New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-17
THE GERMAN NOTE
Not the Kind That Ought To Be Ad.
dressed to a Free People.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir:
Oh, say. can you see by the dawn's early
light
Wha. so proudly we haii'd at the twight'
last cleaning,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thFo
the perilous fight,
Der the ramparts we watch q, were so gal
lantly streaming?
And the rockets red glare, the bombs burst
iEg in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was
still there;
Oh. saw. does that star-spangled banner yet
Der the land of the free and the home Of the
brave?
Does it. We sons of Washington, Jackson,
Lincoln and Grant?
What say you, you of the North, the South
the East and the West, 10 The spirits Of
those that have gone before 20 make mis-
the land of the free and tHe rome Of the
brave about the note that 'Buzzfuzz" Kult0r
ras handed you through your representative
the President?
Some note, isn't it? Bears all the ear
marks of its father, doesn't DO?
Have we, as Amer cans, after more th'h
one hundred years o. growth and develop
ment, intellectually, artistically, sclertincal'
ly, in worldly standing, in wealth and si'
that goes to make this life the best ever
reached the exact step IN our upward cinO
where we are ready to pass our rights Sna
titles to live and move and think, free ah'
untrammelled, over to him who says we
Germans have little esteem and less resPe''
for Americans
The present tense situation demands some
thing more than just passive support Of A''
Wilson. All Americans should back h'm'
For civilization and all that goes to "of'
this world toward the ideal is in the noPP''
of the worlds scale, and no one should pas
sively let Prussian incantauens outweigh ]"
If you do not agree with me, before io'm'
ing an opinion read this decalogue and declos
if you are ready TO accept it and hand J.
down to your posterity as being your '''''
of government:
1--WE Hohenzollerns take our crown ff0"
God alone"
con me the spirit Of God aas descended
Nothing must be settled in TINS "O'''
without the intervention oil
the German Emperor"
"He who listens to public opinion runs
danger of inhicting immense harm OF 49,
the state" -.
"Christian morality is farcical; fantas'''
too, and not of the real world. but 'he ~
ject. fervent faith Of hyrnorzed men CIV
women" ..-v
"The peace of Europe is only seeohD'''
matter for us" s.,d
The Belgans should not be shot de1 s.
They should be . so le't as 70 'D''
impossible all hope Of recovery. =.
"You must remember referring % -
French people, that we have not come
make war on you. but to bring 70 you
higher civilization" IL,
we need to enlarge our terrii'Tia.
area; hence. against England we hgh' y,
booty Our real enemy is England. We nI ~.
to crush absolutely peridious ...,,
bion, subdue her to such an ga /,
that her influence all over the "Oi''
broken forever" - ard
Read this decalogue over caref1lN sir
compare it with what has gone oei0I.' - a
months from now read it again ana "'''
new comparison. .a az
As surely as the Bible SAYS the sS.As
the woman shall bruise the serpenes $50
so surely will civilization be G et%
Nemesis.
prooklvn Iuiv 10 1918.