The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-10-11
HOW THE GERMANS BEAT
US AT HOME

The awful conditions in Russia
bring out the fact that the present
rulers, the Bolshevici, take the view
that everybody who does not agree
with them must be destroyed. Men
and women holding views differing
from their own, even tho they remain
at home and say nothing, are taken
out and put to death, not in isolated
cases, but by scores and hundreds,
while those who are arrested and
tried and condemned, after q brief
hearing without any chance to be
heard in their own defense or oppor-
tunity to call witnesses are said to be
numbered by the thousands.
The German method is to put
forth q propaganda, get people
brought up to act for them If they
can and II not, to force them to, Or
failing in that, to enslAve them and
work them under armed guards until
they die from hunger and exposue
Il the people live in Country that
Germany is not at war with, they
start propaganda to control legisla-
ton to secure the desired results.
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and labor troubles, dynamite bridges
and buildings and conduct reign
OF terror.
The rankest example OF this kind
of work was pulled of by Won Rim
telen who came to America and OPP
Grated from New York to stop the
shipment Of munitions to the allies.
Germany could win II that could only
be done, and Won Rintelen started in
with German money to control
enough votes In congress to place an
embargo on shipment of munition.
Nils paid agents in America organized
what was known as Labor's National
Peace Council and lecturers were
found among our pacifists to go out
in all the states and make addresses
and organize. A nationl convention
was held at Washington, and the
head office paid the expenses of the
delegates from all over the country.
Speeches were made to convince the
delegates that the shipment of NUM-
tions was wrong and contrary to in
ternational law, and that this was a
rich mans war and we need only
stop the flow Of munitions to Europe
to right ali wrongs.
Speeches and resolutions went
along beautifully as mapped out by
Won Rintelen who remained in the
back ground and furnished the
money. There were two classes of
delegates among the pacifists, the
farmers and working men and the
farmers became suspicious of the
movement and took but little part
in the proceedings the last day or
two. Samuel Gompers, the recog-
niZed leader of organized labor in
America warned other labor leaders
to keep out of that thing, and re-
minded them that it was not what it
pretended to be or they would not
be spending money like water. That
idea gained ground until the labor
element was convinced that they had
been hoodwinked, and by the time
the convention was over they knew
that 1t was German money that had
brought them there and paid their
expenses while they worked in Ger
many's interest.
Failing to get what he wanted in
congress, Won Rintelen started in ON
a plan to buy all the munitions made
in America and store them till Ger
many completed the work Of crush
ing the allies. Money was to be no
object. If there was enough money
In Germany and the German world
to buy the roduct and store it, even
If 1t had to be stored out in open
fields, they would buy it, and after
the allies were whipped, Germany
would overpower> America and col
lect from her not only the cost of the
munitions, but the whole cost of the
war.
On this plan he worked until fin
ally 0yertaken and convicted by our
government and he and some of his
associates are now serving in prison.