Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
The Kmser'S Sabotage
Against the United States.

correspondence between Count Won Bernstorn and
his chiefs at Berlin show that the continued acts
of violence committed against American indus
tries while the United States was still neutral
were not the deeds of fiery and irresponsible IN
dividuals, contended, but the deioer-
ately planned and fully financed campaign of Ger
authorities. The blowing-up of munitlon
plants and other factories producing war supplies,
the wrecking of trains and destruction of railway
tracks and cars, the intimidation of workmen and
efforts to arouse dissatisfaction and strife amongst
them, the placing of bombs in outbound cargo
ships and in buildings where the lives of hundreds
were endangered-these and uncounted other
crimes against our peoples peace and security
coolly ordered by the Kaiser's agents while
the United States entertaining his Ambassador
and was doing its utmost to remain neutral Such
is the character of the Hohenzollern Government.
On January 8, 1916, Foreign Secretary Zim-
hermann teegraphed Ambassador BernstorH:
"The General Staff desires energetic action in re-
gard to proposed destruction of Canadian-Pacifc
railway at several points, with view to complete
and protracted interruption of traffic ABOUT
three weeks later, January 26, Bernstorf was
instructed from Berlin to this effect: you can
obtain particulars to persons suitable for carry
ing sabotage in the United States and Canada
from the following persons: One, Joseph Mac
Clarity Philadelphia Pa: 2, John P. Heating,
Park Row, New York. In the United States
sabotage can be carried out on every kind of fac
tory for supplying munitions of war" Thus, more
than year before the crisis which forced to
severance of diplomatic relations Germany secretly
ordered war waged upon American industries on
American soil. Not content with sinking
peaceful ships and Staying innocent citizens on
the high she flung her monstrous nets of ter
rorism across our cities and highways, and in the
very capital of nation brewed her plots for
American destruction Such is the character of
Kaisersm
But Ambassador Bernstorff's activities
confined to organizing and directing sabotage.
On September Is, 1916, after he had done his ut
most with his gangs of bomb-throwers and fire.
bugs and general-utity ruffians, he telegraphed
the foreign office at Berlin in this wise THE
barge conference, in regard to whose earlier fruit
full cooperation DR.. Hale give information, is
just about to enter upon a vigorous campaign to
secure majority in both houses of Congress fav-
orable to Germany, and requests further support"
This doubtless of those former occasions
to which Bernstorf alluded in another message,
sent some four months later, requesting authority
Ito pay out to fifty thousand dollars to influence
Congress-" The German Government knew just
as we'll as did Government that for the United
States to refuse to sell munitions of war to the
Entente nations would be grossly unneutral and
it knew that the President, with his entire Ad-
ministration. immovably against such policy.
But with characteristic arrogance and conceit the
Hohenzollern Government proceeded the idea
that the real capital of the United States not
Washington but Berlin and that whatever the
Kaiser wished done his faithful henchmen this
side of the Atlantic would see performed Hence
the assurance with which Bernstorff referred to
"the vigorous campaign to secure majority in both
houses of Congress" True to type, the German
Ambassador seems to have taken it for granted
that with bullying and bribery together he could
do with America what he pleased.
These latest disclosures Of the State Depart
ment are merely continuation of the long story
of German intrigue and crime against our country.
For years, as the record goes to prove the Kaiser
and his accomplices we're plotting against us. Even
before the beginning of the European hostties,
it was their wel-defned purpose to invade America
soon late. Even before the first faint cloud of
present war, they hated nation they
hate all democracies and were resolved eventually
to attack it. There is longer a reasonable
doubt that the United States, even if it had re-
manned aloof from this conflict, would have been
compelled to fight the Kaiser this side of the
Atlantic if he had emerged from the European war
victorious unvanquished. By fighting him
on his own battle front and in company with the
other great liberty-loving nations of the world
we are saving shores from the frightfuIness
he had planned to pour'up them and are help
ing to save civilization from blacker scourge
than Attila of Genseric inflicted
Kaiserism means ruthless ambition linked
with endless intrigue, it means heartless savagery
Joined with diabocal cunning, it faithless-
to every pledge and contempt for every law, it
means the slaughter of children, the outraging of
womanhood, the brutal trampling down of all the
sanctites of human life. Not until this unspeak-
able menace is blotted out can the world rest Sc
cure or America sheathe her sword in honor