Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-30

one OF the belligerents alone had access
to her markets and the other, with which
sne was nominally in sympathy, had no
such access
rms was shown in the Boer War.
Among the supplies furnished by Ger
many to Great Britain for use against
the Beers were los fifteen FOUNDER quick
firing guns and $4,000 rounds OF ammunl-
ton Tor them, $500 hundredweight OF
swords. cutlasses. bayonets and arms OF
other sorts 100000 rounds of smal-arms
ammunition and 100000 Of metal car
fridge cases other than small-arm am
munition; and some 1900 hundredwcight
OF cordite. gunpowder. dynamite and tho
ike. In short. Germany has thriven
enormously on the sale Of arms to bellig-
erents when she was n neutral. she In.
sisted that such sale DO sanctioned by
the Hague conventions; she. go far rs
possible desires to prevent other nations
from manufacturing arms and X she Is
successful In this effort she will have
taken another stride to world dominion.
The professional pacifist, hyphenated
Americans. and beef and cotton Amer
leans In sort. all the representatives OF
American mollycoddleism, American
greed, and downright treachery TO Amer
lea, in seeking to prevent shipments OF
munitions to the allies. are playing the
game Of brutal mlitarsm against
Belgium and against their own country
ACTION WICKED AND BASE
Tho foolish professional pacifists who
advocate refusing to sell munitions OF
war to the allies are proposing course
of action as wicked as 1t Is base; and
those making such n proposal or approx
Ing and advocating action in accordance
Herewith. should be listed on n roll OF
national dishonor. 1t has even been pro-
posed that the United States should spend
n billion dollars in paying Germany to
give Belgium back her own people. The
profound immortality of this proposition
| surpasses even its faulty. II II could
be adopted, It would Of course merely
be paying blackmail on n gigantic scale,
and be direct encouragement to ma
lions to commit wrong in order to get
money. II such a proposal were adopted
by the United States, the fact would
completely Justify Germany or japan in
SELLING New York or San Francisco and
refusing to leave until we had paid into
say. twice as much as that which It has
been thus proposed TO pay into the Cor
man Golfers In order to get them to sur
render Belgium.
The full flower Of treachery to the
duties OF the United States and to the
| rights of the nations OF mankind is best
| observed when the professional paciflst
and the hyphenated American strike
hands on some public occasion. Recently
so-callcd Labor Peace conference was
| held at Washington for the purpose Of
intimidating public servants by political
threats into refusing to allow the export
Of arms and munitions TO the allies. The
newspapers reported that one OF the Of
ficials of a German-American orEaniza-
| tion announced that "the members Of
his body would not enlist in the event
| of war between the United States and
Germany" II this statement Is correct.
the gentlemen in question and those for
whom he spoke are traitors and in the
| event Of war should be dealt with in
summary fashion.
| The hyphenated American has been
shown in actual practice to be loyal only
to that part Of his title which precedes
the hyphen. He Is thoroughly disloyal
to the american" part OF his hyphen.
ated cognomen. and he must be thus dis
loyal, because OF the necessities Of the
case The professional German-Amer-
leans OF this kind ought by rights immedi-
ately to be deprived of their United States
citizenship. Their place Is not here. Their
place Is in Germany. in the trenches: and
tho sooner they go hither. the better It
will be for everything decent In Amer
| lean citizenship. And in saying this !
wish to emphasize my belief that the
| professional German-Amerlcans are not
hyphenated Americans. These profess
sional German Americans sin most BIT
terly against the real Americans OF Ger
man blood. We have no better citizens
than the Americans Of German birth or
descent who In good faith are fulfilling
the duties OF American citizenship and
who are Americans and nothing else. I
happen to know that these men, men
who are entitled to the highest honor and
the highest respect from all their fellow
Americans, feel n peculiar indignation at
the professional German Americans. the
hyphenated Americans who by their ac-
tions during the past year have dishon-
ored their own stock and have done
all the damage they could to the country
which offered itself as n refuge to them
or to their forefathers
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