Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-21

full Ysers fr tn Anglo-saxon princi-
pals iv lnternaytional law. ,. Cecil
IawlSins-Hawkins.
In another colyum read: Herr Idi-
tor: Though born in Germany I am a
good dale more loyal son w America
than annywan born here. wish to write
dispa ssyonate, FIR We Germans are cool
in argymint. though brave as hungry
tigers in battle We are nachrarly a
fair-mlnded cam an ginrous people,
who on'y want a place in tn sun where
we can put up our feet on tn table,
3" 1T Ia in this spirit Nv open-mindedness
that I say that tn statement in ye'er
pa-aper that tn kaiser has cold in his
head Is base. foul, calunnious lie paid
FIR De British goold. 1t Is lie. Dye
hear me? A lie. dare ye to come
outside an deny what | say. Let tn
low money-grubbin' Yankees. who ARE
lickin' tn boots Of Britain, beware. We
Germans have stood enough Nv ye'er
slavish subservyence to ye'er masters.
Wan more peep iv sympathy FIR accused
! England an the sIventy million sons Nv tn
dear Fatherland in this ignoble country
will not be responsible fr what they do.
II love America aber Deutschland
uber allies. Ye'ers in tn spirit Nv fair-
play. Doctor owgoost Schmitt, Captain
Eighth Ward German Republican
tMarchln Club
AN so IL goes. No wan threats us as
Though we had right to be on tn map.
Maybe we haven't. on'y tn old pasthSy-
cook down TIL sthreet is cheerful an
smilin' all the time aven whin he's read
lin the casulty list IN tn Courier DAYS
E-tats Unis, though tn tears ARE in his
eyes.
cts all right, mong view'-he calls
me that 1t means ol spoort'-Tt's all J
right. mong view he says. We don't
want tn help Nv ye'er hands or ye'er
lips, but iv that little pump In there
he says. tappin' me on tn chest.
But Schwatzmeister Is different Mex
TO ye'rsilf an Hogan he's about tn old
est friend 1 have in Ar-rchey road. I've
often voted FIR him whin he was out of
town. i've had as much condesension
f'r him as FIR amy man iv me acduain-
lance. He has always been thractable,
pleasant, an dooie-th' ideel German In
an Irish neighborhood.
But nowadays I don't care 70 say me
soul Is me own in his prisince. This
mornln' ! dropped in on him am he
told me that TIL Germans had made
America what 1t Is an that we were
reptiles FIR turnin' on our benifactofs.
He said the kaiser was tn gr-reatest
man in histhry. Did We vote fr him7'
says I. Vote FIR him. says he. He
was stint FIRM himmeL' He said II it
hadn't been ff fellow named Won
Stooben, George wash'nton wud've bsen
licked an twas Gin'rai Franz sigel that
won tn civil war fr US.
81 was goin5 TO say somethin' about
Phil Sheridan. but noticed a wild sieap1
in his eye an also bunsstarter In nis
hand, an 1 backed out iv tn dure.
"It looks to me. HinnIssy, as though m
trouble with tn Germans IL that they're
tn worst liars IN tn wurruld. name be
that tn poorest liars. They aren't thurly
civilized because they don't realize that
IT'S lyin' that makes tn wurruid 60 round.
9TH Fr-rinch ar-re chahrmln' liars in
tn naytional Industry Nv maxim love.
We Americans ar-re alert. able. CONNER
cial liars. Indfvijooly tn English do not
lie. They don't say much " anything.
But their government is magnificent in
this ancyent art. Whin they want 10
VI grab a country they say they're goin
to do It in tn INTERESTS Nv civilization
- But 1t is conthry to International law. "
says some wan.
L. INTERNATIONAL law ye'er grand aunt,
! says tn British government. That Is tC
an say, II may be conthry to tn wurruds N
ne internaytional law, but not to III spiri
en- which 10 that we shud look out fr tn
an interests iv civilization. We cannot lie
an ourselves be bothered be tn niceties IL
an 5oodycial decisyons whin civilization Il
at stake An they grab.
r. But with tn Germans It's different
II don't know why II Is but they can't lie
tn THEY'VE he'd lots Nv practice. but It doe
IN thin no good. TIL German governmin
yer has gone systematically to wurruk to I'm
YER prove tn quality iv it's output. 1t hs
conducted labrytory experiments on al
IN extensive scale,
u. 1T has stint Its young diplomats abroa
ed to England Italy, America. Japan an
IN Greece to study tn craft. II has pro
tn jooced at times, article that viii
an thried on its own people seemed success
len full But whin they attimpt to use It 4
nth International practice it always explode
~ In their hands,
de- "a German can no mora lie thin
'ad boilermaker cud mend watchspring. ]
I've is far too dilicate business fr thin. I4al
ips summer tn Germans said We're goin' I
march through Biljum. because it's Il
his aisiest way, an it's none ~ anybody
i've uaih pusiheeS aphyho". rum al III Wul
tn ruld hollered Shame an so German
an blushed an Htammered an SAWS.
ate well. II We must know. tn raison "
II attacked Biljum was because we had II
lin formation that feerocyous country wa
Ell about to climb into us. says they. VIII
me did ye get this information?' tn de
raw befure yisterdah,' says the German go'
ernmint Maybe they'll do bother aft,
ian this war"
Nv What Is internAytional law"
80 TT Is this" said Mr. Dooley. shakir
s,r his fist under the nose Of his astonishG
can friend.