[A Straight Deal by Owen Wister]@TWC D-Link bookA Straight Deal CHAPTER IV: "My Army of Spies" 1/15
"You will desire to know," said the Kaiser to his council at Potsdam in June, 1908, after the successful testing of the first Zeppelin, "how the hostilities will be brought about.
My army of spies scattered over Great Britain and France, as it is over North and South America, will take good care of that.
Even now I rule supreme in the United States, where three million voters do my bidding at the Presidential elections." Yes, they did his bidding; there, and elsewhere too.
They did it at other elections as well.
Do you remember the mayor they tried to elect in Chicago? and certain members of Congress? and certain manufacturers and bankers? They did his bidding in our newspapers, our public schools, and from the pulpit.
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