New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1916, Page 12

2 NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1916. against the upgrowth of a spirit which means, if successful, division and im- potence in our national life, the break- ing up of our unity as a nation, the severance of our citizenship along the bitter lines of old-world antipathy. We cannot afford to have our children and our children’s children grow up excepting as Americans pure and sim- ple, Americans and nothing else. “If any of our people born here go back to the land from which their fathers came, they find themselves in- evitably looked upon as foreigners. The American of English descent who goes to Germany is not looked upon as uped and treated, as he ought to be, as an outsider, a Yankee. His ways of thought are different from the ways of thought of the people of the land. The American of German descent who gos to Germany is not looked upon as a German. He is looked upon and treated as a foreigner, as an Amer- ican; and his ways of thought are dif- ferent from the ways of thought of the people of the land. He has gone to a land where no divided allegiance would for one moment be permitted, where, very properly, whoever dwells in the land is held to a sole and un- divided allegiance to the German flag; and the American of German descent who goes there either remains abso- lutely an outsider and an alien, an American, or else he has to become absolutely German. You do not have to take my word for this. Take the word of his majesty, the German Em- peror. He is quoted in the press as stating to a,member of the New York Schuetzen Verein, who was introduced as a German-America “What do 1 hear? I know no such people. T know only Germans and Americans. You can have no divided loyalty. If either the American of FEnglish de- scent or the American of German de- scent or the American of any other descent tries to remain with a dual allegiance; with a divided citizenship, he merely ceases to become an Amer- ican without thereby becoming a Ger- man or an Englishman or anything else. FHe becomes a man without a country who has forfeited the right to be stirred by the feeling of pa- triotic devotion to any land, or to have a special and pecullar kinship with any people. The American birthright is the birthright of all of us; and it is a shame and a disgrace for any man SEVELT FLAYS RMAN-AMERICANS 8 HOSTILE 10 FLAG Continued From First FPage.) hnother .instead of being asstmil- to.the new and larger Ameri- fe. Citizens of the Future. Ihe -children and children’s chil- ‘of all of us have to live here in iind ‘together. Our children’s ren. will intermarry, one with an- s wour children’s children, friends mine. They will be the citizens countyy. Even if they wished, ould not remain citizens of for- eountries. The attempt to keep #with;a half citizenship, with a loyalty, split between devo- o' the land in which they were and in:which their children are vell, and the land from which fathers came, will merely mean they fail to remain ocitlzens of -world and yet do not get the it of being citizens of the new- “land. The effort' to keep our nehip divided against itself by se ‘of the hyphen and along the of national origin is certain to a spirit of bitterness and preju- hnd dislike between great bodies p_citizens. . If some, citizens band per as Germap-Americans or Americans,. then after a while B, Are certain to bend together as sB-Americans Scandinavian- cans and every such banding to- every attempt.to make for po- . Durposes a German-American T an Irish-American alliance N English-American alliance Scandinavian-American alliance p down at bottom an effort *the interest . of straight-out can citizenship, .an effort to into ~our, nation the bitter old- rivalries and jealousies and ha- . What I have béen striving for and three-quarters to do is to against the up-growth of this . unAmerican spirit, to protest . “The Dirtless Workmen” That’s. what the electricians are called, be- cause they accomplish. their work without dirt or muss of any kind. After they leave you have only " fhe attractive fixtures and the great convenience of electric service to remember them by. They ) cguarantee satisfaction on every job. 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But, yousay, ‘‘Idon’t worr, because I want to, 1 worry because can’t help it.”’ Or, ‘I worry because 1 have so much to worry about.”” ‘We all have our troubles and worry, of course, makes matters worse. The patient generally recognizes this fact Wwithout being able to profit by it. The doctor who could meet this ner- vous condition and cure it would be the most popular medical man alive. But he cannot do it because the form of nervous exhaustion known as neuras- thenia, of which worry is a characteristic symptom, must be cured by the patient himself. That is why yon should write today for the book ‘‘Diseases of the Nervous System’’ and read the chapter on ‘‘Neurasthenia.”” 8o maniz people have read it and written back, ‘‘This hits my case exactly, I am giving the treatment a trial and being benefited,”” that the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. has had a lot of these books printed and will send you a copy free on request. