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text of Roosevelt's Reply to Burleson
?iea rstA ttacks on A Hies
Denounced by Roosevelt
Continued from Paqe S
v . ?**?*? ?t spoke of our 'inter,
?J5Europe's vwr.^
Ca/i? Acfion Contrary
To Principle of Justi
?Tt Is absolutely impossible to r
JL the government's action in p
???? ?eainst Tom Watson's pa]
2?S SB?? to proceed against
? ?\'s napers on any theory tl
?SS'wC'to be done alike to t
Te above quotations from 1
Hi*!Si mav be found in recent isst
? New York Tribune The g<
oi ?tw-i full notice about Heai
?mirent r>ac barred him fr<
*n^l-:\-\>r.L\ only through t
2i oftces of this government ha
S? privilege? just now been i
^;fdTo Mr. Hear,:.
\.Vor is this ai!. A mass meeting
ih<n?ands o? citizens of New York w
S? Carnegie Hall on November
9? under the auspices of the Ame:
2. Defence Society to protest nga.i
T? wirit of disloyalty shown by ce
Shi persons, especially Mr. Hear
u?t*i V Beck delivered an addre
? .ii-n-r'-fo*** the mostopart with A
H?r"t This portion of the address
v?(-*?'-.'? ncluded in the appendix
.?A.?* New York Times.' among oth
S?, print. . this address almost
full.
"The government, therefore, had IV
?.rain**: and full knowledge, of all
? Hearts activities. Mr. Hears*
?aoers have defended our war met
Sencies, have apologized for the fa
?res In the war programme, and ha
?ven denied such breakdowns as th
in the aircraft programme.
Hearst's Attitude Toward Russia
"It is true that since we entered tl
? war Mr. Hearst has at various tim?
issued editorials professing great patr
otic leal, but it was at the very tin
?when in other editorials he was attacl
inethe allies of America, England ar
Japan in the most offensive way. and i
the very time when he was upholdin
the Russian Bolshevists, who had mad
Russia a traitor to the free nations <
the'world and a subservient ally of tl*
German autocracy. Such action cann
fail to give aid and comfort to Ge:
many.
"By turning to The New York Tril
une of May 8, 1918, Postmaster Ger
eral Burleson will find an ardent tril
ute paid by the former German corr?
spondent of the 'K?lnische Zeituni
to Mr. Hearst and Mr. Hearst's editoi
in-chief, Arthur Brisbane, for havin
been 'auxiliaries of valued influenct
to Germany, especially because of 'th
editorials in the Hearst newspapers.
"in 'The New York Times* of Augus
14,1917, there is a quotation by specu
table, via The Hague, from the Germa
'Vossische Eeitung' which states tha
the 'anti-war movement#in America i
gaining in strength' and that 'wa
propagandists in the New York pr?s
have lately met stout resistance fror
no other than Mr. Hearst and histhirt
papers, by the issuance of warnings t
the people about the danger of pi un g
ing into European war.' and continue
to speak of *the generous nature of th
work he had done for Germany' am
that Mr. Hearst 'preached' irf behalf o
the.Ceiitral Powers. Mr. Hearst earnei
the praise thus given him by the ser
vantsof the Kaiser, and during the tim*
?when he was earning it the Kaiser wa
saying to Ambassador Gerard, as thi
latter recites in his book: 'America ha<
better look out after this war. I shal
stand no nonsense from America afte
the war'?which the ambassador report
ed to the Administration at Washing
ton, without, by the way. producing an;
effect upor, the Administration.
Brisbane Follows Hearst's Lead
"Mr. Brisbane, in 'The Washingtoi
Times,'ably followed Mr. Hearst s lead
On August 8, 1917, it said 'the mos
powerful and effective peace worker ii
this country is William Randolp]
?earst. The world wants peace. It i
more important than victory.' On Jul;
16, 1917, when Russia was under i
democratic government and still a fight
jng ally of the United States agains
Germany, Mr. Brisbane's paper, 'Thi
Washington Times,' said:
VAnarchy rules in Russia?some?
body must do something. The nat?
ural somebody is Germany, right next
door to Russia . . . the civiliza?
tion of Western Europe mav be very
grateful to Germany if the war finds
Germany with enough strength left
to undertake the maintaining of or?
der in Russia?developing the re?
sources there and making a few bill?
ions of rubles in the process.'
