South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 280, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 7 October 1917 — Page 27

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An Analysis of the Insidious

Aim cm: in. Tn rohhtion to tho stuflk'l wonl'f G'-rmnn official f-tatement.s th-rc :ir "H-m j-ori- iril" ;ml o-u-n-i i uroffti ti article which may !' cIa.i:ieJ as ".-eeiuirc" :-torit. It Is well to l.f-ar in num! that there N lie vi h thlr..: as j.urcly iinofTiij.il ro-wx in O rii.any moc--the wafhfui crnT v. o i -rollout

it publication. A l!rl;n p-aper. for has enemies who normally combat example, recently taunted the allies every measure he champions, v. Ith havir.i: "an undisciplined Therefore, Herlin attempted by pr T.w- prin'ij.al typo of seep- heaping hlame upon the individual, toti.-s i .-rnploje.l to prare to enl:.t and attach to its fide all j.n'ili.; mind a-'aint a pos-i.,1- opponent--. For these -accordfailur- or fjii!i-e of pollv-y on tho in,' to inexorable Teutonic deducI ai t of th- government. These ap- tior. would as-ail any cause he es-j-e.tr fi':n a nous quarters unob- pous-ed. They were seeking to mob--!ru-i . !y a::. I p i:-tcntly until ilize for their purposes, all the th-:r Mi'ih'r hr in-inuated it-elf political recoils in enemy countries. i:.t.. th' ri!d of -onverition. in Inland, they undertook to crysI'etaaps tho best example of the talize in their favor all the antiir u.tu- ype to te found in the Grey (synonymous with Asquith) 7,:o ndorf propan'an.'.a. When the sentiment, and all the anti-Lloyd G rnians pi. mm-. 1 tu retreat from George sentiment; in France, all the Somm-, th-;. made ready to- the antl-Ilibot entlment; in Italy, bolster up pibli.- (onlldence. it Is the antl-Sonnino sentiment; in true, with a Hmdenburs line; yet Greece, the anti-Venizelo; In Kusth- .V4-rnm--.it was not entirely vja, the anti-Kerensky ; in America. Kitis'ivd that it could count upon the anti-Wilson. th- people to maintain their iUht- Their capture of the disaffected jn- .-jdrit even on a Hlmlenburs elements in this country has been line. ,m a Hindenburr failure '.vith o definite that one has only to th.- puLli" .vas provided against as name them over to be calling a roll tlelibe-itely as any military ex- of pro-German parties. One com-itren'-y. For v.e ks before, and es- mon bond has held together peti.iüy during th- course of the pacifists who shrink from the very' ;-nmm retreat, articles appeared In mention of bloodshed and anthe German press and v.ere copied archist.s and I. W. W.'s who for nil over th- world upon the theme, years have preached only gore and 'Gudendorf, the brains of Ilinden- dynamite; socialists opposing all bur;:;" - I.udt ndorf, the actual decrees of militarism, and blatant head of tiie German army." disciples of "Deutschland über The publb- was gradually and alles." Upon what basis stronger skillfully tutored to think upon than their irreconcilable differences lnbndoif and not Hindenbiirs as do such diverse factions have to the to'U. ot tho German fortune j; stand? The common ground of unsconv. iou-.lv !, raced to expect tho pro-Germanism. And this i3 be-dls-ard of t .eh s-nii-d it. Yet as cause German propaganda has for f-oon as the allies were brought to years been working to assemble and u tm.tra.-tf d halt." and Ilinden- utilize virtually all the discontent in burl's prestl-je wax sicl, the I.u.l- the world. endorf propaganda disappeared. The story of the propaganda's It was HIndenburtf one more, and campaign through socialism is not Ludendorf. whom the kai er long too lon to le recited here, extravagantly praised, and in whom it dates back to 1891. In that year the G-iman people were permitted the German eoclalists entered Into to pia.e thir faith. an understanding with the imperial ft is a basic princijde of autoc- government whereby they were to ra.i.s to maintain a goat for e.ery bo permitted to preach pacifism occasion. And in Germany. s . s- and internationalism in foreign tematiially and with Teutonic thor- countries, providing they pledged otmhmvs, oats have been and are themselves, not to block any Gerbcln ib ioj, d. As the German man military or naval appropriaarmy begins t lose to the allies, tlons. The old, old German game u a tea for the de. line of Ilinden- of undermining the strength of the boiv's star and rt-a ppea ranee of the possible enemy while doubly inJ.udendorf pro; a anda. It may be creasing his own! The German taken as a matter of course that socialists may perhaps have been u suitable ise is bei ii prepared Innocent and misled in this, but the agair.-t the v.rw chan,ellor, MWdi- imperial government was not. aelis. in the event his administra- In order to realize how permeattiMM dictated in detail by the very'ing German propaganda has been in ptrsons who are now formulating this country, it should also be callbis indictment should fail. Inied to mind that even a year earlier.

