Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
MlDDLErOwH, DEL, JULY 8, 1915
IA MEMORABLE FOURTH


n FEVER since our seventy six patriot
forefathers signed their immortal
Declaration of independence, July 4th,
l776, has there ever been time when
Americans, true Americans, were called
upon to stop and soberly mediate its
real meaning as now on this 199th ami
versary of that event.
For the first time in our Nations
history the foundation principles of
our government have been questioned
by some of those refugees from Eur
opean tyranny who have fled to our
hospitable shores for freedom.
The same poison of Prussian militar-
ism that has deluded the German peo-
pie into worshiping the false gods of
imperial domination till their own hber-
ties have been sacrificed, has for years
been spread abroad among our German
American citizens by a cunning propa-
ganda of the Berlin war party.
may, :. one of these emissaries of the
ne,rSs Or, Professor Munsterberg, holding
and lair at Harvard has had the audacity
eortell his students that the principles
Of government for which our Revolu-
tionary fathers fought were wrong
that those of Imperial Germany are
betterl
Nrshing could be more false. The
- es governing the Kaiser's auto
hilitaristic rule of the German
le which robs them of freedom,
? ally with those upon which he
his dream of world domination,
italy illustrated in the rape of
gum, lie at the very antipodes
to those forming the basis of our
own free government of the people,
by the people and for the people,.
: For nearly year a persistent pro-
German campaign has been conducted
a this country with view to having
par government violate its neutrality
refusing to allow the Allies to pur-
4, ase munitions of war here-a
Otfivilege equally open to Germany but
tshich she is unable to use because of
'England's naval superiority though of
pese supplies, thanks to her forty years
war preparation, she has far less
Apsed than the Allies trapped into an
aexpeeted war.
iermany's agents in great numbers
I've been writing and speaking unkind
md improper things about our govern
snt, abusing our patient sufferance
3 way which, conditions reversed,
ouid not for one minute have been
olerated in Germany!
This fellow Herman Ridder has been
curing out in his rabid sheet columns
abuse of this country and of its in
itutiOns which. read later in the light
events which well may happen, will
em nothing short of stark treason!
rhe other night at Madison Square
rden, New York, mass meeting OF
300 German-Americans was address
by Bryan, Congressman Vollmel
Other pro-German speakers. Many
Ierfow meetings. addressed by speak.
ers in the German language, it is esti
mated brought the total up to 70, OOC
personsl
This meeting passed resolutions de-
manding an embargo on the shipments
of arms to the Allies; denounced DR.
Charles w. Eliot as "the blood thirsty
president emeritus of Harvard" in
sultingly pictured the Nations Presi
dent as 1.-THE victim of sycophants ant
of shrewd, paid agents of our enc
mics; and finally this impudent advo
cate of Germany called forth storm
of cheers as he exulted in the sinking o
the Lusitania that murdered lis Ameri
cans, and as he declared that German
Americans resented Americas univer
sal protest against that cruel lnfamy!
When acts like these are boldly don
before our very eyes, is it not higl
time Americans were waking up! O
are we willing, after enjoying the bles
sings of liberty so dearly bought wit
patriot blood, to exchange this nobl
heritage of chartered freedom for tn
1glittering iaperialistic madness of
srman autocrat? Is it not rathe
re Americans were picking thei