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THE KAISER AS | KNEW HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS | First and Only Account Written of thé Kaiser by an American Unofficially Intimate With Him for Years, in Which the German Emperor Revealed His Real Self as H e Did to Few Others Outside His Immediate Royal Circle; Inner Secrets of the Hohenzollern Dynasty Laid Bare by Royal Dentist By ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. D: S. 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 period, once in 1905 and again in 1911, he nearly succeeded in precipitating a conflict. Subsequent developments have brought out clearly enough that during all these years of peace, the kaiser was only ment to bring on war. Germany’s preparation consisted not merely in building up her army and navy and developing a military spirit in her people, but in trying to~estab- lish friendships abroad where they would do the most good in the event of g world war, The German military preparation was more oF less obylous. The kaiser was always its warmest advocate and frankly admitted that it was his tnten- tion to remain armed to the teeth, al- though he protested to-me many times 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 speech at the opening of the Peace palace, in the course of which he de- clared that the kaiser was a stum- bling-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 Carnegie said at ihe Hague,” he replied rather testily, “and I don’t like the way he spoke at all. He referred to me as the ‘war lord’ and said I was standing in the way of world peace. Let him look at my record of twenty-five peaceful years on the throne! No, the surest means to maintain the peace of the world is my big army and navy! Other nations will think twice before going to war with us!” 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 Inll into a sense of false security the nations she intended eventually to attack and to inspire fear | in or command the respect of nations which she hoped syould remain neutral or might even be induced to throw in their lot with hers in the-event of wart. 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 oflicer 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 had 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 kalser decided to cater to this gentleman, and accord- ingly arranged an audience. In the discussion which took place when they mot, 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 carzied with him a most exalted idea of the all-pervading gvisdom 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 thin caste and social distinctton. Mor- ganatic marriages were naturally ab- horrent to him, Nevertheless, before Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the sue- 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 ingratlation, 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 Reosevelt and Harvard. chairs at the | University of Berlin and corresponding chairs at Harvard and other American universities. Ostensibly the purpase of the project was to foster good-will be- tween the two nations. Actually, it was intended to Germanize Americans waiting the opportune mo: | 1 | tion might be relied upon in the évent of war for which Germany was sed- ulously preparing. It was believed that the exchange of | Professors would accomplish the Ger- man purpose in two ways: not only could the professors the kaiser sent to | America be depended upon to sow Ger- man seed in American soil, but the | American professors who were sent to Berlin, it was hoped, could be so in- | oculated with the German viewpoint | that when they returned to their na- | tive land they would disseminate it among their associates and students, Some time before the kaiser con- ceived the scheme of the Exchange Professors, he, sent his brother, Prince )Henry, to this country to draw the two nations closer together and to in- still in the heart of every child born in America of German parents an abiding love for the fatherland. Just before the war broke out, he was planning to send one of his sons here with the same object. He told me of hfs project and asked me to which part of the United States I thought he ought to send the prince, “That depends, your majesty,” I re- plied, “upon the object of the visit, If the purpose is to meet American gociety, I would recommend such, 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 kaisér thanked me for the fi< formation but did not enter into fur- ther 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 ii our shipyards, and it is a fact that more American women were pre- sented at the German court than those of any other nation. ‘When -he presented a statue of Frederick the Great to this country, in McKinley’s administration, it cre- ated a great stir in congress. What could be less appropriate, it was ar guedy than the statue.of a monarch in the'capital of a republic? The statue Was not set up in McKinley’s adminis- tration, but Roosevelt accepted it, in the interest of diplomacy and had it opposite effect to that intended, the kaiser reprimanded his ambassador for not “having interpreted American sentiment more accurately. A few. after the death.of King Edward, Roosevelt arrived in Berlin. Despite the fact that all Europé was in mourning, the kalser arranged the most elaborate military dress review ever given in honor of a private citizen to celebrate Roosevelt's visit. The re- view was held in the large military reservation