Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-09-28
Tuesday, September %, 1915.


THE GERMANAMERlcAN IMPEACHMENT.
Prof Hugo Muensterberg of Harvard has taken up his
pen in behalf of the German-Amercans. His appeal is
able and eloquent presentation of the German-Amercan
spirit sees It, plea for its acceptance in our
national life.
America, he argues is tied to set Of ideals or
culture. We have carried indiyiduasm
extreme under the English influence of the past
AT present we are not Anglo-saxon. w mixture
OF races And the cultures" of these races should
mingle as their blood mnging And since the German
element the powerful of all the later infusions
right that the German culture should be allowed
temper our existing culture.
And what the characteristics of the German cul
ture brought by our Teutonc immigrants?
Prof Muenserberg is very clear The matter They
are precisely ideals and virtues That have given Ger
many its real greatness. He speaks of the Germans
devotion ito the overindivduar ends, and faith
the state bearer of their ideals their trust in thor
oughness and discipline, in purity and loyalty" The
GermanAmerican like his prototype in the Fatherland
has profound belief in training and expert Judgment
in authority and efficiency and this belief the professor
INSISTS, is the weapon which can the
dangerous happygoIucy careessness of American life
That careesness he thinks is typi6ed in the Eastland
disaster. It was the Eastland, and the Lusitana.
that marked the real to America. For the East
land passengers the victims Of American superficial
ity neglect human life of our failure govern
order system and control of things vitality affect
ing our people
Now particularly, when attention is drawn from
our own failures a supposed foreign danger, are
than in need of German thoroughness dsci-
plne order system, seriousness and sefimmolating
ideasm for the building of a better social and indus
trial structure "The duty of the COMMUNICATIONS to
interpret the ideals public life in the of their
Teutonc traditions was important for the
progress Of America"
And in this crisis what is America doing? As Prof
Muensterberg us are rejecting the gaspel even
when we need it The nation in general has lost
sympathy with the Americans It seeks to elm
mate those impulses which speak the soud of Ger
many"
This an very fine and philosophical But let's get
down to brass tacks
Any farminded and intelligent American admit
the existence OF the virtues which Muen
sterberg pays tribute And without hurting our own
brand Of culture, we would do wen absorb much
as we can hold their best ideas and ideals We need
considerable reorganization along the German lines II
isn't likely that cope with future Germany the
arts Of either peace unless we learn from Ger
many German "Kultur" with the ruthless Prussian ee
ments left out if grated without killing
our personal freedom, would unQuestionably make
greater nation.
But-here's the rub. Are our COMMUNICATIONS real
ly trying now. to give us these things we need?
If they We're the rank and file Of them were, ther
would be no such bitterness felt toward German an'
COMMUNICATIONS as there today in many quarters
The condemnation visited German citizens is du
to the fact that many of them have fallen from thu
faith and lost their own best radical ideals
doesn't help this country any large section o
us people denounce persstently all Trims American,
engage i'm clamor against government, to defend tn
massacre citizens at sea- TO constitute themselve
SET more Prussian than the Prussans and their pc
aHon as a vantage point from which TO in Gel
manys behalf
When the GermanAmercans return TO the hghes
ideals Of their Fatherand speak and in Amerle
as mo apostles Of those Ideals there will be end oiii
tolerance against German-Amencans.
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nounced by Austria fourteen months ago, and seyeri
tlmes postponed for discretionary reasons las