The Nevada County picayune., 1918-05-30

said it-"This will cost Germany the war" He shook his head. I did not argue with him.
 You cannot tell what man is a spy today. You cannot tell the sort of clothes he will wear, what may be his rank or station in life, what may be his real ambition, hts real aim in life. He may speak German alone, or broken English, or many tongues flu ently. Buff any assurance be needed after the long list of incen- diary fires, of incendiary explosions, of losses of ships, of buildings, of manufacturing plants through the treachery of "German-Americans" liy- Ing this side the water-yOu may be sure of one thing: That same secret diplomacy, that same treachery. that same faithlessness, which broke open Russia for Germany and took Russia off the firing line for us: that same treachery which broke down the first Italian army at the IsOnZO; that same German treacherous diplomacy which was undertaken at Washington; that same treachery of the German guest at theS American table which has marked that faithless nation all these yearS-that same unVarying principle, in the form of a practical German propaganda for the German cause, exists all through the United States today. The country is honeycombed with German spies. It is time wasted to have too much sympathy with them or those who back them and inspire them.
 Washington sent 200 alien enemies out of the city limits not long ago. In Chicago court recently there were more than 100 alien enemies on trial at one time. These are men whom we may call bolsheviki in America. They are doing all they can to undermine this government. They are doing all they can here, there, and everywhere, in countless ways. in countless places, to kill the American enthusiasm for this war and the American confidence in our ability to win this war.
 Those Worse Than Traitors.
 This propaganda is an enormous thing and tremendously dangerous thing. Any man who countenances it, any man who apologies for these trai- tors, Is himself worse than a traitor tO his country today. He sides with the murderers of innocent women and children. He indOrses the German sub- s,,{,,1 Lo,, N4 eombatart towns. the use of liquid fire in war. and gas in war-all those abominable contrivances of cowardice with which Germany has attempted to impose her will upon the civilized DOT ton of the world.
 We Americans don't know how many American troops there are on French soil today - but Germany knows; be sure of that. There Is no great move made here, nor any small move of military preparation, which Germany does not know as well as we do, or better. There has never been in the history of the world so com plete campaign of perfidy and treachery and underhanded faithless- ness as Germany has shown to the civilized world in this war. Why be naticnt with it? Why not root it out? Why not call spade a spade, q spy spy? And why not give to the spies the things that we owe to spies?
 have heard the mayor of a very big city-and a mayor for more than one term, too-sit laughing at table and say, just before one of his cam jean vote? To - with it! 1 want the German vote"
 Well, he got the German vote. He was elected. He could he elected again by the German vote. But fancy that by and by it is going to be the ques- ton of good many of our Knownoth- lngs. What is the American vote? Does that really need to include the spy vote?
 Depredations of Spies.
 America is being stabbed In the back all the time by traitors and by spies. II is not only the sort of rough neck spy who blows up n intuition plant or wreeks a railroad train. It is the shrewder and more Machiavellian spy who attempts to wreak yet greater ruin on us by undermining our own national spirit, by installing feeling of diStrust of the government, of the administration, of our army, of our country. of our aims and purposes in this war.
 Our aims and purposes in this war are ratified by practically the entire world outside of the central powers of Europe If we had no other reason in the world to go to war except the sinking of the Lusitania. that reason alone were reason enough.
 The horrors of the German practices