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“THOSE WHO HATE ENGLAND MORE THAN THEY
LOVE AMERICA”
One of the most inexplicable features of the war has been the
alignment of a certain factioli of Irishmen with the German cause.
No one pretends, not even the Irish themselves, that Irishmen have
liny sympathy with German institutions and “kultur”; in fact,
these are as repugnant to the Irish as to other citizens of demo
cratic countries. The fact that thousands of Irishmen, from the
inception of the war, have been lighting in the ranks against the
Teutons, and that in the American armies now being organized
will be many thousands more of the Irish race, would seem to in
dicate that the great mass of men of the Emerald Isle regard the
cause of liberty and humanity just as highly as heretofore. How,
then, is the association of Irishman and German accounted for?
Theodore Roosevelt had the anomalous position of this faction
of Irishmen in mind when he recently spoke of “the man who
hates England more than he loves the United States.” 1'or years
prior to the great war Irish and German societies in this country
had been co-operating on plans to be carried out when 1 Per lag
anticipated and boasted of by German militarists should arrive.
The German government planned to strike a blow at England
through Ireland. The sacrifice of poor Sir Roger Casement was
one of the results of a mistaken belief in Germany's promises of
aid in “liberating" Ireland. The sail fate of the Irish baronet dud
not put an end to intrigue in this country, however, and the task
of embarrassing England through plans worked out in this country
is being carried on to this day, in spite of the fact that Great
Britain is now our ally. One of these pro-German activities is
the circulation in this country of petitions urging the
United States congress to demand “freedom” for Ireland.
One of these precious documents, it is understood, has been circu
lated in the Iditarod district. Be it said to the credit of the patri
otic miners that they have generally refused to have anything to
do with it, recognizing it as a clumsily-contrived attempt to bring
about discord between the United States and Great Britain. As
one loyal miner said, "As an American citizen I would resent a
similar petition from the members of the British parliament which
attempted to meddle in our affairs, and I refuse to countenance
such action on the part of our government or officials. I am in
thorough sympathy with the Irish cause, but my loyalty to the
United States will not permit me to participate in an action in
tended for disloyal purposes.”
lilt'rt* ir> xiu XXlUic xu> tu /\uiciu:uii uuu luc man wxiii iiisn umuu
in his veins. Aside from the few misguided persons who have
made Germany's cause their own, the men of Irish race stand
solidly behind the President in this war. The attitude of the aver
age Irish-Americcn is well put in the following extract from the
Syracuse Post-Standard, which was brought to the attention of
The Pioneer by a man of Irish extraction. It is commended to
the earnest consideration of those who are inclined to allow the
passion of hatred to overcome their devotion and loyalty to their
country in this crisis:
Emil Ahlborn of 258 Marlborough street. Boston, has been
sending German propaganda literature to Harold MacGrath of
this city among others. Harold stood it awhile and then cut loose.
He wrote the following letter to Mr Ahlborn a few days ago. send
ing a cony to the Post-Standard with a request that it be pub
lished in the Morning Mail column:
“To Herr Etnil Ahlborn, Marlborough Street, Boston.
“Sir: You state in your letter to me that, because British
mines strewn in the North sea sank the steamships Carib and
Evelyn, a state of war became existent between this government
and Great Britain. You had your representative appeal to Secre
tary Lansing to include in the official White Book the fact that
Great Britain had established ‘a military area’ in the North sea
and that due to this ‘area’ two of our ships were lost, with some
American lives. I am quoting you. Secretary Lansing replied
that it was deemed unnecessary to reprint the British order in the
official White Book. Why? Because Mr. Lansing possesses a nor
mal brain and can readily distinguish between ‘accident’ and ’mur
der.' We are in a state of war with Germany because that govern
ment has deliberately murdered American citizens. There was
no accident about it; it was premeditated.
“Shame on a human mind which cannot see the difference be
tween the Carib and the Lusitania!
“I am an American citizen, Herr Ahlborn, from the soul of my
feet to the tip of the longest hair on my head. And there are mil
lions in this country just like me. I love my country and I hate
yours with all the ardor of my soul. Your government, mind you,
not your people. No one in the world pities more than I do the
plodding, blindly obedient slaves who think themselves freemen—
the caste-ridden, gun-ridden, tax-ridden German people.
