The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-01-29
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to the government and many of it's of ficials. The United States, before August 1914, was honcycombed with German conspiracy.
 What German commercialism did .oward fomenting disorder in Mexico is too familiar history to be dwelr up- ,n. Won Eckhardt was, to the southern .nablic. what vor Benstorff vas to rc United States. German bank con zfonnar,s, and merchants in Mex
 O .a .rrcj and financed Mexican dis
 I.,s .n .ac hope hat the United ,g.,- migh. b. cmbrotlcd in war with .s ao.ghbor, and thereby be prcycnt- d from interfering in the great truggle going on across the Atlantic. ic~man fiusnciers and commercial in- ttutors undertook to turn Brazil ov- ,r Co Berlin but were detected none ,1 so-N, and defeated in their pu'-
 ose. German banks and business in
 rests undertook to corrupt Cuba, ana 'sisd. German banks and business in- erests promoted pro-German propa- yanda in Chile Peru and Bolivia, and partially failed. German financial and business interests concentrated upon Argentina and succeeded in defeating he popular will of that republic. Throughout the entire South Ameri- an continent a persistent German ropaganda has been carried on, prac- ically without intcrmisSion, from a period antedating the war and the i'm ,ortant point to be considered is th:t it is being carried on today.
 The information which comes to his newspaper from Cristobal, Para- na Canal Zone, the United States base Or obtaining information concerning German propaganda on the southern ointment. is such as to arrest atten-
 ion. partly because of the intrinsic ,alue of the information itself, but principally because it serves to sub tantiate an impression which has 5een gaining strength throughout the world during the last few weeks ,,r,elv. that although German auto ,racy is apparently destroyed, al
 rough kaiserism seems to be no more, though imperial militarism Is laid ,w, the essential qualities of German. m remain. Germany is evidently not .orrv for what she has done; she ap' pears to be proud of her achievement n making so much trouble for the -or'd; she does not believe herself de- reated; her claims to consideration ,rc as insolcnt as ever; she is still 7roDagating Deutschtum in the United States; and in all parts of South Am arica German banking, manufactur- :ng and merchautile interests are in -renching themselves anew, from the Rio Grande to Patagonia.
 What has the American Committee ,n Public Information gathered through it's agency at Cristobal? That Inc two big German banks of South America. the German Transatlantic md tho German South American, have ,ogether, at the present time, resour- ,es of more than $40 100000; that most of these resources are of a sol d sort, consisting of securities of Gen. .ral and South American governments md even, it is said, some of the Lib arty Loan issues, and that "there IS reason to believe that members of the German royal family are personally heavily intereeted in theee two big banking institutions" And there is this. in addition:
 "The tone of the German propagan- dist newspapers (throughout South Americal since the signing of the armistice has changed only in one re-