Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-25
Germany Plans Invasion of q. S.
If Allies Lose, Says Roosevelt
The Colonel Also Denounces Senator Laoette and Says He
Should Be Expelled From the United States Senate

KANSAS CITY, MO-, Sept. 25.-The
attitude of the German-American press
and the German Alliance in this coun-
ltry "in their hearty support of the
herman government" and the attitude
Of the Germans at home toward their
Government shows that they are back
of it. Col. Roosevelt said, in speech
at the Old Glory week festival here
last night in commenting on the theory
that the United States is fighting the
German governement but not the peo-
pie.
"For no nation does Germany feel
and express such bitter and contempt
Iuous hostility as for the United States,
he said. There is no nation on the
face of the globe which they would be
Imore delighted to ruin and plumber
Under such circumstances the public
men and newspapers engaged in de-
|fending Germany or assailing England
land our allies or in protesting against
the war and demanding an inconclusive
peace of guilty of moral treasoo to
this country, and the German-Amer
Iican papers have achieved an evil
prominence in this matter the pro-
lfessional anti-English Irish papers
are as bad and the purely sensational
demagogic and unpatriotic section of
the native American press is the worst
OF air
!, Germany embodies the principles Of
successful militaristic autocracy. Much
has been said about our being against
the German government but not
against the German people. The at
titude of the German-American press
and the German Alliance in this coun
try in their hearty support of the Ger
man government heretofore by the
Germans at home shows that at pres
ent the Germans are back of the Ger
man government.
I "They have enthusiastically support
ed its policy of brutal disregard OF
the rights of others. Until they re-
verse themselves, until they s~sc off
the yoke of nlilitaristic autocracy they
identify themselves with it and force
us to be against them. 1t is for the
German people themselves to different
late themselves from their government.
Until they do this they force us to be
against the German people as a nee
essary incident of being against the
German government
1.-THE Germans govern from above
4 down. The people of this republic,
like the people of France, like the
people of England, believe in govern
ment from below up. In other words
believe in government by ourselves.
The Germans believe in being govern
ed by an autocratic dynasty which
rests primarily on a great mllitarlstic
Eclass and a great bureaucratic class.
No man who supports Germany at this
/ time can claim to be a real democrat
or a real lover of free institutions.
He is false both to democracy and
freedom
Germany had well matured plans for
the conquest and oppression of the
United States, he said. This was evil
denced, he said, by the conversation
of some recently captured German Of
fcers who talked to their English cap
tors freely without knowing that an
American officer was present.
These Germans announced that
many was going to win and that they
were going to smash the United States
and bleed it white with an enoromus
indemnity and make it pay the whole
Expense of the war" he said. They
had no thought of peace and no man
in his senses doubts that this would
be the policy adopted as matter OF
course by Germany
IF, at this moment, while we are
still helpless, France and England
were defeated, the German feet would
be at our doors in fortnight and
an army of conquest would have land
ed here here within month. Some
years ago l saw openly published in
Germany a pamphlet written by
member of the German general stan
containing a we'll worked out plan for
the conquest of the United States
which the German staff regarded as
easy, and for the levying of enormous
contributions at our expense.
Saying that the preparedness meas
ures we are taking now should have
been carried out three years ago, the
Colonel declared that eff Germany
could land single small army of
$50 900 men in this country we would