“Before the war broke out we had great admiration for the
British government, but I wasn’t particularly fond of the English
man as an individual. I rather preferred the German. I always
sailed on German ships when I could. But things have changed;
and I am finding myself in love with the Englishman. He and
the Frenchman are my blood brothers. Today the Englishman
stands between me and the eternal damnation of democracy. And
shamefully I must stand aloof and watch him fight for me.
“Herr Ahlborn, I take it that because there’s an Irish tinkle
to my name you sent your propaganda stuff to me on the basis
that I might hate the English so thoroughly it would not matter
how much your German government kicked me so long as it
kicked England a little harder. Am I right? You took a chance,
anyhow, that 1 might be one of those wild and woolly Hibernians
of the James K. McGuire type, who are willing *o fight bravely
for. Ireland—a few thousand miles behind the guns, and willing to
be farther, as my friend Dooley says. Well, your gun-cotton fell
into enemy hands.
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is 3 single word you you might do well to ponder over—Loyalty.
“Now I am going to tell you what I think of your government.
It is natural that I should infer from the nature of your communi
cation that the German government is your government. It
doesn't matter a tinker’s dam that you may have naturalization
papers in your pocket or that you might have been born in this
country. You are patiently serving the imperial German govern
ment—
“Which fights crookedly, acts crookedly, writes crookedly and
thinks crookedly. To which murder and rape and arson are arti
cles of war. Which sinks unarmed ships and fights shy of those
armed. Which professes friendship with one hand and sharpens
the assassin’s knife with the other. Which whines continually that
it is misjudged. Which tearfully talks about human rights and
observes none. Which blames Belgium, France, England, Russia,
Serbia, Japan, China, Montenegro, Italy and the United States for
a war it began. Which will if the war goes much further blame it
on the Eskimo, A mad-dog government which has infected the
whole of civilization with its rabies. Which emulates Attila and
charges the account to God. That is what I think of your govern
ment, Herr Ahlborn, And thank you for the opportunity to rid
my system of the accumulated bile of two years and a half.
“And furthermore, I should like to bundle you and your kind
into that sacred spot in the sea outside of Boston where once upon
a time certain Americans dumped certain canisters of English tea.”
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George Washington warned against entangling alliances and
warned against another thing—an infuriate end insensate hatred
of some particular people, because a man with that in his blood
is incapable of being a real good American citizen in a country
where the melting pot will finally operate.—John Sharp Williams.
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When Germany first announced that she was fighting a war
of defense she never thought she’d see the day when the statemqflt
would be one of fact.—Macon Telegraph.
AS TO NATURALIZED GERMANS
A Nome neswpaper prints the following extract from an article
on ‘‘Germany and South America,” w'hieh is credited to the Janu
ary number of “The Nineteenth Century and After":
Germany only began to organize her action in South
America in 1900. It was about 1898, after the Spanish
American war, when the European nations bowed down before
the Monroe doctrine, that Germany began to think seriously
of establishing herself in South America. Her pacific organ
ization reached its last stage with the promulgation of the
Dcbruck law in July, 1913. After having made a register of
all Germans living in the world they had to make sure tne
means by which they could count on them when tilt hour
was struck for conquest by force of arms. Undoubtedly
German emigrants have always kept in their hearts the cult
of the Fatherland. But this was not enough; the emigrants
of the Fatherland myst still think that they were legally tier
mans. The means for this were simple- -namely, by permit
ting them all to remain Germans and to enjoy the preroga
tives of German subjects, although becoming naturalized in
other countries. Von Liebert was the first to demand that
for this purpose the law of 1870 relating to the loss of na
tionality should be changed. On the 2d of July, 1913, the law
called the Delbruek law was passed. The preamble to this
law explains that its provisions were made for the need of
those who relinquished their nationality in order to earn their
living in other countries. Baron von Richoofen, commenting
on this preamble, said in the reichstag: “We have the pleas
ure of declaring that the project of this law permits Germans
to change their nationality each time they are forced to do
so for economic reasons.” Here is a part of the text of their
law dealing with this subject which is a good example of the
German mentality: “A German citizen need not lose his
nationality if, at his request, and before the acquisition of his
foreign nationality, he shall receive the written consent of
the competent authority.” In this is manifest the anarchic
spirit of Germany. This text being completely in discord with
all the laws of interactional right, neutralized German colo
nists can only keep their German nationality by transgressing
the laws of the countries which they inhabit, and by not
making known their equivocal position to the state in which
they live.