"It seems literally incredible that ?
paper making an utterance like thii
could have been left unmolested by at
Administration that had proceedec
against poor Tom Watson?and thi;
paper was published within two blocks
ot the White House.
, '?n August 21, 1017, this paper saie
we have lent to our Allies about twe
thousand millions . . . this we leni
our Allies to help in the game of mur
uer.
"I commend these facts to Mr. Burle
M ' t\n(* also to his Cabinet associate
?Mr. Daniels, in view of their recent
wlegrams of congratulation to Mr
Brisbane upon assuming charge of cer?
tain Chicago papers, reported as bein*.*
H*ar|t papers. These telegrams have
oeen published in one of Mr. Hearst's
i* ?rk Papers, 'The Evening -Tour*
?a*. Mr. Burleson says of Mr. Hearst's
alter ego that he 'congratulates' th?
people of Chicago because they are tc
have the benefit of Mr. Brisbane's 'able
and unselfish efforts ... I indulge
the hopo that (his paper) will always
a-and for justice and freedom and true
democratic government.' And Mr. Dan
??la goes Mr. Burleson one better in
?pressing the belief that Mr. Brisbane
will preach 'patriotism* and 'civie
Righteousness.'
Admits All Pro-Germans
Denounce His Actions
"Mr. Burleson has stated that he has
*?ceived 'more complaints' about my
Writings than about those of Mr
?earst. In view of Mr. Burleson's rec?
ord and actions, there is small cause
lor wonder in this. Every pro-German
*noI anti-American, every believer in a
feeble American war and a triumphant
yerman peace,- every man who follows
Mr. Hearst, would naturally appeal for
sympathy to Mr. Burleson in de?
nunciation of what I have done.
."Messrs. Hearst and Brisbane
through their papers have been un?
ceasing in their attacks upon England
?nd Japan. 'The New York American1
?n December 20. 1917, said that 'the
offensive and defensive alliance then
negotiated betwei-n Japan and Eng?
land was aimed at the United States.'
This deliborate falsehood was pub?
lished at the very time that England
*?? defending us with her fleet and her
?rmy. There could be no meaner ex?
am-pi-} of treachery to our allies and
of subservience to our enemy. It was
* thousand times more worth the at?
tention of Mr. Burleson than anything
done by the small papers against which
the Postoffice Department did act.
"On September 15. 1917. Mr. Hearst's
?|?a for a German peace in 'The New
ork American' ran 'th? best peace
' .? '&' '
??h J! con^**"fcl is a iVce without
victory, a peace without conquest, a
w1tbLfW???0?tt.inde,mnitIe8. a peace
Wftnout annexations.'
an 'S?w*?1*^2' A9i_ Mr- Hearst made
^bittered attack upon Japan, and
on March 20 he repeated the attack.
He spoke of the 'military despotism
ot Japan, of the 'brutal Oriental gel
??*??8 ,n,JaPa,n's Present attitude.'
and -then asked the question as to who
vas pomg to drive her from Siberia,
answering it:
"'Not the Allies, for thev are too
much occupied with their .war. Not
tne TjnitPd States, because we are
putting ail our eggs in the Allies'
DasKet. There is one combination
??r,0J<,c.-\"h'<-h ?night drive Japan
out of Siberia, and that is Russia
in an active and aggressive alliance
vyicn the Teutonic empire.'
Would Make Russia Kaiser's Ally
"These sentences amount to incite?
ment to Russia to become the mili?
tary ally and therefore the military
vassal of Germany, and to the effort
to persuade our people that the war
is nor our war hut only the war of
the Allies?-that it is 'their war.'
"Such language as this, used less
than two months before Mr. Burleson
issued his challenge to me, is a thou?
sand times more damaging to the
United States 'han anything ever said
by Tom Watson or any other of the
editors of small papers. For Mr. Bur?
leson to allow the paper making such
an appeal to go unchallenged, and yet
at the same time to permit without re
buKe the New York postoffice to attack
a publication like "The Metropolitan,"
is incompatible with the supposition
that he was thinking only of the wel?
fare of the country.
