The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-23
BERNSTORFF'S "AS ON
FORMER OCCASIONS"
From The Chicago Journal.

from The Chicago journal.
So the amiable Won Bernstorff
wanted fifty thousand dollars $50
O0O) to influence congress "as on
former occasions"
The country is not surprised at
this revelation. Everyone whose
head was not sealed up in 1914
against the entrance Of new ideas has
been sure for years that Won Bern
storff had a hand in the efforts to
corrupt our public life and debauch
or t%errorize the weaklings whom we,
like other free and foolish peoples.
sometimes put in office. But it is
good to have definite proof of this
devilment, and that proof Mr.. Lam
sing has supplied.
"As on former occasions" Watch
the kaiser-cuddlers in congress run
to or squirt words to hide them
as a cuttlefish squirts ink. The
source of their inspiration stands re-
vealed. 1t does not appear that Won
Bernstorff bought them outright.
They are cheap enough, in all con-
science. but he could hardly have
secured a serviceable minority for
the price indicated unless he found
them displayed on the the 1O-cent
counter. No, he merely "infuenc-
ed" them. Through the organiza-
ton you know Of" It's a pity Ian
sing didn't tell us which one of the
sedititious Teutonbunds this is.
las on former occasions" When
the Gore and McLemore resolutions
were up in senate and house, for ex-
ample, trying to haul down the
American flag and make the seas
over to the kaiser. When the cow
ardly and traitorous resolutions were
introduced to put an embargo on the
export of munitions and military
supplies. When the clique that
trembles at the name of Germany was
showing it's valor by demanding in
slant war with Mexico. All these
were Occasions" which offered fine
openings for Won Bernstorff's pecu-
liar style Of diplomacy. Who can
doubt that he took full advantage of
them.
GAS on former occasions" and
on future ones, speaking from the
date of this message, January %,
1917. Kaiser-cuddling in congress
did not end with B%ernstorff's de-
parture. The efforts of a little
group of wilful men to keep the
president from arming our merchant
ships, the long fight against the food
control bill, the periodical attempts
to hamstring the wal by putting it
in the hands of a congressional de-
batting society, th~esniveling protests
against Sending our soldiers tc
bleed in a foreign land" Bernstorft
couldn't have bettered these sample.
of kaiserism if he had been present
with twice fifty thousand dollars
Surely, the faithful disciples of Pots
dam need as much "influence" nov
as they did last January. Who il
attending to this matter since Bern
storff went away?
GAS on former occasions" yea
throughout the world. Whereve
Prussianism has come, it has beer
an unmixed curse. 1t has tried t.
corrupt and control every country il
which it has gained a foothold. l
has pinned it's faith to bribery, decei
and terrorism. 1t has practice
very crime, and boosted of it's lac
7 of conscience as proof of it's superio
kultur. 1t is the sum of all villainie!
and, like the comparatively decor
institution of slavery to which tina
phrase was once applied, it must b
stamped out of existence. Their
must be no subsequent occasions.