near Berlin. More tgan 100,000 soldiers passed in review fore’ the kaiser and his staff and their honored guest. | How far the kaiser would have gone in his attentions to Rooseyelt had he not been in mourning it is impossible to say, but I don’t believe he would have left anything undone to show his admiration for the American ex-pres- 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 a 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 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 I have every reason to know that the kaiser attached considerable impor- tance to them. I know that there was. a good deal of chagrin in the tirades he delivered to me against America for her part in supplying munitions to the allies—-cnagrin at the thought that the seed he had sown in America had failed to bring forth better fruit. When we finally gntered 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. ship for America—exchanging profes- sors with your colleges, sending my brother in your country, all—all for nothing!” he exclaimed, disgustedly, after we had entered the war. - On another occasion he showed even more clearly how far America had fal- len short of his expectations: “What has become of those rich | Americans who used to visit me with | their yachts at Kiel andtome 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 tam them because I'loved~them? I am disgusted with the whole Anglo- | Saxon race!” " oh Canada and Mexico. Apparently, from ' the way he talked from time to time, if he had-been sitting in.the White iss he WOuld have grabbed thie’ 6n- “All my efforts to show my friend- | they think I put myself out to enter- | | The kaiser couldn't understand why | | the United States did not seize both | tire Western Hemisphere, That the kalser. folicwed American Politics very closely, especially after , the war broke out, was very ‘natural. The fact that there was a great Ger- jman-American vote in this country was not overlooked in Potsdam, and I hayen’t the slightest donbt the kaiser imagined that he could’ exert consider- able influence in our elections through his emissarles in this country. I returned to Berlin late in October of that year. Within a day or two | after my arrival I received a telephone message from the Reichskanzler von Bethmann-Hollweg to the effect that the kaiser had sent him word of my return and that he would like me to call at his palace either that noon or at four p. m. «1 was ushered into a.very large room in the corner of which was a business- { Ilke looking flat-topped desk, but which | Was otherwise elaborately furnished. The reichskanzler, a tall, broad-shoul- dered, handsome specimen of a man, | came over to me and, putting his arm in. mine, walked me to a seat beside | the desk, He asked me what I would | smoke, and upon my taking a cigar- ette, he did likewise. | “The kaiser’s been telling me, doc- | tor,” he said, “of your recent visit to America, and I would like to aak you ‘a few questions.” I said that I was always glad to talk of America. Indeed, I was particular- ly glad of the opportunity to speak with the prime minister of Germany at that time. Then followed a bewildering succes- sion of questions, which was not at all clear tome, We had a peculiar conversation—half in the purpose of | | Sie. = | The interview with the reichskanzler and the fact that it was instigated by the kaiser indicated to me that Amer- fea occupied a most important place in the kaiser’s plans. When, a few ‘months later, we declared war against Germany, however, all the kaiser’s planning and plotting of years col- lapsed. The edifice he had been so confidently erecting came crashing to the ground because it was built upon a false foundation. How elementary was his expectation that his efforts to win the friendship of the United States in time of peace could avail him anything im. the face of his bar- | baric methods of making war! CHAPTER V. |The Kaiser Defends German War | Methods. | The kaiser was always very careful about everything which might affect his health, and even after the war started, when his attention was natu- rally occupied by many pressing prob- |lems, he did not neglect his teeth, but |came to me as regularly as he had al- | ways done. Of this I was very glad, because it gave me an opportunity to draw the kaiser out on many of the interesting questions which the war suggested and which I found him always ready to discuss. Perhaps the fact that I was an American led the kaiser to greater lengths in his justification of German war methods and measures \than he might otherwise have thought necessary. The first time I saw the kaiser after the war started was about August 10, 1914. Between eleven and twelve Geran, half in English. The reichs-2’clock. the night Before, I had been kanzler did not speak English partic- ularly well. “How are things in America?” he asked. “Did you have any opportu- nity to gauge the political situation? Who do you think will be the next president? Do you think that Ameri- | cans are opposed to peave because |} that would end their chance to make money out of the war? Are your people so mercenary that they would like to see the war prolonged for the sake of the money they can make out | of it?” .