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RKPTEMBEH M, 101 S CBOOK COUNTY JOURNAL EN! The Kaiser as I Knew Him for Fourteen Years By ARTHUR N. DAVIS. D. D. S. Are You in the Market for a Open for Business. ' Baled Hay and Grain for Sale WOOD A SPECIALTY 1 BUCK? We are due to re ceive two hew six's within a week. Place your order at once. Inland Auto Co. Be sure and attend the Inter-State Fair Oct. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. SHIPP & PERRY DEALERS IN Lumber, Moulding, Shingles Doors, Windows, Paints Oils, Glass, Lime and Cement PRINEVILLE, OREGON New Fall Hats We have In stock the very smartest pew bats of the season. Trim tailored styles with the straight and Irregular brims, straight and rolled brim sailors, small hats In a variety of good styles, broad brim velvet bats In black, taupe, purple, sand, sapphire, and mixed colors, and the popular kiltie caps and French hats. Mrs. R. M. Lafler City Transfer & Express Jap Ireland, Prop. 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X J r .Li- ra 4 trc kBiki for the raid," the officer, told me re gretfully, "we received orders direct from the kaiser to bold off I saw bis signature to the order. Of course, there was nothing for us to do but comply, but if we had had the kaiser there, I believe we would have strung hint up by the neck I We still bave those bombs, however, and yon may be sure tbey will yet be used 1" For some unknown reason the kaiser topped the use of those lethal gas bombs for the time being. Why didn't be move to save the women and chil dren on the Lusltiiola? , When I went back to Berlin in the fall of 1015, after a visit to the United States, the kaiser was very anxious to ascertain from me Just bow America felt towards the war. I told him that before the sinking of the Lusltanla American opinion had been divided. There bad been many who were strongly pro-ally, there bad been others who were openly pro German and there had been still oth ers who maintained an absolutely neu tral attitude. After the Lusltanla tragedy, however, there had been a distinct change In public feeling, I told blm, practically the whole country having become decidedly anti-German. "Perhaps If the U-boat commander had known so many women and chil dren were on board," was the kaiser's only comment, "he might not have sent forth the torpedo which sent the vessel to the bottom, but what be was think ing of most, of course, was the 5,000 tons of ammunition on board which were destined to slaughter my peo ple I" Of course the kaiser knew that If the U-boat commander's orders were to sink the Lusltanla, disobedience upon his part would have left but one course open for blm: suicide. If, on the other hand, the kaiser meant to Intimate that the U-boat commander sank the Lusltanla on bis own Initia tive or without special Instructions from bis superiors, the fact still re mains that the kaiser could undoubt edly bave prevented the tragedy and didn't But If there can be any doubt as to the kaiser's direct responsibility for the sinking of the Lusltanla, certain It Is that he fully approved, openly de fended and even exulted In the murder of women and children by Zeppelin raids on London, Manchester, Liver pool and other non-military cities and towns. "England expects to starve my women and children to death," he de clared to me early in the war long before we In Germany bad begun to feel the slightest effect of the dimin ishing food supply, "but our Zeppelins will give their women and children a taste of war, too. Confound them! They sit on their Island and try to starve us ; we will give them a taste of what war Is 1" . This was the man whose various acts of consideration towards me, whose talents aud personal charms, bad made such a favorable Impression Upon me I How trivial and inconse quential they all seemed now 1 Clear ly, they were all a part of the role he bad been playing for years. While he was outwardly displaying all the ear marks of a gentle character, he was Inwardly plotting t? dominate the world. For twenty-five years he main tained the peace of Europe, he fre quently boasted. He maintained peace Just long enough to complete bis final preparations for the wickedest war that was ever waged I And yet strangely enough, even after the war had revealed the kaiser to me In his true colors and had shown him to be capable of deeds which I should have thought were foreign to his na ture, bis presence always had a most remarkable effect upon me. I bave a vivid mental Impression of blm now as I write. He Is standing In the center of my room, drawn up to his full height, his shoulders thrown back, his left hand upon the hilt of bis sword and bis right emphasizing his remarks, protesting In the most earn est manner that It was not he who was responsible for the war ' and. all It horrors, but that it had come upon the world despite all he bad done to prevent It. ) His ready,' well-chosen words entrance .me, I feel that this man must be telling me the truth and I am ready to believe that before me stands the most unjustly Judged man In the world.' And then he shakes my band in fare well and Is driven away, and as I gaze at the spot where he stood, there comes before my eyes the deflation of Bel glum, the tragedy of the Lusltanla, the despoliation of France and Poland, the destruction of women and children In London and Paris and a thousand