"Mr. Hearst's paper actually states
that it believes that our govern?
ment made a great mistake when it did
not meet both English aggressions and
German aggressions . . . with armed
resistance. This was announced during
the war; yet at this very time Eng?
land is protecting us from Germany,
and without that protection we would
be given ro time in which slowly
to make ready to protect ourselves. Ii
we had begun to prepare in August,
1914, we would have needed no protec?
tion from others. But we refused tc
prepare, and therefore we owe oui
safety now only to the fact that oui
friends are able to fight for us against
our enemies while we are slowly pre?
paring to fight for ourselves. And Mr
Hearst under these conditions ex?
presses regret that we did not go to
war against the friend who fought
for us! Such a proposal is a proposal
in the interest of the flenemy, whe
murdered our women and children.
Dollar Placed Above Man
"On September 22, 1917, when tlv
American nation still bad no troops ii
the trenches, when we had only len
money to the Allies, Mr. Hearst touchei
the nadir of the policy that puts th?
dollar above the man, when he state?
that our government has the right an?
power to dictate the terms of peace
and the American people expect Eng
land and the other allied government
to recognize that right and to accep
the terms laid down; the statement be
;ng preceded by the following: 'Hav
ing practically exhausted the resource
of Russia, France and Italy, the Eng
lish government now seeks succor i
our American resources. The mone
of the American people has been loane
to the Allies in great sums. Sti
greater sums are in readiness to len
them.' Statements like this cannot bu
aid Germany.
"In all of Mr. Hearst's career it ma
well be doubted whether he has eve
proposed anything more sordid tha
this suggestion to the American peopb
to a free people with a glorious past
a people proudly able and willing t
fight for its honor. The proposal :
that we should treat having lei
money to the Allies as offsetting tl
fact that these Allies had shed tl
blood of millions of their sons'in pr
tecting not only themselves but th
country from the brutal dominion
Germany?a dominion under which,
Mr. Hearst's advice had been followe
this country would now be cowering.
Declares America Owes
Great Debt to Allu
"The debt the Allies owe to us f
our money is infinitesimal compared
the debt that we owe them for t"
blood shed by their sons on battlefiel
where this nation had as much at sta
as the nations whose armies foug
thereon.
"On March 8 last Mr. Hearst, preac
ing hatred to Japan and using langua
tending to serve Germany by bringi
about a break between the United Stat
and Japan, and perhaps Great Brita
says: 'If Great Britain cannot restra
her speciul ally Japan from acts
aggression inimical to our interests,'
can remove our ships and troops fr<
Europe and transfer them to Asia. Tl
is a threat of war with Japan; a thr?
that we will enter on a war of aggr?
sion in Asia. There could be no pos
bio result of such a threat exc?
service to Germany. It was a thr?
to abandon the war against Gi
many, our enemy, and embark on
war against Japan, our ally; and tl
because Japan, in the interest of t
Allies and of civilization, had conte
plated action in East Siberia agaii
the Bolsheviki, who have shown the
selves to be the allies of Germany, 1
enemies'of civilization and the enem
of the United States.
Importance of War Belittled
These quotations show that 1
I Hearst has steadily endeavored to
I little the vital importance to our co
; try of this war, and to excite the hat
j of our people against our allies v
are faithfully fighting beside us; i
such conduct can be of help only
Germany, to the enemy we are fig
ing. Just so long as Mr. Hearst's p
I iicationn are permitted in the ma
i Mr. Burleson is without excuse for
i eluding any other publication fi
I them. The Administration, by its
| quiescence, permits the continuation
? Mr. Hearst's campaign, which nee
j sarily tries to give aid and comfort
i Germany and to impair the morale
| our own people.
"The quotations above given depi
j Mr. Burleson and the Administr?t
of which he is part of any shred
justification for their action and It
tion. Mr. Burleson is, of course, o
secondarily responsible in the mat
j Mr. Hearst's papers are so import
and Mr. Hearst's position among
Administration's political friends, s
porters and advisers is so promin
and the action in connection with
instating him in his cable privile
was so purely dependent upon
President himself, that no subordii
of the President can accept or be ci
ited with the chief responsibility
any action or inaction of the Adr,
i8tration in relation to Mr. Hearst.
