Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
The KGiSer'S American Holdings.

The legislation authorizing the sale of all enemy
property in this country will both as body
blow against the German scheme to dominate Amer-
industry and commerce and another striking
proof to the Huns that the United States is fighting
in deadly earnest. By enemy property is meant prop
ry which is owned in this country by subjects of the
Kaiser who residing in Germany who if they
are in the United States are hostile aliens. Just
what shall be done with the proceeds Of these sales
is yet undetermined, but public sentiment warmly
concurs with Senator Martins belief that Germany
should not receive penny until she compensates
Americans for the millions of dollars worth of their
property which she has illegally destroyed"
One of the subtlest and far reaching
methods of Prussianism to promote it's plans for
world dominion has been to acquire extensive prop
erty interests in foreign countries, simple in
vestments with no Interior aims but as instruments
and supports of Germany's Imperialistic ambition
In this in all else involving questions of good will
square dealing and national honor, Germany stands
out a monument of trickery and malice. What
she touched she tainted with Kaiserism. What
ever she did in world peace she did with a crafty
eye to the war she all the while plotting. Not
to take her part in foreign trade fairly
squarely with other nations she continually in
trguing with the greed that is characteristic of the
Huns, TO underreach and undermine the interests
Of others. The syndicates and individuals through
which she carried forward these Vaccinations were
nominally concerned with purely commercial or in
dustrial enterprise but in fact they we're tools of
the German government They engineered their
schemes in the United States with especial cunning
and became as much part of German designs
against our nation the army of spies with
which the Kaiser invested American affairs long be-
fore the outbreak of the war. 1t appears indeed
that German control-in effect, Imperial German
control-was thus established over a chain of i'm
portant industries reaching the country's entire
breadth; and it is believed that in a number of in
stances the Kaiser himself owns, in the name of
other persons, large part of the property involved
Ii is to break vi this system of Prussianism
and end forever the grip which German aliens the
hasers tools, sought TO get the United States
that the Senate has passed the BILL which the House
is certain to approve, authorizing the Government
TO sell all enemy property within our borders If
Hohenzollern Germany has a lingering doubt that
Prussianism is overthrow, this procedure should
be finally and fully convincing. For thus we pro-
claim and demonstrate that everything related to
Hohenzollen Germany is \abhorrent to the Ameri-
can Government and the American people, that
henceforth there shall be tolerance in the United
States or any devices agents of that criminal re-
g1me. When the Junkers see their American hold
whereby they hoped to resume their plans in this
country after the turned into ammunition
against their own armies, they will realize indeed
that the United States is in the war and that they
themselves. are out of America to stay