The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
UNCLE SAM TO
SELL PROPERTY
OF KAISER FIRST
Main Purpose t. Break Up Out
posts of 'sKultur" in U. s.
German Empire Has Financial
Chain Across America.
Will NEVER Be RESTORED
Don't Intend To Disturb Prop
erty of Minor Individuals.
Palmer Reveals Magnitude OF
TeutOnic Industries in Z. 5.

IeuIOnlc lHuuStTlcS III - Ne
washington. March S.-Property in
the United States owned by the kaiser.
former Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg, the German ''junkers gen
orally and the German government It
self will be the first to go under tne
hammer under the plans of A. Mitch
ell Palmer, alien property CUSTODIAN,
to sell German owned property here to
the highest bidders. Mr.. Palmers tes-
timony to the senate appropriation
committee, in which he proposed nee
essary legislation, which was made
public today, makes plain that prop
critics of merely minor individuals
probably will not be sold, but that the
direct purpose of the move is to breaK
up the outpost of kultur in America
THE time has come" Mr. Palmer
told the senators, when the owner
ship of some of these great German
properties should be permanently sep
arated from German capital and that
the enemy might as well know that
the connection which he has been able
and commerce is broken, not simply
during the war but broken never to be
restored.
Lose Ownership Forever.
1.-The German empire, thru its finan-
cial operations, has put an industrial
across the country and thru our in
sular possessions. We have become
convinced that it would be wise and
highly desirable at this time if tho
ownership of some of those properties
could be permanently taken away
If the legislation be adopted, Mr.
Palmer stated it was his intention to
sell principally properties in this
country in which the German govern.
ment and the junker capitalistic class
are interested and not disturb that OF
minor individuals.
The neutrality-suspicious. and North
German-Lloyd wharves and docks al
: Hoboken, N. J., Mr.. Palmer told sen.
ators are "a part of the German en-
pire's commercial grasp upon this
continent
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma. said
he understood part of their stock is
owl ed by the kaiser, represented by
Herr Ballin.
Plan After War Trade Campaign.
There is no question about the in
innate relationship between the Ger
man government and the Hamburg
American line" Mr.. Palmer told the
committee. Neither is there any
doubt about relations between the
| German government and many other
great industrial enterprises in this
country which have come within the
control of the alien property custo-
diam
! Plan3 OF the German shipping lines
to hold their dock properties for ex-
tension of German commerce after
the war were disclosed by Mr.. Pal.
mer, who added:
That is a fair indication of the
! that not a day shall elapse when the
war is over before they again pui
thei- grip upon the commerce and
industry of America. You cannot
strike a heavier blow at the enemy
| today than to make him understand
the Industry and commerce of the
American continent
Not After s.SmaII Fry''
These large enterprises are close
! ly affiliated with the German govern
men Where {. German subject has
an investment over here of private.
! individual character we ought not to
| financed by the Deutsches bank, sup
ported by the 'Junker' class, are the
| kind we ought to Americanize
| In one city. Mr.. Palmer did MOI
name, he said seven or eight great
mills were entirely German owned
! 'It is a part of the German trust in
this country" he said. Il am max
! ing chocolate in Connecticut, rails ir
Pennsylvania, woolens and worsteds
in New Jersey, chemicals in New York
lumber in Florida. raising sugar ir
Porto Rico and Hawaii, tobacco il
many states in the south, making beel
in Chicago, lead pencils in New Jer-
sey and conducting all these concerns
many of which are making enormou:
profits by reason of the very condi
ton for which the enemy is response
ble-war conditions. If 7 must sim
pie sit here, with the possibility of re
turning both principals and profits t.
! the German owners at the end of the
! war. I am doing a tremendous favor
to the German empire, our enemy.
Z. S. Interests in Germany Small.
1.-The desire is that the title as wei
as possession shall be permanent!
taken away from the German owners.
American interests in Germany arr
/ negligible compared to German inter
ests here. Mr.. Palmer said.
''She is now doing with US exactl!
what we are doing with her." h
, added.
1t is his intention to use the pro
ceeds of enemy property to buy gov
ernment bonds.