Administration is responsible for
toleration of Mr. Hearst's anti-/
anti-war, and, therefore, anti-Am
can activities, and for the rev
nevertheless given him. and the
vice rendered on the other side by
Hearst was service to the Adminis
tion and not to the country.
"I have quoted above the Unguag
Colonel Calls
For the End of
Half Loyalty
Sinn Fein and German Alli?
ance Have 50-50 Allegi?
ance, He Says
Home Folk Must Be
Thorough Americans
Roosevelt Pleads Patriot?
ism at College Founded
by Teutons
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, May 25. -Colo?
nel Roosevelt preached whole-hearted
Americanism to-day at, Wittenberg
College, an institution founded by
Lutherans of German blood, speaking
from a platform which he shared with
the Lutheran president of the college
and a dignitary of the Catholic Church,
both of them of German origin.
He linked together the German
American Alliance, t'ne Sinn Fein and
the Russian Bolsheviki as elements
which put other sentiments before
loyalty to America. The home folks
must be thoroughgoing Americans, he
declared, and back up their soldiers.
The way to do it, he said, was to do
"the thing that is next."
Colonel Roosevelt's Address
His address follows:
"At this time no good American
should sleep easily if during the day
he has not done everything in hi?
power to put this country back of the
armed men who in France are fighting
for our own national honor and inter?
est, and for the future of the fre?
peoples of civilized mankind. The
peril is faced by and the honor if
rightly due to those at the front. Bu'
the rest of us, the men and women whe
cannot get to the front, must at leas
back up our men in every possible
way; and the way to back them up ii
every day, every week, every month t<
do the thing that is next.
"At this moment the thing that i:
next is the Red Cross drive. Las
month it was the Liberty Loan. An?
all the time the biggest thing that i
next is to back up the men who wea
our uniform by insisting that we a
home tolerate absolutely no' divisioi
on the great question of Americanism
"It is primarily on this question o
Americanism that I come to speak to
day. I accepted the invitation to com
here from the president of Wittenber;
College, who informed me he wishe
me because Wittenberg College, found
ed by Lutherans of German blood, wa
American and nothing elfce, and that h
wanted me to preach the straightef
and stiffest doctrine of Americanisn
exactly such doctrines as I have bee
?f____^
complimentary indorsement in which
two of President Wilson's Cabinet min?
isters have addressed Mr. Hearst's ed?
itor, Mr. Brisbane. The President's
private secretary writes Mr. Brisbane
in the same vein. In 'The Chicago
Herald and Examiner' of May 19 (last
Sunday) appears the following letter,
under the heading 'A New Subscriber':
" 'The White House,
" 'Washington,
"'May 14, 1918.
"'My Dear Mr. Brisbane:
"'When you were at the White House
offices to-day I forgot to ask you to
send me "The Chicago Herald and Ex?
aminer" regularly to my office here. I
am sure you are going to make the
same good Democratic fight in Chicago
that you have been making in your
paper in Washington, and I want to see
just how you do it.
" 'Sincerely yours.
" M. P. TUMULTY,
" 'Secretary to the President.
" 'Mr. Arthur Brisbane, care "Chicago
Herald and Examiner," Chicago, 111.
Harvey Says Burleson
Is Encouraging Enemy
"George Harvey has pointed out in
the 'North American Review War
Weekly' that Mr. Burleson is en?
couraging enemy language publications,
by having a special division whose
function is to assist editors of for?
eign language papers 'in complying
wi'th the law.' The Act of Congress
provides that all foreign language pa?
pers should submit to censorship or
go out of business. The Postoffice
Department's duty is merely to sup?
press those of them which are guilty
of treasonable practices. Apparently,
as Mr. Harvey points out, Mr. Burle?
son, instead of suppressing papers that
preach sedition, establishes a division
to show them how they can escape
suppression.
"Mr. Hearst's papers are infinitely
kthe most important of those which
i during the last yeat and a quarter have
i tended to serve Germany an?l have
| harmed the United States by attacking
our allies or opposing our effective par
! ticipation in the war. There are vari
? ous other papers published in English
j or German which liave been less im?
portant offenders.
