TILLMOOK HEADLIGHT. DECEMBER 7, 1916 A PERSONAL LETTER TO THE 1 was a bo> un xears o >< l hordes. It was Russia that had start- want to know whether God didn't call AAxs&R. >v elhelm, each of the families that ed the war- nd .our people Lelies cd them also for something better than ----- o----- lived beside us had one of your fellow 'BON G, BOON. [, iusical : same anced. istruc- the high trolos ' ks in T ite. Ron N. Oil )N E, ». I it. Reprinted from “avery Week" and 1 countrymen as a coach-man. They Then, when you were checked at Ruoninea by Request. were Prussians; they had decided the Marne, it was perfidious England ’ ----- o----- they would rather be coachmen in a who had leagued the nations against (By Druce Barton.) country where they could walk on the My mj Dear uear Welhelm: w cihelm: — — 1 ms is the grass if they felt like it than to dwell you. To crush England—that was the setend auniversary ot the tieginning in a land where too many things were real reason for the war. And your ot the war, and we are both ot us hop- verboten. And, generally speaking, people believed it. inw that „ , * Now it's for the freedom of the seas mg that Hi» the »«/I end ...111 will come before they were pretty useful citizens. 1 that you must take Verdun—and your another anniversary. bo 1 think 1 remember once, though, that we got owgut to write and tell you somuhum into a snowball fight—the two men people apparently still believe. But in dealing with me, Welheim, oi wnat has been going on in Ameri­ against the ten-year-old boy And 1 after the war, if you’ll toy the cards ca. remember how they chased me across Of course 1 know that you have the open lot, throwing hard, icy snow face up on the table right from the start, we’ll get on a good deal faster. been hearing regularly from Ambas­ balls; and how they stood one Business, Welhelm, is nothing but sador von Bernstortt; but Mr. von either side of me and continued on to credit. That's old stuff, of course, but Bcrnstorif is in a Uitncult place to throw, after I was flat in the snu„, snow, true. Money is only scraps of paper; secure any real information. He is in and how they laughed when they saw all I’ve got to show for my life sav­ Washington, completely surrounded me cry. ings are a few scraps of paper print­ by politicians; he never meets com­ It’s funny, Welhelm, but I had for­ ed in green ink and red. When you mon Americans, it is easy in Wash­ gotten all about that boyhood inci­ 1870, and ington to get the idea tnal tfte dent until the day when the Lusitania were fighting France in had her army penned up against the American people are very much inter­ sank; and then suddenly, all in an Belgian frontier, she surrendered ested in politics ana politicians instant, it flashed over me again, rather than regard her treaties as whereas the truth is that we care al­ We’ve read very attentively every- mere matters of convenience. That most nothing about politics and abso __ ­ thing that has been sent out froin little remark about “scraps of paper" lutely nothing about politicians. We y°.ur side about the Lusitania, and I and the careless way in which your love our wives and are interested in think we rc broad enough to give you press bureau handles facts (that fun­ our business, and want to raise our credit if any was coming to you. You ny note, for instance, about the ship sons to be a little better men than we claimed the Lusitania was armed, you sunk being some other ship than are; and while we aren't too proud to which you know was not true. She the Sussex—you remember, the note fight, as your English cousin did carry munitions, but she also car­ j with the foolish little drawing), George can tell you if you ask him to ried women and children, and you things like that made me wonder look up his records, we do think that a knew that also. The submarine com­ | whether you are fundamentally a lot ot lighting can be avoided if one mander was under orders; he had no truthful citizen, or whether you are doesn t take politicians like yours and discretion; it was not his to ask, but only truthful in so far as it suits your to act. our own too seriously. convenience. I just can’t help it \ ou and 1 were bretty good friends, I Add yet, Welhelm, this is the ample Welhelm. Welhelm, before the war. Of course 1 truth: if that commander had been an There are a half dozen little things. used.to laugh a bit at you on the quiet. American instead of a Prussian, he I Welhelm, that have sort of estranged But it was the friendly sort of laugh­ might have fired his torpedo, but he me from you; but I’m going to pass