South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-21


companying the German official
White Book" and urging US 10 give e
wide publicity, Ostensibly for the pur-
pose of encouraging sentiment favor
able 10 Germany in this country Or
dinarily we would suppose that it was
the mission Of ambassadors from
abroad to represent their governments
at Washington. rather than 10 conduct
campaigns among the people OF the
country, and that especially at a time
when two governments like Germany
and the United States are somewhat.
estranged this should be especially
true OF the German ambassador. How
ever. II may be that in this as in a
number OF things, Germany has come
to care nothing for the usual proprie-
ties, and we are expected TO take it for
granted but on the contrary, We are
led merely 20 wonder:
Is this booklet. and this letter. a
part OF the output of that socalled.
and II true, great German conspiracy
directed against American neutrality.
that the New York World is presum-
ing 10 uncover? 1t has the ear-marks
Of II. quite prominently, 10 say the
least There has been much loose
talk az such a conspiracy for many
months. and some pretty definite
charges; but now by documentary evil
dence the World seems to have proved
the existence Of situation far more
dangerous and offensive than the
American public has imagined
The published letters. whose anthem
ITCHY is not disputed. indicate pow.
erful thoroughly organized propa-
ganda in the United States maintain
ed at the expense Of the German gov
eminent and operating partly through
the German embassy at Washington,
for the purpose Of winning American
support for Germany, turning Ameri-
can sentiment against Great Britain
and above all stopping the export of
munitions 10 the allies.
The outstanding facts of this cam
paign are its hypocrisy. its audacity,
its offensiveness to a friendly nation
and its compromising effects on the
great numbers of American citizens
involved in it.
The unmasking OF the propaganda
which has pTofessed 10 be pro Amer
lean" and neutral seems complete
The "Fatherland." for example, the
magazine published by George Syl-
vester Viereck. which has been loud
est in its denunciatiOns Of our govern
mental policy and the subsidized
American press" is shown 10 have
been itself supported by the German
government. TO the extent of S1,750 a.
month. paid TO Editor Niereck by DR..
Albert. German privy counsellor and
director of the American campaign
Letters are reproduced showing that
the German chancellor himself sought
10 arrange for the substituting of
American war correspondents; that
plans were submitted to the German
government for the esta blishment of
an ostensibly American news bureau
10 provide pro-German news in dis
guise 10 American papers that an
effort was made To buy a great news
distributing agency; that a report
sent by a secret German agent TO the
German embassy at Washington set
forth plans TO cause a strike in Cleve-
land. Detroit and Cincinnati munition
factories. at n cost OF $4,000. that
the German embassy was apparently
cognizant OF an attempt to stop ex-
ports by financing a strike of long
shoremen in Atlantic and Pacific
ports; that the military attache of the
German mbassy was interested in
plan 10 buy up the American output
az chlorine. or poison gas" TO keep
the allies from getting it; that con-
tract was made for buying Thomas A.
Edison's output of carboHc acid, 20 be
used In making German explosives:
that at the very time Germans were
so loudly insisting on the "immo-
raIity" OF selling arms 10 belligerents.
the German government was buying
and equipping a Bridgeport, Conn,
factory to manufacture shells. osten-
sib!y for the allies. but actually for
Germany
Many of these activities are in their
nature legitimate, il pursued by open
and legitimate methods. bat they are
all tainted 10y stealth and hypocrisy.
and many OF them are pushed FAR be-
yond the limit OF national endurance.
not 20 mention diplomatic decency.
Neither England nor France nor any
other belhgerent has been guilty of
such pernicious activity IL is nothing
less than a deliberate conspiracy
against friendly nation, and an inn
pudent Iheddling with it's internal and
foreign politics which might con-
ceivably endanger our very existence.
II as for an oTense incomparably
less than this that Pres't Cleveland
gave his passports 20 Lord Sackyille-
West. the British ambassador, in ISIS.
II Is scarcely conceivable that these
revelations can fail 20 cause the de-
Darture Of Ambassador Won Bernstorn
and scue OF his subordinates. espe