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SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918.
FROM KAISER TO CHANCELLOR
My Dear Hertling:
Entrust to your best agent the or
ganization of England and America.
Things are going well in those quar
ters but not well enough. Nothing is
more important. We can afford to
let them take Berlin, impose any kind
•of terms and sequester for a time my
whole Potsdam family at St. Helena
—in fact it is very likely that this is
just what they will do—if only in do
ing it they let us transform them into
what we wish them to become.
To you I shall not conceal my rage
over their conduct in this war. What
Bismarck gave me was a socialism
with a powerful autocracy at the top,
ialert for development of industry and,
trade. We at the top were to know
‘exactly w’hat we wanted and every in
dividual in the empire was to do just
what he was told. The theory was
that in a machine like this we could
overhaul the democracies in commerce
and batter them into submission bv
arms. We were overhauling them in
commerce when we got ready for the
battering process, and by now (‘three
years’) we should have been in New
York, having taken London in ‘three
months’ and Paris in ‘three weeks.’
J call your attention to the fact that
we are )10t In New York or London or
in Paris and it is my very secret hunch
<sehr geheimnisvolle Vorahnung) that ]
we are not going to be—-this time. J
These democracies have not worked |
as I had expected and planned.
Look at England. Here was a peo-1
pie who for centuries had been taking I
■one power after another away from I
their autocracy until shortly before
we attacked their allies they had gone
the whole length by eviscerating the
house of lords. Nobody in England
would do as he was told and if he
would there was nobody to tell him
' what to do. Even now I have to
chuckle when I think about the mess
I Ilf,}' lid U UlauC l IIICUISCI V co<
And America! Masters they had
none in three centuries from Plymouth
Rock; discipline unknown, national
feeling non-existent, every man for
himself and public policy a weather
vane.
Plenty of Englishmen and plenty
of Americans knew what I was up to
and had known it for years. What
difference did that make in countries
where everybody’s business is no
body’s business?
Well, I no sooner tore up that scrap
of paper than Englishmen from every
where and nowhere swarmed forward
—the very Englishmen who had been
doing as thep pleased and relying on
themselves without any control from
above—and built over night a machine
that stopped ours on which we had
been at work for forty years. The
more wrapped up these fanatics had
been in the unrestrained and unguid
ed pursuits of industry, commerce and
transportation, the more madly they
fell over one another to report in for
business of saving France and them
selves. America came in and in a few
months every business and railroad
mail in that country had turned over
his plant, his organization and him
self to the project as if it were an
affair of his own. It is not politicians
that are conducting this war for tho
United States but business men.
Hertling, it must never occur again.
Democracies will ribt do. Not only do
they fight, as I had hoped and believed
they would not, but they develop me
chanical and tactical warfare from
where we left off and check-mate all
that we do. How are we to crush and
absorb such peoples? What would we
do with them if crushed, since they
utterly lack the individual sense of de
pendence or obedience? * * * We shall
never extend our rule over the Pritisli
and American dominions either com
mercially or politically so long as
those peoples permit their individuals
to rely on themselves and compete
among themselves in mining, manu
factures, commerce and trasportation.
It is not only ihe companies that com
pete when there is no autocracy, but
those who serve the companies. * *
Every individual tn the <vhole fabric
holds himself personally responsible
for making discoveries, inventions, im
provements in organization.
Has it occurred to you that God 'un
ser Gott) might come to like that sort
of thing if we permitted it to continue?
In any event the gods of trade and of
war smile on it always. The whole
process produces the type of individ
uals who turn too easily from one
thing to another. * * *
I said at the outset that things are
going very well. By this I meant that
under our attack England and Ameri
ca have been obliged to do through
government many things which in time
of peace were left to individuals. The
British and United States governments
have taken over the railways. Both
auu niucritdii guvemuienis
have taken away the private'
negotiation in matters of price,
quality and delivery and through their
priorities are virtually determining for
individuals in what business they can
and in w'hat they cannot engage.
See to it that all this is not merely
temporary. Through German emigra
tion and through our propaganda we
have for many years been inoculating
these countries with a serum. * * *
Use your influence if possible so that
the political parties, which are all
radical now, shall be committed to
the permanent retention of govern*
mental control after the war. * * *
My object is obvious. By eliminat
ing competition among Englishmen
and among Americans we shall breed
up in the absence of an autocracy a
sort of mushy socialism. Let everyone
be dependent for his opportunity and
his advancement upon political author
ities. These would be selected not by ,
someone at the top who knows exact- i
ly what he wants and remains the
same decade after decade, but by the j
voters. Their majority flaps in the
wind. Remove the incentive for strong
men to go into industry, commerce and
transportation. Preclude the possibil
ity that in the trade conflict to come j
and in the next war either England
or America will have any such men j
as have stopped us this time or any i
non-governmental institutions for thej
development of such men. 11
St. Helena has its discomforts. A j'
German government responsible to a \
free parliament would have the effect it
of suspending for a time the working!)
