Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-08
Oswald G. Willard, Former Sub.
ject of Kaiser, Now Editor of
New York Post, Scores
Fellow Immigrants.
MENACE AMERICA, HE SAYS
Thinks Issue Must Be Con-
auered-If United States Is
So Inferior, Why Come
Here? He Asks.

Stockbridge. Mass. Sept. 6.-Oswald
Garrison Willard. publisher of the New
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 said an important factor
in 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 Ger
man soil. of a German father"
Foreigners becoming American citf-
Eens must be made to understand MI.
Willard said. that there can be no
divided citizenship or loyalty or allegi-
hnce under the American nag; that nc
pne can accept political obligations
here, while at heart loyal to another
,ocial system. another entity or another
code of laws.
Would Shame Schurz. He Says.
In opening his address Mr.. Willard
quoted from an address made by carr
schurz at the celebration of the latter,s
Mr. Schurz said that no matter how
warm the affections German-Americans
lad held for their native land they had
lever permitted their affections to IN
;erfere with their duties as American
citizens. nor to seduce them to use their
power in American politics for foreign
.nds.
"How amazed SchurZ would be to re-
urn to us today to find that that q
come to pass which he deemed incon.
:eivable," said Mr.. Willard. HE would
ind 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
lanes of bitterness.
NATURALLY SchurZ would a the
aorizon for some discriminatory act on
The part of our government, or some
manifestation or racial prejudice
against German-Americans. But he
would find nothing Of the sort. So
FAR as the federal government and
nothing changed from the day he left
Not Loyal Citizens, He Charges.
1.-THE mighty CONFUSION we are wit
Messing he would ascertain to be due
entirely to foreign complications, to a
determination on the part of u 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
thousands, had not really transferred
their allegiance to the country of their
aQOpSAOhs
What could amaze him more than
to find unnumbered G srmans who, like
himself, came to this country to escape
the very militaristic autocracy they
now uphold, today denouncing the ma
ton that adopted and sheltered, fed and
clothed them?"
He then asked that If it were true
as commended, that German kultur and
political system werc superior to the
scheme Of lif, and government in
America. why the hordes who have
locked 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. AZ
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.
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