The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-26

the poltroons and college sisses who or.
game peace-at'any- price societies, ano
the mere money-getters aud mere mon.
ey-spenders, they should be made Ia
understand that they have got 10 rem.
der whatever service the country de.
mands. They must be made TO submit
to training in doing their duty. Then
IT, in event of war, they prove unfit to
fight at any rate they can be made to
dig trenches and kitchen sinks, or do
whatever else II debauch of indulgence
in professional pacifcistism has left
them fit to do.
Camps like this are the best possible
antldotes to hyphenatcd Americansm.
The events of the past year
have shown us that in any crisis the
lhyphenated American is an active force
against America, a active force for
wrongdoing. The effort to hoist two
flags ON the same ilagpole always means
that one flag is hoisted underneath, and
the hyphenated American invariably
hosts the flag of the United States be-
meath, We must all be Americans and
nothing else.
There exists no finer body of Amer
lean citizens in this country than those
citizens Of German birth or decent, who
are in good faith Americans and nothing
else. The professional German
American has shown himself, within the
last twelve months to be an enemy to
this country as well as to humanity. The
recent exposures of the way in which
these German Americans have worked
together with The emissaries of the Ger
man government by direct cor.
ruption-a against the integrity of Amer
lean institutions and against America
doing its international duty, should |
arouse scornful indignation in cve,y |
American worth calling such. The lead |
ers among the professional German
Americans have preached and practiced
what comes perilously near to treason I
against tie United States.
'Under the Hague convention it was
our bounden duty TO take whatever ac-
ton was necessary to prevent and If
not to prevent, then to undo, the hide
GUS wrong that was done to Belgium.
We have shirked this duty. We have
shown a spirit SO abject, that Germany
has deemed it safe to kill our women and
children on the high seas. As for the
export of munitions of war, it would be
a base abandonment Of morality to re-
fuse to make these shipments. Such a
refusal is proposed only to favor the
nation that sank the Lisitania and the
Arabic and committed the crime against
Belgium, the greatest international crime
since the close of the Napo-
comic contests century ago. 1t is not
/ lofty thing, on the contrary, it is an
vii thing, to practice timid and sell
ish neutrality between right and wrong.
t is wrong for an individual. 1t is
till more wrong for nation. But it
$ worse in the name of neutrality, to
avor the nation that has done evil.
:. Exactly the same morality
hould obtain internationally that OBJ
aims nationally. 1t is right for pri-
ate firm to furnish arms to the police.
nan who puts down the thug, the bur-
lar, the white SLAYER and the blackhand- :
r: 1t is wrong to furnish the black
ander, the burglar and the white-slav
+ with weapons to be used against the
oliceman. The analogy holds true in
life. Germany has her
elf been the greatest manufacturer of
lunition of war to be supplied TO bell
gerents. Let us furnish muni-
IONS to the men who, showing courage
'e have not shown, wish to rescue Bel
ium from subsection and spoilation and 7
egradation. And let us encourage mu-
ition makers so that we may be able
} hold our own when the hour of peril
omcs to us in our turn, as assuredly it
i'll come, ii we show ourselves too neu-
al to speak word on behalf of the
cak who are wronged, and too slothful
nd lazy to prepare to defend ourselves r
yainst wrong. Most assuredly it will :
,me to ms ii we succeed in persuading
-eat military nations that we are too
roud to fight, that we are not prepared
undertake defensive war for our own
tal interest and national honor" +.