“No, your excellency,” I replied, “you are quite wrong if you imagine | that my countrymen would like to pro. profits, That is very far from being the case. On the contrary, the*coun- try at large is anxious for peace.” “Don't forget your people are mak- ‘ing a lot of money oat of this war,” the reichskanzler .persisted.. “They are becoming very rich, They will soon have all the gold fn the world, Putting an end to the war would to a great extent end American opportuni- ties for making saoncy on this enor- mous scale.” “That may be all true,” I replied, “but fortunate my countrymen think more of the blessings of peace and liberty than they do of war and profits, and the sooner peace ¢an be brought about on a basis which will have some assurance of permanency the bet- ter we will like it.” “Wilson hes ,the greatest opportu- nity ever presented to a man to make his name immortal—by bringing about peace in the world,” he went on. “We feel now that he is not our cies but friendly to the allies, but nevertheless he may be able to see that if this war is prolonged indefinitely it will mean the destruction of all the nations in- volved in it. Do you think there is any possibility of America entering the war?” “That, of course, will depend, your excellency,” I answered, “upon devel- opments. I don’t belleve my country is anxious to fight, but I'm quite sure that nothing in the world will keep us out ef it if our rights as a neutral nation are not respected.” “We certainly don’t like the way Hughes has been talking on the stump,” declared the reichskanzler. “Did you hear any of his speeches or any of Wilson's?” I said I had had no opportunity to hear any of the campaign speeches, but that I had followed them in the newspapers. “Well, did you gather from what you read that the American people | want to see peace in Europe or do they want the war to go on so they can continue to make fortunes out of it?” Again I replied that I was certain our country would never be influenced by such sordid considerations as were implied in the reichskanzler’s question, but that ifthe right kind of peace could be brought about the whole country would eagerly embrace it. ' The subject of the U-boat campaign was never mentioned and it was not | until several months later when the “submarine warfare was started again on a greater scale than ever that I ‘realized that the whole purpose of this interview was to ascertain if they could, without telling me their inten- | tlons, who was the candidate, Hughes ‘or Wilson, who would be least dan- |gerous to them if more American ves- sels were sunk in’ the ruthless sub- marine campaign they were then con- | | templating. | The election was drawing close? it was necessary to notify Von Berns- | forge of Potsdam’s preference; the kai- |ser believed that perhaps he held the deciding ballot in his hand;in the shape of the German-American vote and he didn’t know how to cast it. Hence the eagerness with which they interrogated me upon my return from the“tront™ = ‘notified by. telephone that the kalser |would like me to attend him at the Berlin palace the following morning at nine o'clock, He was about to make his first visit to the front and wanted his teeth examfned before he went. The work I had to do for him was nothing of a serious character and did not occupy more than twenty minutes. One of his valets stood by to give me any assistance I might need, but left the room when I was through. “Have you been reading in the pa- pers, Davis,” the Kaiser asked when we | were alone, “how our “soldiers have been treated by the Belgians?” I said I had: not had a chance to erected in front of the Army building. | long the war for the sake of war-/read the papers that morning.” Seeing that his gift had had just the | | “Well, you must.certainly read them. | They’ve been. out the eyes of our wounded Thutilating my men horribly! ‘They call it modern, civi- lized warfare. That's savagery! I hope your president is taking notice of these atrocities.” > Of course I was in no position to contradict the kaiser’s assertions, as I was not in possession of any of the facts, but I learned afterward that four American newspaper correspond- ents had scoured Germany from one end of the country to the other in an effort to runlown these reports."They left no, rumor uninvestigated, no mat- ter how far they had to travel to ver- ify it. When they had finally exhaust- ed every clue and followed every lead they had not found a single case to justify the charge the kaiser had made against the Belgians and which, of course, the Inspired German press con- tinued to report from day to day. ‘The object of these Hes was to jus- tify’ the outrages which the Germans were committing in their plan to ter- rorize the inhabitants of the countries they were overrunning. According to reports the activities of franc-tireurs in the occupied;-territories were met by the Germans with the most bar- baric punishments, crucifixion and similar atrocities being very common. Undoubtedly the kaiser was aware of what his soldiers were doing, and to defend their conduct he lent a ready ear to the unfounded charges made against the Belgians. “I have already_framed a message which I intend sending to your presi- dent regarding the use of dumdum bullets by the Belgians and French,” the kalser went on. “We have ample proof to establish this charge not only in the character of the wounds suffered by my soldiers but in the shape of un- | used cartridges which we found in the captured forts.” Strangely enough, the kaiser sent off his protest to President Wilson about the same day that President Poincare forwarded a similar protest | based upon the use of dumdum bullets by the Germans. Regarding the violation of Belgium’: neutrality, the