The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-12-04
~ EDGAR ILIFF.

THIS. is the title page Of a little
pamphlet being quietly circulated
among us: Germans in America. BY
Lucius B. Swift Of the Indianapolis
Bar. Read before the Indianapolis Lit
erary Club, Oct. 4. 1915"
It's contents will here be briefly dis
cussed.
The salient points Of this pamphlet
are: ...-,
LIST. Our theory Of government, our
national progress, our American ideals
and above all our love of liberty have
no weight with Germans in America"
2. The Germans are oblivious to
our Declaration Of Independence, our
George Washington, our Abraham Lin
coin.
8. The English fight for liberty and
the English fight against oppression.
which we Americans inherit, makes
no impression upon Germans in Amer.
ica"
Mercenary Soldiers.
4. Hessians, or Germans, fighting
in America in our Revolution, and
fighting against liberty, shows what
tyrants they are. Germany sold mer-
cenary troops to England but Gather
Inc of Russia refused.
S. Germany today is no more dem
ocratic than Turkey was twenty years
ago.
s. The Anglo-Saxon holds his head
high and looks upon Germans with
out any political respect as having &C
complished nothing for civic liberty.
7. When Washington had conquer
ed the German hireling soldiers and
drove them from America he resigned
his commission and went quietly to
his home at Mount Vernon.
8. When anything ia wrong in our
public administration the Germans are
practically useless as a factor to take
hold and set it right.
9. The conclusion is that the Ger
mans are disloyal to American poll
tical ideals.
Answering the Argument.
Lawyer Swift has presented his case
SO badly that full and complete an
swer to 1t can be found in Aesop's IA
BILE of the "Wolf and the Lamb"
Now let us take up the case by the
above sections, viz:
1. From the earliest protests
against tyranny and human slavery
in this country down to now the Ger
mans have been SO prominent that the
eminent names alone recorded in
American histories would fill a good
sized volume. They participated in the
making Of our Constitution, and the
first Speaker of the first American
Congress was a German, Frederick
August Muhlenberg. The Germans in
the nineteenth century furnished the
largest quote of soldiers contributed
by any one national element in sup
port of the government the constitu.
ton created. Jacob Leisler, Ger
man, made the first call in America
for a congress of the colonies to de.
fend their rights, and from this grew
the Continental Congress. He equip
ped the first warship that went out
from New York and he added three
ships to the fleet The Germans we're
the first to protest against slavery in
America. When the British troops ap-
preached Philadelphia the Germans
carried off the Liberty Bell and con-
cealed it near Allentown, Pa, and to
them we owe it's existence today.
2. The German support of America
in the Revolutionary War, the War of
1912. and the Civil War refutes this
completely.
3. Every state in the Union has
towns and counties named after the
German patriots who assisted Wash
ington.
Breaks Up Practice.
4. The British historian, Trevelyan,
in his American Revolution" de-
nounces the Hessian soldiers as
thieves. drunkards, seducers, without
any nationality, without honor, with
out patriotism, without country, wan.
dering vagabonds who we're seized by
British agents in Europe and bought
with British gold" King George
bought forty-thousand such rascals
and buns of Catherine of Russia but
Frederick the Great, German, would
not let them go to America and he
really broke up the disgraceful traf-
fic. s -.--s.. .
S. Germany is constitutional
power. The present empire is next
to the youngest nation on earth, Cuba
being the youngest. Germany dates
:ffom 1871. All German citizens have
the right to vote, but no man can hold
III office or be appointed or elected to
u without special fitness or training
for it. We reverse this by our too
often electing men for their special
unfitness, In German farming over
four million acres are divided into