El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-25
GERMANY HATES
UNITED STATES
Col. Roosevelt Says Ger
mans Support Govern
ment in Conquest Plans.

Kansas City, No. sept. 25.-The at
titude Of the Communication press
and the German alliance in this coun-
] try in their hearty support OF the
! German government and the attitude
Z of the Germans at home toward their
/ government shows that they are Of it.
/ Col Roosevelt said, in a speech at
/ the Old Glory week festival here last
/ night in commenting on the theory
I that the United states is fighting the
I German government but not the peo-
Z pie.
For no nation does Germany feel
and express such bitter and CON
temptuous hostility as for the United
States he said There is no nation
On the face of the globe which they
would be more delighted to ruin and
plumber. Under such circumstances the
public men and newspapers engaged
III defending Germany or assailing
England and our other allies or in
protesting against the war and de-
handing an inconclusive peace are
guilty Of moral treason to this coCn-
try. and while the German-American
papers have achieved on evil
prominence in this matter the
professional anti-English-Irish papers
are as bad and the purely sensational
demagogic and unpatriotic section
OF the native American press is the
worst Of all
Germany to Conquer L. :
Germany had well matured plans for
the conquest and oppression OF the
United States, he said. This was
evidenced, he said, by the conversation
Of some recently captured German Of
ficers who talked 10 their English
captors freely without knowing that
an American officer was present
These Germans announced that
Germany was going 10 win and that
they were going TO smash the United
states and bleed il white with an
enormous indemnity and make IL pay
the whole expense Of the war" he
said. They had no thought OF peace
and no man in his senses doubts that
this would be the policy adopted as a
matter of course by Germany
Saw Plans To Defeat L. ;.
IF at this moment, while we are
still helpless, France and England
were defeated. the German fleet
would be at our doors in a fortnight
and an army Of conquest would have
landed here within a month. Some
years ago 1 saw openly published in
Germany pamphlet written by a
member Of the German general staff
containing a well worked out plan for
the conquest Of the United States
which the German staff regarded as
y
contributions at our expense"
DenOunees LaFOIIette.
At luncheon earlier in the day,
after praising Mai. Gen. Wood, Col
Roosevelt said
Now that ] have spoken to you of
Americans who stand for and are
representatives Of America I now
wish for a minute to speak to you Of
an American who represents the worst
Of American characteristics-sen
LaFollette.
Senator LaFollette is at this mo-
ment loyalty and efficiently serving
one country He is acting in
such fashion as TO make him one Of
the most potent enemies of this coun-
try and most sinister enemy Of de-
mocracy- he claims, and IL Is the
emptiest OF all claims. to stand for
democracy He is doing everything in
his power to enthrone autocracy under
the German flag throughout the world
by the attitude he is taking toward
the war He is showing himself the
worst enemy democracy has.
i read a couple Of days ago Of SEN
ator LaFollette's utterances before
an organization in Minnesota and
hereafter any organization that asks
senator LafOllette to speak ought to
be made TO show cOnclusively why it
should be considered a patriotic or
ganization thereafter"
Prefers sword To Pen.
He went on to say that f he were a
senator he would refuse to take his
seat until he had found some way TO
get La Toilette out
Col Roosevelt was presented with a
gold quill, with the reminder that
the pen is mightier than the sword
But 1 would rather have the
sword said Col. Roosevelt. This is
very exclusive war so far as am con-
cerned. I was blackballed by the
committee on admission"