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Show uu SHOOT THE FOUL TRAITORS! By the time this government completes com-pletes its exposures of the German intrigues in-trigues in the United States, a German Ger-man living in this country will be almost al-most ashamed to acknowledge his nativity. na-tivity. Boy-Ed, von Papen, Count von Bern-, Bern-, storff and all the other bungling, treacherous, disreputable men who have come to us with credentials of , honor and square dealing, have been shown to have possessed less of real manhood than Captain Kidd, tho pir-ato pir-ato chief who had self-imposed rules of conduct that kept him from accepting tho hospitality of any one he was about to plundor. Von Bornstorff, as disclosed by Secretary Sec-retary Lansing's statement of today, was the head of tho intrigues which disturbed the United Statos during tho war crises in this country, and ho plotted to upset orderly government by hiring a certain organization to bring undue pressure on congress. Von Bernstorff was tho guest of this country and ho was obligated to deal .honestly and fairly with tho govorn-jmont. govorn-jmont. But like Luxburg In Argentina Argen-tina and Eckhardt in Mexico, he had 'no sense of honor which Impelled him to act an honorable part whon, by cunning cun-ning rascality, he saw an opportunity to advanco tho fortunos of war of his fatherland. There are men who stand firmly Tor the code of honor though the heavens heav-ens fall, but they are not Bernfltorffs, or Luxburgs, or Eckhardts. When this government traces the leadership of tho American organization organiza-tion which lent itsolf to the conspiracies conspira-cies of Bernstorff, every one of the traitors Identified with tho corrupting corrupt-ing propaganda should be taken out and shot. |