The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20
"RIDDERISM-GER-
MANY'S GREATEST FOE


MANY'S GREATEST FOE'
To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-sv: Ger
manys most bitter. most tenacious. most
detrimental enemy at present Is not to be
found among the allied nations now con-
fronting the fatnerlands brave hght"rs
IN a death grapple at land and at sea-
Germany's greatest foe IL In the United
states.
America nism." or Alleged American Ger
msn.sm." Nom de Standardization :
also Neutrality
Ever since the European war began
there has been heard from the corner OF
Spruce and William streets out OF the
offices of the New York stats IetunO,
and Its evening edition. the Abendblau,
a voice OF ferVent protest the voice OF
/ Herr Herman Ridder. publisher OF these
papers.
Raising the CRY Tor fair play" and "neu-
/ trality" all over the land, he has daily
assa.led-and is doing - now-the Ameri-
can press in toto and practically each
individual paper in New York He mas
called the editors and reporters liars and
hirelings Of Albion. He has added TO these
and other pretty names all sorts OF vio-
lent noise. in the name. as he would have
il appear, OF the German Empire.
German American journalism .. a
good,y proportion of it-has readily fallen
in line with this course. German Ameri-
cans have been and are lending willing
ears 20 these unrestrained attacks upon
the press OF the country which they call
their adopted fatherland.
Never has a great cause been exploited
more wrongfully FOR financial gain and for
self-aggrandi1emcnt than Is being don" hS
these German" news papers every DAY
/ Never has patriotism been commerclallzed
I -. a Ia. 10 haa ha
warning and urgent sppca. Of the hcad
OF nation been disregardcd more ruth
lessly never has neutrality been violated
so freely MS hy these scif-same "moulders
of public opinion" who pose as the de-
tenders Of Germany end the Germans
in this war of the nations"
The time has come TO call halt 10 this
hypocrisy, and We Germans -termius In
heart and soul, Germans hy birth. Ger
man subiects-will nj least endenvor to
conVinc m" American people that they are
being buldozed by Clique of men who
have no more right 20 call themselves de-
lenders Of neutrality ana sponsors Of "fair
play" than has the man in the moon.
ON page 6. column " the ib'nd-
biatt OF LAST Monday, September -, there
appears the following among editorial
paragraphs" Gin mixed tongues)
WHO has asked for peace? Nicht
deutschland NIGHT seine Fuelrc~. Ncht
sHu Neer Nemand ale in America cine
Handvou DemaCogen. Tracumern.
Schwaetzern die Angst haben. es koennte
jemaud anders am Ende twae floric ais
Fripdpnsstifter spieter srwcrbcn. und nun
IN ihrer Dilettantcnart den Frieden in
Rrsolutioncn mRChen. VIE sic SO Oft
Krlege gogen japan. gegen Mcxlko gee
schlngcu hahcn."
Translation who has asked for
peace? Not Germany. not her leaders.
Not her army Nobody but n handful Of
demagueucs dresmers. takers in Amer
lea. who are afraid somebody else might
lat'r gain the glory Of pcacemakcr. and
who now in their dlettante manner lake
RESOLUTIONS list AZ they have often
declared wars against Japan against Mex
leo"
The troubled world heaved a sigh Of re-
lief the day that word came OF n hint
said TO have bcon given by the German
Ambassador. that Germany might con-
slider peace terms.
but not NJ the neutral Herr Riddcr md
his neutral stan, The American press, the
object OF their never ending attacks. was
unanimous In welcoming the possibilities
opened by what was quoted from tho
conversation at the now famous peace
dinner" Not 50 the German" paper
which up 20 tho war had the reputation
Of hsing one Of the best OF its Kind in
the country.
They trampled the blessing OF a new
hope into the dirt of petty personal Wifi
cation. into the slime OF sarcasm and rid
cule They called the President of the
United States Oscar Strsus, the German
Amba ssador in short all who thought
or talked of peace, "dernagogues dream
ers. takers cheap glory worshippers"
Upon the same page. In "A double col
umn editorial there appears the follow
ing sentence. addressed to "unstre
Deutechen in .hmerka" C"our Germans In
American"
LAST Euch ncht verbluenen Iiest
gar keire englischen Xcitungen, ala
dass Ihr durch das wahnwitz!Pc &c.
plaerre. das in den Blacttern IN news
verarbeitet wlrd, Euch cine bauGe Stund
bereiten laesst. Glaubt linen NIGHT.
Sic sind Eure Feinde'
Don't let them buff you. DO not
read any English newspapers rather than
to let the insane bla hbrr which they
arc converting into news cause you an
anxious hour DO not believe them. =
They are your sncmies,'
The Abondbiau Of September 10. on
page g, column 2. offers the following
Bryan hattie gestern das harmlose
Nersnu"gen. wieder cine An2ahl Won Ma
tionen sogen Annie Frledensvertraege un-
tergechnen zu sehen. Dazu CAB er
Elm Diner Das Menu fuehrt auf: Neutral
ity soup, English mutton chops, American
Ice cream. Sc CAM he.Onders imponiert
uns-Soup fuer America aher saftige
mutton chops fuer dear England"
"Bry n again had the harmless pleas
IRE yesterday to see IA number OF nations
sign s3-called peace treaties - = There
was dinner. The menu includes Neu- !
trality soup, English mutton chops, |
American Ice cream, sc. What lrnpresses !
us particularly Is soup for America, but
juicy mutton chops for dear England"
T'he American editors, "hlassed HAIRS" !
that they are, in Herr Riders eyes again |
were unanimous in Numerically opposing
thls rldiculinR attitude Of their German
they thought the signing /
of the new treaties was n pretty good /
strong step forward in the march of |
civilization.
The American editors may be con /
tradictcd and He'd liars by some Ger /
man American" leaders and victims of a |
hulldozing campaign
Germany, however the Germans agree ,
with the editors, and n they didn't their |
breeding and their tact would forbid them |
such utterances IS the one quoted above, |