The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-10-07

NNtSnh Va putNl0E taxes on I0OQ 10
grind the poor; where 1900 900 Of citi-
xens have belonged to q party which
the kaiser himself has decreed the
party OF treason, so violently opposed
mas IT been to the monarchy OF special
privilege, the monarchy OF caste. the
monarchy OF autocracy the mon
archy OF militarism over which he
presides.
We who love our country, who have
embedded it's ideals In our hearts, and
have given our very souls loyalty to II
IN the century-old belief that better than
any other country II typifies the truest
ana noblest aspirations OF democracy
and or humanity, cannot deny its faults
we uphold our republic because under
II we have the freeman's right to select
our own rulers and to change them at
VIII Tor better or for worse. We take
pride In our republic because II IL with
out an arrogant, overbearing bureauc-
racy; because we bow down to no Cess
lers hat or militarism, and so are able
TO exalt the civil power to the suprem-
acy which is its due
Why Do immigrants Came to u. s.9
We are encouraged in this pride be-
cause OF the thousands upon thousands
who come to US bowed and oppressed.
but with hands outstretched and hearts
aflame with hope; who. landing, stand
erect at last and call no man master.
Why did they come to as II all the
world despairs OF us and we ourselves
had lost faith-as Professor Goebel would
have It? Why, IL the cancer OF material
ism Is eating at our heart and Germany
Is superior at every point, do not these
vast streams OF humanity 60 to herf
Let the followers OF Bebel tell their
tale. Let the disfranchised Prussians
speak. Let the Poles I'm Prussia
answeri as
No Double AIIeaianee Possible.
Surely there can be no double alleg-
lance here. One cannot be q conscien-
tious adherent OF q monarchy and re-
public at the same time. submit that
the policy which Professor Goebel and
the German-American alliance urge Il
false to our republic; false to their own
aspirations, and false TO the German
sense Of honor, OF trust. OF fidelity and
Of straightforward dealing OF which they
boast SO much. #.
But in justice IL must be admitted that
the Germans are not the only foreign
born group within the confines Of the
United States that show this tendency
to preserve their old world ideals and
their language. ....
The movement among the scandina-
VANS In the northwest would have at
tracted similar attention had It been
cago 1900 Bohemian working men are
maintaining out Of their wages separate
schools for their children, conducted In
the Bohemian tongue. afa... ~
There are more than 100000 Poles who
welcome the freedom of America to pre-
serve the language and the nationality
that abroad not Russia nor Prussia nor
Austria has been able to crush out,
Among our millions OF Jews we see
the same drift, a clinging to their He
brew and their Yiddish, their literature,
their stage, their own schools. Finally
there are nearly 100000 OF negroes
among US whom we would set apart a.
deficient in culture and inherited tradt-
ton, to make Of them, with utmost
cruelty, lepers, political and social.
Evil Of O Divided Nationality.
Is the United States then to become q
mere conglomeratfon OF ethnic groups,
living apart. worshipins each their own
ancestors, their own customs, their owe
traditions? Shall we encourage them to
express themselves In their own way,
through their own ethnic forms. trust
ing that they will then live In peace and
contentment side by side as do the Ger
man Swiss, the French Swiss, the Ital-
ian Swiss? Shall we lead them to make
certain states or stretches OF territory
wholly their own, as the French Cana
dians have held to Their historic habitat
and as Minnesota has been so largely APP
propriated by the Scandinavians? Shall
we deliberately apportion Missouri or
Wisconsin to the Germans3
No, It is impossible. We are not ready
to abandon the very structure OF our
government, to substitute for states OF
sovereign American groups states OF
varying nat.onalities-each bent avowed-
", or unavowedly. upon achieving SUI
premacy and each drifting further and
further from the standards and aims Of
the fathers. But 1t Is today plainly O
challenge to our craftsmanship, chal-
Ienge to our loyalty to things American.