New Britain herald., 1919-11-15

 the friend of the Kaiser, the man Worsipped by every German as the lover of the Fatherland, this man who for tue last twenty years travelled throughout the world as a German, the man whose circle of friends con- sisted exclusively Of German SNmpa- thizerS, this man who conl11puted freely for German propaganda m the United States. this exponent Ol Iel- man "KUltur' and the chosen apostle of German music in America, should have secreted his swiss nationality till 1918. and then sprung Swiss passport on the already baffled and much fooled Department of Justice, known by some of us at that time as the Palace of Slumber?'
 Ii happened:
 Karl Muck, the exponent of Kaiser kulturism" and the German propa- gandist sprung a Swiss passport on the United States Department of Jus tice when he applied for his passport to leave the United States. He would have gotten away, like Bernstorff, von Papen, Prof. Applemann and others, had I not put him under arrest in the midst of a rehearsal and delivered him as a guest to the police lieutcn ant a. Station 16 here in Boston.
 DiSgracefuI Hue and Cry.
 The disgraceful scenes that followed the arrest of this man who had flouted American WomanhOOd and was at tempting to create Mata Harris and similar Vermin, are really beyond my power to justly describe Men con- necteu with the management of the Boston Symphony orchestra, a private of noio air ,' women, and still other groups of men, raised great hue and cry, until they were firmly taught a lesson in American patriotism. They did shut up for the time but it would not sur- prise me a bit if before these chap ters are printed they did not rehabili- tate these perverted apostles of Ger manism and commence their propa- ganda once more.
 Danger Not Over Yet.
 When I look back on those black days and ponder by what a narrow margin this country of ours escaped q gigantic turmoil; when I think how near the kaiser's plot came to ac- complaining the destruction of the United States war-making abilities, I Shudder at the past and fear for the future, and ask myself whether the danger is oyer even now, when American Bolshevism is lifting it's ugly head in a million places.
 In the. early days of America's en- trance into the world conflict we had no laws whereby we could round up these yermin who infested every walk of American society. Finally the Els pionage Act was passed by not too intelligent congress. At last we had the tools, but VIC had not the men. i Most of the men in the service were either inefficient as spy hunters, or if they were efficient, they were not jealous Americans.
 No nation in war time haggles 1 about sufficient evidence against sus- pectel enemy subjects to convince a jury, but again and again some of our executive chiefs and our United States attorneys. from Attorney Gen. I. eral Gregory down, wanted such evi- i dence before taking action against ! agitators and traitors, native and alien, who were working day and night to create destruction lover here, jeopardzing the lives of our sons and | brothers lover there" 1 My Lips Had to Be Sealed. Such were the handicaps under which a few of us had to work day and night. What about Karl Muck .? : Why don't you put him away? He is one of the most trusted agents of ! the Kaiser in America, why don't you < put him away?" patriotic citizens would ask me; and these men and women knew what they were talkine about.
 How could I explain; my lips had to be sealed,-the nation was at war
 I am not given to praying during ] working hours, but l confess tha more than once I put my blind trus in God and begged Providence to give us the evidence that would compe