The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
RUSS Need 7. R.
lie Could Have Prevented Col
lapse of Government.
That Is Compliment Paid Col
OneI by Gerard.
Be A FINE SLAV LEADER
Big Audience Agrees With For
mer Ambassador.
More of German Propaganda Is
Made Public.

Philadelphia, Pa. Dec. 29.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt could have saved Rus
STA from collapse, James w. Gerard,
ex-ambassador to Germany. told the
New England Society at its thirty
seventh annual banquet in the Belle
vue-Stratford.
Il wish Theodore Roosevelt had
been sent to Russia" said Mr.. Gerard
If Theodore Roosevelt were in Rus
STA today we would be reading of him
riding up TO the battle line in ms
troika and jumping out to lead the
russian soldiers to battle against the
Germans on the eastern front.
The four hundred diners who were
being warned by Mr.. Gerard that
America must take measures to meet
German propaganda, if the RUSSIAN
collapse is not to be repeated here,
broke into his reference to Colonel
Roosevelt with cheers
Then he added. Il wish they had
given him his division. When you
send a man to do job you want an
expert"
minister TO Washington. Mr.. Gerard
and irwin 5. Cobb were the. speakers
al this first war banquet Of the an
cicnt New England society.
Doctor KoO pledged the man power
and immense ore resources of the reg
war. He said that there are already
one hundred thousand Chinese in
France, Mesopotamia and South At
r!ca working that trained soldiers may
be released for the firing line.
Must Fight Perfidy.
Mr.. Gerard warned of the German
propaganda not only in this country
uut thruOut the neutral nations and
urged that a department of the gov
eminent be created at once to combat
this propd ganda and tell the real aims
of America TO the world.
Germany, thru its propaganda, has
been attacking US underground for
ing all the neutral nations of the
world. In Sweden there is necessity
for US to make our position clear to
he plain people. Germany has used
the food embargo as a weapon against
We $ Guild make it clear that we
have "A right to put an embargo on
ta,d that gues to the Swedish miner
who gets out the ere to send to Ger
many to 80 into the Krupp guns to kill
our men. We must meet German
propaganda in Mexico and South
America. And we must meet it at
home"
ae told of his discovery in Chicago
pf place where only German is used.
t.. recounted his investigation of the
net2t New York schools.
II may interest you PennsylvanianS
To- know" he continued. that in one
OF these school books it is~said that
William Penn would have failed in
ui- effort to Settl this colony if he
had not sent for a German, Doctor
PasteuIus. And in another book it is
!, stated that at one time there was but
one vote lacking to make German the
spoken language of Pennsylvania
Prince Henry Propaganda.
This propaganda has continued
since Prince Henry of Prussia came
here with the famous Admiral Won
1lrpitz in his train. Mr.. Cadwalader
tells me that as they rode thru this
city Won Tirpitz pointed oIt the Ger
man signs. They were then spying out
The land and trying to keep us de-
mobilized, SO that after they had de
feated the rest of the world they could
puunce on US and collect the cost of
the war.
1T is this same Won Tirpitz who
wrote that the submarine war would
bring England to her knees in three
months and that Germany should
make England surrender her fleet.
Then Tirpitz continueds With this
armada we can collect the cost Of the
war from that fat, cowardly, rich, de-
generate nation of America Gentle
men, that is why l say we are pru-
IDENTIFY in this war.
we should add to our government
department to stop this propaganda.
We see what it is doing in Russia The
Two dangers there are that thru the
collapse 100000 German-Austrian
prisoners will be released, and the
Germans Will release a new army as
sreat as the one we are so painfully
raising The other danger is that the
French have just fitted out the Rus
sian armies with a new system of
artillery, with stocks of ammunition.
BY continuance of the bribery and
propaganda in Russia, the danger is
that this artillery will fall into Ger
man hands.
1t is going to be a long. hard war.
and we must face it ruthlessly.'