Show BRINGING THE WAR TO THE H U S I 1 Is the recent epidemic of fires and mysterious explosions in american plants and on ships carrying american arms to the allies due to chance to irresponsible fanatics or to the secret of 0 a foreign government these questions are asked with growing insistence as the tale of such events lengthens already according to a list published in the N new ew york journal of commerce there have been about forty of these fires involving more than a score of deaths and property losses aggregating over in one weed week the papers reported a fire in the baldwin locomotive works where engines tor for the russian government are being built the destruct destructor on of two buildings of the midvale steel and ordnance company which is making lee enfield rifles for the british government damage amounting to about in the bethlehem steel companas Comp anys ordnance plant a lOO OOOO fire in the roebling steel rope plant which was filling orders for the allies and a fire in the ordnance plant of the thomas P skelly dolt bolt company in philadelphia in the same am period a big fire ere also occur occurred fred at Stam stamford fortl conn in the plant of the synthetic color company which was manufacturing anilla dyes until recently a german monopoly la in the light of these fires many editors are rereading the bomb plot confession ol oi lieutenant tenant fay now under indictment on a charge of conspiring against the united states anti are giving a less skeptical hearing than they would otherwise have given to tile even more startling statements of dr joseph goricar who was tor for fifteen years in the austro hungarian consular service they are also recalling the tact fact that scarcely three months ago dr constantin the austrian ambassador at washington wrote to the austrian minister of foreign at fairs we can disorganize and hold up it if not entirely prevent the manufacture of munitions I 1 in bethlehem and the middle west which is of great importance and amply outweighs the expenditure of the money involved and a dispatch from bern tells us that in germany and austria it is openly boasted that the destruction ot of american ammunition works is only beginning the austrian embassy it is true denounces dr goricar as a liar har and a paid agent of the russian government but the brooklyn citizen thinks that it is not necessary to credit his story in order to reach the conclusion that a vast conspiracy exists in the coun try having for ts Is object the destruction of american factories filling war orders for the allies and the setting fire to passenger and cargo ships plying between american ports and ports of bt tile miles allies the citizen goes on oil to say in the light of the occurrences on this head bead since the outbreak of the war denial of this fact Is absurdity this much being admitted it stands to reason that either the governments ot of austria and germany are behind the incendiaries or individuals or organizations fanatically devoted to the causo cause of the central powers in either event it Is the duty of the federal government to hunt down these con eve even it if the trail leads as mr Gor claims to tile the doors of the G rinau arid and austrian embassies his story la is sufficiently plausible t to 0 warrant investigation the president has already co commissioned minis chief r ilynn flynn of the federal secret service to head a thorough investigation vesti gation of 0 nil all these mysterious oc dispatches tell curen ces washington us editorial observers meanwhile are arc divided between the theory of an officially organized plot controlled from berlin arid and vienna and the belief that all can be explained by the sporadic and unauthorized activities of fanatical sympathizers with the teutonic cause few now seem to hold to the theory of alil pure 9 chance cl ianco As the new york sun suil notes 4 abs tbs arm 0 of f coincide coincidence nice stretches out over a 0 sequence of months setting fires and 1 b flowing up powder mills every last one of them an actual or potential source of supply of munitions to the enemies C lic niles of germany then thell the arm of conci coincidence dence begins to look very much iske ake a german arm the teutonic governments are either directly mak malting maltine secret warfare on the united states or are the victims of a peculiarly strong chain of circumstances argues the south bend tribune As tile the new york evening sun sees it tile the flaming facts of everyday every day occur ence in this country testify that guar rilla warfare is being systematically waged by outsiders against the legitimate business of our citizens the new york times Is also convinced that organized warfare is being conducted against a number of american industries in the interest of two foreign powers in a less measure ilia than n abroad tile policy of frightfulness ne ss is being applied to the united states remarks paper which goes on to say As long as the destruction of mu plants could with any shadow of probability be attributed to accident or to natural causes that allowance has been made it has been stuck to with courteous patience long after the probability ended to stick to it any longer would be pretense the suspicion that paid agents are responsible for the epidemic of destructive truc tive fires in american plants may be quite unfounded remarks the philadelphia telegraph but thousands of americans who have no pro ally sympathies share it the brooklyn eagle demands that this outrageous and intolerable conspiracy be run to earth and the boston transcript says that it should be the first duty of congress when it convenes next month says the transcript we are no longer a united people but one rent in bawin on next to the most serious line of that could be conceived the racial hn line e and after the ath of december it will be no longer possible for us to delude ourselves on that point the issue must be met squarely and ili hi no more important posture will it be represented than in that involving the propaganda of frightfulness that has gained such unrestricted headway in this country if the secret service of the united states is hampered by executive timidity or lack of funds congress must supply both backbone and money 0 o the end that all possible information be obtained it if necessary there should be instituted at once a congressional investigation of this the most sinister thing in our history it is high time that the bomb throwers and incendiaries who are conducting open warfare against the people of the united states were lodged