The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-10

erful lord who pulled the wires that set them
moving in the big game of American conquest
which he and the war lords were planning. The
organizations which the former soldiers of the
kaiser formed in this country became circles of
German influence that radiated German kultur
in proportion to their standing in the community
and the emphasis they put on the preservation OF
the native tongue, the maintenance Of German
customs, and the dissemination of Pan-German
views. Few of the men who claimed membership
in these organizations knew they were merely
clay in the hands of master who was moulding
them in his own way and for his own purpose.
And the purpose Of the Pan-Ger1nans was to
teutonize and conquer the United States.
Metzdorff is obsessed of this theory. He is
suffering from an exaggerated ego, inculcated in
the German schools he attended, developed by his
dreaming over Teutonic conquest, and so domi-
mating and all-absorbing that his mind is incapa-
BILE of accepting anything else but the divine mis-
sion of Germany to lord it over the world. His
menace to Richmond lies in his culture and edu-
cation, which, combined with his aggresiveness
and blind devotion to the Kaiser, make him a
leader of group which ostensibly is loyal but in
reality wants Germany to win.
If Metzdorff is typical example of the Pan
German movement it will be well for the loyal
American citizens and for deluded citizens of
German descent who are luke warm in loyalty to
examine the designs of the Pan-Germans against
the United States.
Pan-Germanisrn is not visionary paper the
DRY or an effervescent ideal, but a positive ex-
preston of German design and will It's purpose
is to teutonize the world, including the United
States Let us adduce number of citations quot
ed in Conquest and Kultur,' published by the
Committee of Public Information, to make this
point clear.
In the Statutes of the Pan-Germanic League,
adopted May 10, 1908, we find this significant
statement
'To watch over and support all German ma
tional movements in all countries where Ger
mans have to sustain struggle in support of
with the object of embracing and
uniting all Germans on the globe"
Speaking on German invasion of the Unit
ed States, Freherr Won Edelsheim, in Opera
tons upon the Sea-" says:
1T should be so managed that line of land
operations would be in close juncture with the
fleet, through which we would be in position to
seize in short time many of these important and
rich cities, to interrupt their means Of supply
disorganize all governmental affairs, assume con-
troll of all useful buildings, confiscate all war and
transport supplies, and lastly, to impose heavy in
IDENTITIES"
-Schleiden in the "Pan-Gernan Central
Organ January, 1908, declared
1T is therefore the duty of everyone who
loves languages to see that the future language
spoken in America shall be German-Let them
show that they mean to maintain Deutschtum,
and then emigration may be directed to America
with impunity."
Klaus Wagner, "Krieg," asserts:
'Not only North America but the whole of
America must become bulwark of Ge1manic
kultur perhaps the strongest fortress of the Ger
manic races
If Metzdorff is too ignorant to understand
the full scope of Pan-German design in all it's in
sidious ramifications as they pertain to a con-
quest Of the United States, he must pay the pen
atty for his ignorance. The United States is an
place for men who are not in full SYM
pathy with our government and it's aims
Germany Has Three Classes
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. ROM the revolutionary point OF view the Germans
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