Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-09-09
G. Willard, Former Sub
iect of Kaiser, Now Editor of
New York Post, Scores
Fellow Immigrants.
MENACE AMERICA, HE SAYS
Thinks Issue Must Be Con-
quered-If United States Is
So Inferior, Why Come
. Here? He Asks.

Stockbridge. Mass, Sept. 6.-Oswald
harrison Willard. publisher of the New
York Evening Post, in an address be-
fore the Laurel Hill association here
today declared that the movement
among American citizens of foreign,
especially German descent. to form
bodies apart from the citizenship pre-
scented a far reaching domestic issue
which the American people must con-
Quer.
Mr.. Willard sal an important factor
Ia the continuance of the american
melting pot" lay in educating immi'
grants to the proper duties of citizen
ship. He said he was born on Gers
man soil. of a German father
Foreigners becoming American citi'
zens must be made to understand Mr..
Willard said. that there can be No
divided citizenship or loyalty or allegi-
ance under the American flag; that nc
one can accept political obligations
here, while at heart loyal to another
social system. another entity or anothe1
code of laws.
Would Shame Schurz. He Says.
In opening his address Mr.. Willard
quoted from an address made by Can
| Schurz at the celebration of the latters
10th birthday. 16 years ago, in which
Mr.. Schurz said that no matter nov
warm the affections German-American!
lldu ISlu " IllSl1 IaSiNS ioAAN ShSJ 1Nof
never permitted their affections to in
terfere with their duties as American
citizens. nor to seduce them to use theil
power in American politics for foreign
ends.
GLOW amazed Schurz would be to re-
turn to US today to find that that has
come to pass which he deemed incon.
ceivable," said Mr.. Willard. H would
find to his horror that at this moment
the presence on this soil Of German
Americans does not help to preserve
peace and friendship between their two
parent nations, but adds fuel to the
flames of bitterness.
NATURALLY Schurz would scan the
horizon for some discriminatory act on
the part of our government, or some
manifestation or racial prejudice
against COMMUNICATIONS. But he
far as the federal government and
states are concerned, he would discover
| nothing changed from the day he left
us.
Not Loyal Citizens, He Charges.
THE mighty convulsion we are wit
Messing he would ascertain to be due
entirely to foreign complications, to a
determination on he part of our Ger
man-Americans to stand by their
fatherland through thick and thin, right
or wrong, TO a sudden self revelation
that unlike himself they, by the ten
lilouSdIluS, Hau IOL really dTdHSleTTeQ
their allegiance to the country of their
adoption.
what could amaze him more than
to find unnumbered Germans who, like
himself, came to this country to escape
the very militaristic autocracy they
now uphold. today d%enouncing the ma
ton that adopted n sheltered, fed and
clothed them?"
He then asked that if it were true
as contended. that German kultur and
political system were superior to the
scheme of lif, and government in
America, why the hordes who have
focked here did not go to Germany
instead. "=
[Oswald Garrison Willard long has been
an intimate friend of President Wilson.
Dispatches this week stated that Mr.. vii
lard has displaced Col. E. NJ. House, as
confidential adviser of the president. AS
editor of the New York Evening Post.
Mr.. Willard contributed largely to bringing
out Wilson as a presidential candidate. be-
ing one of his earliest and strongest sup
porters.l