Am.jour^ Pharm.  ^       Address  of  Francis  P.  Garvan  671 
said  Mr.  Garvan.  "The  German  purpose  stands  forth  as  clearly  as 
a  mountain  in  the  sunlight.  First,  reconquer  in  industry  and  com- 
merce, then  we  Germans  will  see.  Their  secret  documents  prove 
it.  The  heart  of  the  news  that  comes  out  of  Germany  proves  it. 
They  prove  it  out  of  their  own  mouths. 
"Moles  in  the  darkness,  German  agents  in  America  are  once 
more  plotting  against  our  security,  our  prosperity  and  against  the 
health  of  our  very  children.  The  German  design  to  render  the 
United  States  important  is  being  prosecuted  today  with  more  subtle 
viciousness  than  marked  the  intrigue  of  Von  Bernstorff,  Dr.  Al- 
bert and  Hugo  Schweitzer  in  the  years  before  we  entered  the  war. 
"The  times  are  too  tense  with  danger  for  passive  tactics.  On 
one  side  we  have  the  same  old  crowd  of  German  agents  masquerad- 
ing as  good  Americans.  On  another  side  we  perceive  American 
citizens  supporting  the  German  intrigues.  In  Congress  we  hear 
and  stand  aghast  at  the  ignorant  and  malicious  outburst  of  certain 
legislators,  unmindful  of  their  country's  welfare.  Folly  drips  from 
their  mouths.  Stupid  suspicion  of  the  motives  of  honest  men  and 
appalling  ignorance  of  the  times  mark  their  astounding  incapacity. 
There  are  some,  who,  like  Jacob  of  old,  have  set  themselves  to  steal 
the  birthright  of  chemical  independence  from  the  American  nation. 
They  may  disguise  for  a  tirne  the  hairy  hands  of  the  German  dye 
monopoly  that  controls  them,  but  in  the  end  the  people  will  know 
them  for  what  they  are.  Their  voices  are  the  voices  of  elected 
Representatives  and  Senators  in  the  American  Congress,  but  the 
hands  that  manipulate  them  are  the  hands  of  the  German  dye  trust, 
the  most  powerful  monopoly  ever  formed  by  man,  the  Interessen 
Gemeinschaft,  the  T.  G.' 
"If,  in  the  reaction  of  war  and  in  the  general  distaste  for  dis- 
cussing matters  pertaining  to  war,  we  permit  ourselves  again  to  be 
lulled  and  numbed  by  German  propaganda,  if  we  look  on  indiffer- 
ently while  a  few  demagogues  in  Congress  and  a  few  short-sighted, 
selfish  men  in  business  life  play  the  German  game,  if  we  allow  Ger- 
many to  stifle  an  American  industry  that  would  within  a  very  few 
years  make  the  United  State  absolutely  safe,  then,  I  say,  it  will 
have  been  through  your  neglect  and  temerity  and  failure  to  real- 
ize that  it  is  your  responsibility  not  only  to  search  the  truth,  but  to 
preach  it. 
"Your  responsibility  today  is  the  same  as  it  was  during  all  these 