kaiser was able to of- | fer no reasonable argument, The fact | that he was willing to pay Belgium for permission to allow his armies to go through that country was apparently sufficient justification in his eyes for taking by force what Belgium refused to sell. | “How foolish of Belgium to have re- ‘sisted us!” he declared, in this con- nection. “Had they consented to let us walk through we would have paid for everything—everything! Not a hair of their heads would have been touched and Belgium today would be In the same happy financial condition that Luxembourg is.” At a subsequent interview we re- ferred to Belgium again, and the kal- ser alleged that Japan had violated the neutrality of China when she sent troops through Chinese territory to selze Kiao-Chau, “It is all right for the allies to do these things,” he commented sarcas- tically, “but when Germany does them England rises up in righteous indig- nation, The hypocrites! Why, we \fouyd nangrs in Brussels: which } ; BS SH bs, oe oe ! owed concinsively that England and Belgium had a secret agreement. by which tn the event of war with Ger- many England was to be permitted to occupy Beigiim! We've got those pa- pers in Berlin, We could have no more positive proof against them.. The Belgians were simply England's tools!” Some of the argumeérfts the kaiser raised in his discussions with me re- | garding the war were so weak and untenable that one might well doubt his sincerity in urging them, but I shall give thefm for what they are worth. “They refer to us as the Huns!” the |Kaiser observed bitterly. “If your | people could see what the Russians jhave done in the Bukowina and’ east- jern Prussia they would krow then who are the reat Huns! They de- stroyed éyerything they could Ty | the Casper Mother’s League finds ex- their hands on. In one of my Shoot- | pression in countless letters received ing lodges which the Cossacks entered from France and in a late communi- they even knocked out thé teeth of the cation to his mother, Mrs. Maud Ser- boars’ heads which hung on the walls! vice, Dewey Jones adds his praise to With knives they cut out the covers of that of others. my chairs. They had special fire “That Mother’s League is certinly |bombs which they threw on peaceful | some hustling order,” declares Jones. villages. These bombs had been con- | «The feeds those fellows are gett structed in peace times and. were de- will be about their last regular fee naned, solely for pillage and destruc- ntil they get back, too. I mean be- “Instead of treating their soldiers pop gS oe pirene. ue as prisoners of war we should have “I haven't been a half mile from strang pe VR by the neck—every comp since we have been here. The one of them! last few days have been pretty warm, Several prominent: Poles; who wer@ about the warmest we have had so patients of mine and whose fine ¢8- far, hut even at that it isn’t uncom tates in Poland were looted and de ¢ortable. molished, told me positively that the | jestruction ahd depredatfons were committed entirely by German troops. The Russians had occupied thé houses when they were in possession of that LOGAL LEAGUE lo A HUSTLER, Mothers in Letter Home; Aero Squadron in Thick of the Fighting “Well, mother, I have been in the army over a year and in France nine months today, and there seems no question in my mind but that I will section of the country, but it was not ay ge genie) tengical MY: SESS j anti v4 he Sige out Ang Ger- | ssth (aero squadron of which Jones j Saps, ted so ts a Mp ae: sm Poheh4 is a member.) Dne pilot and observer | or thee to. oy. ony dex were shot down over the lines but eee d net the Russinng | fl!.0m our side. They were badly Bam apeaible Lo e Russians | ¢rushed and the ship completely de- r | molished, the motor~ going several | ane goa commerttee bys Ey Ger- | feet into the ground. Two more of mane el, Coon tmnens prisoner® | Gur observers were wounded in the of war will probably never be known same battle—one only slightly but in their éntirety. We do knaw that the other had only a short time to they executéd Captain Fryatt, the (live after they landed on our field. commander of a British merchant ves- A day or-two hefore this one of our sel, who was captured after he had observers was shot twice thru the leg, rammed a German U-bout. F don’t but he shot down a Boche machine | .know fo what extent the Kaiser was | anyway—it fell near some Ameri- firectly responsible for that dastardly can batteries. We certainly miss the crime, but from what he safd regard- men that were killed as all three of ing the capture of another British cap- | tain, the commander of the Baralong, it was quite evident that he was In Kaiser's defense of the use of Zeppe- entire sympathy with acts of that jing against Paris, London and other character. nonmilitary cities. He claimed that It A German U-boat had sunk a Brit- | was proper to make war on clyiMans, Ish vegsqf upon which were some ‘Of. pecause England wasendeavoring to, the relatives of the crew of the Bara- | starve Germany. On one occasion I long. ‘Phe crew of this U-boat wa8 | pointed out to him that In 1870 the subsequently capiiret by the Germans had besieged Paris and had tong, and according to reports in Ger starved {ts population. many they. were harshly treated. Then | «phe cases are entirely different,” it was reported that the Baralong had pe answered hastily. “Then we were been captured and that her captain pegieging a city and the civilian pop- and the crew would be summarily