New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Syracuse Professor, Prepar-
ing Official Expose of
Plots, Says Conspiracies
Began in 1902

SYRACUSE, March 17=From the
records of the series of bomb Mot
trials, pieced with the intercepted cor
respondence of Won Eckhardt in Mexico
and Luxburg in Argentina. and the evi-
dence of the activities Of Won Rerr-
storf, Won Rintelen, Heinrich Albert
and their assistant spy masters here,
Sne United States government has
nAally come into possession Of prac-
tica4y complete and authenticated his
tory Of the Kaiser's colossal scheme to
0H'ng the TWO Americas. as well as Eu-
rope and the Far East, under the domi-
nation Of the Hohenzollern dynasty.
The tale begins in 1880, the year that
Wilhelm II dropped Bismarck as the
pilot of the German Empire and EN-
9arked upon the policy Of tincturing
the whole world with Prussian Kultur.
1t shows that the Vaccinations of
'Weltpolitik" began to envelop the
United States in 1902, when the Kaiser's
brother, Henry of Prussia, came over
and also that from that date to this
the country has not been free for a
moment from the propaganda which
was responsible for the wave of paci
t'sm that kept the nation unprepared to
tight, even year after it finally rec
ognlzed state Of war.
Pro- German Centres
DR.. Earl B. Sperry. professor Of
history at the University of Syracuse.
who is preparing to write a pamphlet
for the Federal Committee on Public
information, has had access to all the
data in the archives at Washington
and he says there is absolute proof that
the National German American ALI
aace IS not the only agenc5 that has
peen at work recently to produce in
America the conditions that made Rus
sia a spectacle OF whining helpless
ness. There are dozen other German
bunds in the United States which, he
declares, are as bad or worse.
Among them are the Alldeutsche Yer
baad. the Verein fur das Deutschtum
in Ausland, the GAstav Adolph Verein
and the Deutscher Wehrverein.
The object Of these organizations"
said Dr.. Sperry, twas to break down
patriotism in the United States. and
IN case Of war to hamper this country
in all its preparations"
Professor Sperry has traced out from
the evidence placed at his disposal the
different movements. They began when.
after disDosing of Bismarck, the Kaiser
began his piIgrimages, first to Austria,
which was an easy victim, then to
Greece, where his sister, the wife of the
now exiled Constantine, kept German
interests paramount. and then to Tur-
key, where, as the protector Of Chris
tendon, he greeted as brothe- the Sui
tan and A[ahomeoan chief, Abdul Ha-
mid, while the latter's hands were still
wet with blood shed in the great Kurd-
isF massacres in Armenia. This phase
ended with the great imperiol circus
IN Jerusa alem, in 1898, when the megaIo-
maniac ruler of the German Empire
entered the Holy CITY tricked out as ?
knight Commander of the Crusaders.
to the great amusement of the onlook-
ing Moslems
Economic and Ethical Phase
The next phase covers what Profess
sor Sperry terms the separatist move
ment-the scheme to form economic
and ethical "blocs" in various coun-
tries. This embraced the German
american movement in the United
states and other countries. and is being
illustrated to-day in Belgium, where
the Germans are engineering a division
between the Flemish and Waloon ele-
menrs of the population Its purpose
IS 20 cause dissensions which will work
IN Germanys S favor in all Caucasian
countries, produce revolts in India
and separate Great Britain from her
colonies
Such work has been going on since
1890 said Professor Sperry. at has
been fostered by such organizations as
the National Decentralization Alli-
ance. which fought unsuccegsfully to
get the United States to declare an en-
barge on munitions. to compel the
DEMOCRATIC National Convention not to
nominate Wilson. to compel the Re
publican convention not TO nominate
Roosevelt or Root, and to prevent the
entrance % America into the war.
Such an organization is a menace
TO the government. 1t has become so
notoriously disloyal that there is
bill before Congress to-day to revoke
It's charter.
shortly after the European war be
gan there sprang up in America all
sorts Of societies for special work
which the German government believed
would further its cause. There was
the Interesting National Labor Peace
Council, for instance.
"A word about this peace council
On this Franz Won Rintelen spent S39l,-
coo. It was supposed to be an organi-
zation devoted to the brothe erhood OF
man. Testimony Of It's officers proves
that It's real purpose was to fomcnt
strikes throughout the country
Conference of Five
"Thcn there was the American EN-
barge conference. It was supposed by
many that this was u countrywide or
ganizaUion. AS a matter Of fact. it CON
sisted Of but five persons and was sup
ported by a few wealthy Germans in
this country It spent S57 900 from
June, 1915, to June, 1916, $4,000 Of
which ii received throu0h New York
bank from Gerrnauy, and ,Ar remainder
Of which vas subscribed BY Interested
Germans in Chicago, Detroit and Md
Wap1ee. It snowered Washington with
600 600 telerrams 1t spent for this