ter i have for leddy. Lou and he— would have managed somehow to I them over, because I want to get the _ big things set right first of all. And painting pictures, writing books, pre­ I miss; and he would come back to tending to know more about every­ port and taken his punishment like a the other big thing that sticks in my thing tnan anybody else knows about gentleman. \ ou may not believe it; crop is this: 1 can’t understand at ail anything—you re a good deal alike, you may not understand; but it's true. why a nation which professes to want you know; 1 laughed at you, but 1 No American would have sunk a boat I peace as much as you do should have liked you just the same. In spite of ail full of women and children; no Amer- to fill the houses of its friends so full audience _____ — theatre --------- --------- would have ____ of spies. When your troops marched your peacock struttiness, you have ¡can created and inspired the most mar­ cheered at jokes about it; no Ameri: into Belgium, the well-to-do Belgian ___ 12 ‘ have ._.2 woman looked out of their windows would velous efficient nation that the world can school children has ever seen. 1 ou have abolished been given a holiday to celebrate such and saw in the front ranks, leading poverty; you have so arranged your a sinking. We arn’t just built that way the way, the very men whom they social system as to take care of a very W elhelm, and if you and 1 are going had entertained as guests. They had large population in a very small coun­ to be triends again, you've got to used the sacred cloak of a guest’s privilege to ferret out and report to try; you have made it possible for make an effort to understand tnat. 1 here have Keen atrocities enough you all the household secrets of poor every man to be sure of a job, and oi a comfortable instead of a dreadful on both sides in this war, God knows, little Belgium. How far does this system extend in old age. Y ou have eliminated loafers and we, over here, are no Recording and made life a happy experience for Angels, to sit in judgment upon either the world, Welhelm? I don’t know; you or Englond. We have read every ­ and the very fact that I don't know your people. No otiiT ruler has ever done so much and my hat was off to thing that you have published about makes me afraid. Our factories have ! England ’ s atrocities; and we would you for it, i been blown up and our ships sunk, I was forever .writing editorials to like to believe that everything Eng­ I our bridges and railroads menaced. you have explained point out how much better you run land has published about you is un­ - Of course, your schools and your cities and your true. But, unfortunately, Welhelm, through von Bernstorff that this was I we have the bitter testimony of too ( , done by fanatics and not at all by business life than we do. Now, as we get toward the end of ■ many Americans who have been serv- your orders. Yet why did the explo­ the war, the question is. How can you ing the wounded in France. Only a sions cease all at once after we had and 1 become friends again? For the few days ago an American author finally given von Bernstorff notice war has strained our friendship a whose accuracy I have had occasion that our patience was exhausted and good deal, Welhelm; I wouldn't be to test many times, sat and talked that we were on the point of sending frank with you if I tried to pretend with me in my office. He has been him home? If nobody ordered them working as a stretcher-bearer in to start, who ordered them all of a otherwise. sudden to cease? I’m going to discuss the beginning France, and he said; “We don’t wear the Geneva cross If you really wanted our friendship, Of the war, and my advice to you is not to discuss it either. Most of the any more. It makes too good a mark Welhelm, was it tactful to blow us up? And if you really want us to take fellows over on this side blame you for the German sharpshooters." Then he told me how he saw a you at face value hereafter, won’t you for it and nothing that you can ever circle over a have to begin right away to throw say will change their opinions. They German aeroplane say that the ultimatum w'hich Austria French hospital tent, glaringly mark­ this spy system out? It puts the pois­ sent to Serbia was a brutal document; ed on top with red crosses, and how on of suspicion in my heart, Welhelm. that it was meant to be so worded the aeroplane decended within a few How can 1 know who is a spy and that Serbia couldn’t possibly accept it, hundred feet and dropped a bomb in who isn’t. It makes me wonder every it was meant to start