"On April 2 Ptfofessor Guernsey
Jones, of the University of Nebraska,
published an article in 'The Nebraska
State Journal' on 'The Enemy Press.'
He quoted various articles that have
appeared in Germaij-American papers
I since the war, and ?some of them as
? late as January, February and March
I last, championing the German-Ameri
! can Alliance, attacking England and
I Japan, announcing that 'the problem of
the German press is to save Deutsch
' turn in the United States,' demanding
a peace which would give Germany the
victory, praising Gerrhany's action tow?
ard Russia, and in other ways, as Pro?
fessor Jones says, showing themselves
to be 'insolent organi of Prussianism.'
"These papers wera being published,
and Mr. Hearst was publishing his pa?
pers, without interference by the Post
office Department and the government,
at the same time that proceedings were
I being taken against *The Metropolitan
i Magazine,' one of the stanchest up
? holders of the war and stanchest op
! ponente of Prussiaaism in all the
i United States.
i
Congress Lavishly Generous
i "Conereo? has with lavish generosity
i granted all tho Administration has de
*
preaching all my life, and most of all
during the past four years.
"To emphasize the quality of true
Americanism. President Heckert, the
president, of this Lutheran college, has
asked my old and deeply valued friend,
Monsigneur Vattman. to come, so thnt
it is a Lutheran preacher and a Cath?
olic ecclesiastic who give the invoca?
tion and the benediction at this meet?
ing. Both alike are of German blood,
and both of them are as straight and
good Americans as are to be found in
the whole United States, bone of our
bone and fresh of our flesh, Americans
in body and in spirit, standing like all
other good Americans for America and
the allies of America, and against the
Prussianized Germany of to-day and
all her allies and vassal states.
"Such an invitation from such a
source appealed to me peculiarly, and I
was glad to accept it.
No 50-50 Allegiance
"The first essential here in the Uni?
ted States is that we shall be one na?
tion and that the American nation. We
are a new nation, by blood akin to but
different from every one of the nations
of Europe. We have our own glorious
past, we are a nation with a future
such as no other nation in the world
has before it, i i only we, the men and
women of to-day, do our full duty and
bring up our ions and daughters to do
their full duty, as Americans and as
nothing else.
"In such a nation there can be no
fifty-fifty allegiance. There is no such
thing as being loyal to the United
States and also ' loyal to any other
power. It is just as impossible as for
a man to be loyal to his wife and also
equally loyal to some other woman. If
any man dilutes his loyalty to America
by any degree of loyalty to any other
country whatsoever, he ought instantly
to be sent out of this country and ?&fik
t *? the country where, he belongs. And
of course the case is even worse if he
sacrifices his loyalty for America to
his hatred for some other country.
"The German-American alliance put
the interests of Germany above the in?
terests of the United States; it showed
itself the embittered foe of America
and tried to run our politics with ref?
erence not, to our own honor and inter?
ests, but. to the needs of the Germany
of the Hohenzollerns.
"The. Sinn Feiners have put. the hon?
or and interest of America second to
their hatred to England. The German
American alliance is dissolved, but
Congress ought by law to make the
dissolution permanent, and to render
forever impossible its revival or the
creation of any similar anti-American
and semi-traitorous organization. _ In
just the same way every Sinn Feiner
who directly or indirectly seeks to dis?
credit America's allies in this war and
thereby to give aid and comfort to
Germany should be interned as an
enemy alien or sent out of the country.
"The same thing is true of the Rus?
sian Bolshevists, who seek to plunge
this country into the chaotic ruin into
which Russia has been plunged. All
these men are the allies of Germany
and the enemies of the United States.1
Their most potent allies arc the native
American demagogues, whether politi?
cians or newspaper editors, who pander
to the foreign vote that is hostile to
America, and the native American paci?
fists, who have been the main allies
o? German militarism, and the I. W. W.
people, and the Germanized societies.
All these are enemies to the United
States and should be treated as such.
Appeal to German-Americans
"This question of Americanism has
two sides to it. The first side is that
which T have above outlined. Apply?
ing what I have said in concrete, form,
it means that at this time the Ameri?
can of German blood should himself
take the lead in proceeding against
every man in this country who directly
or indirectly favors Germany or is
lukewarm in'our war against Germany.
