The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-01-29
THE TRIBUTE OF
NATIVE AMERICAN
[DoUIs ]. LIVINGSTON

taken OF the kaiser Is the one rep
resenting him. on a public occasion.
marching abreast with his six stall.
wart sons. The expression on the
kaiser's mobile face seems to say to
the world: See the true represen-
tatives of the German nation, physi-
cal and mental, as well as hered.
itary! These fine boys of mine rep
resent the physical health, the men.
tai vigor. the sturdiness, the frank
ness, the fraternity. the solidarity
OF the German people!"
| And this calls to mind the saying
that, "behind every great man
stands n noble woman!" The Provi-
dence that placed upon Germany's
throne a sovereign who could 50
splendidly complete the work of his
Grandfather, and his great strategist,
Won Moltle. and his greater statesman.
Bismarck, gave him as mate one OF
the loveliest and sweetest of wo-
men, the kaiserin, so well termed by
her own country men and women,
"the unworldly!" The union, of the
German imperial pair is as near
heavenmade match as the world has
ever known. The kaiser. a personifi-
cation of the highest and noblest In
German manhood-the kaiserin, the
sweetest and loveliest in German wo-
manhood. from youth to maturity
these two souls have been as one.
The key note of the German
character is the highest and nobl.
est of virtues-lntegrityi This is
the note that reyerberates through
the Utmost depths of his soul, and
is the parent Of the long train OF
virtues that have made the Ger.
| mans the leading nation OF the
world, in both peace and war,
and i'm all the phases OF human life.
Our own debt to Germany can never
be fully repaid-not only our indebt-
edness In our political, commercial,
financial industrial and agricultural
life, I'm the sciences and the
arts, but hest Of all, In that splendid
blood-"made In Germany which
pours into our veins the German
virtues: integrity. sobriety. industry.
patience, perseverance. steadfastness,
fortitude, courage, valor. self.sacri-
flee. -conscientiousness. thoroughness,
resourcefulness, devotion to duty,
loyalty. humanity, fraternity, magnan.
unity, hospitality, and love of
God, country. liberty. home and
family!
The habits and manners of
people are the truest criterion of
their governmental tendencies. Ger
man courtesy. hospitality. culture,
cleanliness and order are national
characteristics that have become
proyerbial, while among our own
most striking national traits are dis
courtesty, absolute disregard of the
rights OF others, brutal gruffness.
superficial education covering intel.
ectual shallowness, bigheadedness,
graft and snobbery.
A comparison of the government
tai and other institutions of the
United States of America with those
of the federated states of the Ger
man empire will show similarity In
many respects, and by no means
| resounding TO the greater discredit
of the German states. Though arts.
tocratic In form the German govern
ment is really a democratic imper.
ialism, while ours Is, and always
has been. an imperialistic republic
From the founding OF our govern
ment the watch word has been ex.
pansion and imperialism. The people
OF Germany own their public. utili-
ties, such as railroads. telephones,
telegraphs, water. gas, electricity,
etc. and German municipalities and
their governments are the models
of the world.
Even. In war time, Germany IS
one OF the safest and sanest OF
countries. Germany knows nothing
OF that awful travesty on humanity.
the electrocution of criminals; nor
Of the lynching of innocent men and
women; nor the medieval burning at
the stake of human beings. great
number OF whom, IL not the greater
number, are innocent of the crimes
charged against them: nor of that
mockery of justice, the prosecution
OF would-be suicides. Nor are the
wives and children or iaooring men
saturated with coal oil and burned
TO death. or shot TO death with ex-
! plosive bullets; nor are children
torn from mothers arms on nimsy
pretexts. -
In Germany there are no Tam
many rings TO corrupt and debauch
the cities, great and small: nor the
watering of stocks by great cor
pprations; nor government by gum
men; nor universal graft and snob-
berry. All of these are excrescences
of our own peculiar civilization. in
our so-called land of the free and
home OF the brave
In spite of the attitude of our
venal press and those whom fate has
placed In charge of our Ship of
State, ] have had enough evidence
10 show that The great mass OF the
American people have finally un-
earfhed the real causes of the war
and sympathize with the German
II II.