w intrigue, the
intrigue for peace, and why the masters of Germany
do not hesitate to use any agency that promises to
effect their purpose, the deception of the
nations? Their present particular aim is to
deceive all those who throughout the world stand
for the rights of peoples and the self-government
of nations; for they see what immense strength the
forces of justice and of liberalism are gathering
out of this war.

PROPAGANDA

They are employing liberals in their enterprise.
They are using men, in Germany and without, as
their spokesmen whom they have hitherto despised
and oppressed, using them for their own
destruction--Socialists, the leaders of labor, the
thinkers they have hitherto sought to silence. Let
them once succeed and these men, now their tools,
will be ground to powder beneath the weight of the
great military empire they will have set up; the
revolutionists in Russia will be cut off from all
succor or cooperation in Western Europe and a
counter-revolution fostered and supported; Germany
herself will lose her chance of freedom, and all
Europe will arm for the next, the final, struggle.

The sinister intrigue is being no less actively
conducted in this country than in Russia and in
every country in Europe to which the agents and
dupes of the Imperial German Government can get
access. That Government has many spokesmen here,
in places high and low. They have learned
discretion. They keep within the law. It is
opinion they utter now, not sedition. They
proclaim the liberal purposes of their masters;
declare this a foreign war which can touch America
with no danger to either her lands or her
institutions; set England at the center of the
stage and talk of her ambition to assert economic
dominion throughout the world; appeal to our
ancient tradition of isolation in the politics of
the nations, and seek to undermine the Government
with false professions of loyalty to its
principles.

But they will make no headway. The false betray
themselves always in every accent.