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are a non= aleoholic tonic, particularly suited for nervous, neurasthenic people. Your druggist sells them or they will be mail- ed postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, —————————— to barter it for so poor a mess of pot- tage as is implied in that kind of hyphenated citizenship which means that the individual tries to be a half- way citizen of two lands and forfeits the right to be a whole citizen of any land. “It is entirely proper to feel an intimate sympathy with the art and literature of the land ‘with which by blood or tradition we have close ties; and I sympathize equally with the man who has such a feeling for Mil- ton and Shakespeare and with the man who has the feeling for Goethe and the Nibelungenlied. I admire all four myself, but I very strongly feel that our prime duty, even in literature and art is to develop our own American schools and traditions, that is, to de- velop our own distinctive American culture. “When our nation was formed &t the stress of the Revolution, it was under the lead of men of many different race strains; English, Dutch, German, Irish, French. But they were all Americans and nothing else. Their loyalty to this country was whole-hearted and undivided, and they sought to serve only the United States and not any »f the countries from which their ancestors had come. ‘“The same Trule applies today. Throughout my life -my closest per- sonal and political friends have in- cluded men who were themselves born in, or whose ancestors were horn in, Germany, Ireland or Scandinavia, just as they included men who were of old Colonial American stock. The man who, for the ten vears when I was governor, vice president and pres- ident, was closest to me, was a man whose father and mother were born in Germany—and his father served in the Civil War, by the way. He and I looked at all problems, na- tional and international, from the standpoint, and only from the stand- point, of our common Americanism. The man who, when I was police commissioner in New York, was clos- est to me was born in Denmark. He is dead now. His name was Jacob Riis. He was one of the best Amer- icans I have ever known. Again and again I have held up his career as a model for our American boys to fol- low. One of the hest Americans I know, a man who has done hetter work for the navy than any one ¢ during the last two years, is by birth a Swede. During my scientific work in Africa and South America, at the head of American scientific expedi- tions, the American members of iny party included the man with whom I have been most closely associated in zoological work, and who w joint author with me of the zoological book of which I am most proud. His par- ents were born in Germany; his kin- | folk fought in the Union army. An- other of my American companions, an Towa man, was born of an Trish father who fought in the Civil War, An- other’s father was born in Bohemia, being a Czech, and also fought in the E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Columbus, Ohio.—*‘I had almost given up. Ihad been sick for six years with nervousness. a pain in my right side and could not eat anything with- out hurting my stomach. 1 could notdrink cold water at all nor eat any kind of raw fruit, nor fresh meat nor chicken. From 178 - . pounds I went to 118 and would get so weak at times that I fell over. I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and ten days later I could eat and it did not hurt my stomach. I have taken the medicine ever since and I feel like a new woman. I now weigh 127 pounds 80 you can see what it has done for me already. My husband says he knows your medicine has saved my life.”’— Mrs. J. S. BARLOW, 1624 South 4th St., Columbus, Ohio. Lydia E. Pinkham’s "Vegetable Com- pound contains just the virtues of roots and herbs needed to restore health and strength to the weakened organs of the. body. That is why Mrs. Barlow, a chronic invalid, recovered so completely. It pays for women suffering fromany female ailments to insist upon having Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound. AFTER SIX YEARS OF SUFFERING, Woman Made Well by Lydia | female troubles and | Ihad | Civil War. Yet another, an Indiana boy, had a German father and a Trench mother. But we were all of us Americans, and nothing but Amer- icans. Roosevelt’s Cabinet. “In my cabinet a descendant of one of Blucher’s colonel’s sat side by side with a descendant of one of Napo- leon’s brothers. Another member of the cabinet had been born in Ger- many, and yet another member in Scotland. The parents of another member were born in Ireland. They were all of them Americans and noth- ing else. If they had severally desiz- nated themselves and had acteg as, one a ‘“‘German-American,” another a “French-American,” another an “Irish-American,” another a “British- ‘American,” each conditioning his loy- alty to the United States by a hyphen not one of them would have remained an hour in my cabinet. The greatest work done by any American in re- cent years was the work done by Gen- eral Goethals in the Panama Canal Zone. His parents were born in Hol- land. But he is no more a “Dutch- American” than I am. He is an American. Among the other Army men who have been closely associated with me, Major General Barry is of Irish parentage, whereas Major Gen- eral Leonard Wood's forebears came over in the Mayflower three centuries ago. But General Barry is not an “Irish-American.” “Nor is General Wood an “English-American.” They are Americans. When the battle fleet went around the world, two of the best men aboard it were Admirals Wainright and Schroeder. Wainright