two million dollars of German gold in this illegal work.  Our detectives estimate that German authorities have spent twenty-seven million dollars in America alone to influence us against the Allies, to stir up trouble against us in labour circles, and to foment a revolution in Mexico to our embarrassment.  Our Government asked that the German Military and Naval Attaches be removed from this country because of their insolent violations of our neutrality, by activities in connection with which they handled immense sums of German gold for the propaganda to influence us against England and in favour of Germany.

For every pamphlet, paper, or article sent to me by English, French, Russian, and Italian organisations I get several dozen from German organisations.  I get but a few circulars a month from Allied countries.  Not a week passes that I do not receive many from German sources.  America has been flooded with German propagandist literature; very little ever comes from other countries.  Full-page advertisements, paid by German agents, have appeared repeatedly in American papers, urging the merits of Germany’s case.  I have never seen one on behalf of the Allies.  All over New York City, before I left for my summer vacation, were giant posters on the billboards, put there by a pro-German society, urging the people to ask President Wilson to stop the exportation of arms to Germany’s enemies.  I have never seen one poster of any kind put up by friends of the Allies.  Indeed, America has been so deluged with German propaganda and German-paid advertisements, and requests for money to carry on the propaganda in favour of Germany, that the whole nation has become heartily sick of it, and has urged the Government to expel from the country some of your agents who have been particularly offensive in carrying on such a propaganda among our citizens.  German gold, not English gold, has been lavishly used to influence American opinion.  Our Government has had to employ a special detective force to discover and destroy the many plots in which German and Austrian gold has been lavishly used to influence opinion and action in America; and from other neutral countries comes abundant evidence that the same stupendous propaganda, to turn opinion and action in favour of Germany, has been carried on everywhere, with an audacity and utter disregard of cost which has astonished the world.  In the face of such facts as these the German outcry against “English gold” has seemed wholly insincere, and little less than ridiculous.

Finally, American opinion has been based more than all else on Germany’s official communications, directly addressed to our Government, on certain acts which Germany has admitted, and on the nature of the defence and excuses offered by the German Government in palliation of those acts.  You must not forget that the many lengthy notes addressed by your Government to Americans have been published in full in American papers.  The outcry against English gold, against