Arizona republican., 1915-08-21

of her resources, purchases by Ger many 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 German government of war material manufactured in the United States and while it would involve the sacrifice of large sums of money, it would be justi- fled alone by the consideration of the human effect such purchases might ac- complish in the saving of the lives of the German soldiers, who, in the hands of the allies, this war material would wound and slay.
 This statement was prompted by the simultaneous appearance at the time of articles in leading newspapers in various parts of the country that were almost identical in language in which . they refer to an alleged German plot to get possession of the plants making war materials it in order to embarrass the United States in the prosecution of it's policies
 "The articles were evidently part of the inspired press campaign to embar- rass the German government in it's re-
 lations with your government and were
 of course mischievious fabrications.
 
 negotiations looking to the prevention of exports of liquid chlorine to the allies i by buying the product seems strangely out of place, having regard to the fact
 that the British government has from i the beginning of the war concluded i contracts in this country whereby ! manufacturers or rubber goods and of
 wcolen goods has been compelled as q ! condition of securing the crude rubber i or raw wool required in his business to
 sell his entire product through a Brit | ish agency and has been prevented ! from supplying any part of it to Ger 1 many or Austria Hungaria, or from dealing with any neutral nation except l through the British agency.
 { "(b) The copper products of tho country have been required to deal
 with their output of copper in like manner.
 "(c) The great packing industries
 of America have likewise been com relied to withhold their product from neutral countries as well as from l the enemies of Great Britain, except ] to the extent to which Great Britain ! through it's own agents, may per init such sales.
 "(d) Efforts in the same direction
 are now being made to tie up the | entire cotton crop.
 Does the World regard this course { of action on the part of Great Brit ain the meddling by a pretended i friendly government with the domes- 1 tic affairs of the United States? 1 It would be difficult to conceive [ of more high handed practices or more fragrant violations of the spirit | md irtta of 1Dx,
 than are embodied in these arrange ments. Yet when the German gov 1 ernment endeavors to secure control 1 of the output of a single factory, it's i entirely legitimate action is widely | denounced amounting to propa- ! ganda involving the United States 1 in the complications of the Eurc- i pean war Surely no reasoning mind l can be misled by such manifest eVI- i dences of blind partisanshiD unfar- ness and insincerity. I doubt whether 1 the world ever has witnessed a pub : lefty campaign or a secret service | bureau approaching the dimensions, i influence and efficiency of that which is maintained in the country l by our enemies. ["
 Tn answer to the inference based l on certain of the letters that I or any one connected with the German | government has been concerned in 1 fOmenting or encouraging strikes in
 factories manufacturing war mater l ials. I have only to say that there | is no basis for any such assertion or l insinuation. No such transaction or ! negotiation as is suggested by the | above mentioned letter from MT. | Denckem to MT. Marlow or by the ! McLane letter ever occurred. While.
 it is true, as above stated, that ali sorts of offers and proposals were and are being constantly made to
 me (as they are doubtless being madC ] to the representatives of the allies ] in this country), upon that this and every ether conceivable subject from
 people unknown to us and whom we
 Lever took the trouble to answer or | investigate and to whose proposals we paid not the slightest attention. ! no such transaction as has been i sought to be adduced from the one sided correspondence that has been i printed ever took place
 Our only offense and the face of
 these letters, is that of having per
 mitted unknown people to write let
 ters to us and of having tucked away | the letters instead of consigning
 them to the waste basket
 For months past the newspapers ! have been filled with inspired TO- | mances of our attempts to foment labor troubles. which I am glad of the
 opportunity to set at rest. It is quite
 on a par with the baseless and ri diculous assertion that The large
 transactions of Germany suggest a
 weekly expenditure of $2,000, 000'
 These sensational falsehoods follow
 one another so thick and fast that
 it is impossible to deny that if one
 were disposed to do so.
 No agent or representative of the German government has, or ever had, directly or indirectly, any control over
 or voice in the organization, prOmul-
 gation, publication, management pol
 icy or affairs of The Fatherland. The paper was in existence, and had, I am told, wide circulation as a pub lication of avowedly pro- German !sympathies long before pr. Dernburg, or I, or any of us, came to this coun-