Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-09

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of some millions. occupying all stations III
American life. They had formed a,aa
able societies and organizations, doIli'i,a 49,
certain States and cities politically W.
represented In legislative bodies anu am, ano
tained constant interassociation WIN ~
another's interests and the Interests y, ,,eae
fatherland, A greater proportion OF tleso
people than would be believed were ~
trolled by and through the German An, ,-
bassador Bernstorn or those uhuer
Jurisdiction. From my knowledge OF ~ Ee ono
mans, ] should say that at least AVV'0''
were paid spies In his employ
Many Loyal German-Americans
"I am convinced that II the Amerlca'
Government should conclude TO MAKE pu
lie the inside war; the complete llst 'l ~.
archives of proved outrages upom ,,, 90.
abuses OF American neutrality, II would as,
tound not only the people OF the Oh..eu
states hut the world. / would by no means
20 on record as believing there are no ioSaI
Americans among those Of German prti pr, ",
blood in the United states l am cohNlHceu
such is the case and that whom war comes
those will be found loyal TO the land or
their choice Men arc not all controlieo ny
a policy laid down for them and IL is tne
poicy I am pointing out, tho denpera.o
intent and aim of Germany so far as ,no
United States is concerned, JUST as 'ne
same policy Is the deliberate intent anu ~
ann OF trcr1ndIly III tNtiS ''''~A
the world
rrhe Gerran aim in forming a series OF
miniature Germanys in foreign lands ~
based upon sincere belief that tho Hertnall ~,
people are intellectually. physically ana III
tho economic sense q superior race. uholu'
in his Deutschum in Chill says: uet
many Is God endowed with the task or enu-
eating, each in turn, the nations OF tne
earth that these nations may thus receive
something Of tho rays to be found only IN
German civilization. It Is our duty over
to remember this, and in the case OF Soutn
America TO pursue IL with imnedlate Nisot'
lest that continent pass under the DONNA,
tion Of the United States and thus retaru
the mission of the fatherland upon 'he ooi
tinent of America
This policy was exemplhed IN Adnlral
Won Gatzin's statement to Admiral Dewey
in 1898. 1t was again exemplihed IN the
letter TO Won Papen from De MeysenpourB,
German consul at New Orleans. as written
December 4, 1915: The day will come when
accounts will be squared between Germany
and the United States and our iron VIII
make its impression upon this country.
"The Prussian plan," concluded NJ. La
visse, dates from 1865, when, after be-
coming mistress of Austria, Prussia began
to rule and dominate Germany. In 1917
she conquered France. In 1914 she alinea
TO destroy completely France and absorb
Belgium, never believing England would
take part in tho war nor that the unlteu
States would do else than remain passive
under any affront. She Intended taxing
England and the United States in separate
turns long since despisng both nations as
tho only two in the world where the rights
Of the citizen were inviolate; policies IN
extreme reverse of the Prusslan principle,
where the Individual Is an atom and the
State supreme. Today, with the world
against her, she sees her miscalculation
of her own great force, or that which is
the same thing. her undercalculation of
tho collective forces arrayed against her.
It has In no sense changed her heart, al
though she realizes she is to experience
that which her consul in New Orleans fore
cast for the United States-'the day when
accounts will be squared
II feel that this day is only few months
off, but I am at the age when man $
lease Of life has run out and every day
q gift from the Almighty. I nightly pray
He may permit me to witness the dawn of
the new era that Is to flower from the
abolition Of Prussianism."
NJ. Lavisse has made Germany and
Prussia life study. He has lived in the
Black Forest, the towns watered by the
Rhine, the Franconlan villages where Prot
estants driven away by Louis XIV took
shelter. in Neu-Ruppin between tho Elbe
and the Oder. at Marienburg and many
other places in tho empire. His books de-
scribe how the Prussian monarchy sprang
from two roots, Prussia and Brandenburg
and show how Prussia had sprung forth
from war and always lived by and for her
army, that the old Germany Of Goethe and
Kant had been remolded in her image He
pays homage to the greatness of the Prus-
sian Empire. Its military power, its eco
nomic development and points out its
standing menace to Europe as "the flaw
marring its magnificent edflce."
He was born in NOuyion. Franco IN 1eao