control over their property.
The history of our treaties with the German people show that the first treaty was signed for the United States by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams, and that the second treaty bears the signature of John Quincy Adams and the third treaty that of Henry Clay. In the event of war, if Germany faithfully carries out her end of the contract we are in duty-bound to do the same.
NORTH AMERICAN TURNERBUND— Headquarters, 415 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Ind., where the national executive committee of this powerful gymnastic union has been since 1898. The officers are : First Speaker, Theodore Stempfel ; Second Speaker, Peter Scherer; First Secretary, H. Steichmann (address as above) ; Second Secretary, Eugen Mueller; Treasurer G. H. Westing. Executive Committee, Armin Bohn, Carl J. Gutswiller, Carl H. Lieber, Albert L. Metzger, Louis Sielken, Heinrich Suder, Kurt Toll, Franklin Vonnegut, George Vonnegut.
UNITED STATES ALLIED WITH ENGLAND ?— Although it has been publicly charged again and again that a secret verbal alliance exists between the United States and the Allias, no denial has ever been forthcoming from the State Department, and so far no one has arisen in Congress to demand a categorical statement from those in authority. Upon (he knowledge of the existence of such an understanding men like Roosevelt and Root have based their fallacious assertion that we were bound by treaty to interfere on behalf of Belgium and have assaulted President Wilson with charges of cowardice. In a book entitled "Pan-Germanism", Prof. Roland G. Usher of St. Louis makes the following statements : First, that in 1897 there was a secret understanding between this country, England, France, and Russia, that in case of war brought on by Germany the United States would do its best to assist its three allies.
Second, (page 151) that "certain events lead to the probability that the Spanish-American war was created in order to permit the United States to take possession of Spain's colonial possessions."
Third, that England possesses three immensely powerful allies — France, Russia, and the United States. These he constantly speaks of as the "Coalition".
Fourth, that the United States was not permitted by England and France to build the Panama Canal until they were persuaded of the dangers of Pan-Germanism.
In an interview published in the St. Louis "Star" of May 2, 1915, Prof. Usher endorsed these statements by saying that a verbal alliance is in existence betwen this country and the Allies.
Substantial evidence in support of the charge is furnished by the late British Secretary of the Colonies* the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, who in a statement in parliament during the Boer war referred to the treaty of alliance as "an agreement, an understanding, a compact, if you please". On November 30, 1899, Chamberlain delivered an epochal speech at Leicester against France for some unseemly cartooning of Queen Victoria. In this speech he threatened France with war and distinctly spoke of an Anglo-American union : "The union between England and America is a powerful factor for peace." (N. Murrel Morris, "Joseph Chamberlain, The Rt. Hon." London, 1900, Hutchison & Co., publishers). The Rt. Hon.
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