The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-25
GERMANY PLANNED
CONQUEST OF U. S.
Theodore Roosevelt Thought That Was
Shown By Recent Utterances Of
German Officers to Their
British Captors.

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 25.--The atti
tude Of the German American press ane
the German alliance ia this country I'll
their hearty support of the German gov
ernment" and .he attitude of the Ger
mans ut home toward their government
showt that they are back of it, Colonel
Roosevelt said. in speech ut the Old
Glory week festival here last night In
commenting on the theory that the Unit
ed States is fighting the German govern
ment but not tho people.
For no nation does Germany feel and
express such bitter and contemptuous
hostility as for the United States" he
said. There is no nation on the face Of
the globe which they would be more de-
lighted to ruin and plunder Under such
circumstances the public men and news
papers engaged in defending Germany or
assailing England and our other allies or
in protesting against the war and de-
manding an inconclusiye peace are guilty
of moral treason to this country, and
while the Germsn. American papers have
achieved an evil prominence in this mat
ter the professional anti-English Irish
papers are as bad and the purely sensa-
tional demagogic and unpatriotic section
of the native American press is the worst
of all.
Germany embodies The principles of
successful miiitariss.c autoeracy. Much
has been said about our being against
the German government but not against
tie Eerman people. The attitude of the
German American press and the German
alliance IN this country in their hearty
support cf the German government and
the practically unanimous support Of
hat government heretofore by the Ger |
mans at home shows that at present the |
Germans are back of the German govern
nent.
"They have enthusiastically supported |
is policy of brutal disregard of the
themselves, until they cast off the yoke
# militaristic autocracy they identify
themselves with it and force us to be
gainst them. 1t is for the German peo-
lie themselves to differentiate themselves
rom their government. Until they do
his they force us to be against the Ger
nan people as a necessary incident of be-
ng against the German government
"The Germans govern from above
own. The people of this republic, like
he people of France, like the people of
,ngland, believe in government from be-
NV up. In other words we believe in .
overnment by ourselves The Germans
elieve in being governed by an autocrat.
dynasty which rests primarily on
reat militaristic class and a great bu- {
class. No man who supports
ermany at this time can claim to be
.al democrat or real lover of free in
.itutions. He is false both to democ- c
Icy and freedom" m G
Germany had well matured plans for a
lie conquest and oppression Of the Unit.
States, he said. This was evidenced, n
said, by the conversation of some re- :
ntly captured German officers who f
liked to their English captors freely a
ithout knowing that an American Off e
r was present. 4
These Germans announced that Ger a
any was going to win and that they k
ere going to smash the United States a
ID bleed it white with an enormous in t,
mnity and make it pay the whole ex
nse of the war; he said, "They had 81
thought of peace and no man in his a
nses doubts that this would be the 81
licy adopted as matter of course by o.
81
"If at this moment, while we are still b
lpless, France and England we're de- VI
ated, the German feet would be at
r doors in a fortnight and an army of Of
inquest would have landed here within M
Some years ago / saw openly I
blished in Germany a pamphlet writ b
4 by member of the German general II
If containing well worked out plan es
: the conquest of the United States m
Itch the German staff regarded as easy re
d for the levying of enormous contri
tions at our expenses" ch
Saying that the preparedness measures re
are taking now should have been car cil
d out three years ago, the colonel de- tn
red that eff Germany could land a ur
gle small army of $4,000 men in this WI
lntry we would be wholly unable to pr
tch it, for we have neither artillery mi
airplanes that could be put against w'
m. II at this moment our allies sud
lly made peace, we would be help is
! prey to Germany or any other first ye