Arizona republican., 1915-09-24
The Hyphenated American
  Views of Colonel Roosevelt

the cause of international right and
 of the interests of humanity.
 It was Germany which for decades supplied Turkey with the means of keeping the Christians of the Euro pean and Asiatic provinces in a state
 of dreadful subjection. It was Ger
 many which established the artillery l in the Belgian forts-and, as one of the men engaged in the work in 1 formed a friend of mine, the Ger | man war office was then furnished l with blue prints of what had been | done and of the neighboring ge- | ography so as to enable the German 1 armleS to take the forts with the l least possible delay and damage
 Essen has been the center of military supplies to belligernts and has ex- ported on an enormous scale to bel hserents in all the modern wars making vast profits from this traffic
 even in the late Balkan wars Ger
 many Aas consistently followed this course, even when one of the bel Hserehts alone had access to her
 markets and the other, with which
 she was nominally in sympathy, had
 ilo such access. This was shown in
 A'tNA SnDDIl2S
 furnished by Germany to Great Brit
 ain for use against the Boers were
 IDS Fifteen pounder quick firing guns and 54,000 rounds of ammunition for
 them; 65,OOO hundredweight of
 swords. cutlasses, bayonets and arms
 Of other sorts; S,0OO,OOO rounds of small arms ammunition and 900 5GO
 or metal cartridge cases other than
 small-arms' ammunition: and some
 Z|oo0 hundredweight of cordite. gum
 powder, dynamite and the like. In snort Germany has thriven enor-
 mousIy on the sale of arms to bel
 llserents when she was a neutral:
 she Insisted that such sale be sane
 tlohed by the Hague conventions: She' SO lar as possible, desires to prevent other nations from manufac
 turing arms; and if she is success
 Iul Tn this effort she will have taken
 another stride to world dominion
 ne professional pacifist hyphenated Americans, and beef and cotton
 Aheflcans; in short, all the repre sehtatlVes of American mollycoddle- ism' American greed and downright lredchery to America, in seeking to prevent shipments of munitions to the allies, are playing the game of brutal militarism against Belgium and against their own country.
 The full flower of treacherv to
 the duties of the United States ana to the rights of the nations of man. klnd is best observed when the nro- 1essloEal pacifist and the hyphenatnd Anerlcan strike hands on some Dub lie occasion. Recently a so-caIIed Labor Peace Conference was held at
 Washington for the purpose of in initiating public servants by politicaI threats into refusing to allow the export of arms and munitions to the allies. The newspapers reported that one of the officials of a German Aherican,-- organization announced t1at the members of his body would not enlist in the event of war be- tween the United States and Ger many If this statement is correct. the gentleman in question and those TOT Waom he~ e~spoke are traitors and III the event of war should be dealt "lth Tn summary fashion. The hy- phcnated American has been shown Tn actual practice to be loyal only 10 that part of his title which pre- cedes the hyphen. He is thoroughly disloyal to the "American'' part of
 -'S HHNh"ecu OSltOHlenr ana 1e l must be thus disloyal, because of the i necessities of the case The profess | Slonal German Americans of this Kind ought by rights immediately to | De deprived of their United States | cluzership. Their place is not here | Their place is in Germany. in the 1 trenches; and the sooner they go | the better it will be for | everything decent in American citi- i And in saying this I wish | to emphasize my belief that the pro- fess1onal German Americans are not 1 l Dit worse than all other profession- | al hyphenated Americans. These professional German Americans sin most bitterly against the real Ameri- cans Of German blood. We have no better citizens than the Americans of l Ierman birth or descent who in good faith are fulfilling the duties of citizenship and who are americans and nothing else. I han pen to know that these men. men "ho are entitled to the highest hon. 'r and the highest respect from all -helr fellow Americans. feel a pecu- lar indignation at the professional l German Americans, the hyphenated Americans, who by their actions dur ng the past year have dishonored their own stock and have done all Inc damage they could to the country which offered itself as a refuge to hem or to their forefathers."
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