Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1917 — REVEALS PLANS OF KAISER [ARTICLE]

REVEALS PLANS OF KAISER

Former Ambassador Gerard Says Germany as Victor Would Invade American Republic. Chicago, May 4.—James W. Gerard of New York, ambassador at Berlin during the historic crises that led to war with Germany, speaking before the Chicago Bar association said that Germany, officially, was planning to invade the United States immediately upon a successful conclusion of its war with the allied countries] that ity intended to invade us with all its remaining resources and the; combined German, British, Russian and French navies, which it hoped to possess. “Of this I am convinced,” he said. “Germany solemnly proposed to sack the United ‘States, rob it of the full cost in men, women and money of its European war, and hold this nation at its mercy, while all Europe would/ have stood by and grinned. “Therefore, when we entered into this conflict we chose between a war now for liberty and democracy and a war later, alorie aftd unready, for outvery lives.”