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The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, May 15, 1917, Image 6

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THE GARDEN ISLAND. TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1)17.
Loyal American of German Birth
Points Out Duty of Naturalized
Tin1 inithoi f tin' following in
Icrt'stiiiK '""l temperate nrtirle,
vUitcd the l-Linds a year or so ngo,
in the interest of certain actuary
investigations, jatlierhtg statistics
ill tile manner of life ele. of ilitfer
ent people. He spent a few days
in lalun' as the tiuest of Rev. and
Mrs. Hans Isi-iihevg and wa taken
almut somewhat lv Mr. Win. Hyde
Uiee. He was a man of exception
al intelligence and cuHuit; and
those who were fortunate enough to
nvenhim "ill rt ad the following
;ir(iee with special interest:
New York Horn in Germany,
I have for more than thirty
ve us hecn a ufident of this coun
try a:ul for twenty-five years a
cit'cn tbe-.c-of. The oath of alle
genice uiiuires "the support of
the Constitution of the United
ties and the renunciation and
'nation of all allegiance a:. J
" 'itv to eveiv fi,;eign prince,
; cittatc. State or sovereignty
Mtsoevi. r.
republic, including the govern
ment of their native country, spe
cifically and unconditionally re
nounced in the solemn obligation
to protect and preserve the gov
ernment of the United States. Bv
its own deliberate and wrongful
policy of indifference to interna
tional law and treaty obligations
the German government has for
feited the good faith and confi
dence of the Western world. By
insidious methods and means it
his attempted to sow the seeds of
disloyalty and discontent among
our foreign born element while
still maintaining diplomatic and
friendly relations with the govern
ment and the people of the United
States.
There could not possibly be a
more humiliating admission than
this involving the national inte
grity of a truly great people; but
the facts are beypYid controversy,
those who will not see. Never be
fore has the world beheld a people
truly great in all the essentials of
a highly developed Christian and
social life lowered to the status of
national degradation by its own ill
considered adherence to a govern
mental policy of specious defence
of obvious wrong. From the treaty
violation of the land of the Bel
gians and the criminal destruction
of the Lusitania to the treacherous
conspiracy against the political in
tegrity ol a friendly power and the
wanton destitution of its neutral
shipping Germany has contemptu
ously disregarded the united judg
ment of the civilized world and
made a needless sacrifice of her
national honor and the present
and future interests of the German
people.
Many millions of Germans have
come to these friendly shores,
practically from the very settle
ment of the country, firm in the
intention and belief that in some
small measure they might by their
loyalty, intelligence and industry
give futherance to the high aims
and ideals of the American repub
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th. w
n ci is
I not
up-.-n
h thi
nroVL
and it is the truth alone that can
; make us free. It is for Americans ' lie. That faith lies rooted deeo in
ith is binding upon ;nil-0f German birth and ancestry tolthe hearts of those who are well
An.'.; icans of German j (i0 even more than their required I aware of the constructive and
o are toilav confronted ; simre in behalf of the national elevating influence of Oerniun
ir!i nrt'nn; , . a : i:c-. : n
tiiiisc, 3u umi nit u rn in a tn i is u 1 1 runs u .itnericaii me; liiuuences
ing faith in German honor may be farreaching on the progress of
redeemed by those who had them-' literature, the fine arts, the music,
selves to be accountable only to
the Supreme Being and the gov
ernment and the people of their
adopted country.
The world is not at war with the
s which demands actions
words. They are call
to square their conduct
- e,th of allegiance and
luiuseives wormy or me
cck-.- privilege of American
zenship in behalf of the cause
national defense against a
ei'n foe.
It is the trageilv of history that
)v wanton act of deliberate
at- session against the lives and
piopertv of Ameiican citizens and
the crowning infamy of conspi
r - v against our territorial in--.rity
the German government
.-i-'iuld have forfeited our confi
i! "ice and good will. It is there
. e onviouslv the patriotic dutv
every American of German birth
render the fullest measure of
conditional loyalty to the na
nal cause and whatever active
s "istance may be essential to the
i lininent of a final victory which
m 11 guarantee to the world a last
in. t peace.