trouble. Thej- to the center of it, scattering its help­ I time a man named Schwartz or Hm derberg calls on me whether be is go­ still believe and always will believe less occupants to the four winds. When a man whom I knew as well ing to lift some private oapers olf my that you could have held Austria off as I knew Dr. Grccnfell of Labrador desk when he goes out. And when my if you had wanted to; they think that comes back from his hospital in friend Hensel comes over to have if you had known that England was France and makes statements like dinner at the house—though I've going to enter the war vou would these in the Outlook, we simply have known him for years—I just can’t have held her off. And so they blame to listen: help wondering, when he admires my you, Welhelm; you got off on the One of our doctors who was taken new rug, whether he's thinking how wrong foot with them at the start. I prisoner in the retreat from Mons nice it will look in his house when 1 partly agree with them, but I go was allowed to come back after ten his friends in uniform arrive. back a little farther than they do. I months’ imprisonment. Among other It may be a foolish way to feel, realize the position you were in. tales of horror he told us, 1 remember Welhelm, but I can’t help it. I’ve got There you were with a population his saying that for inadvertently neg­ some dandy German friends over here that was outgrowing your country. lecting to salute a non-commissioned I love them! I want to keep on lov­ Bismarck never believed in colonies, officer, the officer was ordered to ing them. Don't you see what a ter­ and shut you off from getting any come up and strike the doctor. The rible injustice you are doing them, good ones when the good ones were officer hit him under the jaw, knock­ when you make me wonder all the being given out. And when you did ing him right down. The doctor told time whether they are, in fact, all that get around to it, all that was left was us that a private had been bayoneted they seem to be, whether they are a few swamps in Africa—everywhere for resisting such brutality, and that really and truly my friends, or only else you looked in the East you found he himself offered no resistance. pretending to be my friends because England quietly entrenched; and over i An old fisherman friend, lying it will boost your game? For the sake here, behind the Monroe Doctrine, I wounded at Yarmouth, told me that of our future business relations you were we. You’ve had diplomatic set­ after a submarine bad sunk his sailing simply must let me know where you backs right along ever since the Con­ boat and turned the four men adrift stand on this spy question. Life is too gress of Berlin. Two or three times at sea, the Germans fired a few shots ■ short to do business if one must keep you’ve "rattled your shining sword,” at them as they rowed awav. He was one hand on a revolver and be look­ but each time the powers have step­ hit through the thigh—an unarmed ing into a mirror all the time. ped in and made you back down. It fisherman It isn’t I alone who feel this way. just looked to you as if the only way A little boy of twelve, in a school All over the world people are feeling you could get a "place in the sun kept by an American lady near Brus­ nervous because of the wonderful ef­ was to fight for it. And you thought sels, cried out “Vive la France” to ficiency of your system of spies. Only that 1914 was the time. You were some passing soldier he took to be last night I was reading about the ready; and every year France and French. They halted and shot him at fight in Holland's Parliment over the Russia were getting readier; every admission of twenty-six Germans to day that passed made you comparat­ once. “Are the Germans cruel?" Dr. Gren­ citizenship. Holland has always been ively weaker; 1914 was your year. fell was asked, and he answered: proud of her hospitality; she has op­ But this is past and gone. I'm not "Systematically so. It is a part of ened the doors of her citizenship free­ going to spend the rest of my life ly. But these twenty-six applicants hating you because you started the ‘frightfulness." were your countrymen. Perhaps our rep >. ‘ ts of your fright ­ war. And the best thing you and 1 “We have a right to know the real fulness policy hav: b::n ¡earn thi Any other cl: rch or organ *€»•*« that nil it* desiring to cooperate arc requr bely nr... select their reprc.i nta'ives in eondif dance with the above resolulic th< be present M the first me' ting d Board to be announced at an i date. 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