Arizona republican., 1917-09-19

open and reasonable denunclatlon or their own country.
 The German government actually encouraged the formation of socie- ties which had for their very object the scattering of literature attacking the president and the United States. The most conspicuous of these organ izationS was the SO-called League Of Truth Permanently connected with it was an American dentist who had been in jail in America and who had been expelled from Dresden by the police authorities there. The Secre- tary was a German woman who posed as an American and had been on the stage as a snake dancer. The prin- cipai organizer was German named Marten, who had won the favor of the ierman authorities by writing a book on Belgium denying that any atrOc- ties had taken place there. Marten secured subscriptions from many Ger mans and Americans resident in Ger many opened headquarters in rooms 3n the PotSdamerStraSSe and engaged l in the business of sending out pamph | lets and leaflets attacking America. | One of his principal supporters was | q man named Stoddard, who had made fortune by giving travel lectures in America and who had retired to his l handsome villa in Meran, in Austria. | Stoddard issued a pamphlet entitled, | What Shall We Do With Wilson, ." and some atrocious attempts at verse, all of which was sent broadcast by | the League of Truth.
 Official Countenance to Mischief | Makers
 This was done with the express | ne nf Q iaG because during the war no societies or associations of any kind could meet be formed or act without the express permisslon and superintendence oi both the military and police author 1 ltleS. Any one who has lived in Ger
 many knows that it would be impos- | slole, even in peace times, to hang q 1 sign or a wreath on public statue without the permission of the loca
 authorities, and yet on the emperor !
 birthday, January 2, 1916, this Leagu, , of Truth was permitted to place ar enormous wreath, more than four fee | nigh, on the statue of Frederick tho
 Great, with an American flag drape( i m mourning attached, and a silk ban
 ner on which was printed in larg, letters of gold, Wilson and his pres.
 ire not America" The League 0 l
 f this wreath, which was sent al
 )ver Germany, again, of course, wit he permission of the authorities Tn,
 wreath and attachments, in spite O
 tequent protests on my part to Zim
 hermann and Von JagoW, remained il his conspicuous position until tn
 -lNth of May. 1916. After the receip
 # the Sussex note l again called Vol agoWs attention to the presence O
 his wreath, and I told him, if thi continuing to insult to our flag an,
 president was not taken away tha I would go the next day with cine
 .natograph operator and take it ava,
 myself. The next day the wreath ha,
 disappeared.
 This league. in circulars occasion
 lily attacked me, and in a circula , which it distributed shortly after m
 eturn to Germany at the end of De
 cember, 1916, it was stated, What d. . Jou think of the American ambass
 ior? When he came to Germany af his trip to America he brought
 french woman with him. And tn , worst of this statement was that , vas true But the league, of course
 lid not state that my wife came wit !, me bringing her French maid by tn
 aXpress permission of the German for , eign office.
 , l have had occasion many times | wonder at the curious twists of tn German mind, hut I have never bee
 able to understand on what possibl . theory the German government per
 mitted and even encouraged the ex
 istence of this League of Truth. Ger ! ainly the actions of the league
 headed by snake dancer and a den F | tist, would not terrorize the America
 congress. President Wilson or me int l falling in with all the views of tn , ! German government and if the Ger i 1 nan government was desirous of ei 6 her the presidents friendship c n nine, why was this gang of good for
 lothings allowed to insult indiscrim n tnately their country, their presider
 and their ambassador?
 n American Receiver Of Foreiqn Pay
 One of the friends of Marten. hea
 f this league was man who at tn r time he was an officer of the Ma : -ional Guard of the state of New Tor f accepted a large sum of money ''fC = l expenses" from Bernstorff.
 n Of course. in any country abroa , 1 acceptance by an officer of none
 rom foreign amba sSador could nc
 be explained and could have only on
 result-a blank wall and firing part ! | for the receiver of foreign pay. Per haps we have grown so fndulgent s \ Ioft and so forgetful of the obiga
 tions which officers owe to their fla l and country that on his return frol
 Germany he will be able to go on
 triumphant lecture tour through tl United States