If the statements made in the foregoing extracts be authentic,
which seems incredible, there is but one course open to the United
States in taking measures to protect itself from conditions which
suggest such possibilities for treason in war time and duplicity in
time of peace. If subjects of foreign sovereigns deem the-.r loyalty
to the “divine right" rulers of the land of their nativity superior
to their acquired citizenship in the United States, and the latter
is to be made merely a matter of convenience, steps must be taken
to protect the nation from such iniquitous practices, even to the
extent of denying citizenship to subjects of nations which promul
gate such laws for the guidance of their subjects abroad.
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Already the war liar is at work. A persistent rumor was cir
culated throughout the country to the effect that in a naval en- j
gagement with the German fleet the combined navies of Great j
Britain and the United States had lost sixty vessels, among them :
the Pennsylvania and the Texas. It was stated that hospitals and
navy yards on the Atlantic fcoast were crowded with wounded |
American sailors. In a statement issued by Secretary Daniels it is
said that these outrageous stories were accompanied by an ex
planation that the Washington authorities were in a conspiracy 1
with the press to keep the news from the people. In denying that ,
anv engagement has taken place, or that American ships hace
been lost, or that there are any wounded sailors or marines in any
hospital, Mr. Daniels says: “The declared policy of the navy de- j
partment is one of absolute openness. If disaster comes, no effort
will be made to minimize it. The people of the United States are J
asked to trust in this pledge, and to aid in stamping out this ctm
paign of rumor that is so plainly the product of disloyalty.” j
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A dispatch from Copenhagen says that Emperor William rec- j
Denizes no state of war with'the l niteit Stales so far as In< per- .
soil a! coinfort is concerned. lie has summoned his American den- ,
list to visit him at his headquarters and attend to the necessary
repairs to the imperial teeth. Although we are at war, we are a
civilized people, and so the American dentist will no doubt be a!
1 nved to relieve the sufferings of the kaiser. M: ny will regret that
the law of compensation is not allowed to govern, so that Wilhelm
might be doomed to the fate that Bobbie Burns designed for the
enemies of his country- -
“0 thou glim mischief making chief
That gars the notes of discord squeal.
Till daft mankind aft dance a ret!
In gore a shoe-thick 1
Gie a' the face o’ Scotland’s wet.l
A tnwmond’s toothache!”
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The pacifist.-, have shouted themselves hoarse to the effect that ;
had the question of declaring war been put to a referendum vote
it would have been defeated. Under similar conditions there would,
have been no revolutionary war; it is more than iikeiy a.so that
there would have been no civil war on the secession question, j
Every activity of our government which has demanded sacrifice [
in behalf of humanity has encountered obstructionists and pol
troons, and the present war is no exception. Sometimes men have j
to be shamed into righteous action. It has even been hinted that j
a secret vote of congress on the question of declaring war would t
have shown different totals. It might; but it stands to the eternal
credit of the nttticn that in the final analysis congress is always
patriotic and true to American principles. But it is a wise provi
sion that our representatives must stand in the full glare of the
limelight when they cast their votes.
When it was reported recently that the Germans were render- I
ing human corpses systematically for hog food, lubricants and |
fertilizers, Germany made a very’ vague denial. Now the British j
have taken from a prisoner the original war order issued on |
December 16 last, saying: “It is necessary again to emphasize
that when corpses are sent to the utilization factory returns as to
the unit, date of death, illness and information about the epidemic
are to be furnished at the same time.”
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The Juneau Dispatch takes a dig at the Valdez Prospector on
account of its championing Tom Riggs for governor, and strongly
eulogizes the incumbent, which causes the Valdez newspaper to
rentErk that “this is the very reason we are ferninst the governor.
