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TO GERMAN AMERICANS.
The following editorial comment is
from the Independent of Februarj 19,
1917. it is straight from the shoulder,
•strong and concise. The fight "for
the death of Prussianism” which is to
lie tile greatest topic of discussion at
the international conference to lie
held at Washintgon simmers down to
the outsting of this overbearing and
formidable autocrat who has terror
ized his own country and who en
deavors to terrorize the world.
"If the present issue were one be
tween Germany and England we would
expect you to sympathize with your
Fatherland; if It were one between
the United States and Germany we
would expect you to support your
adopted country, but with reluctance
and perhaps misgiving. But do not
look at it in that light.
The present conflict is one that
transcends nationality; it Is a world
wide civil war between 700 last
strongholds of feudalism and the ris
ing tide of democracy. There is no
nation, considered as a nation, which
Americans of every descent love more
than Germany.
We have had more quarrels with
England, and even with France than
Germany; our universities have drawn
more inspiration from Germany than
from any other land; we regard, and
rightly regard, the German-American
as one of the best elements of our
citizenship.
We hope that a liberal Germany
may in the future become one of the
most prosperous and powerful of the
nations of the earth.
The nemies of your adopted coun
try are the military caste and the
military machine that have ruined and
disgraced your native coutnry.
Down with tlie kaiser! Pong live the
German people!
TRAINING PAYS.
The return of the young men of the
national guard from the border,
bronzed, robust, the pictures of vig
orous health and with natably im
proved physiques, should be an object
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lesson to the cavllers who decry the
value of military training in Its bear
ing upon the improved health and
physique of those who are subjected
to it. But this is but one of the an- !
swers to these objections.
Another side of the same question
1s presented by the fact that when I
thes > same guardsmen were being
music-red Into the federal service, out
of the 1 14,000 offices and men who
responded to the president’s call 28,500
were rejected by the examining sur
geons of the regular army because not
up to the standards set for the ser
vice. The young men rejected were!
at least up to the average of Ameri
can youth. None of them were ob
viously crippled or deformed or suf
ferers from any chronic disease, or
they never would have been enrolled i
in the guard In the first place. The
probabilities are that the rejected
came nearer the general average of
the physical qualifications of Ameri
can youth than did those accepted. !
The accepted ones were a select class,
f ir above the average.
It is reasonably certain that had
every one of these rejected young
men been taken early In life and given
physical training steadily, if nothing
more than the setting tip exercises
prescribed for the regular army, the
vast majority of them would have j
been in condition to pass the army I
examination; would. Indeed, have !
gone Into active service in just as
good physical shape as that in which
the returning guardsmen are now
1 riving the service. Military train
ing Is worth while in itself entirely
aside from the prime necessity for
safety of the nation to have our youth
equipped with physique and trainlngto
nable them to take an effective and
valuable part in Iho national de
fense.
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.
With the prospect of congress pro- j
vld'ing for universal military train
ing and universal military service in
time of war, no may have to face in
this country a problem which has been
a vexatious one in England, or at least
was so until an effective solution was !
found. Under flit system of the Brit
ish government and under that of our
own there is respect for liberty of 1
conscience. When a man has or pro- '
fessr.s to have deeply-rated religious
or conscientious scruples against tak
ing part In war, the Idea of coercing
him is repugnant to the sentiment of i
both countries. In our oldest laws
for compulsory military training an
exception was always made in the
case of the "conscientious ohjeetors.”
England has done the same.
The conscientious objector, however,
has been an ominius figure in Eng
land since conscripMon began. There
was some slight reason to bc’levc
that the objection was urged by many
whose conscinces were far from be
ing as tender as they insisted. But
a way has been found to utilize the
services of these conscientious objec
tors.
For example, a number of them
have been given employment on ves
sels employed in "mine sweeping,"
hunting in the waters around the Brit
ish islands for mines set adrift by the
Germans in the hope of destroying
English shipping. Of course the ser
vice Is a desperately dangerous as
well as an arduous one. But the ser
vices are not the destructive ones of
war. Removing the mines Is a bene
ficent service of great importance
and one highly suitable to a humani
tarian with a repugnance to the shed
ding of blood. So It Is with work on
the stretcher service In field hospi
tals, where the man engaged In this
work, while on active humanitarian
service, has all the perils of the sol
dier.
Singularly enough, however, many j
conscientious objectors have waived 1
their objections and taken regular ]
soldierly duty in preference to these
humanitarian employments.
THE PATRIOTIC VIRTUES.
No nation ever yet achieved great
mss through ease and absence of ef
fort, and although material prosperity
is an absolutely essentia!' foundation,
(he lack of which renders hopeless any
attempt to raise a worthy superstruc
ture, yet by Itself, and to the exclu
sion of all else, material prosperity,
no matter how abounding, means at
the very utmost a kind of bastard
greatness, mor eontemptihle that, any
othr kind. The (lag that commands
the respect of other nations and in
spires among its own following the
high passion of loyalty must float over
a land where there Is well distributed
material well-being, but, what Is well
more Important, where there have also
been developed the stern and lofty
virtues of resolute and adventurous
valor, of trained prowess, of readiness
for self-sacrifice, of power to render
service and of determined and un
shakeable patriotism.—Theoder Roose
velt in the Metropolitan Mazngine.
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