New-York tribune., 1918-07-11
Germany Started
War i'm Quest OF
Pillage, Says 7. r,
Denounces Upholders Of
Prussianized Country of
the Hohenzollerns

KANSAS CITY, July 10-Theodore
Roosevelt, writing under the title "Re
peal the Charter of the German-Amer-
ican Alliance" in an article to be pub
lished by "The Kansas City Star" to-
morrow, will say:
"The United States Senate has struck
an effective blow against the Hun
within our gates by unanimously vot-
ing repeal of the charter of the Ger
man American Alliance. 1t is earnestly
to be hoped that the House will at
once follow suit with the like unan-
unity. The alliance has been thorough
ly mischievious in its activities. 1t has
acted in the interest Of Germany and
against the interest or America. 1t has
tried to perpetuate Germanism as a
separate nationality with separate
/ language in the United States; 1T has
attacked our Allies; it has encouraged
disloyalty; it was decorated by the
Kaiser for it's services to Germany; 1t
has cndeavored to prostitute our poll
tics to Ge>Slan needs.
81 have personally had the honor of
being specially singled out by 1t for at
tack. 1t received money from the
Brewers Association for the campaign
against prohibition.
''At this time when the campaign of
German frightfulness is in full blast,
when the Prussianized Germany Of the
Hohenzollerns is steadily adding to its
list of literally unforgivable offences
against civilization, there is no room
great or small, which either defends
Germany or is lukewarm in the great
crusade against her in which America
will henccforth play a leading part.
Germany has recently scored an
other victory for frightfu.ness by sink
ing a Canadian hospital ship without
warning and drowning two hundred
persons, including women nurses. The
ship was q mercy vessel, not q WAY
ship, and was so distinctly marked that
1T was impossible to mistake it. The
attack upon it was sheer murder. Yet
the German people tolerate, applaud
and approve the action of the German
government in this continuous and
metho odcally organized campaign OF
murder, rape and pillage
"The most complete exposure of Ger
manys infamous purpose in forcing his
dreadful war upon the world is con-
tanned in the pamphlet written by the
leading German steel magnate, Herr
August Thyssen. Herr Thyssen has no
conception of the monstrous turpitude
of the plan which he supported. His
only complaint is that he and the other
German iinanciers were foo'ed by the
German Kaiser and the German gov
ernment, who promised them victory
and failed to furnish it. He proves
that German capitalism was just as re-
sponsible for Che war as German mill
tarism. (Which Incidentally shows the
peculiar infamy of the Russian Bolshe-
visits and American socialists and their
allies in playing Germanv's game.)
"He shows that Germany's ruthless
brutality was equailcd by her sor-
did greed. He showed that the Hohen-
zollern government through the En-.
peror and the Chancellor deliberately
planned the war over a year and
half before it broke out and at that
time and on several occasions gath
cred the leading business men of Ger
many, informed them of the plans,
and got their support by holding out
the war as one of sheer rlunder. The
other nations were to be attacked
simp'y in order to rob them naked.
Herr Thysen himself was promised
10000 acres in Australia The EN-
peror particularly dwelt on the con-
quest OF India, saying that the Eng
lish allowed the vast Indian revenue
to be used for and by the Indians
themselves, but that Germany, after
her conquest would turn the whole
golden stream Into the Fatherland.
"ln point OF internationa morality
the Germany of the Hohenzollerns has
become the wild beast of the nations.
Whoever directly or Indirectly works
for her or against our Allies or who is
merely lukewarm in the war is an
enemy Of this country and an enemy
Of all mankind"
Downright 1918 Ire Kansnn Ci.p starA