New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-08-20
()NSPIRACY CHARGE
INST GERMANS IN u. S.
Privy Councillor CT aims That Purchase of Am
hition Plants in This Country BY Kaisers
sss Agents Is Justifable


make further use Of them in our own
defence.
Il am unable to understand on what
theory our action in that direction
should be the subject of criticism. II
we had the means and the opportun-
ity we would buy every munitions fac
tory in the United States if in tina,
| wav we could keep munitions from
the enemy.
I'VE should, however, still earnestl,
urge and insist, as we do, that it is
! unjust to require us to protect our.
selves in that way, if it were possible
to do so. which it is not, and that
your Government should protect III
and should not permit it's citizens tc
be made the chief instruments of the
wholesale slaughter that is now der-
astating Europe.
IF there is anything in the nature
of bad faith or inconsistency in that
attitude, I confess to being too obtuse
to be able to appreciate it.
Notice To State Department.
AS further evidencing the utter
worthlessness or misleading character
of the publications Of which L com
plain, I beg herewith to quote from
|
! man Embassy with the State Depart
ment on June 13 1915, from which
you will not that so far from our
| then contemplated purchases of war
{ materials having been secretly con-
! ductedl our intentions were fully eX-
planned to the State Department. ac-
companied by the offer to resell to
the United States Government any
| or ali Of the materials purchased.
If the German Government during
the course of the war should consider
| it advisable to purchase arms, am
munition or other war material IN
the United States it could do so for
no other purpose than to prevent It
| from falling in the hands of the AL
| lies her enemies.
The right of Germany to effect
much purchases could not be ques-
toned. Such purchases could not
| form a danger to the United States,
! but would to some extent serve as a
! Limitation upon the casualties of war,
thus serving humanity such pur-
chases would furthermore serve the
| particular interests of the United
States. For it must be remembered
that if the German government
should ever consider it advisable to
purchase war materials in the United
States it would do SO knowing that
| delivery in Germany could not be Sc
| cured and that no use of the pur-
chased material could be hoped for
during the war.
1t will readily be understood, there
fore, that the German government
| would at any time be willing and
indeed, glad to sell and transfer to
the United States government any
or all of the material it had pur-
chased. Instead of depriving this
country of any part of her resources
purchases by Germany would insure
the retention within this country of
any material it might purchase.
From the German point of view
purchases at this time by the Ger
man government of war material
manufactured in the United States,
! while it would involve the sacrifice OF
i large sums of money, would be justi-
! fed alone by the consideration of
; the human effects such purchases
might accomplish in the saving of the
! lives of the German soldiers who, in
| the hands of the allies, this war ma
| terial would wound and Stay.
"Inspired Press Campaign"
the simultaneous appearance at the
time of articles in leading newspa-
pers in various parts of the country
that were almost Identical in lam
guage in which they refer to an al
! legged German plot to get possession
of the plants making war materials
i in order to embarrass the United
States in the prosecution of it's poll
cies'
| The articles were evidently part
I or the inspired press campaign ia
cmbarrass the German government
in it's relations with your government
and were of course mischievous fab
relations
"The criticsma directed against
our negotiations looking to the pre-
vention of exports of liquid chlorine tc
the Allies by buying the product
seems strangely out of place, havins
regard to the fact that the British
government has from the beginning
of the war concluded contracts ir
this country whereby
"(a) Every American manufactu
er of rubber goods and of wooler
goods has been compelled, as a con
dition of securing the crude rubber
or raw wool required in his business
to sell his entire product through :
British agency and has been pre-
vented from supplying any part OF
1T to Germany or AUSTRIA Hungary OF
from dealing with any neutral ma
ton except through the British agen.
cy;
"(b) The copper producers of ths
country have been required to dea
with their output of copper in lik,
manner;
"(c) The great packing industrie!
Of America have likewise been com
! peeled to withhold their product
from neutral countries, as we'll a.