Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
Views of the Vigi!antcs
SECRET SERVICE
 AND PATRIOTISM. The Enemy Alien Talks t1 Robert J.
 Wildhaok of the VigiIartes.

1 (The fellow is consistent and thor I oLgh and logical in his contempt and | ennity for the United States. He seems to be representative. He apparently 1 cannot conceive that l could disagree with him or could harm him if 1 dido l I said it before that we had in this l country a secret service but we don't l need it hardly. Nothing is secret here 1 that Germany wants to know. Al most everything is easy to see or to faow 1 about and the rest can be seen by some 1 one person, at least, who will pass the
 word along. That means by any Ger man.
 l Many years in this country I have | heard people say "alrs fair in love and
 war" and laugh about it-and they be- | lieve it only half. Only a quarter. I | mean. You see, they are thinking on;sF 1 of love when they say that-and they don't mean 1t, because there are lots of | things they think a man mustn't do in 1 lcve-you let your women run all over you so. anyway-the man IS boss in Germany.
 When they say "alrs fair in love and war" in Germany, they mean it-espe- ciaiy about war. All Ic trir in German war. Every German believes 1t and every German is patriot. He is taught that his country is above every Ghing to be served. If he sees or hears anything which his government would like to know, he will go to much trou- ble to see that his government hears of it as soon as possible. So would any American if Americans were patriotic and also if they meant what they said and were not such hypOcrites.
 All is fair in love and war and every
 German is a government detective just
 every German is a soldier at one
 time or another. Germans are employ
 ed in every business in this country and information comes through their
 hands every day-and all the time your
 people here are hollering about some
 news leaked oUt,' It didn't Teak
 out" nothing of the kind. It must be
 secret before it can leak" and it never
 was a secret! Sometimes feel so mad
 to see such fools make such jackasses
 of themselves that 1 could go to Wash
 ington, D. C.. and laugh at 'em in the face. I could even tell them, for Gods sake, how can they win a game of poker if the other fellow sees every card what they got? And right. in the country where poker was invented! Such a simpleton they are to play
 games with a professional gambler like Well. I tell you about it, get it off my mind. You can't blame me that I got little respect for these Yankee bluffers-that sometimes ain't even good buffers yet.
 They got IT. s. secret service too and they're pretty good, I guess. I don't monkey much with that, but the poor fellows they gotta do everything pretty much alone, l guess The aver age person is too busy making money to keep his eyes open and help the governrne ent-it seems Well, what happens here with the Germans? Ey- cry little while stands it in the papers some banker or head of importing house. or some other prominent Ger man is arrested, or President Wilson stops the German insurance companies several months late from getting all the information they want about ships sailing-and forth-undsowefter-
 What is all that? A drop in the bucket. For every prominent German there are thousands not so prominent The information peddled direct before will come to the German insurance companies indirect maybe, or at least to individuals by one means or an- other, long as Germans are free to look and listen for it.
 There are a few things I wouldn't want to see in this country, and I thought l would see them long ago. One is internment camps for every German and another is suppression of the German press. including the Irish anti-Engiish.
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