)ut of my plans. But all this is tern- -
porary. We endure it for the sake of ]
I'he Day (Der Tag). Enfeeble those i
who obstruct us. The type we seek i
to cultivate is Russia; chaos—a tri- i
umph of our diplomacy. i
This is the ideal toward which you 1
must labor in England and America: |j
government operation, socialism,
2haos. In our hands such peoples will ]
be as children. Our emissaries have i
but to propose it and they will come ■
of their own accord to unlock St. j
Helena. They will look on with im- 1
becile grin while our junker, muni
tion and military faithful restores the t
Fatherland. Germany as it will be
spawned at the peace congress will
be a spineless parliamentary mollusc.
If you are zealous England and Ameri
ca will regard us through such spec- •
tacles that without alarm they will see
that spineless mollusc evolve once
more into a vertebrate autocracy capr
able of devouring all such jelly fish
as I am instructing you to make of
England and America through the en
couragement of government ownership
and operation of utilities and business.
WIEHELM, I. R.
As conceived by Frank W. Noxon,
secretary of the Railway Business
Association. This extraordinary es*
timate of the iperial Prussian policy
appeared in a recent issue of “The
Nation’s Business.”
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Beginning today all boats leaving
Seattle will bring a large number of
passengers for Cordova.
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Fifty-nine years ago the kaiser was
born to the purple, and now he hates
the Red, White and Blue.
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When the American admiral lay dy
ing and exclaimed, “Don’t give up the
ship!” he was addressing fighting sail
ors, not striking boat builders.
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In the First division a member of
the fair sex has filed her nomination
papers for legislative honors and if
elected will be the first woman to oc
cupy a seat among the territorial law
makers.
LORD MOULTON j
Lord Moulton, K. C. B., F. R. S., di
rector general of explosives for Great
Britain, was recently made a knight
of the Grand Cross of the British em
pire.
(By Associated Press) ,
CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Wash.,
March 2.—Despite the tact that 97 per
cent of the 32,510 men at Camp Lewis
were signed up for a total of $282,000,
000 war risk insurance, the campaign
which had as its slogan ‘Insure -every
afficer and soldier in the 91st division”
did not relax until the last ‘minute.
When the time limit expired Felyruary
12 there were but-a comparatively
fewr uninsured soldiers in the canton
ment. Figures will be available
giving the total insurance written for
he men of the “Wild West” division.
During the closing week Camp |wwi®
ied every cantonment in the United j
States, although closely pressed by
?amp Upton, Ntw York. The latest
igures showed that 31,20? men ai this "
ramp bad taken out policies The '
treat majority are insured for the wax- <
mum of $10,000. * *
Many organizations claim the di3- ^
inctfon of being 100 percent insured. 4
"his means that every man in ffce com- 4
siny holds a policy and till hut' one- or i
wo have the maximum. Those who *
ailed to take the maximum' already
vere carrying policies in o-Ui line com- ^
lanies. Company commanders ap- 4
iroached by men seeking to transfer 4
nto their units recently have' made' <
t a point to ascertain that the appife- ^
nt carried a $10,000 policy, ^lilted ^
nen w’ho failed to take out insurance' 4
.re not sought by any organization. 4
During the final days of the cam'- ^
jaign in behalf of insurance manor !
methods of interesting the delim,uent»
vere adopted. Films were exhibited!
it the Liberty theater portraying the
lenefits of insurance, brief talks .were
nade between acts at regimental exr
:ertainments in the “Y’s,” and the men ;
svere exhorted by their officers; and1
iy placards in barracks to insure
The maximum policies cost the men
ipproxirnately $6 monthly, depending
in the age. In event a soldier carry
ing $10,000 insurance makes the su
preme sacrifice, his dependents will
receive $57.50 per month for twenty
years. The policy calls for the; pay
ment of this sum to the soldier sbonld
be be totally disabled during the war.
Within five years of the close of the
war the policy holders will have the
privilege of converting their policies
into any form of insurance prescribed
by the government, without medical
examination. Such converted policies
will be at net premiums computed in
accordance with the American exper
ience table of mortality and win pro
vide for cash, loan, paid-up and ex
tended insurance values.
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