and one other atrocious deeds which belle the kaiser's fair words, and I realize .that I have been talking to the world's most finished actor and have simply . been bewitched by the power of his personal magnetism. CHAPTER IV. America Disappoints Kaiser. The kaiser ascended the throne in 1888. For twenty-six years his reign was unmarred by a single war, al though, twice during that jjerlodj. on In 1305 and again In 1911, be nearly succeeded in precipitating a conflict. Subsequent developments bave brought out clearly enough that during II these years of peace, the kaiser was only awaiting the opportune mo ment to bring on war. Germany's preparation consisted not merely in building up ber army and navy and developing a military spirit In her people, but In trying to estab lish friendships abroad where tbey would do the most good In the event of world war. The German military preparation was more or less obvious. The kaiser u always Its warmest advocate and frankly admitted that It was his Inten tion to remain armed to the teeth, al though be protested to me many time that his sole object was to maintain the peace of the world. In 1913, for Instance, I was In The Hague when Carnegie delivered a peecb at the opening of the Peace palace, in the course of -which he de clared that the kaiser was a stumbling-block In the way of world peace. When I got back to Berlin I mention ed the fact to the kaiser, hoping to draw him out "Yes, I know exactly what Canjegle aid at The Hague," be replied rather testily, "and I don't Uke the way be spoke at all. He referred to me as the war lord' and snld I was standing in the way of world peace. Let blm look at my record of twenty-five peaceful years on the throne I No, the surest means to maintain the peace of the world Is my big army and navy 1 Other nations will think twice before going to war with ust" The fact that he had previously accepted 5,000,000 marks from Carnegie for the furtherance of universal peace didn't seem to occur to him. And the world at large learned more or less of German Intrigue and propa ganda since the war, but It Is not gen erally known that the same sort of thing was going on even more actively In time of peace. Countless measures, of the most subtle and insidious char acter, were taken to lull into sense of false security the nations she Intended eventually to attack and to Inspire fear In or command the inspect of nation which she hoped womd remain neutral or might even be Induced to throw In their lot with hers In the event of war. In this phase of Germany's prepara tion for war, the kaiser took a leading part It Is a fact, for Instance, that prac tically every officer In the Chilean army is a German, and the kaiser has spared no pains to foster the friend ship of the South American republics. commercially and diplomatically. One of the South American minis ters told me of an ex-president of Peru who bad visited Berlin. This Peruvian had previously visited Lon don and Paris and had received little or no official attention In either of those capitals. For reasons best known to himself, the kaiser decided to cater to this gentleman, and accord ingly arranged an audience. In the discussion which took place when tbey met, the kaiser displayed such a remarkable acquaintance with Peruvian affairs and the family his tory and political career of his visitor that the South American was stunned. When he returned home he carried with him a most exalted Idea of the all-pervading wisdom of the German emperor. To what extent the kaiser .had spent the midnight oil preparing for this Interview I have no knowledge, but knowing the Importance he placed upon making a favorable Impression at all times I have a mental picture of his delving deeply Into South Ameri can lore In preparation for his guest There Is nothing dearer to the kaiser than caste and social distinction. Mor ganatic marriages were naturally ab horrent to him. Nevertheless, before Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the suc cessor to the Austrian throne, was murdered, the kaiser not only recog nized his morganatic wife, who was only a countess, but went out of his way to show her deference. He placed her at his right at all state functions which she attended. To bring Austria and Germany closer together, he was willing to waive one of his deep-rooted prejudices. The . significance of the kaiser's many visits to Italy, his presentation of a statue to Stockholm, his yachting excursions In Scandinavian waters, his flirtations with Turkey from his castle on the Island of Corfu, and sim ilar acts of lngratlatlon, becomes quite apparent in the face of more recent developments, but his efforts to curry favor with America during all the years of peace which preceded the war were so much more elaborate that they deserve more than passing mention. No more subtle piece of propaganda was ever conceived than the kaiser's plan of exchanging professors between the United States and Germany through the establishment of the Koosevelt and Harvard chairs at the University of Berlin and corresponding chairs at Hazard and other American universities. Ostensibly the purpose of the project was to foster good-will be- 1 tween the two nations. . Actually, It (To be continued) Telephone Black 951 ROBERT BROWNING PRINEVILLE, OREGON AT H. DOBBIN, President E. F. 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