Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-16
ISOLATE GERMANY,
SEN. OWEN s PLAN
An Outlaw Nation, He Charges,
and Urges Psychology be Utilized
by Allies as it is by Huns.

An address made few days ago in
New York by Senator Warren c. Hard
ing, of Ohio, IN connection with the Lib
erty Loan campaign, was perhaps one
of the most powerful attacks vet de-
hvered against Germany and Germans
and German methods.
We need, Senator Owens said. "eyery
force which is available to win this war.
and | want to venture to make n sugges-
tion in the hope that wiser men than
may consider 1t, may think of it, and if it
have value, then that by common coun-
sci the value may be shown and may
be employed.
"Ne need every soldier on the battle
line that we can place there, we need
every gun that we can put in the battle
line. We need all those forces, and
America is exerting her utmost to provide
guns and men and ships. But there are
other forces which l think we can at the
same tune also employ, the force of
psychology.
FORCE OF PSYCHOLOGY.
We can learn much from Germany,
and Germany has been waging a great
war of psychology all over the universe
She has had her spies and her secret
agents and her propagandists through
out the whole world, weakening the
force of resistance of mankind, while
she strengthened the German will to
victory
We comprise seyen-eights Of the hui
man race, and we need but 10 engage
the same psychological forces on our
own behalf To break down the psychology
and Will to victory of the German people
who are now behind the battle line Let
them know that America, Great Britain,
France, Italy, China, Japan, India and
the South American republics arc as one
IN demanding liberty and freedom for
the human race
1T is not enough for individuals to de
clare the principles which govern the
relationships between nations.
1'That has been done we'll bv LlOvd
George, by Clemenceau, by President Viii
son, and by other statesmen; but the way
TO affect German psychology, the German
heart, the German Will, German opin-
ion. in my judgmcpt is that these ma
tons coherc now and not wait until
after the war, but while We wage war
with every energy of which we are ca
pablc. at the same time that we should
unite and as nations declare the rules
OF international law, and then declare
at the same time as international ont
laws those nations who refuse TO ac-
cept doctrines of deccnCy and righteous
ness and justice which ought To prevail
between the nations OF the earth
INDUSTRY CAPTAINS IN PLOT.
And | would 60 further. Some time
since placed in the Congressional Record
in the hope that some man might inad-
vertently see it and read it and in
wardly digest it. statement attributed
10 August TheisSen, who occupies some
such relationship in Germany as Charles
Schwab, the head of Bethlehem Steel
may be said to occupy in Amer
lea, one of the greatest captains Of industry
IN the iron and steel and coal trade
THAT statement of August Theissen
was that IN 1912 Won Bethmann Hollwcg.
at the instance of the most infamous man
in all history, William ii, called to-
gether eighty OF the captains Of indus
try IN Germany and took them up into
q high mountain and showed them the
kingdoms of the earth and promised
them AL that they might covet All d.