Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1918 — His Pride. [ARTICLE]

His Pride.

Governor Whitman said at a gathering in Syracuse: “When the kaiser boasts arrogantly to a ruined Germany about the blessings his rule has conferred upon the German people I am irresistibly reminded of the German prison superintendent. “This old fellow, after 30 years in office, was decorated with the order of the Red Hat, or Blue Sausage, or something of the sort, and in his speech of acknowledgment In the hall of the prison he said: “ ‘As you see, friends, I have been decorated with the imperial order of the Blue Sausage, but I willingly confess that this honor has been atttainedjnot by my own merits alone, but by the co-operation of all of you. I can also declare with pleasure that since I have occupied this office the number of prisoners has increased from 430 to z 9B5 —a fact of which both you and I may be justly proud.’ ”