We believe the Dispatch too ardent in its encomiums to be really
sincere in its statements, and confess that we should like the pres
ent holder of the highest office in the territory far more if the Re
publican papers loved him less.”
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“There is one nmn in the present administration, at least, against |
whom no one was ever heard to say an unkind word, and that
man is Franklin K. Lane,” says the Juneau Dispatch. Has the
Dispatch already forgotten the election pamphlet of its patron
saint, Mr. Wickersham, in which Secretary Lane and his co
workers were held up to the scorn of Alaskans for their “un
American” policies in connection with the building of the gov
ernment railway?
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Those who so loudly denounce the censorship made necessary
by war should remember that this war measure is for their own
protection, and that it was imposed by their ow’n duly elected rep
resentatives, and not by a “divine right” ruler. A reading of some
publications conclusively proves that the censorship is by no means
strict enough. Pro-German utterances, in no matter what guise,
should be unpopular at this time.
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Emma Goldman and her anarchst husba nd will now have time
to reflect that even free speech has its limitations. Language
which incites to law'-breaking is criminal, as other anarchists have
found out heretofore. When one comes to think of it, why do
not these foreign agitators preach their doctrines to the people of
their native lands, where “free speech” is so badly needed?
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“Government after government has, by the;r (Germany’s) in
fluence, without open conquest of its territory, been linked
together in a net if intrigue directed against nothing less than
the peace and liberty of the world,” says President Wilson. And
Stone and Lafoilette, consciously or unconsciously, “did their bit’
in aiding this intrigue.
The main business of this country now, and in all probability
for some time to come, will be the defeat of the imperial German
government. This is no time for the venting of racial hatreds,
especially when intended to embarrass the governments of this
country and of our allies.
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If the forces of autocracy can divide us, they w’ill overcome
us.—President Wilson.
ALASKA
Hail, Northland! hail, wild spirit of the
North!
’Neath skies like thine, in the far olden
time,
The Viking fathers reared their virile brood,
A valiant race, that held the world at scorn,
And launched their barks defiant on the
t ide,
And laughed at death, and laughing closed
their eyes,
While songs to Aegir rode the storm wind’s
crest.
Sea kings and rovers, leaving heritage
Of hearts that never knew the blight of fear,
Of brawn and sinew and of daring deeds,
And to their sons the spirit of unrest,
To know the confines of the uttermost,
And guide the destinies of unknown lands.
And in this other North," perchance un
known,
Some vagrant drop of Viking blood hath
urged
To wrestle nature in familiar scenes;
To roughly hew a tribute to the past,
And shape a realm from rugged cradle bed.
— John Bathurst, in Seattle Post-Intell:
gencer.
AMERICA'S WAR AIMS
OUTLINED BY PRESIDENT
President Wilson’s statement to the pro
visional government of Russia, outlining
the war purposes of the United States, was
made public at Washington on June 0. I:
was sent to Petrograd about two weeks
prior to that date, as in answer to the
announced Russian policy of “no annexa
tions, no indemnities.” The statement in
full is as follows:
‘‘In view of the approaching visit of the
American delegation to Russia to express
the deep friendship of the American people
for the people of Russia and to discuss the
best and most practical means of co-opera
tion between the two peoples in carrying the
present struggle for the freedom of all peo
ple.--. to a successful consummation, it seems
opportune and appropriate that I should
state again, in the light of this new part
nership, the objects the United States lias
had in mind in entering the war. Those
objects have been very much beclouded dur
ing the past few weeks by mistaken and mis
leading statements, and the issues at stake
are too momentous, too tremendous, too
significant for the whole human race to
permit any misinterpretations or misunder
standings, however slight, to remain uncor
rected for a momept.
Kaiser Using Socialists
“The war has begun to go against Ger
many. and in their desperate desire to escape
the inevitable defeat, those who are in au
thority in Germany are using every possible
instrumentality, are making use even of the
influence of groups and parties among their
own subjects to whom they have never been
just or fair or even tolerant, to promote a
propaganda on both sides of the sea which
will preserve for them their influence at
home and their power abroad, to the un
doing of the very nun they are using.
