Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02

Astounding additional revelations
of Count Won Bernstorff's direction of
German plots in the United States
made it certain congress will under
| take a thorough investigation.
The investigation will be called as
soon as the state department gives
the congressional leaders the word.
The disclosures, giving names on
Count Won Bernstorff's pay roll, speci-
flying amounts, setting forth details of
plans to bomb munition plants and
blow up shipping, to spread German
propaganda and to foment the Irish
rebellion, were issued through the COM
mittee on public information. The
facts and figures made official Wash
ington dizzy with amazement at the
holiness of the game played by the
German embassy.
List of Persons Involved.
The list of well-known persons who
are alleged to have come under the
influence of Count Won Bernstorff as
given in the disclosures, includes:
Justice Daniel r. cohaIan of the New
York supreme court.
Jeremiah A.. o'Leary of the Ameri-
can Truth society.
Edwin Emerson, the correspondent.
James Archibald, the correspondent.
John Dewey of New York city, edi-
tor of the Gaelic American.
Ray Beveridge, the California artist.
c. J. Waldron of Medusa, N. Y.
r. J. Bowling of Hartford, Conn.
Marcus Braun, editor of Fair Play.
George Sylvester Viereck, editor of
the FatherIand, or as it is now called,
Viereck's Weekly.
Otto West, proprietor of the Hour
Glass, 300 Fifth avenue.
Paul koenig, manager of the secret
service of the Hamburg-American
Steamship line.
Carl A. Heynan of the Hamburg
American line, formerly acting Bra
lillian consul in Mexico City and for
a time in charge of American con-
suIar interests there.
Lansing Absolves Congress.
Given out as an official document,
the specific evidence linking Count Won
Bernstorff up with the ramificationS of
German intrigue and propaganda in
the United States provoked congress
men to clamor for an investigation.
To clear congress Immediately of
any suspicion which the state de-
partment's revelation may have direct
ed unwittingly at it's members, Secre-
tary Lansing dictated the following
statement:
eff there is any misunderstanding,
/ shall say emphatically I do not see
how the BernstOrff message in any
way reflects upon congress or any
member. Apparently it was the pur-
pose to employ agencies to influence
them, of which they would have no
knowledge, and in case they We're in
fuenced would be entirely innocent
do not know what the organization
was. This expose is apropos of Ger
man methods of peace propaganda and
there is no intention of casting suspi-
cion on members of congress"
Within a few days a German news
paper published in this country en-
ployed as headline to an article deal
ing with rumor of German-American
disaffectiOn in this country the Qeris-
i've legend, "Lieb' Washington, magst
ruhig sein."
This is of course, parody on the
refrain of "Die Wacht am Rhein," the
German national hymns:
"Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig SEM"
Lover fatherland, be restful Cor I'M
disturbed"
In the parody it carries sneer COM
hensible only to one who understands
the German mode of speech and
thought.
Typifies Propaganda.
Of itself the instance is slight. But
1t typifles a certain important phase
of the German propaganda which sub
tly but persistently seeks to present
Germany's course in America in the
most favorable light, even to the ex-
tent of defending the improper activ-
tiles of the Teutonic diplomatic repre-
sentatives before their passports were
given them.
Because Of this continuing prOpa-
ganda certain documents in the pos
session of the department of justice
now assumes peculiar Importance, in
that they prove undeniably the init
mate relations between the accredited |
of the kaiser in the |
United States and plotters against the
laws and the security of this country, |
whose enterprise did not fall short of |
projected wholesale destruction of life
and property.
Office Is Established.
Such of these documents as were es-
sential to legal proceedings brought |
against the Germans have been pub |
lished. Others are here made public |
for the first time. They form a curious
If disjointed, chapter in the diplomatic |
history of the war.
In the fall of 1914, when the German |
plots against Canada were fomenting
in this country, there was established. |
at 90 Wall street, an advertising of
flee presided over by a big, suave man
of Teutonic aspect named Wolf Won |
Igel There were two peculiar features
about this office. One was that it was |
frequented during two years of singu
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