The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1916. WAR PLOTS IN AMERICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 87, 15 July 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1916. WAR PLOTS IN AMERICA.

A largo section of the American press is scathingly outspoken in its criticism of President Wilson, and the

many “made in Germany” war plots; 1 which a weak-kneed Government has ) allowed to mature under their very noses. The New York Tribune states' that the most recent bomb plot to be 1 discovered differed little from previous manifestations of Teutonic con- 1 tempt for American laws and Ame-j ricau lives, save in the magnificence of the conception and the extent of the operations. There was the same combination of “hyphenates,” osten-t sibly honest, law-abiding individuals living under the Stars and Stripes, 1 under the full protection of a neutral Government, carrying out the bidding of agents of-the German Government itself, drawing their funds from them.| “And,” the Tribune goes on to says, “it is to be assumed that /although every decent citizen' •will shuclde«- at the cold-blooded way in which these vicious hirelings of a debased govern-’ inoiit went at their trade of murder, there will be the same slow, tedious, 1 faulty unrolling of red tape in their arraignment and trial which has proved the rule in the handling of previous cases. A few months ago, when a dozen fires around the country kindled by other Teutonic hirelings were still smouldering, when fresh evidence of passport forgone® by German agents was accumulating daily, when part of a government building was shattered by a German s bomb and an eminent American business man was likely to die from a Gorman bullet, there was much brave talk at Washington about wiping out the ‘conspirators and their foul plots, Bernburg went, Dumba went ; Boy-Kd and von Papen went. There have ■been a few sporadic arrests. But the plots go on just the same American law is deiied just the s,.:ee. It is no wonder that von PapMi called us idiotic Yankees..’ Gould he be blamed for bolding that’opinion, when be realised the government was too foolish unless too cowardly—to strike at the head of the plot industry? lx, does no good to step on the tail of a tools, when the brains and financial back-rr* of nP Pm German plots have 1 reason to think themselves unassail

able, and the representatives of the government wliom they serve manage to escape all responsibility,” The New York World comments' in similar vein and concludes a powerful article with: “It was a strange idea of friendship and neutrality with- which the representatives of some bureau of international lawlessness in Berlin undertook to influence public opinion in the United States at the beginning of the war. Practically every ''phase of villainy was resorted to. While

conspirators and assassins were secretly at work stirring up strikes, destroying factories and time-clocking ships, some of the more masterful minds were openly reproaching us for not entertaining more enthusiastic admiration for the' bolder me.hods applied hy the same agencies in Bel-j gium.” Surely it is time that America wakened * little to the fact of the dangerous enemy within her gates.