America Seeks No Conquest
“The position of America in this war is
so clearly avowed that no man can be ex
cused for mistaking it. b'hc seeks no ma
terial profit nr aggrandizement of any kind.
She is lighting for no advantage or selfish
object of her own, but for the liberation of
peoples everywhere from the aggro-so ns of
autocratic force. The ruling classes in Ger
many have begun of late to profess a like
liberal't.v and justice of purpose, but only
to preserve the power they have set up in
Germany and the .-elfish advantages which
they have wrongly gained for themselves
end their private projects of power all the
way from Beilin to Bagdad' and beyond.
Government, after government has, by their
intlui nee. without open conquest of its ter
l it t ry, been linked together in a net of in
trigue directed against nothing T--s than
the peace and liberty of the world. The
meshes of that intrigue must be broken,
but c.: nnot be broken unless wrongs already
clone are undone; and adequate measures
must be taken to prevent it from ever again
being rewoven or repaired. *
“Of course the imperial German govern
ment and those whom it is using for their
own undoing are seeking to obtain pi >dge
that the war will end in the re-torarion of
the status quo ante. Tt was the status quo
ante out of which this iniquitous war issued
forth, the power of the imperial German
government within the empire and its wide
spread domination and influence outside of
that empire. That status must be altered
in such fashion as to prevent any such hid
eous thing from ever happening again.
Remedies Sought
“We are fighting for the liberty, the self
government and the undictated development
of all peoples, and every feature of the set
tlement that concludes this war must be
conceived and executed for that purpose.
Wrongs must first be righted and then ade
quate safeguards must be created to prevent
their being committed again. We ought not
to consider remedies merely because they
have a pleasing and sonorous sound. Prac
tical questions can be settled only by prac
tical means. Phrases will not accomplish
the result. Effective readjustments will;
and whatever readjustments are necessary
must be made.
“But they must follow a principle, and
that principle is plain.
“No people must be forced under
sovereignty under which it does not
wish to live.
“No territory must change hands ex
cept for the purpose of securing those
who inhabit it a fair chance of life and
liberty.
“No indemnities must be insisted on
except those that constitute payment
for manifest wrongs done.
“No readjustments of power must
be made except such as will tend to
secure the future peace of the world
and the future welfare and happiness
of its peoples.
“And then the free peoples of the world
must draw together in some common cov
enant, some genuine and practical co-opera
tion, that will in effect combine their force
to secure peace and justice in the dealings
of nations with one another. The brother
hood of mankind must no longer be a fair
but empty phrase; it must be given a struc
ture of force and reality. The nations must
realize their common life and effect a work
able partnership to secure that life against
the aggressions of autocratic and self-pleas
ing power.
“For these things we can afford to pour
out blood and treasure. For these are the
things we have always professed to desire,
and unless we pour out blood and treasure
now and succeed, we may never be able to
unite or show conquering force again in the
great cause of human liberty. The day has
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! come to conquer or submit. If the forces
] of an'ocracy can divide us, they will over
; come u>; if we stand together, victory is
! certain and the liberty which victory will
secure.
j ‘We can afford then to be generous, but
I we cannot afford then or now to be weak
I or omit any single guarantee of justice and
I security.
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OUR DEBT TO THE GERMANS
It is not generally realized that more Ger
| mans fought against us in the revolution
! than Frenchmen fought for us. Some 29,000
i mercenaries came from Germany, and about
I half of them never returned. It was ex
j pensive business, for King George paid
I SS.850,000 to the German princes and it
! al.-o cast him America. The landgrave of
Hesse Case!, who got $00,000 a year for the
! sal of his subjects, lost his realm on ae
! count of it America was avenged by Na
j poleon, who, as he abolished the Hesse
I Cassel dynasty, declared: “Ths vile avarice
i now overthrows their house.” And the
; turning point of the war was that famous
j Christmas night when Washington was
I crossing the Delaware amid the snow and
j ice and the Hessians were getting drunk
i iV:' r where Woodrow Wilson used to live
while he was president of Princeton. 1 es,
we all owe much to the Hesdans who were
! in our midst in the days of ’76.--Edwin E.
i Slosson in the Independent.
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