Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11
PEOPLE OF U.S..
AT WAR ON HUNS,
LANSING ASSERTS
Secretary of State Draws Pitt
less Indictment on Ger
many and Treachery

Washington. June 1.-THE las
shreds of the one-time dominant
theory of the Administration here III
Washington that the United States 1:
not at war with the German people
have at last been swept away.
II is admitted now that much has
gone on in Germany which the world
ought to have perceived. but did not
There no longer is any doubt that
the Prussian aim of world dominion
has "dazzled. with its anticipated
hoasted racial superiority, the Ger
man millions who were TO be the In
| struments of achievement"
1t lis recognized now that the war
must go on. not alone until the AR
rogant and brutal Prussians are
humbled.' not alone until the Kaiser
and his military chieftains despair of
their ambitions. but until the Ger
man people realize that their inso-
lent lords are not touched by divine
fire and do not have at their COM
mand the powers of heaven"
II would seem that at last the Ad
ministration has recognized that the
German people are fighting because
they believe implicitly in. the teach
ings of the Prussians that the Ger
to be rulers of the universe. These
doctrines and hopes are dominant
over the German people and will not
die until the leaders they blindly but
faithfully follow have been crushed
deep in irretrievable defeat.
To Secretary of State Lansing was
delegated the authority to speak
yesterday for the President and the
Administration in a manner so frank
and convincing that there should be
no further illusions about the war.
1t was, indeed. notable address the
Secretary of State delivered at Union
College. Schenectady. and the pro-
nouncement was followed here in
from the White House itself.
Germany PltilessIy Indicted
Mr.. Lansing drew a pitiless indict-
rnent of Germany, laying bare some
new secrets of the despicable in
lTrigue which centered in the German
embassy in Washington during all
the days which preceded our entry
into the war. He admitted that for
time the United States was duped
by the military clique in Berlin,
because dishonesty of this sort
seemed ito us inconceivable in these
days of internal honor and Christian
civilization.' But the United States
will never be caught again. the head
OF the State Department added, in
such net of duplicity as was
spread over the world by the Ber-
I lin government.
we have learned our lesson and
1t has cost us dear" he added. I'VE
will never have to learn it again"
The bitterness with which Secre-
tary Lansing denounced German
'kuitur. the finality with which he
declared that relations with such
! governments as have controlled Ger
many in the last $50 years would be
/ impossible in the future, created a
| lasting impression here, not only
among Government officials. but
| upon the Allied diplomats as well.
The latter saw in the Lansing ad-
| dress the final and irrevocabIe dedi-
cation of America to a war which
shall not end until the German war
lords have been destroyed and the
whole spirit of Prussianism driven
from the world.
The speech also represented the
beginning of a definite program of
arousing the American people to a
full realization of what Prussianism
has meant to the world IN the past
and what it threatens to-day. Com
ing as it does, at a time when there
has appeared to be a softenins of
the knockout policy of Great
Britain, the Secretary of States ad-
dress should rally the Allies anew
to the idea that there can be no
negotiated peace with a Germany
which. as it exists to-day. is an out
cast among the nations and can new
er be trusted again.