The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-24
Germany's Violation of Human
Rights Makes Blood CurdIe.
He Outlines Kaiser's Well De-
fined Plot To Blk America.
LET LIBERTY BONDS SETTLE IT
Is Money With Which To Equip
Our Fighting Men.
Crush Despot Now; Liberty
Never Again ImperiIled.

-ONCA n 8 am lii POA AAAOUs
Atlanta. Ga, Oct. 24.-"Some man
has said, or is alleged to have said,
that America had no justification for
this war with Germany If there be
an American, or any man in this land,
whether he is an American or not,
who, knowing this record, says that
we did not have justification for war
with Germany then yellow blood
flows in his Veins-he hasn't any red
blood In him"
This was the conclusion voiced by
Secretary of Treasury w. G.. McAdoo
in "A Liberty day address here, after
giving Il specific outline of the flag
rant conspiracies operated by Ger
many in and against the United
States, the violation of promises made
by the kaiser himself and the heart
lessly brutal warfare conducted by
Germany thru her U-boats on the high
seas against enemy and neutral alike,
in violation of international treaties.
Concerning such treaties. devised to
protect the lives and property OF non
complaints, Secretary McAdoo said:
why is the rule so immutable
Why is it that an infraction of 1t
shocks humanity? l can illustrate it
better by bringing 1t home to you in
this way. Suppose (and I am going
to suppose a very impossible case)
that a German army had successfully
invaded the United states and had
captured an American city. suppose
that the population was standing up
on the streets, looking with horror
and anxiety upon the invading host
and wondering what their fate was to
be-old men, young men, women,
children, babies-all unarmed and
making no effort to resist. Suppose
that the commander of that regiment
had ordered it to halt and to fire into
those unarmed people. Many would
have been killed, others would have
been wounded, others would have fled
and would have been able to save their
lives. Why? Because they were on
land. Some of the wounded undoubt-
eddy would have recovered, their lives
would have been saved, because they
could have been taken to hospitals
and nursed back to life again.
But as horrible as that would be,
and as shocking an offense against
humanity and civilization as that
would be, can you compare it with
sinking a ship at sea with unarmed
and defenceless men, women and
children upon ito That crime pales
into insfsnificance as compared with
the horror of such sinking at sea-
Intrigue TO Overthrow United States.
United States secret service agents
have barred very successfully, since
the United states entered the war,
Just what the kaisers plan was to-
wards America in his "not-to-be world
dominion"
at is perfectly clear what the kali
ser's purpose was" said Mr.. McAdoo
"He had been led to believe by dis
loyal people in this country that
America would never fight, that we
were a material people, that any
transgression of our rights would be
met only by protests, that he could
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determined that he would put Amer
lea to this supreme test, and he has
gotten an answer he never expected.
He expected a craven submission. and
he knew that If we gave that, there
would be a weakening of the eco
nomic situation in America, and dis
cord and discomfort among its people
which would serve the end he had in
view He would accomplish, if we
had submitted to that order, by one
stroke of his pen in his palace in
Berlin, more destruction upon Ameri-
can farms, in American factories, and
in American business houses and to
American interests all over this land
than he had accomplished with all
the armies and navies of the German
empire.
What was the other thing he had
in mind2 About the nth day of
January. fourteen days before he or
dered America off the high seas, he
sent thru his foreign secretary a dis
patch to Mexico. We did not get this
dispatch until some time the next
month, but we got It, and 1t Is authen-
tic. We caught the kaiser with the
goods, and his foreign secretary had
to admit Il. What did he say to
Mexico? He said if Mexico would
make war upon the United States the
German government would finance
the undertaking, and that Mexico and
Germany would together dictate
terms Of peace to the United States
And what was the reward that Mexico
was to receiVe?- The kaiser promised
to hand over the great states of Tex.
as New Mexico and Arizona That
was the bait the German Kaiser held
out to Mexico, if she would make wal
upon us. SO long as there is a gal.
liant American heart under a KHAKI
uniform or a blue jacket. I would like
to see any foreign despot tear three
stars from the American flag!
Eyes Upon the Whole Earth.
THAT was not all of it. There il
Japan. our great neighbor of the Pa
cific, our friend, now making com
mon cause with us in this great strug
gle for liberty and world democracy