The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-30
German American Papers Stand
Against Imperialism.
THEIR POLICIES OUTLINED
NO BRITISH COLoNIALISM, BUT
AMERICAN REPUBLICANISM
Any Effort In This Country to That
End Should Be Suppressed, and
the Leaders Repudiated and Dis
graeed-Party Favoring 1t Should
Be Wiped Out of Existence.

st. Louis, April 29.-The Westliche
Post will tomorrow print an article in
the English language defining the pol
icy of all German-American papers in
this country regarding Americarism
against Imperialism. The article, in
part, follows:
Time and again the attempt has
been made to -supplant American re-
publicanism with imperialism Time
and again American patriotism and
that high and far-seeing love of man
kind which unites men of all countries
in common brotherhood of humanity
have rallied and won against it. When,
half a century ago, we had the same
cries of manifest destiny. the con-
quering Saxon, expansion and all
the rest we are hearing over again now,
Americans as radically opposed t. eacn
other in most things as We're Calhoun
and Corwin, Joined with Clay Webster,
Lowell, Clayton and Clemens against
it.
What American can read this with
out an indignant refusal to consent that
the blood of those once our allies shall
saturate the soil on which they were
born that we may be praised by the
London Times for our noble work for
progress in furthering British plans for
Remembering and robbing China?
John NJ. Clayton himself, the author
of the Ciayton-Bulwer treaty and open
ly III favor of cooperating with Eng
land in business, was openly opposed TO
having anything to do with the Doliti-
cal methods of British imperialism.
What is there in stalwart Ameri-
canism Gts native Americanism, if you
wild except what German-Americans
are saying now in declaring that they
gave up home and friends and came
thousands of miles into an unknown
country for the love-not of British
colonialism. but of American repub-
icanism. To that they are loyal now
and always. To Americanism, not to
British commercialism of the bayonet;
to Americanism, to liberty, to progress;
to freedom from militariSm, to the OK
pectation of a time to come when he
world will be no longer shackled by
imperialism. with its bayOnets and Jet
ters; to that COMMUNICATIONS Who
renowned Imperialism in Europe are
devoted now, as they were fifty years
tgo, when they listened to Seward, IS
he said of these same 'expansionists':
Sir, they have sent the American
eagle abroad, bearing, not the olive
branch, but a shackle in his talons
THE flag of this great republic stands
now, not for what the London Times
approves, but for what it meant when
Seward stood under it to utter this iE.-
mortal sentence.
COMMUNICATIONS Stand.
Such republicanism as that was not
his, nor is it that of any loyal German
American, or of any other American
who is loyal to his flag and to his coun-
try. May heaven forbid that it ever
should be. May the time never come
when the American people will applaud
those who drabble a flag dedicated 30
freedom and human progress in the
blood of men who die on their own soil
resisting the same principle of British
Imperialism against which America til
umphed at Yorktown and New Ok
leans.
such ideas will never prevail in
America. Any party which commits
itself to them will be wiped out of eX-
istence. Any leader who attempts TO
check civilization and progress and
American institutions and American
principles will be repudiated and dis
graced; any foreign nation which, for
its own selfish purposes attempts TO
use the American people as a catspaw
in schemes of fraud and violence viii
find itself the victim of the reactions CT
its own malevolent scheming. Justice,
liberty-progress through justice and
liberty, until the whole world is eie-
waited by our national life as it has been
by the individual life of Washington;
that is the manifest destiny of Amer
lea: for that the flag stands. and for
that German-Americans are willing
now, as they have always been. to
stake everything, knowing that when
issues are made against liberty and in
favor of Imperialism. everything is at
stake for them, the American flag ard
for all that is worthy of survival in the
world"