was of old Colonial English descent, and Schroeder's parents were born in Germany. But the one was not an “English-American” or the other a “German-American.” They were Americans and incidentally, hoth of them were as gallant and accom- plished officers and as thorough sea- men as ever commanded a squadron of warships under the American flag. “As another example I take un en- listed man. Throughout my term as president the doorkeeper in the oxeci- tive office, the man to whom the safe- ty of the president and the intimate workings of the government were in a peculiar sense trusts, was soldier of’the regular army. by birth a German. At the outbreak of the Civil War his regiment was stationed in Texas. Some of the offi- cers joined the Confederacy. Others were simprisoned. The enlisted men were left alone. A body of them, in- cluding my friend, marched north through the Indian country, without any officers, reached the Union lines, rejoined the army and fought through the war. How would it be to find better Americans? My old friends children and grand children live in this country beside my -hildren and grandchildren. It is their coun- try; and they all have an equal claim on it, and owe to it an equal Auty. He and I fought for and under the same flag. That flag floats over our children’s children. It is their flag and the only flag. It would be a wicked and a cruel thing to try to sunder them from one another and to make any of them divide their al- legiance by a half-loyalty to anv other flag. an ex- He was possible No Discrimination, “It would be possible to man our entire administration from president down with men of German blood, and of such uncompromising Americanism that every good American could fol- low them with whole-hearted loyalty. I would vote to seat in the president’s chair any American of German, Irish, Scandinavian or other parentage of whatever creed as against any man whose ancestors came over in the Mayflower, or settled on the banks of the James three centuries ago, if I thought the first man was better fit- ted for the position than the second man. I hold it an outrage and a vio- lation of every principle of true Americanism to discriminate against such a man because of the land from which he”or his parents came, or because of his creed. But I hold it no less an outrage for him to act in our domestic politics hot as an Amer- ican but as an American with a quali- fication; as an American who has some un-American interest to serve, some foreign country to serve, e J of his ancestry. The man who thus acts is the hyphenated American. _“This is not a mere abstract ques- tion which T am discussing. At this very moment it is blazoned forth in the public press that branches of the ‘German-American Alliance,’ so-call- ed, in different parts of the country, are attempting to coerce timid and unserupulous politicians by threaten- ing to vote against them, or by actual- 1y voting against them, when the -t.m:mun-,\mn ance regards their unsatisfactory from 1 , not of the United States, but of Germany. These branch- €s of the alliance openly take the ground that they intend to shape American politics in the interests, not .’a[ the United States, but of Germany. The German:American alliance of i }'onnx.\!\'&m , for in nce, as reported in the public press, states that it in- tends to show ‘the leaders of the na- tional Conventions that they have to deal with a united German-American vote.' Such a statement represents moral treason to the Republic. Branches of the German-American alliance in other parts of the country have used practically the same lan- guage. The alliance has put forth no program affecting Americ The pro- gram on which it wishes American citizens to vote is one affecting Ger- many and only Germany. I do not in the least object to it because it de- nounces me. It has denounced Mr. Wilson almost as often and almost as severely. One of its favorite forms of denunciation includes Mr. Wilson, Mr. Root and myself, as equally to be op- posed in the interest of Germany. Moral Treason, “It is moral treason to the United States for any of its citizens to act and to seek to make their governmental representatives act, not with refer- ence to the interests of the United States, but of some foreign power. The German-American alliance is, in prac- tice, an anti-American alliance. Any such political organization, whether German-American, Irish-American or lL‘.ngllsh»American, is not a healthy is element of the body politic. Any body of our citizens have a perfect right to oppose any man because of a differ- ence of judgment concerning Ameri- can problems; but it has no right to deal with American public servants, or American public men on the basis of the interests of some foreign power. United States. and I say this just as quickly of men trying to serve Eng- ing to serve Germany. I condemn the American citizen who acts as an ‘Eng- lish-American’ just condemn the American citizen who acts as a ‘German-American.’ If France had subjugated Belgium I would condemn as 1 have condemned Germany. British warcraft had sunk German passenger vessels and taken the lives of hundreds of American men, women and children, as German did in the case of the Lusitania, Arabic, and other vessels, I would have condemned and mnow condemn the ‘German-Americans’ who now de. fend or apologize for the actions the German submarines. I would con- demn as strongly the actions of any of our people who sought to make this country subservient to England, as I.now condemn those who seek to make it subservient to Germany. Such men are not merely un-American; they are anti-American to the core, and unfit to be citizens of this Re- public. “I believe that the men thus acting not only do not represent but scan- dalously misrepresent the great ma- jority of real Americans of German origin. 