In the Revolution the American ofj
<4
manded to carry on the war. It has
also granted the Administration ex?
traordinary power, of a kind never
hithertofore granted any Adminstra
tion, to deal with the internal foes of
the nation; and this power can be, and
has been, misused, to reward the Ad?
ministration's personal or political
supporters and punish the Administra
tion'r personal or political opponents.
Congress?such bodies as the Senate ?
Committee on Military Affairs- -has. ex- !
ercised its power of investigation and '
supervision to correct executive inef?
ficiency, executive tlelay, and executive
F.buse of power, and has done this in
such fashion as to speed up and render
immensely more efficient our part in
the war. Congress should vigilantly
exercise its right of supervision as re?
gards the use of all the great powers I
it has granted the Administration over I
the properties and activities of the
citizens of the United States.
"In his last statement about me Mr.
Burleson. copying the example of Mr.
Wegg, at the behest of Mr. Boffin,
dropped into verse. As he seems to
like poetry I crmmend to him and to
the Administration of which he is a
part the following lines:
Whoso speaks In your presence must say
acceptable things:
Bowing the head in worship, bending the
knee In fear?
Bringing the word well smoothen, such as
a king .should hear.
Given ?o string delusion, wholly believing:
a 11?*.
Ye saw the land lay fenceless, and ye let
the months go by,
Waiting some easy wonder; hoping soma
saving sign?
Idle-openly idle?in the lee of the fore-spent
Line.
"Very truly yours,
(Signed) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
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English blood took the lead against the
British King and his backers.
"In this war it should be the Ameri?
can of German blood who takes the lead
against the Germany of the Ilohen
zollerns, the Germany that has become
a menace to liberty and to justice and
to mercy and to honor throughout the
world. America has special and in-,
tolerable grievances of her own against
Germany, for no nation is worth being
called a nation if it permits such
wrong as Germany did this country to
go unpunished.
"But in addition America is fighting
the battle of all well behaved nations.
It is fighting for the right of free peo?
ples to exist. No nation can be of
full effect in such a war as this unless
it stands loyally by its,allies; and any
man who now seeks to'embroil us with
our allies is a traitor to the cause of
America.
"Nor can any nation make such a
fight effectively if it is not itself
united. We can permit no division
here. Our ideals and our principles of
national unity and honor and great?
ness must be the same in whatever
part of the country we dwell and from
whatever stock we came. Therefore,
we must have but one flag- the Ameri?
can flag, and but one language the
English language. In our primary
schools nothing but the English lan?
guage should be taught or studied, and
the law should require that after a
reasonable period every newspaper in
this country be published in English.
Warns Lutheran Church
"As for our higher institutions ol
learning, all foreign languages should
be taught in them insofar as it is con?
sidered necessary, but the language oi
the high school or college itself shouk
always be the English language, ane
only the English language?just as i
is in Wittenberg college to-day, jus
as it is in Rutgerr, College, which in)
own Dutch Reformed ancestors helpec
to found. And what is true of thi
newspaper antl the college is true o
the church. Let. the Lutheran Churcl
profit by what befell my own church
the Dutch Reformed Church, in Nev
York. That church clung to Dutch a
a language and dwindled until its lead
ers saw that it was doomed unless i
adopted English as its tongue.
"If the Lutheran Church tries to re
main a German church, using the Ger
man language, either it will dwindle o
else it will be an alien body in th
American commonwealth. We Ameri
cans must speak in the school, in th
j church and in the home and must read i
I in oui newspapers one language, the j
j language of the Declaration of Inde- j
i pendencc, of Washington's farewell
? address and of Lincoln's Gettysburg
j speech.
"This is one side of Americanism.
But there is another side just as im?
portant. If a man behaves as an
American it is an infamy to hold his
creed or his national origin against
him or to fail in any way to give him
the square deal as an American. If
the man is a straight American it is
our business to stand by him.
"I don't care a rap whether he is
Catholic, Protestant or Jew I don't
care a rap whether his ancestors or he j
himself came from England or Ire- j
land or Germany, France or Italy, the
Scandinavian or the Slavonic countries, j
We have a right to insist that he be '
an American" and nothing else. If he [
lives up to that requirement he has a j
right to insist that we treat him ex- j
actly on a level with every other
American.
