt. 1t was the first u
me 1 had ever seen him in such a p
ate of plebian negligee, and receiv- M
more or less of a shock. had been OF
accustomed to seeing him in uni fo
rm, both in pictures and in person,
at it had never occurred to me that 81
lderneath that symbol of pomp the k;
User probably dressed the same as Us
: lesser mortals. l noticed incident "A
ly that when he put on his military pr
at he put it on right over his under as
irt. al
was much nearer the fir Ie
g line than Pless, although, of course, WI
a vary Sofa 5iStonna 4 pntipad If