Robert L. Owen to Woodrow Wilson

I inclose copy of a resolution which I think is of the highest importance, if it should meet with your approval.

In effect it proposes an organization of the belligerent nations opposing the Teutonic autocracy, declaring against the entry into the belligerent countries of any of the products of Germany until the menace of militarism is removed. It proposes a world-wide boycott against German commerce until the German people agree to remove the menace of German militarism. The effect of this as a treaty would be to strike Germany's finance and commerce in a vital spot and would give those interests a powerful motive to use their influences against the maintenance of German militarism. We command the seas and will be able to continue to command the seas more and more completely. We therefore have a deadly weapon with which to influence the financial and commercial interests, not to mention the covetous elements, of Germany.

Will you not in the name of liberty swing this mighty club and let it fall on the head of the Kaiser?