The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-27
IF GERMANY
SHOULD WIN

Contributed by Willis J. Abbot to
4 the National Security Leagues cam
align of Patriotism Through Eudca-
tion.)
In Ambassador Gerard's notable &C
count of his life at the American En-
bassy in Berlin, prior to our entrance
upon the war, are many significant
statements. Perhaps none is mora so
than the assertion credited to a lady,
for whose veracity and gracity the
Ambassador Vouches, that the Crown
Prince assured her of his purpose to
provoke a war on his accession to the
throne, provided his father had not
done so first. Needless to note that
| this patriotic purpose of the son was
foresttlled by the superior efficiency
of the father.
But the Prince went on to say that
/ his war would include an attack ON
the United States During the course
of the controversy over the subma-
rines the Kaiser turned on the United
States Minister with a menacing snarl
and the exclamation; LET me tell you
| that after this war is over 1 will
brook no nonsence from the United
States" And Won Tirpitz, then and
perhaps still the greatest power in
Germany under the Kaiser and Won
Hindenburg, said CURLY that he ex-
pected after England was beaten to
her knees to use the German navy
against the United States
1 could cite scores of individual ex-
pressions of German hatred for the
United States even before our en-
trance upon the war. But they might
be dismissed as mere gossip. The in.
cidents have cited are dignified by
inclusion in an Ambassadors me-
moirs. They leave no doubt that the
idea of conquest of the United States
was rooted in the German mind before
we flung down the gauge of battle.
i We are now in the war and it is
incredible that Germany should win
| it But as the struggle progresses
those well-meaning individuals who
opposed it-some of them" were WE'LL
meaning though many were German
dupes and tools-will. learn a good
deal of belated wisdom. Had Ger
many won this war. should it win
now, the spoilation of France in 1871
was as nothing to what the United
States would suffer. Our outlying de-
/ !
snapped up. Germany would GUST US
as suzerain of Panama and owner of
= the Canal Zone. Some foothold on
the mainland of the Northern Cont
; nent she would unquestionably de-
mand. 1t might be some section of
our own territory, or she might con-
tent herself with robbing England of
a, substantial slice of Canada, there to
establish Teutonic outpost and de-
veleop it into base whence to de-
scend upon US once more when the
appetite for blood and treasure grew
again And be sure it would grow. 1t
was after only four years of peace
that Bismarck, chagrined by the
> seeming ease with which France had
paid the milliards he had exacted-
an unprecedented exaction for that
Unexplained to force a new war and
get some more spoil. We should be-
; come Germany's cow-to be MIXED
of our wealth whenever German
financial institutions grew hungry
There has never been a time since
the development of the lust for con-
quest in Germany that the dismem-
> berment and loot of the United States
> has not been part of the program
of Teutonic aggression. It was not
: for nothing that the Germans tried to
build up a little Germany in the
United States. The Deutschtum.
which has brought diasension and
anarchy upon Russia, was in process
of development here when we went,
none too early, into the war. Our
L colleges harbored exchange pro-
fessors'' from Germany who preached
] a little academic learning and a great
9 deal about Teutonic virtues. Our pub
, lie schools were dominated by Ger
i man influences so that in Chicago not
+ long ago it was discovered that the
v children were being taught the sweet
e and reasonable virtues of the Kaiser
p under the guise of instruction in
: English grammar The German
press, German societies, German
g churches were all united, under in
;. strustions from Berlin, in the effort
d to keep the. Germans in the United
n States true to the ideals of the Will
ii helmstrasse. And it was all prepare
tory to action when the German raid
It on the United States should come
e The confidence with which German
:, authorities counted on an uprising
o here was shown by Bethman-Holl-
T weg's insolent remark to Ambassa dor
d Gerard that 100000 German-Afneri
It cans would rise if war between the
e two countries should be declared.
The United States is rich. Ger
many is hungry for land and money
A year ago the United States. utterly
unprepared to resist the spoiler
; would have been as helpless as were
4 M he
It time of the Boxer troubles plundered
and ravished ana slew them without
mercy. Today, should the unthinka-
> bic happen and Germany triunpt
n over the Allies, we would have q dos.
: perate task to keep her from over.
n running our country and extortine
i "a.