Evening star., 1915-06-02
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each morning.
Germany is fostering among her citi-
zens a hatred for the United States that
amounts to a frenzy this country is
blamed for the war. and every German
citizen who dies In battle is chalked up
against the United States. according to
former Senator Lafayette Young, who Fri
day returned to this country aboard the
tour of the war-torn nations. He spent
hours in the French trenches when the
Germans were only forty feet ahead, and
experienced a twenty-four hour conf'ne-
ment under German surveillance, nearly
four hours of it in a railroad tool house
While Senator Young declares that
the United States has ample cause for
war with Germany. it should not come,
but at the same time he urges increas-
ing the regular army. Improvement
of the navy and strengthening of the
coast defenses. He says this country
might cease doing business with Ger
many, but war, never. But he re-
marks that the country should not
submit to such indignities as to class
the people of the United States as a
race of towards. He's in favor of Eu-
rope for the Europeans, and for the
United States minding its own busi-
ness.
Although he experienced confinement
at the hands of German officers. Sena-
tor Young holds no hatred against these
people He told his story today to a
reporter for The Star in spirit OF
pity.
He would not speak of the alleged
m
the populace Of her enemies, passing
the query as to these reports with the
remark that it would be matter of
evidence at the end of the war
Practically Hate America.
ut is very unhappy feeling that
the Germans have toward America"
said Senator Young. 1T amounts prac-
tically to hatred. I was in Berlin at
the time the Lusitania was sunk There
were no demonstrations. The people of
Germany are being led to think that
if the country is defeated in the pres
ent conflict the blame can be attached
to the United States and to this coun-
try only, .;
can ammunition Every mother is told
when her boy is killed in Wa, that an
American bullet did it. An American can
not talk to a German for more than two
minutes at a time without bringing up
the ammunition question.
There is absolutely no correct news
which comes from Germany to this side
of the world unless some one brings it
out However, this is not true of the
other countries.
"At Innsbruck. Austria. while | was rid
ing with my interpreter a German officer
came aboard and took both of us into
custody 1t was O'Clock in the evening.
We were taken to a Toulouse used by the
railroad workmen and were confined there
without food until 80 o'clock that
night. Then we were taken to a hotel
and given food. 1 was allowed to take
my baggage, which had been unmolested.
but that Of my interpreter was kept l
was treated very well by the German
custodians. Just twenty-four hours after
my arrest I was released and permitted
to go on my way. My interpreter. how
ever, was held for twelve hours more.
MY arrest seemed to be merely a part
of a German determination to know
who's who They arrest everybody un
til identity is positively established
They seem to want to let no one get
away. After an arrest Berlin and
Vienna are communicated with, and
identity is esta blished in this way. or
at least the fact established that moth
ing is pending against the party or
parties being held"