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Show THE WAR PLOTS. President Wilson lias au ammunition chest of his own. Every little while lie picks out a few bombs and hurls them nl the enemy and at those smoothtongued smooth-tongued frauds who aid Germany under the pretense of neutrality. Cabrera, agent, of f'arranza, departed suddenly from Washington, where he uas engaged in negotiations with our state department, ami boarded ship for Buenos Aires to attend a pro-German conference, camouflaged as a "neutrality "neutral-ity conference. " Then President Wilson went, to his ammunition chest, extracted fifty or more bombs and scattered them about Cabrera. We incline to the opinion that Cabrera, when he arrives in Buenos Aires, if he be not wirelessed I to stay away, will suffer the same kind of an attack of nerves that has put Luxburg in a sanitarium. The president evidently has some 300 German diplomatic communications communica-tions left. They will be used, no I doubt, to counteract any moves the l Germans and pro-Germans may make in I South America. The notes just published reveal the duplicity of President Irigoyen of Argentina. Ar-gentina. He professed friendship for Germany and agreed to form a South American alliance against the United States. His foreign minister, on the other hand, would not be serviceable to Luxburg and iu his rage and mortification mortifica-tion tho German assassin proceeded to call the antagonistic minister names and expressed the belief that he was ' ' bribed. ' ' The dishonorable and conscienceless methods of German statecraft are again exposed. Zimmerniann instructs Luxburg . to inform the Argentine government that Argentine ships, sailing in the war zone, will be spared under certain conditions, con-ditions, and then he appends as "very secret, for your personal information," a paragraph in which he tells Luxburg that Germany has no intention of abiding abid-ing by its pledge. Kuehlmaun, who- followed Zimmerniann Zimmer-niann as foreign secretary, after the latter lat-ter had been forced out by one of President Presi-dent Wilson's exposes, also betrays duplicity. Informing Luxburg that Germany will pay damages for the submarined ship, Tore, he says other neutrals who have not been paid will probably make complaint, and ho asks l.uxbug to state that the damages were paid because the ship had on board some goods destined for Switzerland, a neutral country. All the time that Luxburg was negotiating nego-tiating with the president of Argentina for friendly action ho was planning to set other South American countries in hostility against Argentina should the friendly action be refused. But ho is confident that the president is pro-Gernuin pro-Gernuin and will do what he can to prevent Argentina from declaring war on Germany. The president, he says, has "firm intention of setting the council of ministers against Xorth America." . Was ever a great nation like Germany Ger-many so humiliated by exposure? In the world's history perfidy of this . character has seldom been revealed in characters so unmistakable and so damning during the course of a war. It is encouraging to the people of our own country to find the people of South America so friendly in spite of German machinations. In view of the years of Prussian propaganda the Latin Americans Amer-icans might be excused for harboring distrust of the United States. But instead in-stead of maintaining a distrustful neutrality neu-trality most of them cither have declared de-clared war on Germany or have severed diplomatic relations. This is an exhibition exhi-bition of Americiut solidu l ity which will serve as a good example to Germany now and to the world generally in the years to come. The people of South America have i nothing in common with the Teutonic srhool of political thought. They have imbibed their political sentiments from the Trench aud American revolutions and from their own rev olutionary f ore- I'nliier-. The Latin idea!, as emphasized empha-sized in the political development of I'mih-e and Italy ami tho South Arner-. Arner-. i -; ii states, has never boon "might is right.'' It has never wavered front a faith in "juMice and liberty" and the essential "equality and fraternity" of men and of nations. |