The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-01

< The Federal GOvernme nt can ma
newer to handle any situations that
may arise because of the ill-advised
activities of disloyal agitators."-
Attorney-G General Gregory.
Washington, Nov. THE sporadic
activities of few agitators who. led
by good or bad motives, seek to ham,
per our work in the war Justify me as
the chief law officer of the executive
branch of the government, in calling
attention to9the duties, moral and
legal. of all persons owing temporary
or permanent allegiance to the United
States.
The German government began this
war by contemptuous breach Of its
formally plighted faith made in SOL
emn treaty and from the beginning
until now has more than made good
this ominous earnest of its intention
and temper.
The President has shown us how
one by one. as opportunity offered, the
safeguards which civilization has been
able during the centuries to throw
around neutrals and the non-fighting
people of warning nations were ruth
lessly torn down; how patient and
long suffering remembrance and re-
quest were met by fair words and
fairer promises made only to be
broken.
we all know as but sober fact.
} plainly stated. that the Imperial gov
eminent has allowed no rule of war,
; no principle of civilization, no consid-
Grafton OF humanity, no teaching or
Christianity to stand between it and
the working out of its Illegal pur-
poses.
People Trained In Barbarity.
For half a century the officials of
the Imperial government. from the
Kaiser down, including even the
teachers of their children, have pros
tftuted the minds of their youth until
the whole people has been led to a
federation, If not approval. Of the hid
eous outrages and barbarities prac-
ticed by that government in this war.
While yet we were neutral, strug-
Cling 10 keep free from the conflict,
the representatives OF that govern
ment in this country planned to de-
stroy our factories and our railroads,
4 forged our public papers, deceived us
when convenient. violated our hospi-
tally and our sovereignty while
they plotted against our territorial
integrity; they deliberately and with
malice and affrontfng forewarning
drowned our helpless women and
babes and declared a public holiday
that their own innocent children
might celebrate them urder.
They have bombardedr unfortified
towns and bombed the unprotected
homes Of their foes. They have made
barren desert of the garden spots of
the earth; they have needlessly pill
LACED and willfully burned towns;
they have reduced to slavery men,
women and children. they have
wrecked and torn asunder families
with a system diaboIical in its eff
cheney; they have wantonly defiled
and destroyed the temples of God.
They have done all of these things
that they might strike terror into the
hearts of men SO as more easily ia
conquer and rule them.
World Fights For Life. Ell
The world must fight to preserve IT.
self. or this there can be no doubt.
Heretofore. save in rare cases. war
has been fight between armies; but
this war, because of the initial pre-
paration for 1t by an autocracy which
prostituted whole mighty nation to
its purpose, Is contest between peo-
pies themselves.
II our enemy win, Kings will domf-
nate the world. The Prussian auto
crat and the brutal Turk will impose
upon us their wills. tell us what we
may do, and the horrors and atroci-
ties of Belgium and Armenia leave NO
doubt what this means.
We have been thus forced by the
Imperial government itself to choose
whether. in addition to suffering out
oh ,1xy