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AMERICAN TEUTONS AND THE WAR
\
An Editorial by Otto H. Kahn
A century and a half ago Americans of English birth
rose to free this country from the oppression of the rul
ers of England. Today Americans of German birth are call
ed upon to rise, together with their fellow-citizens of all |
races, to free not only this country but the whole world
from the oppression of the rulers of Germany, an oppres
sion far less capable of being endured and of far graver
portent.
Speaking as one born of German parents, I do not hesi
tate to state it as my deep conviction that the greatest ser
vice which men of German birth or antecendents can ren
der to the country of their origin is to proclaim, and to
stand up for those great and fine ideals and national quali
ties and traditions which they inherited from their ances
tors, and to set their faces like (lint against the monstrous
doctrines and acts of a rulership w hich have robbed them
of the Germany w hich they loved and in which they took
just pride, the Germany which had the good will, respect
and admiration of the entire world.
I do not hesitate to state it as my solemn conviction
that the more unmistakably and wholeheartedly Ameri
cans of German origin throw themselves into the struggle
which this country has entered in order to rescue Ger
many, no less than America and the rest of the world from
those sinister forces that are, in President Wilson’s lan
guage, the enemy of all mankind, the better they protect
and serve the repute of the old German name and the true
advantage of the German people.
uentlemen, 1 measure mv words. 1 hey are borne out
all too emphatically by the hideous eloquence of deeds
which have appalled the conscience of the civilized world.
They are borne out by numberless expressions, written and
spoken, of German professors employed by the State to
teach its vouth.
The burden of that teaching is that might makes right,
and that the German nation has been chosen to exercise
morally, mentally and actually, the over-lordship of the
world and must and will accomplish that task and that des
tiny whatever the cost in bloodshed, misery and ruin.
The spirit of that teaching, in its intolerance, its mix
ture of sanctimoniousness and covetousness and its self
righteous assumption of a world-improving mission, is
closely akin to the spirit from which were bred the religi
ous wars of the past through the long and dark years when
Protestants and Catholics killed one another and devas
tated Europe.
I speak in sorrow, for I am speaking of the country
of my origin and I have not forgotten what I owe to it.
I speak in bitter disappointment, for I am thinking of
the Germany of former days, the Germany which has con
tributed its full share to the store of the world’s imperish
able assets and which, in not a few fields of human endeav
or and achievement held the leading place among the na
tions of the earth.
And 1 speak in the firm faith that, after its people shall
have shaken off and made atonement for the dreadful spell
which an evil fate has cast upon them, that former Ger
many is bound to arise again and, in due course of time,
will again deserve and attain the good-will and the high
respect of the world and the affectionate loyalty of all
those of German blood in foreign lands.
But I know that neither Germany nor this country
nor the rest of the world can return to happiness and peace
and fruitful labor until it shall have been made manifest,
bitterly and unmistakably manifest, to the rulers who bear
the blood-guilt for this wanton war and to their misin
formed and misguided peoples that the spirit which un
chained it cannot prevail .that the hateful doctrines and
methods in pursuance of which and in compliance with
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which it is conducted are rejected with abhorrence by the
civilized world, and that the over-weening ambitions which
it was meant to serve can never be achieved.
The fight for civilization which we all fondly believed
f ad been won many years ago must be fought over again.
In this sacred struggle it is now our privilege to take no
mean part, and our glory to bring sacrifices.
Would life be tolerable if the power of Prussianism, j
run mad and murderous, held the world by the throat, if
the primacy of the earth belonged to a government
steeped in the doctrines of a barbarous past and supported
1 y a ruling caste which preaches the deification of sheer j
might, which despises liberty, hates democracy and would
destroy both if it could?
To that spirit and to those doctrines, ce, citizens ofi
America and servants, as such, of humanity, will oppose1
our solemn and unshakable resolution “to make the world
safe for democracc,” and we will say, with a clear con
science, in the noble words which more than five hundred
years ago were uttered by the Parliament of Scotland:
“It is not for glory, or for riches, or for honor
that we fight, but for liberty alone which no good
man loses but with his life."
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SHIPMATE STOVES BURNHAM LINES
WIZARD MAGNETOS NATIONAL SPARK COILS
BUY THESE STANDARD LINES FROM YOUR
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Having for sale at a most reason- j
able price some of the choicest land in
insurrection Valley I therefore invite
inquiries from those that contem- j
plate the purchase of any number of
acres. The success with which all of
those who have already bought j
acreage in the Ole Martin homestead
are meeting in cultivating these lands
is the best evidence you can secure of
what the soil can do.
J. A. Stewart
Phone: Madison 147.
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Alaska.July 23
Mariposa.Aug. 1
Northwestern.Aug. 4
Alameda.Aug. 10
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All passenger ships will touch at Skagway northbound. The Alameda
and Mariposa will be the only ships to call at Skagway southbound.
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5c pound for rope.
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