Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-24
(. Readers Column
AN HONEST DIFFERENCE,
Dickinson, Apr. 20, 191,

Dickinson, Apr. 20, 1915.
Editor Tribune:
Being Americans First. I presume
under this heading you attempted to
answer me, as l did write, you. Moth
ing wrong with that thought; but it
is patent that you have scales on
your eyes, for your attitude. and Of
many others like you, is the reverse.
OF. that. MY concern is only with peo-
pie OF. German stock right here in
this country. ;" ijg
Ever, since J. was a cub reporter
back in the days of Harrison and
Cleveland Eaye found the GeSmVns
to be people, of many minds, be-
longing to all, parties and all creeds.
But last summer an English CAM
paign of villification began, and for
the first time something like unani-
nous feeling crept over them. Re-
markable that! Did they resent the
insults and slurs against their cous-
ms in Germany? No, they resent a
brazen effrontery against themselves
here. If no offense was meant against
them here, why was all that poison
Gus English dope dished up to them?
The united front of these people aug.
urs we'll for the future Of this country.
l never did think it possible.
Carnegie once wrote a book in
which he wants the United States to
politically unite with England. There
are more devils like him in this
country who would like to see that
come to pass. believe. the Germans
and lrisch "a be depended on to frus-
trate such schemes. To be Americans
first is the thing. But We do not wan:
to have England run this country.
So many Of these fellows hollering
their heads off against hyphenates do
not represent the true American at
titude, but are mere parronts jihber-
ing in the interests Of England. And
as for the gold coming in for arms
and ammunition, the sight OF which is
causing some to rub their hands with
glee, it is tainted, and the chances are
will serve some day but as dowery
for some damsel who is ambitious to
marry a foreign title. At any rate,
when England and France furnish the
men, and We furnish arms and ammu-
milton for these men, no sophistry
can dissolve the conclusion that we
are co.partners on the battlefield. To
be Americans first. Indeed! l for
one want England to r%elinquish her
rule in Canada, and everywhere else
on the American continent and ISL
ands adjacent. Americans first! Sure
thing. l would like to see you be-
come such.
I must not fail to mention that l
dearly love the English. To prove it
I will only cite some books | have in
my library, that is STRICTLY English
writer's; namely, EssaysAof Ella;
Milton, Paradise Lost:Carlyle, Sartor
Resartus, and Hero Worship; Shakes
peare's Works: Shellsy.p poems; Kip
ling, City Of Dreadful Night, etc.;
Lubbock, Pleasures of Life; Bacon,
Essays, Civil and Moral; Spencer.
Education, Philosophy Of Style, Prog
ress-lts Law and Course, Essays
Speculative and Practical: Vain.
wright, Scientific Sophisms: J. S.
Mill, Utilitarianism; Rawlinson, Re.
ligion of the Ancient World, Origin
of Nations; Card ct al, Oriental Re.
ligions; C. F.. Keary, The Dawn of
History; Huxley, The Origin of Spe-
cies, Physical Basis of Life;s Picton,
Essential Nature of Religion; Fowler,
Progressive Morality; Pollock, Sci
ence of Politics; Black, Ultimate FL
nance; Stewart, Conservation of En-
ergy; Carpenter . Civilization-Its
Cause and Cure; Balm, Micd and
Body; Sully. Aesthetics ETC.; Buckle.
History of England: besides numer-