Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1898-07-23
GERMANY'S REAL ATTITUDE.
The Base Attempt to Work Up an Anti.
German Sentiment in This COun-
try Condemned.

Chicago Inter.Ocean.
In no nation of Europe are Ameri-
can travellers treated with more gen.
uine respect and courtesy than in
Germany. From the time that Fred
erick II. of Prussia refused to assist
England in suppressing the colonial
revolt to the present day the Princes
of the house of Brandenburg have
been our friends. One of the greatest
of Washington's Generals soldier
who ranked with Greene, Putnam,
Sullivan and Lafayette-was a Ger
man dispatched to our assistance from
Berlin in the hour of darkest need.
In the war of 1912 Prussia stood be-
tween English aggression on the one
hand and Napoleonic insolence on the
other. In the war of the rebellion a
word of encouragement from Berlin
and England would have recognized
the Southern Confederacy, but the
word was never uttered. In the Cen
tennial Exposition of 1876 and in the
Worlds Fair of 1898 the German
Government gave striking evidence of
its intelligent appreciation of Ameri-
can progress and of its sincere friend
ship for our people.
During the entire period of our ma.
tional existence the relations existing
between the kingdom Of Prussia and
the empire of Germany with this
country have been always Of the
kindliest character. Whatever dis
putes we have had were purely COM
mercial and were settled in business
like and amicable fashion.
The fact that millions of Germans
have assisted materially in the up
building of the United States is left
out of consideration here. 1t is not
necessary to refer to the fact that the
German immigrant and his descend
ants have enriched the nation in every
useful and graceful department of our
commercial AND Social life.
A concerted, systematic and vindic-
tive effort is now being made to
poison the American mind with re-
gard to Germany, her Government
and her people. False rumors, faxed
news and slanderous and scandalous
misinformation are being disseminated
broadcast throughout the country
through the agency Of the Associated
Press with the object in view of Great
ing bitterness and luminosity among
our people toward a nation and gov
eminent that have never offended us,
and that have no intention of offend
ing us now. The German Emperor
is insulted personally, and through |
him affronts are heaped upon "a peo-
pie who permit themselves to be ruled
by mad Kaiser" We are told that
the German Government is collecting
a feet at Manila for the purpose of in
tervening in behalf of Spain, or with
the intention of plucking from Dewey
the conquest he has so nobly achieved.
This is a lie and it has been ex-
posed promptly and loyalty by the
German Foreign Office as well as by
the German Embassy in Washington.
1t is, moreover, malicious, though
stupid, lie. Germany will protect
her own people wherever they may be,
and this is her right and privilege.
Beyond this, during the present war,
she will not 60. Her declarations to
this effect are emphatic, and her
declarations may be depended upon
implicitly.
1t is time that the voice of the
American people should be heard in
emphatic condemnation and repudia-
ton of the news trust conspiracy to
embroil this country in war with
Germany.