The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-25

ment loyalty and efficiently serving /!
one country-Germany. He is acting I
in such a fashion as to make him one /
of the most potent, enemies of this |
country and a most sinister enemy of /,
democracy. He claims and it is the
emptfest of all claims, to stand for
democracy. He is doing everything in I
his power to enthrone autocracy under /
the German flag thruout the world by |
the attitude he is now taking toward |
the war. He is showing himself the
worst. enemy that democracy has now /
alive.
AS was well said just the other day
by Charles Edward Russell, the So |
cialist, who left the Socialist party
when that party became part of the
German machine in this country the
utterances of Senator La Toilette will
be circulated in Russia everywhere by
the tools of Germany to make the ig-
norant Russia ms believe that America
doesn't mean what she says and that
we don't intend to fight in this war
Condoned Lusitania Sinking
Il read a couple of days ago of
Senator La Follette's utterance before
an organization out in MINNEAPOLIS,
and hereafter any organization that
asks Senator La Toilette to speak
ought TO be made to show conclusiveIy
why it should be considered a patri-
ot1c organization thereafter
Il read in the report of that meet
ing that Senator La Toilette had con-
doned the German sinking of the
Lusitania, stating that it was "a tech
meal violation of our rights Murder
of our women and Children techni
cal violation. And of all things in the
world-further referring to the report
that the munition makers had per-
.suaded those Americans to travel on
the Lusitania and get sunk
That is the kind of statement that
La roulette made-think of a senator
of the United States, a man who has
taken an oath of allegiance to the
constitution of the United States, the
representative of our people-getting
up and in effect condoning and gloss
ing over as a technical violation of
our rights this most infamous act of
international murder ever perpetrated
by any civilized nation during the last
$50 years.
Bitter Against America
Colonel Roosevelt said in part:
For no nation does Germany feel
and express such bitter and con-
temptuous hostility as for the United
States 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 in de-
Tending Germany or assaliing England
and-~our other allies or in protesting
against the war~and demanding an
lnconclus1ve peace are guilty of moral
treason to this country. and while the
German-American papers have achiey-
ed an evil prominence in this matter
the professional anti-English Irish pa
pers are as bad and the purely sensa-
tional demagogic and unpatriotic sec
ton of the native American press is
the worst of all
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-Americar
press and the German alliance this
country in their hearty support of the
German government and the practical
ly unanimous support of that govern
ment heretofore by the Germans at
home shows that at present the Ger
mans are back of the German govern
ment.
German People and Govt Identical.
They have enthusiastically support
ed us policy OF brutal disregard of
the rights of others. Until they re-
/ verse themselves, until they cast off
| the yoke of militaristic autocracy they
identity themselves with it and force
US to be against them. 1t is for the
German people themselves to differ
entlate themselves from their govern
ment. Until they do this thew force
Is to be against the German people as
a necessary incident of being against
the German governfne Mt
me Germans govern from above
| down. The people of-this republic.
like the people of France, like the peo-
pie of England, believe in government
! from below up. In other words we be-
| lleVe in government by ourselV es The
| Germans believe in being governed by
! an autocratic dynasty which rests pri-
marily on a great militaristic class and
great bureaucratic class. No man
who supports Germany at this time
| can claim to be a real democrat or a
| real lover of DEMONSTRATIONS. He is
| false both to democracy and freedom"
For Conquest of U. s.
Germany had we'll matured plans
for the conquest and oppression of the
| United States. he said. This was evil
! denced, he said, by the conversation of
! some recently captured German off
! GERS who talked to their English cap
! tors freely without knowing that an
American officer was present.
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 en-
! ormous 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 mat
/ ter of course by Germany.
If at this moment, while we are
I still helpless. France and England
! were defeated, the German fleet would