la-t, re. ent attacks upon Michaelis (which Ib-rlin has allowed to be published i for the disappointing results of the submarine campaign which lie did not inaugurate, led to the conclusion that the governing at ;uay be getting ready in char-ncteri-tie f.tshim to throw him over and to lasten upon him, If possible, a failure for which he was Jiot responsible. Similarly, clot Ger.i.au method--. students of the j believing that the!

fall of von r.ethrnann-Hollw( g was his ow n observation and recolleccarefully stated. diaguse the pro-j tlons. i-eedins as follows: It is an axiom that a pacifist in The imperial government realized an enemy country is as useful to that the allies would never treat or Uerlln as a pro-German. Often negotiate with von Kethmann-Holl- more useful because, while perweg the man of "the scrap of forming precisely the same service paper." It was nece.-sary, there- of thwarting preparedness and null'ore. to rid of Ilollweg. Hut it lifying opposition to Germany, they xvTts also highly necessary that his are not so easily tagged. And in lection should seem to come from this connection, it is essential to within and tnt from without. Con- examine Merlin's efforts to dominate i-equently. a purely Internal storm and preempt the minds of public the Prussian franchise issue) was men at strategic points in foreign nllovvcd eneouragod to dev clop, government. so that Hollwex could be squeezed It is not asserted that these men ut and a new man substituted to particularly in this country whom the allies would have no per- have been conscious of the manner s-onal objection. in which their opinions upon forWith the discharge of von U.eth- eign policies are formed. But, in mann-Hollw eu, he - was made the the words of a citizen of Indianapconvenient target for practically all oils, addressing a patriotic mags the previous Germ in failures of the meeting in New York some weeks war. His case, bu. had been care- before this government declared lully drawn up against him for ib'1 war. the plan followed most assid1f the occasion aroe. Take, for ex- uously and effectively by pro-Ger-;,:n;de, the complaint of von Horn- mans and propaganda agents in the t torif. The former ambassador is middle west is undoubtedly that jio-.v permitted to say that if P.eth- which has been employed through-mann-Hollweg had only allowed out the nation, .ald this speaker: J:im to reach the ear of the kaiser. "They have singled out every the United State-, would hae been important man in our communities placated and never entered the and they have studied him for his war. This is the world-old strategy vulnerable points. If he had a. if autocracies that K the prestige weak srot financially they brought, f the ruler must be saed at all pressure to play upon that; If lie ; o.-t.-. and if policies which he .-up- had pacifist leanings, they played; p.oted should come to du-a-tcr. upon that; if he were prejudiced!

men some own r person must V-mart for it. In compiling .e again-t lead tvs. the German gowmment means conrines itself to it by no own. Quite the contrary, and one particular form of it propaganda has distressed many Americans unduly because they faded to appraise it accurately. This has been the hteady. v.ide-spread and enomous iitta 1 up-on Pr s't Wilson. The German people were taught for more t'aan a e.ir dooutly to hate ttie .resident. ;'.rid to .mericans who approved hN efforts to Keep peace with Germany, th!.- see.-r.ed peculiarly uir'ust. Yet they should have recognized that the imperial ; overnment w as employing a met'.id. shrewd and calculating, s ;cn ; s they have directed at practically all tether count.-ies with wp.ich they have been at v.ir. In the lirs: uur of th ptru'-r-le, tliey concentrated waves of pois-n gas upon sit i;dard (no-.v Vicount) Grey; later, t.r.d with more logic, upon I.Ioyd George In i Yance tliey availed llibot. Iu Italy they haw ventured thir fury upon Sonnino. in Greece :pon -.nize!os. In new Iiussia thiy ir gl--d out. first, Mil.ukoff, i Xn'w ; . r:'"re. KrcrsV. 'l b - : -o. :' jTop:g ir.da at-

Germany's Psychic War

Methods of the Kaiser's "Diplomacy" in the Attempt to Corrupt American Opinion. By a Staff Correspondent

