The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-03-10

fairs of the week will be found on
our inside pages.
GERMAN COMMENT
Is interesting. Some of the papers en-
dorse the Zimmerman intrigue; and
others take a different view of the
matter.
Some of the comment is given rs
follows:
A Berlin dispatch says:
"While some of the German papers
have received the news of the Ger
man. Mexican intrigue with compar-
ative indifference, others have vigor-
ously denounced the policy OF For
eign Secretary Zimmerman, and
among these latter is the Tages lei
tung. Count Won Reventlow, formerly
one of the most ardent advocates OF
unrestricted submarine warfare and a
general supporter of extreme meas
ures, writes in the Tages Zeitung:
"'As result OF the publication of
the German offer to Mexico, ointment
which has heretofore been divided in
America, Is now solidly behind the
president. This Circumstance or its
possible resalts.are hardly calculated
to fill us with pessimism, but those
circles which have been basing hope
for the preservation of peace on di
vided public opinion in the United
States are now forced to deplore the
turn things have taken and to doubt
the wisdom of the German policy
which, so far as Mexico is concerned,
may be stigmatized rs bringing IA
| lighted match in contact with IA pow
der cask'."
Another Berlin dispatch says that
in addressing the Reichstag, Foreign
Secretary Zimmerman, in defending
his actions, said, among other things:
I'VE were looking out for all of us
in the event or prospect of war with
America. 1t was a natural and justi
fled precaution. am not sorry that,
through its publication in America,
it also became known in Japan"
A Berne, Switzerland, German pa
per comments:
"AlthOugh most OF the German Ian
guage newspapers in Switzerland thus
far print without comment the Zim-
mermann note as made public through
the revelations at Washington, of the
German plot to involve Mexico and
Japan against the United States, the
Nachrichten (BaseD upbraids Ger
many for having talked high moral
ity and acted in an exactly opposite
way.
Something terribly fatal has hap
pened to the German foreign Office"
says the paper which then lectures
Germany on 1.-The folly of getting
caught, "and continues: The German
foreign Office isn't any more Machia-
vellian than other diplomatic groups:
so one does not need to look alta thing
from moral standpoint. More i'm
portant than the ethical side will be
the political consequences.
"Above all things German Ameri
cans have been terribly compromised
by their old fatherland. They have in
their propaganda always been able to
point out that the entente has been
letting loose the colored people of the
world against the whites, and now
Germany, in trice,is willing to goad
the Mexican bands and legions of ia
pan against the United States. Hence
forth there will be no more pro-Ger-
man propaganda in America.
''rhe paper emphasizes how telling
an answer the note is to Won Beth
mann ollwegs latest speech, in
which the imperial chancellor declar
ed he could not understand why the
! United States had broken off diplo-
matte relations so bruskly, and open
ly accuses Doctor Zimmerman not
only of political stupidity, but of
moral laxity as we'll, in that while he
was accusing the entente of seeking
conquest, he was proposing that Mex