The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-08-16
|. ". W. INSPIRED KAISER'S
AGENTS IN SABOTAGE

nave WOrHoi along the same lines
usinH tho same methods, to thn end
OF crippling America in tn" war to
the advantage of Germany
\ digest of Mr.. Harrc's arrangement
OF the |. ". W. follows:
"In the Wholesale murder OF limo
cents, in tn" burning Of fair cities
and despoilation OF fertile lands. i'll
tn" breaking o! solemn covenants and
tn" abrO2atiOu of human rights and
justice, and in the invention of sci
cntifiC devices for slaughter and hu-
man suffering. the imperial German
government in it's military campaigns
has accomplished what is unparal-
leled in the eannalS Of mankind. Yet
In its warfare against the United
States within the confines Of our own
shores, its agents, in efforts to OBJ
struct our conduct of the war, have
had only to adopt the essentials of a
program already prepared. Seeking
to do their utmost to negative the
Governments prosecution of the war
and to render fruitless the bravery
and sacrifice of our boys in the
trenches, the agents of the kaiser sim
ply adopted the methods OF the l. W.
W In the manuals of the W w.
Gcrmany's agents found a cOmprehen.
sive CateChism for sabotage. crime,
destruction and violence. \ compari.
son of the activities of German spies
and those of the l. w. W. reveals
startlingly identical methods and acts.
1T was In line with instructions
from Berlin that Won Papen and Boy.
Ed from the very beginning estab-
lished connections with anarchists
and the revolutionary elements of la
Dor While the publicity branch of
the German propaganda-institu
by Or. Bernhard Dernburg and d-
rected secretly by DR.. William Bay
ard Hale-endeavored by covert and
cunning methods. and through sub
sidized but apparently American or
ganizGtiOns. to dclude American sem
timent into demanding an embargo
on the shipment or arms and war
supplies to the allies. the secret sery-
ice branch of German activity under
Won papen at the same time under
took to achieve the same result by
the methods of the l. w W. MUM
lions plants were destroyed. ships
blown up and numberless lives lost.
Germany, employing anarchistic NAL
contents. waged war against US within
the confines of our own shores.
And that continues to this day.
Simultaneous with furnishing paCifist
propaganda through mounting radi-
calls, academic pacitists md the So.
cialist party. German agents. accord
ing to federal authorities. since the
United States entered the war have
carried on "A systematic campaign of
sabotage for the destruction of war
supplies and the hampering of war
work OF the nation. Among the l.
W. W, whose ultimate objects are
the same as those OF the Bolsheviki
and among other anarchistic elements.
German agents, government officials
declare. have found convenient in
struments for the continuance OF their
fell work in the United States.
AT the very time that Lenine and
Trotzky, financed by German funds,
were plotting to overthrow the keren-
sky government in Russia, the Rus
sian Bolsheviki were in correspon-
dence with the l. w. w. leaders here ="
continues MIR. Hare According to
letters seized by the government and
read at the l. W. w trial in Chicago
on May g. the Bolsheviki in Russia
and the l. w w here were plotting
together In seditious conspiracy TO
take control of the industry OF both
nations At the very time that they