wiaticn had plenty of opportunity to dealt with. ;evacuate it before the siege began. “IT hear we have captured the cap- | England is. besieging a whole nation tain of the Baratong,” the kaiser de- and trying to starve my women and clared to me at-that time. “If we can chitdreny who have nothing to do with prove that he’s the man we'll fix him!” | war,” The manner in which the katser/ y couldn't help thinking of the spoke left no doubt im my mind that «whole nations” which had been xb- the direst punishment, would be meted | golutely crushed under the kalser’s out. to the unfortunate British captain. ‘neel—of Belgium, Servia and Poland. Booty is undoubtedly a legitimate | The kalser never admitted that the incident of war, but it is legitimate | gestructton of the Lusitania was # re- only as an incident. Otherwise booty suit of special instructions from him becomes loot. In any event, when in- | ¢) the U-boat commander, but In dis- vading troops selze private property it cussing the general subject of subma- is customary to pay for it, That the | rine warfare he asked: Germans were good takers but poor wna¢ right have Americans to take payers 1s. revealed by two incidents | passage on these vessels, anyway? If which the kaiser narrated to me, and they came onto the buttlefield they the keen enjoyment he derived from | would not expect us to stop firing, them can be fully understood only bY | would they? Why should they expect those whe know how much the kalser | ony greater protection when they en- appreciates getting something for | te: the war gone at sea? nothing. “Don't ever forget,” he went on, “a “Roumania wanted our gold for food | yyi1et from a pistol would be enough products,” he told:me. “They demand- 1, sink one of our U-boats. How can ed pure gold and they set enormous | we ston and board vessels we encoun- prites on thelr wares; but we needed | tor to ascertain whether they are neu- pens ei had to rot oie Bs were | rat and not carrying contraband? If ready to pay even e outrageous ppea: eutral should prices they demanded: And then they Wg iy saad sical f | | foolishly declared war against us and we got it all for nothing! When I spoke to Hindenburg about the con- templated campaign against Rouma- nia he sald, “This will be a very inter- esting campaign.’ It was. We got all we wanted and didn't have to pay a penny for it.” The kaiser beamed all over as he contemplated the résults of Rouma- | nia’s entry in the war. When the Germén troops entered Tarhapol, Russia, at a later time they | | captured Yast quantities of American- | | made hospital supplies. “We were just figuring what this |selzure amounted to, and my army doctors were strutting around as if they owned.the world,” declared the kaiser, “when one of my officers was | approached by a group of long-haired, | greasy Jews, who claimed that these supplies belonged to them. ‘They are} our private property; we bought them | j and we should be compensated ff you | seize them,’ they contended. ‘Did you! | pay for them?’ my officer asked. ‘No,/ we didn't pay for them, but we gave) our notes, they replied; ‘Then,’ said) | my officers, ‘when you take up those notes we'll pay for these stores; in the meanwhile we'll just take them.’ We secured bandages, serums—every- | thing, in fact, that we needed so very | badly, and we got them all for noth-| ing!" | | I did not know at that tinte that the | German army lacked medical supplies, | but later I saw paper bandages in use. | I have nreviougly referred to the 4 In fact prove to be @ belligerent, or if 1 belligerent should heave to in re- sponse to the command of one of our submarines, how could we safely send 1 boarding party over when a rifle thot from the vessel in question would fend us to the bottom? Obviously if America persists in sending munitions o the allies, there is but one thing or us to do—sink the vessels.” When I suggested that while the muinefability of the submarine un- loubtedly lessened its value In con- ‘ection with the right of search which velligerents have under international aw, still the law ought to be ob- erved, the kaiser interrupted me has- fly with the remar! “Tnternational law! such thing as intern: more!” In that assertion, of course, lies the answer to all the questions which have There fa no tional law any arisen in connection with the conduct of: the whr. If the Germans recog- nized. no international law but were guided solely by their Ideas of expe ency and the demands of “kultur, then the whole course of the war be- came perfectly clear. The use of pol- senous gas, the destruction of unfor- tifted towns, the desecration of churches, the attacks ‘on hospitals and Red Cross units, the countless atrocl- tles committed against civilians and prisoners of war require no other ¢x- planation. No such any more! (To be Continued.) thing as international law | them AVS SOLDIER <: Dewey Jones Commends Work of é E 1 t derfal and Fre e in the CHARMAN ~ anymore. field and Commendation of the wazk of ‘ rained almost every boys in the s ome war up fardly m ot many « ered “There ately on a Wo % overed REPEATS GLA OF RANK POLICY e One) (Continued from Pag the servic rendered ti which wer« gress me we pledge our c men who are iean, who will all for the winnin nd who will promise of pr violate Ame and honor, and a sacrile our trust work by Recog wil e to be eri there please aid our poli d and of the loya We have Let us, as far both our to haul hitch us | horses and oad a reat politi WILL H. SAYS.