The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-11-06

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organization upon this soil could
1see how We mis- kenly vel doomed
these people into America for the
purpose of exploiting our great re
sources. 1T could see now how they
husbanded those resourc for their
own use and thei1. own power, how
they kept secret from America pro-
cesses and patents which might
some day be used against them, and
how they built up industry after in
dustry, totaling possibly $4,000, Oo0,-
600 i'm money value and billions more
in potential political value. From
what we know Of Germany now, we
know that she did that because she
! wanted to have ON American soil her
allies in case Of trouble. She built
her wharves on ST. Andrews Bay,
she planted her spies in Pittsburgh
industries belonging !, to Germans;
she planted them in New York, in
Chicago, and the West, and fought
the war (when we were neutral!) on
American soil through German
agents in those great industries.
Knowing that, let me tell you what
we are. going to do. -:
'''We are going to put upon the
auction block every one of these
great German-owned Industries in
America and sell them to American
citizens, and we are going to do it
now. We are doing it. We have sold
dozens of them already. We purpose
to- say to Germany, now while the
war is on, that her plan has dis
mally failed. We propose to say to
Germany now. that no matter how
many worlds she might conquer, no
matter what price she pays, no mat
ter what loss she sufferers, no mat
ter what armies she destroys, there
is one place on Gods green earth
that will never again be soiled by
the marching legions Of her army,
and that place is in the United
States of America.
I'VE are going to enter q was a
lawyer before took this job) we
are going to enter a decree of abso-
lutte divorce between German capital
and American industry. And I will
tell you something else we are going
to do, Gf we can persuade these
gentlemen across the street, under
the dome of the Capitol, to let US
90 tive are asking them now to
give us the power.) If Congress will
give us the power we ask, we will
now, while the war is on, pay out of
this German property in our hands
all claims of Americans against Ger
many:
IF l have my way about it, we
will pay them all off now, so that
when the war is. over and they ask
me to file an account l can saw: 4
took every dollar of German proper
ty IN America and I paid out eyerv
dollar to American citizens for lust
claims and Germany can have the
balance
Il believe in the tenets of NV
. faith, l always have and 1 always
SHALL Every instinct Of my nature
planted there by heredity, by edu-
+ cation, by training at my mother
; knee, by religious training and wor-
! ship of God, revolts at the thought
of war. Yet 1 have been for the war
from the beginning, heart and soul
. [ am for it because I know that nv
sainted mother, who taught me to
r hate the war, if she were her, would
have me give up my life if need be-
certainly would have me, if neces.
sary, desert the creed of my fathers
in order to help carry my country
though this war, because when it is
over the world will be blessed with
a thousand years peace promised tc
a Christian world.
. $50 we fight for America, to bring