.'he dutv of the hour is unequi
vocal, and it is for each and every
one of the foreign birth to prove
01
ti
the education, the religion, the
philanthrophv and the social and
moral conduct of the American
people. The German element by
common consent has rendered sub-
German people, but with the Ger- stantial services in the national
man government and its ruthless i struggle for independence in the
and ill considered military policy. ' second war against England and in
without a parallel in modem lfis-jthe war for the preservation of the
tory. Already at war with the i union, ana it win not ue touna
leading powers of the European wanting in the present crisis,
continent, the German government
ha also broken faith with the
one nation whose good will more
than that of anv other she will be
most in need of wdien the seeming
ly hopeless task of reconstruction
will have to be attempted for the
good of the generations yet to be.
Never was it more true than of
the German government in this
most trying hour of its history
that verily those whom the gods
would destroy they first make
mad. For only the conception of
national madness can explain a
course of wrongful conduct, sym-
which concerns the future destiny
of mankind for all time to come.
In a large measure the Germans
of this country have shared in the
most arduous labor of converting
a continental wilderness into an
earthly paradise, and they and
their descendants may be relied
upon to protect and conserve for
the benefit of future generations
what, in part at least, has been
created by their toil. They have
ever been conservative in their
political influence, and their traits
of home life, industry, thrift and
obedience to law and order are
t oaths of allegiance are not i bolizing a sinful theory of self-j proverbial and a guarantee that as
r.i. "iniiigless and that their appli
cation to American citizenship can
he effectively visualized into ac
tions of enduring worth. The
lo altv of American!? of German
birth includes the dutv, however
trying, of active resistance against
anv and eve-v foe of the American
righteousness and self sufficiency
obviously incompatible with time
honored convictions and univer
sally accepted rule? of action and
principles of law in international
relations. Never was it more true
of any government or people than
that there are none so blind as
a people they will not be found
has been brought upon the world,
which has made patience on our
past cease to be a virtue and which
demands drastic and far reaching
action in behalf of the ultimate
attainment of the cause of univer
sal peace. It is with a sense of
deep humiliation that every Amer
ican of German ancestry or birth
must share in the universal con
demnation of the wrongful actions
of the responsible powers which
have misguided the destiny of the
German Empire and lowered it
from a position of preeminence in
public morality and the arts of life
to one of incredible indifference to
the tccognized rules of rational and
honorable conduct in international
relations without which the world
cannot exist and remain at peace.
However deeply attached to the
country of their origin, which gave
birth to. Martin Luther and the
Reformation, the land of Im
manuel Kant, who was the first to
propose a plan for an everlasting
peace; of Lessing, Weiland, Lava
ter, Von Horder. Goethe Schiller,
Fichte, Richter, Von Schlegel,
Hegel, Chamisso and Heine, whose
every word breathes the spirit of a
true civilization, it is for all
Americans of German ancestry or
birth to realize the dutv which
confronts them and solemnly and
unreservedly to consecrate their
aims, their efforts and their pos
sessions in the futherance of the
national cause.
He needs must fight
To make true peace his own;
He needs must combat might with
might
Or might would rule alone.
ALFRED TENNYSON.
In all the world there is no flag
more inspiring than the Stars and
Stripes; the fairest symbol of un
stained honor after more than a
century of national life and inter
national relations. Life and ser
vice under that Flag is a priceless
privilege and a guarantee of good
faith in peace and war. Loyalty
to that Flag is th? supreme duty
not only to the American republic
but to the cause of government by
the consent of the governed and
liberty and democracy throughout
the world. Under this Flag Ameri
cans of German ancestry and birth,
with the countless millions of oth
er origins, have found a new free
dom, which to conserve and main
tain is enough to have lived for
and if needed be to have suffered
tViAiand to have died for. Above and
interests-of a higher civilization beyond the glory of empire and
have been betrayed bv the govern-! "e achievements of military power
ment of their native land. lies the higher dutv to the cause
By the actions of the German of truth and the righteousness
military government in power, in- tnnt exalteth a nation."
describable sorrow and disaster FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN.
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