The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-12-04
EDGAR ILIFF DEFENDS
GERMAN RACE AGAINST
ATTACK BY ATTORNEY

small holdings of five acres each.
There are only 100000 renters as
against two million proprietors. The
courts discourage litigation. A special
court called Referendar seeks to com.
promise all differences without costs.
The Kaiser can neither initiate legis-
lation nor veto 1t. The initiation and
control of legislation by our modern
presidents and governors has become
a scandal. The King can talk Of my
dominions, my noble allies, etc." but
the Kaiser cannot. The Kaiser min
giles freely with his people and is the
most democratic ruler In the world. He
has no immense civil list like that of
George in England.
Rally Around the Flag.
6. Why? It was the Anglo-Saxon
that we fought in 1776. 1912 and 1851,
and in every struggle the Germans
rallied around the flag. Look at the
German veterans still among US, those
who fought NIT Seigel." Austerhaus.
etc. New York sent out in our Civil
War twelve German regiments under
such titles as Fifth German Rifles"
"Blanker's Battery" and "Steuben
Rangers" In the early days of this
war for the Union over 175,000 men
who enlisted in the Union Army we're
born In Germany. For shame, Lucius
Swift! Shame to SO insult these pa
triots and veterans-o a war for Amer
lean ideals and liberty!
7. Tell the truth! When Washing.
totn discovered that his body guard
harbored Tory conspiracy to seize
him and carry him to England and
murder him in the Tower of London
as rebel he broke 1t up and reorgan-
lied this guard and made it up of all
Germans, fourteen officers and fifty
three men, under the command of Ma
jor Barth Won Hear, Prussian who
had been cavalry lieutenant under
Frederick the Great in the Seven Year
War. Washington wrote to Congress
that he hoped these honest and brave
men would be commissioned at once.
When Washington retired this body.
guard escorted him to Mount Vernon
with great honors and Congress pen
stoned them all.
Believe In Civil Reform.
8. The Germans in America have
been right on slavery. civil service,
sound money, party reforms, temper
ance and personal liberty, and indie
pendent voting. Bismarck told Andrew
D. White, U. S. Ambassador at Berlin,
that LAS German I am proud of Carl
Schurz - and further, Il am, as a
German, proud of my people who have
so valiantly fought in America for lib
erty and good government" The Ger.
man element in Missouri saved that
state for the Union. The German Tur-
ner Society saved the United States
Arsenal in st. Louis from the Confed-
crates. Governor Hughes Of New
York said he could not have broken
up the race-track gambling without
Senator Otto G. Foelker and his Ger.
man hackers. Look at the name Of the
Muhlenbergs, the Sauers, the Pfahlers,
the Spreckels, the Wachenheimers,
the Wirts, the Schierens, the Sutros,
the Wageners, the Buses, the Won
Cotzhausens, and think of Thomas
Mast, the great cartoonist who brought
Tweed to prison-all Germans! For
| shame! And Francis Leiber, the great
friend and adviser of Lincoln, Stew
ard and Stanton during the Civil War!
Leiber should be studied by every
American youth for ideals. And Philip
Dorschheimer, the warm friend of Lin
coin. The list is too long for recording
here
9. This item is thrown out of court
bodily.
The pamphlet Germans in Amer
lea" is only a lawyers plea, but as a
lawyers plea it would not have any