New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-09-25
GERMANS Unit FOR
KAISER, SAYS T. R.
Believes America Is Fighting Peo-
pie As Well As Government

attitude or the German-AmerlCan
press and the German Alliance in this
country "in their hearty support of
the German government" and the at
titude of the Germans at home toward
their government shows that they are
back of it, Colonel Roosevelt said, in
a speech at the Old Glory week fes-
tival here last night in commenting
ON the theory that the United States
is fighting the German government
but not the German people.
For no nation does Germany feel
and express such bitter and contemp-
tuous 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 en-
gagged in defending Germany or as
sailing England and our other allies
or in protesting against the war and
demanding an inconclusive peace are
guilty of moral treason to this coun-
try, and while the German American
papers have achieved an evil promi-
nence 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
Kaiser Truly Supported.
Germany embodies the principles
of successful militaristic autocracy
Much has been said about our being
against the German government but
not against the German people. The
attitude of the German-American
press and the German Alliance in this
country in their hearty support of the
German government and the practi-
cally unanimous support of that gov
eminent heretofore by the Germans at
home shows that at present the Ger
mans are back of the German gov
eminent.
"They have enthusiastically sup
ported it's policy of brutal disregard of
the rights of others. Until they re-
Verse themselves, until they cast off
the yoke of militaristic autocracy they
Identify themselves with it and force
us to be against them. 1t is for the
German people themselves to differen-
tiate themselves from their govern
ment. Until they do this they force
us to be against the German people |
as a necessary incident of being
against the German government.
THE Germans govern from above
down The people of this republic,
like the people of France, like the
people of England, believe in govern
ment from below up. In other words
we believe in government by our |
selves. The Germans believe in being
governed by an autocratic dynasty
which rests primarily on great mill
taristic class and a great bureaucratic |
class. No man who supports Germany
to lott fn ha
democrat or real lover Of free in
stitutions. He is false both to demo-
cracy and freedom"
Plan to Smash America.
Germany had we'll matured plans
for the conquest and oppression of the
United States, he said. This was
evidenced, he said, by the conversa-
ton of some recently captured Ger
man officers who talked to their
English captors freely without know
Ing that an American officer was
present.
r. 'These Germans announced that
Germany was going to win and that
they were going to smash the United
States and bleed it white with an
enormous indemnity and make it 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.
IF at this moment, while we are
stlll helpless, France and England
were defeated, the German fleet would
be at our doors in fortnight and an
army of conquest would have landed
here within a month. Some years
ago I saw openly published in Ger
many a pamphlet written by mem
( Der Of the German general staff con-
4 tanning a well worked out plan for the