Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1917 — DID ROOSEVELT START THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR? [ARTICLE]

DID ROOSEVELT START THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR?

A. recent issue v of .the Lake < Times (Republican) coti- • t-aired . a- ture of the emperor of G* r: : :; r ! for men President Koo?- th- ptr.ure •• beine a snap shet tSo-n' of-Anma a few years . ■> v.-. s Ron- volt was over in G r ny and -the kaiser took hint out and '■ owed him his fine army. said- —so rn inscrintibn un I rne. th the picture, which was headed “What. Started the Great/Euroyen War.? stated: “If I had an araj like-this T could conquer the world."- Possibly Rocsevelt's words really did prompt the kaiser to start the ball rolling • toward this end. But if fie had only a few inquiries On tin's side of thewater he would soon

have learned that the American people never take the colonel seriously. At any rate, the kaiser has probably known for some time now that Roosevelt's words were but mere empty ' phrases' and that he should not have taken them, otherwise. Talk is cheap, but it takes more than the resources of the kaiser to conquer "the world or even make a very big dent in its surface.