The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-01-27
ADDENDUM.

ADDENDUM.
| Since the foregoing part of this
paper, we have elaborated from the
| daily press, the New York World es
pecially, what is to follow here, and
which will be found of material in.
terest of what has been said, and
showing the danger of our country
! by the presuming, high-handed acts
on the part of the German Govern
ment against the United States. A
presumption and overt-acts which, il
had been perpetrated by the United
States against any of the powers OF
Europe, would have been sufficient
cause for declaration of war, and ii
would not have been many days be-
| fore a naval feet would have been
pounding at our doors with their
guns.
AS it is-this secret, undetermined
conspiracy and offence on the part
of Germany is recognized as an act
of war, and, the reason why it is not
resented, is owing to the cause of the
helplessness of this nation to defend
itself-as a nation we are as helpless
as China is at this time open to the
Vaccinations of Japan.
Shall this unpreparedness continue
until the calamity of war is on US
and as a writer in the New York
World has put into verse;
when the sure oncoming war-clOuds
TO our naked shores onsweep,
When DER pinched and stinted navy
Roll the waters of the deep;
When that valiant, futile million
That had Sprung to arms DER
night
Has spilled its blood like rain-drops
And the outlook's black as night;
When our shell-torn, fame-drecked
cities
Light the coast-line of the land,
When our Quilted treasure chambers
Know the clutch of vandal hand;
When we sink down scourged and
bleeding
And no ear to plea or prayer,
| should not like to be the man
Whose zap was, Don't prepared"
w. S. Meriwether.
THE KAISER AND THE MAILED
FIST" IN AMERICA.
For more than a year there has
been deep suspicion throughout the
United States that German officials
which the dangerous anti-American
propaganda threatening the peace of
the nation, and also the inspiration
of the many plots, rumors of which
filled the air, to cut off shipping of
war supplies from the United States
to the allies. But no proof was had
until on August Is. The New York
World began series of disclosures
which for the first time lifted the
veil. There could be no disputing the
Worlds revelations They were based
upon the actual correspondence of the
representatives of the German gov
eminent and their agents, copies of
which were printed by this newspa-
per in FAC-SIMILE. This cores
pondence revealed that the leading
officials of the German government
had had a hand in the promotion of
ventures directed, not alone at its
belligerent enemies, but in some in
stances at the laws and peace of the
United States as we'll; that the Ger
man propaganda had for it's purpose
the involving Of the United States in
the complications of the European
war, and that the plans designed to
accomplish that result were carefully
and deliberately projected. efficiently
organized, supurbly executed and adj
equately financed
HERR Won BETHMANN-HO
One of the most surprising facts
disclosed was that no less a person
age than Herr Won Bethmann-Hollweg
Chancellor of the German Empire,
was himself participating from Ber-
lin on some of the secret undertake
ings in America.
OTHER OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN
PLOTS HERE.
Count JOHANN Won BERNS-
TORFF, German Ambassador at
Washington.
Captain FRANZ Won PAPEN, Mil
itary Attache at the German EN-
bassy.
DIR. HEINRICH F. ALBERT, Chief
Financial Agent Of the German Gov
eminent in this country.
HUGO SCHMIDT, Western Repre-
sentative of the Deutsche Bank of
Berlin.
HUGO SCHWEITZER, a German
American chemist.
S. SUIZBERGER, banker, of Frank
fort Germany.
HERR WAETzOLDT, trade repre-
sentative of the German Government
here.
The correspondence in possession
and published in the New York
World proved that the German
agents here had formed elaborate