tributes to the fcubjwt of the attack' the wholo policy of a people or a government. Uerlin has sought to 'relit the anti-German course of rierny people.- oleiy to the influf rife, 5-ay, of .sir IM ward Orey, of I,loy.l Georpe. of llibot of Pres't Wil-on. Unquestionably, the German government reasoned, and truly, that any public man lias enemies h(: and powerful enemies. lie in 1S90 two years after the pres- ' ent emperor mounted the throne the first hyphenated campaign started in this country. That was through the Roman Catholic church and had for Its object the retention of loyalty of Fen timent to the mother country on the part of Immigrants. This was stoutly fought to a standstill by Cardinal Gibbons. Yet with what success it has persisted up to the present time, the reader is leit to against England, tney worked up en that; if he admired German ef :;c:ency, they extoled that; if he 'ere constitutionally opposed to American participation in foreign wan--., they harped upon that; if his business could be shown in any: sense to have been impaired by the j allied blockade. they excoriated! that." Kach man was searched for' his "Achilles heel." so to speak, and' this was sprayed with a specific , ; ro-German solution. Small won-' der, then, that the German lnfluenoe however- unsuspected by the subjects themselves reached mäny of the men in public life whom it went after. Mven if it did nt directi sway the office holders them--olve. it w as able to brin f.ressure upon other men who had influence with these cfliclals. With what result? Let any American think over tho Mructure of the government from cabinet departments down to those vital committees in congress which have formed points of contact with German interests during the past three ears and ask himself where either friend of pacifism or of Germany was to be found on post? Let him ask himself whether he might not 'find wliat in football terms could ! called "a nlendid interference."

No attempt is made to say that these men were turned to pacifism or pro-Germanism in the midst of an international crisis. That could not have been done; moreover, any attempt to accomplish this would have been crude and bungling-; it would not have been the efficient German way. No, the propagandist began away back. They singled out the men who were likely to come into particular positions of power and labored to color their opinions before they arrived. ThU was definitely proved in the one or two instances last spring where proGerman or pacifist, chairmen of

senate or house committees refused to introduce measures directed against Germany and it was therefore disclosed that the next in rank and presumable successors to the chairmanships held identically the same opinions! With respect to the present turn of German propaganda, even before the report was extensively published that the pope's peace proposals were previously approved by Chancellor Michaelis, and other leading German statesmen, observers noted that Deputy Erzberger, leader of the German Catholic center party, had earlier been seen in Switzerland "still plotting for peace" so ran a news dispatch. After the pope's note appeared, another P.rne dispatch asserted that the terms of the document were agreed upon, if not substantially drafted at a conference in Switzerland which was attended among others by Prince von Ilulow, Erzberger, and the president-general of the Jesuits. The instant and uniform reaction which these terms evoked in all allied countries leads to the supposition that Germany herself knew that they would be rejected. Without so much as intimating that the pope himself was cognizant of anything questionable about them, yet so skillfully were they drawn that, until analyzed, their fundamental deficiencies did not appear. There is reason to think therefore that these terms were specially devised for the least analytical of the allied peoples ltUi-sia. The apparent purpose was to draft proposals so fair-seeming that Russia could not and would not forgive the allies for refusing to accept them; that Russia, in short, would actually make peace upon the suggested basis. As if to confirm this view, tho Russian armies almost Immediately caved' In on the Riga front and a dispatch went out from Washington to the effect that it might be necessary. In view of Russian developments, for the allies to modify their reply to the Vatican. This, however, Prea't Wilson did not see fit to do. Subsequently, Vatican dispatches have announced that the pope considers Pres't Wilson as the principal obstacle to peace, and that Benedict will devote his future efforts to him. Therein lies a grave possibility for the American people and, the whole allied cause; for it goes without saying that the German government, with this possible support of the Vatican, will make an adroit show of democratization such as when Ilollweg was forced out for the ultra-Junker Michaelis in order to influence America' determination to make war. Yet the shrewdness which the president has exhibited in dealing with later German overtures warrants the belief that he will not hereafter be misled by any sleight-of-hand exhibition. If such a maneuver fails?, another bold stroke from Germany may pos-sibl-be looked for to stem American preparations. In view of the propaganda which the imperial government has so insistently circulated at home to the effect that the United states would be an entirely impotent military factor that all its war plans were in reality a sham and a bluff It is highly essential that Germany prevent, if she can, the taking over of any considerable section of the . French front by American forces. Unless the fall of Riga has sutficiently stiffened the German popular will, this stroke may be no less than the withdrawal of the unrestricted submarine decree. When we broke relation with Germany and first got ready for war, the reason for our participation was based upon the unlimited submarine decree. This has since been amplified to the larger and more fundamental aims of the war, but in the beginning it was officially stated that the United States government had nothing to discuss with Germany so long as the unrestricted submarine decree stood. Although many persons are of the opinion that its withdrawal now would be quite too un-German a thing to expect, yet the recent drive against Michaelis, on the basis of the submarine failure would seem to support such a view. On the other hand, Berlin's subsequent announcement that U-boats had sunk C. 000,000 tons of allied shipping In six months suggests that the government found it altogether too venturesome openly to confess that the submarine war was an actual failure. Whether or not such a particular move is in comtemplatlon, just as the ancient world, by bitter experience was taught to "Beware of the Greeks bearing gifts." even so must the. world of today beware of the Germans bearing peace. Indeed their proposals of disarmament must be scrutinized with a view as to whether they represent a "German" disarmament similar to a "German" peace. For it Is not hard to beileve that Germany looks upon disarmament without that lively apprehension which might naturally be attributed to a milastrastie power, still retaining its military instincts. For thi there

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deal with the German nation until that evil spirit which controls its imperial government" has been exorcised. I (Copyright, 1917

J : ! Wilson's Daughters Aid War Work i . , . .

