The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
GERMAN PROPERTY
TO GO ON BLOCK
HoL piNos or KAISER IN TINS
COUNTRY Will De SOLD
sY PALMER.
BREAK OUTPOsTS OF KULTUR
Interests OF Merely Miner individuals
viii net De intsrfered With
Money Raised viii BE Spent
on Government Bonds

Washington March o.. Property Ia
the United States owned by the kaiser
himself, former Chancellor Won Beth
mann H0lweg. the German "lunkers'
generally and the German government
Itself. will be the first to go un'icr ii,,.
hammer. Ia the plans Of A. Mitchell
Palmer. alien property custodian Ia
sell German-owued property here to
the highest bidder.
Mr.. Paimer's testimony 10 the sen.
ate appropriations committee ~ when
he proposed necessary legislation
just made public. makes plain that
properties Of merely minor individuals
probably viii not he sold. but that the
direct purpose Of the move IL 10
break up the outposts Of "kultur" In
America.
The time has come" Mr.. Palmer
told the senators when the owner
ship ~ some Of these great German
properties should be permanently sep
araied from German capital. and that
the enemy might as well know that
he connection which he has been able
TO maintain la American industry aud
commerce Is broken. not simply dur
ng the war. bus broken never to be re-
stored
''The German empire, through It's
financial operations, has put an IN.
austrial and commercial chain all the
way across the country and through
Sur insular possessions, We have h.
come thoroughly convinced that II
would be wise and highly desirable M
this time " the ownership Of some Of
those properties could be permanently
taken away"
If the legislation be adopted. Mr..
Palmer stated, II was his intention To
sell principally the enemy properties
Ia this country In which the German
government and the "iunker' capital.
istic Glasses are Interested and not dis
turh that IT minor individuals.
Senator owen Of Oklahoma said he
understood part Of their stock Is own.
20 BY the kaiser, represented by Herr
Bnllin
There Is no earthly question about
the Intimate Relationship ~ some sort
between the German government and
the Hamburg American line" Mr..
Palmer told the committee Neither
~ there any doubt about the relations
between the German government and
\ large number Of other great indus.
trial enterprises Ia this country which
have come within the eOutrol of the
aiien property custodian.
These large enterprises are closely
affiliated with the German govern.
ment Where German subject has
an Investment over here OF private
Individual character we ought not 10
disturb a. But these great industries.
ihose great concerns financed hy the
Deutehes bank, supported by the junk
ers. are the kind We ought 10 Atneri
eaniKe.
III Il part Of the German trust
Ia this country am making chuco.
late IN Connecticut. rails In Penns,i.
vania. chemicals In New York. wool.
rms and worsteds la New Jersey, lum-
ber In Florida raising sugar In Porto
Rico aud Hawaii. tobacco In many
states in the south, making beer In chi,
cREo, lead pencils IN New Jersey, aud
conducting all these concerns. many of
which are making enormous profits.
by reason of the very conditions for
which the enemy Is responsible war
conditions, n I must simply slt here.
with the possibility 81 returning both
principal aud profits 20 the German
owners ~ the end ~ the war I am
doing tremendous favor to the Ger,
iann empire, our enemy"
II IL Mr ralmrr's intention to use
the Proerc'is ef enemy property to buy
government bonds