The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-03-04
Our Motto:
We are neutral-but
United States above all!

SwearS that ne renounceS all alle-
glance to all foreign po~tentates,
king or prince aud that he will be
faithful to the adopted country.
1t appears, however, that some of
these hyphenated Americans can
not forget the foreign potentate,
king or prince from whose allie.
glance they escaped. The war in
Europe has proved this.
An article in last weeks Avon
Clarion, in German, set in Ger.
man type aud unsigned, is typical.
We guess that it was not written
by Bro. Robinson, who is a full
fedged Yankee, but n slipped in
on him by one of these n~aturalized
Americans, who grab the bles-
sings this country affords, but be-
longs body and soul to the Kaiser,
else he could not have written the
reasonable diatribe which we here
publish with grammatical errors,
bad punctuation and spelling:
"wenn den yankees etwas NIGHT
past, so sind sic gewOhnt einen dro'
henden und SovIel ais meglich Saebel
rasselden ton an%zuschlsgen. sic reCh
men daTavf, das die so bedrochte per-
son geenstigt wird und nachgibt,
wen aber die in den %stRrksten ausde.
vecken in dieser weise behandelte
und bedcohte person deis %unbeachtet
und SIGH NIGHT einschuechtern leszt,
50 beruhigen SIGH die prahlenden yam
KEGS alsbald und werden ruhig".
The translation:
When anything does not suit
the Yankees, they are accustomed to
beat threatening, and as much as
possible, a swerd.clanging tone. They
figure that the person thus. threaten.
ed will become. frightened and will
give In. But when the person thus
treated and threatened ignores this
and does not allow himself to be In.
Inundated, the Dragging Yankees
quickly quiet down and keep still".
Now the word Yankee is applied
to all citizens living in the Unit
ed States; hence a Yankee is an
O.. nL - LG
American, horn or naturalized.
The "lantsman" who cannot write
German properly has overlooked
this simple fact, and while he may
have stated his position frankly,
he is surely in the wrong berth
he should cease posing as an Amer
lean and Yankee and go back to
to bis 'lieb Vaterland''. Un-
doubleday he was inspired by the
protest the U. S. government had
sent to England and Germany
and merely repeated what he had
read in the German papers, II
our German friends think that
Germany is not getting a square
deal from the u. S. because We
are trying to keep out of the fight.
we ask them to explain If Germa-
NY is giving us a square deal when
she declares a war zone around
England aud her diplomats point
out that German submarines can
not be expected to distinguish A
merican ships from others, but in
the same breath assures Italy that
owing to the friendly (G) rela-
tions existing between them, TIA
ly's ships would not be sunk by
German submarines.
Why should Germany discrimi-
nate when it comes to sinking an
Americ III ship9 Did not one of
her statesmen say that they don't
give a snap for u protests, be-
cause we are too far to do any
harm. and have no army to en-
force our demands and our navy
dare not attack. But in the case
of Italy it is different. Italy is
prepared to fight and is close e.
nough to DO harm, hence her
ships must not be sunk
We feel that we ought to apollo
gize for having written this arti-
Gle, but when we stumble over
views such agsfere given and hear
Of meetings where the adPinistra-
ton, which is doing its best to
keep out Of the crazy wholesale
slaughter, is attacked, yillified and
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