Washington sentinel., 1899-11-04

when New York papers" sal
DR.. Preetorius. the able editor
the St. Louis IVeStkiche Post, in hi
stirring appeal to his fellow cit
zens to be steadiast IN the cause {
true Americanism, "whose 'secur
tiles are held by the America
associa es and coadiutors ol Lon
don bankers attack the patriotism
OF German Americans, it is no
necessary to answer them. Sine,
the time of Steuben and Dekalb
American history answers them
And the roll Of the dead in tht
Spanish war answers them. Ou
OF s88 names reported from the
Philippines as the total American
loss in a years campaigning, the
Germanic origin OF over IS pei
cent. is clearly indicated, while the
count Of names OF Continental
European origin, chiefly German
Americans, shows I73 out OF the
total, or over 80 per cent.
at is chiefly for the advantage
Of England, and at the instigation
Of English fnanciers and diplo-
mats, that these young men have
been sent to die so many thousands
Of miles from home.
"When American organs OF Brit
ish Colonial Imperialism question
German-American patriotism, it is
sufficient to ask them how many
Englishmen have fallen under the
English flag during the hundred
years in which British agents have
been continually attempting to
make a cats paw of the United
States2
"Although from the very begin
ming of the Spanish war the re-
sources Of England were taxed to
force the United States into quar-
rel with Germany, German Amer.
cans did not allow their knowledge
OF international politics to affect
them in their duty toward Amer
ica. When the Spanish war for
humanity and the liberation OF
Cuba was begun with a solemn
declaration that its sole Object was
to put an end to Spanish imperial
ism in the New World, German
Americans fastened to enlist.
Congress declared and President
Mckinley ratified the declaration
with his signature that the object
Of the war was not conquest, but
freedom and independence for
Cuba. When German-American
troops enlisting tor that purpose
were hurried of to Manila to at
tack Filipino patriots. lately the
allies oil the United States, it was a
gross, a murderous fraud, but it
did not prevent these brave men
from dying like soldiers under the
American flag. The guilt OF the
blood Of thousands of Filipinos,
who, when they made a stand for
liberty and independence, were
moved down by our improved
cannon, is not on the gallant Amer
leans and German Americans in
the ranks who fell at the front be-
cause they followed the flag, but
on miserable, cheating, imperialist
politicians in Washington, and
still more miserable fnanciers in
London, who, are responsible for
this shameful policy OF using
American heroism to suppress
liberty rather than to enlarge it.
German Americans can hardly
look at the lengthening roll Of
their dead in the distant Philip
pines without a flush Of indignant
shame that men at Washington
calling themselves American Re-
publicans can send Am erican SOL
diers to die, not in upholding
Amer.canism, but in serving the
ends OF British colonialism against
everything Americanism has stood
for during more than hundred
years since British colonialism
surrendered to AmerIcanism at
Yorktown.
at is a shame! 1t is a humilia-
ton! 1t is a crime! But the Amer
ican people are not responsible for
it! They will never allow the
Union Jack and the trucking,
cheating, lying, huckstering, muir
derous oppression it stands for to
be quartered on the Stars and
Stripes. They will uphold the re-
publican institutions OF America
against European imperialiam.
They will repudiate the whole
shameful conspiracV,an will damn
to everlasting infamy every Amer
lean officeholder who has betrayed
his flag and Joined with mercenary
foreign imperialists to sully the