The United States is now at war with Germany because the Imperial Government willed it. The United States is at war to aid the movement for democracy in Germany; to help the German people realize that they must think for themselves. The seeds of democratic thought which Wilson's notes sowed in Germany are growing. If the Imperial Government had not frightened the people into a belief that too much thinking would be dangerous for the Fatherland, the United States would not today be at war with the Kaiser's government. Only one thing now will make the people realize that they must think for themselves if they wish to exist as a nation and as a race. That is a military defeat, a defeat on the battlefields of the Kaiser, von Hindenburg and the Rhine Valley ammunition interests. Only a decisive defeat will shake the public confidence in the nation's leaders. Only a destroyed German army leadership will make the people overthrow the group of men who do Germany's political thinking to-day. C. W. A. New York, May, 1917. * * * * * * * * * "Abraham Lincoln said that this Republic could not exist half slave and half free. Now, with similar clarity, we perceive that the world cannot exist half German and half free. We have to put an end to the bloody doctrine of the superior race--to that anarchy which is expressed in the conviction that German necessity is above all law. We have to put an end to the German idea of ruthlessness. We have to put an end to the doctrine that it is right to make every use of power that is possible, without regard to any restriction of justice, of honour, of humanity." _New York Tribune, April 7, 1917._ * * * * * * * * * CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER I. MOBILIZATION OF PUBLIC OPINION II. "PIRATES SINK ANOTHER NEUTRAL SHIP" III. THE GULF BETWEEN KIEL AND BERLIN IV. THE HATE CAMPAIGN AGAINST AMERICA V. THE DOWNFALL OF VON TIRPITZ AND VON FALKENHAYN VI. THE PERIOD OF NEW ORIENTATION VII. THE BUBBLING ECONOMIC VOLCANO VIII. THE PEACE DRIVE OF DECEMBER 12TH IX. THE BERNHARDI OF THE SEAS X. THE OUTLAWED NATION XI. THE UNITED STATES AT WAR XII. PRESIDENT WILSON APPENDIX ILLUSTRATIONS A DOCUMENT CIRCULATED BY "THE LEAGUE OF TRUTH"--THE RED BLOODY HAND ON THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . . . Frontispiece FIRST PAGE OF THE AUTHOR'S PASSPORT A "BERLIN" EXTRA BLOOD-TRAFFICKERS FIRST PAGE OF THE MAGAZINE "LIGHT AND TRUTH" AN ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA DOCUMENT GOTT STRAFE ENGLAND THIS IS THE PHOTOGRAPH OF VON HINDENBURG WHICH EVERY GERMAN HAS IN HIS HOME THE FOOD SITUATION AT A GLANCE THE POPE TO PRESIDENT WILSON----"HOW CAN MY PEACE ANGEL FLY, MR. PRESIDENT, WHEN YOU ALWAYS PUT SHELLS IN HER POCKETS?" "GOD WILL NOT PERMIT THE GERMAN PEOPLE TO GO DOWN" THE NEW WEATHER CAPE