WASHINGTON. Oct. C What the women of the arious nations have done in the war is 0:1 of the marvels of the great confli- t. I'ngii?h women, who, before the civilized nations turned civilized Europe into a charnel house, found outlets for their energy in hurling bricks at the homes of the ministers in Downing st. and holding disorderly gatherings before the houses cf parliament, haw organized horn-? defense . attaiiuns, raised money for tho Red Cro-s and have donned the white uniforms of mriy and biaed the dangers of the battle front. Russian women, who b"fore the c-zar hurled his defy at th? kais-r, were either the carefully guarded wies and daughters of -Muscovite nobles or the hard-sa ir.g victims of vodka-sodden moujiks, donned the uniforms of the Russian soldiers and entered the "Battalions of Death." where no! lewoiaen fought and died beside the women descendants of the serfs. And the same is true in a more or less degree of every nation in the war. American women have not hesiated to come forward and "do their !)its' since Ur.cle Sam cast in his lot with the allies. True. American women have not organized "Battal You Bed, Look 1

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ions of Death." but they haven't had to, and never will have to, for American men will never run away from the enemy. If any such thing could possibly take place none of us doubt but that American women would promptly put such cowardly men to shame, as did the women soldiers of Russia. On the battle line of France, however, American women have already undergone their baptisms of lire. In the Red Cross hospitals and automobile and tield ambulance services many American women are at work and haw been at work for some time. Many American women have driven ambulances in France, facing the daily danger of instant death to pilot an ambulance through shelltorn areas to the front to bring back to the field hospitals the heroic French and English wounded. Among the more prominent of American women who are "doing their bit" are the "Daughters of the White IIous?." Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of Pres't Wilson, has thrown hersolf whole heartedly into aid of the Red Cross. Miss Wilson has appeared at many entertain

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I the secretarv of th treasury, .ml another of the daughter- of Pres't Wilson, has been a pi ime mover in the work of interesting the women of the country in war b ar.--. Mrs. McAdoo traveled all owr the Fnited States addicting women's orcanizations. and carried on an cxtcr.siw campaign in behalf of the liberty loan. Mrs. McAdoo organize-", ar.d became the h-ad of the wi'incii's Li! erty lan committer ni l braucht women'.- organizations in all parts ef the United Stales into line. Mrs. Nicholas Lungw orth. wife of the former congressman and daughter of Col. Theodor Roosevelt, was nt to be left b-hind in the patriotic j movement of women. How could a 'daughter of "The Colonel" be back- ! ward when the United States is ;t war? Mrs. Lineworth, who. wlo-n she was Miss Alice Kooevolt. had the distinction of rec-iing a proposal of marriatre from the : nuhluarried sultan of Zulu, turned h.-r home in Cincinnati over to- t!u- Red Cross for war work. Miss Rlizabeth Harrison, daughter of the late Pres't Bn.-iamin Harrison, donr.ed khaki and nistrurud her associates at the New York col V . 1 306-310 S. Mich.

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lege ( f law in military drill ar.d f.-- -1 o.r.s.TUtiii.n. Mi-s Harrison did 1 t or.-ar.i.". "P. ittalbm of Death." 1 what sh.- did organ!" correvj,.,.. t the Ur.tiijdi battalions of woT.-.fn for h.-me lffer.se. Mis Harri." a was ir.o-t .0 tiw in spreading t!.mowment for the cor.- rvatior f fooii throughout th- country. If 1'ood Dictator Hoowr is to be l ehwd. the Non m rvation of f-nd mite u important in the p'an X i-t.'tt the i.aiM-r as th'.- mr.mifrv. furo of shot and shell. Miss Helen Taft. Iran of Itryn Mawr om- l-" nr.! daughter of th form er ; t s.d. -:t. cot oat in the with a hi 0.0I-! riianied straw hat ar.d tai.s.t tho culs at the colb -e how to g.i rdn arc! conserve food. Mi i Taft instituted a cor.-.plete cours in - a rd "Ti i n g and food eot.sn ntion. Miss K-'-thT Cleveland, daughter f the l.i'e Grot;r Cleveland, is doimr a work of particular mercy hi France. She is teaching Mi: I French soldiers how to reo!. Mis Cl v. lar d has w r:tten of some of the most pitiable cases. Later, when. American boys go Into Kittle ax. I

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