"At this moment the great majority
of the Americans who are in whole or j
in part of German blood are as heartily
loyal to. America and therefore as j
resolutely hostile to Germany as all i
other good Americans. These men are [
fit to hold every office, civil or military, j
from the highest to the lowest, in this j
country. The best textbooks on Ameri- i
canism and on the duty of Americans j
within this country and in regard to
Germany that have been written by |
Americans during this war have been ?
written by Americans who themselves I
are partly of German blood. Witness ?
Owen Wister's 'Pentecost of Calamity,'!
James Beck's 'Documents in the Case' ?
and Gustavus Ohlinger's 'Their True I
Faith and Allegiance.'
"As a matter of fact, all our chil- ?
! drcn's children will jntermarry and in |
; a very few generations all our people !
! will clerive their blood from various
European nationalities. Let me give j
! you my own case. About two and a I
i half centuries ago some German peas- I
ants who had been driven out of the j
Palatinate by the armies of Louis XIV
came to America and founded Ger- '
mantown, near Philadelphia. Two of ]
these were ancestors of mine. At
about the same time a French Protes?
tant came here because the Catholics
in France persecuted the Protestants,
and an Irish Catholic came here be?
cause the Protestants in Ireland perse?
cuted the Catholics; and some Dutch
traders settled at the mouth of the I
Hudson, and some Scotch farmers and
some Welsh and English Quakers set?
tled in Pennsylvania.
No Hyphens Among Patriots
"All these people lived here and their
children lived here after them. They
devoted themselves to this land and
ceased to think of any other. Their
children's children intermarried with
one another?and if they had not in?
termarried I would not have been here.
Therefore, in my case, if you tried to
express me in terms of the hyphen,
you would have to use seven hyphens;
and sooner or later the children of ali
of you will pass through a similar ex?
perience, for they are all going to in?
termarry, and even before they do thus
intermarry they will all be turned out
in the same American type. It is the
type of Washington and Lincoln and
Andrew Jackson. It is also the type of
M,uhlenberg and Herkimer and Custer,
of Sheridan and Sullivan and Farragut,
of Carroll and Schuylcr and Paul Re?
vere. I have named some of the great
names in our history. They were borne
by men whose fathers had come from
many different lands. Who cares?
They were all Americans and nothing
but Americans. There wasn't a hyphen
in the lot.
"Here where I speak in the shadow
of Wittenberg College there can be no
truer American ideal to uphold than
that of Muhlenberg. He was the pas?
tor of a Lutheran church when the
Revolution opened. He got up to preach
his last sermon in the uniform of th?
Continental army, and told his congre?
gation that now war had come it was
his duty to fight as an American patriot
in the ranks of American soldiers un?
der Washington. His brother was the
first Speaker of the National Congress.
They were Americans and nothing but
Americans: they knew but one flag,
the American flag, and their speech
wa3 the speech of their American fel?
lows.
Illustrates the Point
"A Red Cross friend, Major Simons,
of St. Louis, told me a little anecdote
the other day that illustrates just what
I mean. He had just come back from
France, where he had been to the hos?
pital to see my son Archie. In the next
cot but one to Archie lay a young
fellow who was a little worse hurt
even than Archie was, for a bullet had
gone right through the point of-his
heart. Ho had to lie absolutely mo?
tionless for eight days until the muscle
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knitted, and his life was saved. He
had shown conspicuous gallantry and
ability. My friend, the Red Cross
man, got ihto conversation with him,
and after taking certain messages to
be delivered to his family (and to one
young lady who was not of hi? family)
my friend asked him what his name
was. Whereupon the young officer, who
was leally little more than a boy,
grinned and said,'Say, now, don't faint
when you hear rav name. It is Von
Hol*zendorf. Wtfffmjt*t the Huns feel
good if they knew they had 'got' a
man with a name like that?'
"The boy in the cot between my son
and this young officer had an English
name. But those three boys were
Americans and nothing else. They
were Etraight United States! Tbey
had given their blood for their coun?
try?for one country, for one flag;
and they talked to one another in one
langnage -the language of th? soldiers
of Washington and of the soldiers of
l Grant and Lee."
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