1 believe that the great mass of Americans of German origin are now, as they have always been, among the most patriotic and loyal citizens in this country. “Here in this city name after name of men of German birth who as American citizens have had distinguished records of intense loyalty to the Union, and of eminent the NO ALUM—NO PHOSPHATE inRova. BAKING POWDER Made from Cream of Tartar Absolutely Pure The men who 80 act are disloyal to the | land or France as I say it of men try- | as strongly as I! her just as strongly | If | submarine | of | I could repeat | ant who among the most men served under me, w man birth or parentage side by with or parentage, and with American with equal devotion to were was men of Ger- They served men of Tri birth side h ive stoc all ed equal my captains outset, One gallantry and with of ery erican forbears fr kil of whose fla Two d at old stock, om father | United tions man a to son had erved in ¢ States army The other ! Irish immigrant fought in Meaghers Civil war. Another was born in Germ fought of almost pure orderly was the rman ‘forty-eighter. best first reants was Another was horn for fi was the who s€ the Yet another, against descent who under me Spain was Spanish My ndson of a One my born Nor Ita par an and entage. Amer- act- way vet another But each of | ican and ed together have driven from reg man who tried to discrimir them because of a difference because of the different 1 they or their forefather born. Their honor was my honor had one country. We legiance to one flag. The other day spoke for universal in of Polish men was They all would any \mong was these else. Americans. 1 the nothing as creed, is in were We al- or which bore pre D \en in universal training, a the gallery called out to 1sed woman in me, while g: ‘T have vice 1 national service as | men and above all as patriots. In the Civil War a much larger proportion | she waved an American of the citizens of immediate German | two sons. I offer them if the need origin, than of the citizens of old Colo- | comes.” I answered her, ‘If every nial native stock, were loyal to the | mother in our country would make Union. This state of Missouri, like |the same offer. there be no Maryland and Kentucky, owes the | need for any mother to send her sons fact that it stayed in the Union pri- {to war.’ Now, from the press of the marily to the German element in its | following day I saw that her name citizenship and across the river in |was Mrs. Anna Neuer, wife of Mr. D. 1llinois, the debt owed by lovers of the | M. Neuer. Her husband judging, from Union to the German element was al- | the name, must of coursp be of Ger- most as great. These men knew no | man ancestry. Her father fought on divided, no half-hearted loyalty. Carl | the Union side in the Civil war. Her Schurz was a major general in the | tWo 'sons are not German-Amerl army, a United States senator, and'a more. than they are member of the president’s cabinet. He | Americans or any other type no more fervently devoted to the | Phenated American. They are of the Union and freedom of the | icans. That is an American £ War, than to the fight against | M Neuer represents the corruption and against the ; woman that like to think spoils system in our political life | typically American. All I am when peace succeeded war. . By a | Of our people that they statue at Forest Park you of city | American ' exactly in the have commemorated the services of | the Neuer family is American. = Major General Franz Sigel, who here | ‘'The salvation of our people lies in entered the United States service. So | having a nationalized and unified did the after time Major General Os. | America, ready for the tremendous terhaus, whose son served under me ; tasks of both war and ap as admiral while I was president, and | Peal to all our citizens 1o m: from | whose grandson, as gallant and effi- | What land their forefathers Glent a’ young nevall officer as there: Keep thislever themind was In the service, served at one time With scorn and contempt the sinister as my aide. From St. Louis there intriguers and mischief ma who marched into the Union army no less | Would seek to divide them lines than nine regiments, all of which had | ©f creed, of birthplace, nation- colonels born in Germany. This is a ; & origin, I ask them great record, and it is typical of the | that there is but one record made throughout the Union by | @/l Americans, no matter ¢ e ere bor! ore or abro the men of German birth or parent- | the¥ “‘f‘f “‘“‘] ,}‘“‘,,r "“ ”‘,. E ge. But it is not a matter EOTIN S § aoix N natier of pride | matter S el e 1 atte | tors’ came; and that is the simple a merely to Americans of German de- (1009 GBINSs ARC LERLIE LIS WIOE'E SO oyal motto, America for Americans scent. Every American St worth calling sugh thrills at the thought of it “ ASK FOR and GET It is record of honor and glory HORLICK’S a for my | children’s children just as much as for THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK yours. 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