in jail and that the campaign they are waging was trac traced e d to its inspiration it if the slimy trail leads to the door of the german ambassador bas in washington we want to know lt it and we want prompt action to secure the necessary legislation tor for such a thorough investigation into the whole history of the german popa sanda anda as is essential it will be necessary tor for the real americans in the senate and house of representatives to use all that hat they have of 0 courage and fidelity and patrio patriot isra for it is certain that they will meet opposition at a every turn the coming congress Jon gress will offer unparalleled opportunities port unities for statesman statesmanship ship we should not be surprised to see come to the front before its adjournment the man chosen by destiny to athe be the next president of the united states the whole question of teutonic propaganda methods in tho the united states has been still further emphasized in the public mind by tile tho alleged revelations of dr goricar Gorl car made through the columns of the frankly pro providence jour nal dr Co goricar who claims to have resigned from the austro hungarian consular service because his government demanded ot of him when stationed in san francisco the work of a spy as well as of a consul says that there is an army of about teutonic spies in this country all of them card indexed in the offices of captains boyed and von and consul gener at al von nuber ile he maintains also that all operations against plants are known in advance and approved by the austrian and german embassies to quote his statement in part the united states is not awake to the danger which threatens her from the activities of germans and austrian agents who since the beginning of the war have spent from thirty to forty million dollars in this country in their efforts to destroy life and property to set brother against brother t to create a political and social up heavel and to prevent by any kind of crime necessary the shipment of munitions of war to the allies these men are more active today to day than they have ever been tor for the simple simpie reason that the economic strain on germany has become greatly increased in the last few months and that she has reached rea cheI the top limit of her capacity in production and resources sources fr from 0 41 my know dge 0 of f wh resources Ze is going on 1 can state that the propaganda will greatly increase in the near future and that in a few weeks this country will be brought face to face with a grave situation involving attacks tacks S on railroads warehouses wharves and shipping 1 I will state further that no act of violence whether it be a fire in a mu notions factory the explosion of a bomb on board a ship or the establishment lish ment or of a f fraudulent rau dulen t pas passport sport office springs from the demented mind of any individual every act is planned in advance men who can be trusted to go thru with such criminal performances for mances are selected and the whole scheme la is work worked ed thru tile system I 1 individuals n divi duals are simply carrying out orders they get from above my aly fifteen years experience in the foreign service of austria hungary has given mo me exact knowledge of this spy system which at present is directed by the german embassy thru cappall captain boyed boy ed and captain yon von ac acting t directly with consul general von nuber in new york these three men have full and complete knowledge of every move made by every german and austrian spy in ili the united states in spite of their assertions that they are innocent of any wrongdoing wrong doing or of any knowledge of the burning of 0 munitions plants or of wrecking of ships they are in immediate touch with every such transaction every spy in this country today is officially listed I 1 in n the offices of these men and their records are kept kepi in card index form there are I 1 should judge from my personal knowledge about three thousand of these men in the united states today and every one of thorn hem will do exactly what he Is ordered tred to do and consider himself as in fact lie he really Is s a soldier under the direct instruction of 0 his military superiors dr Gori cars charges are de denounced nouna as utterly false and absurd by the austrian embassy and this denunciation Is echoed by the leading A austrian consulates throughout tile c country moreover they turn the tables on n him with will tile the assertion that lie ho him himself self is a spy 1 in russian pay in an official statement issued by tile the austrian embassy we read ex consul dr goricar formerly of ban F francisco ran cisco had been on leave of abse ence at the time of the outbreak of the war arid and had bad been temporarily attached to the austro austin hungarian 0 consulate inderlin in berlin 1 flie I here re soon afterward lie he obtained knowledge that the austro hungarian authorities had received information about his secret connections with the enemies of aus tria hungary and evidently tearing fearing detection lie he suddenly left his post without permission and disappeared later on it was learned lie he had gone to italy and was staying in rome lie he tendered his resignation thereby preventing his dismissal while in rome it was ascertained that lie he was in close relations with hussman arid and servian agents obviously with the purpose of going to the united states to use his knowledge of the centers of slavic immigration coming from tile the monarchies in a the services of the Pan slavic propaganda and with the intention of disseminating disloyalty disloyally among our immigrants against kneir country of birth the austro hungarian embassy has been informed that quite a number of southern southie rn slavs from tile the monarchy have been enlisted by the agents of the allies and left this country in order to fight against austria hungary it is probable that dr gor tears subversive activity contributed to these regrettable acts of treason which certainly without changing the outcome of the war will be the gravest tor for those who may be made prisoners of war in view however of these present statements which contain the strongest accusations against tile the representatives of austria hungary the embassy emphatically declares these accusations cusat ions as false and absolutely baseless as silence otherwise would bo be taken as acknowledgment and would create the belief that our consulates actually engaged in activities in violation of the laws of tills this country literary digest |