TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1916-11-03

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this appear convincing. Not 81
TO any reasoning being wht
has followed the Presidential
windings and workings.
From Vera Cruz to Perish
ing's adventures in search o
Villa-the erstwhile good anC
now wholly villainous, Wilson
course has been uncertain anC
contradictory. A firm hand il
the beginning and our troop:
would not today be needed or
the border.
Anyone daring to question
his course or challenge his con.
duct at once becomes a public
enemy. For in the conceit and
imagination OF his mind He is
The State.
This mental state is well
evidenced in his attack upon
the COMMUNICATIONS. With
out proof or justification other
than the irresponsible charges
OF a seryile ]pro-British press,
he stignatized them as plotters
and traitors. And though he
had at his service the entire
. United States Secret Service
Department, aided by the wide-
ly-ramifed British Spy System
in this country, he has been UNI
able to connect any number Of
individuals or any group or or
ganization Of G~erman-American
with such plotting.
Further, with a weakling's
fiery against those whom he
has wronged, he forced a plank
into the Democratic platform
repeating his libel and endeavor-
ing thereout TO make an issue
And the Democrats supinely
permitted him to do so. AS in
the logic Of the matter every
candidate is pledged to support
the President and the party
platform, so every aspirant for
Office upon the Democratic side,
60 ipso, is particeps criminis to
a baseless libel upon a class OF
citizenry whose suffrage he
seeks. What answer may he
reasonably expect at the polls?
We'll might Wilson be liken-
ed 10 the Tyraut Pisistratus,
who having wounded himself
for the purpose, drove in that
condition into the market place,
and endeavored TO inflame the
minds Of the people, by telling
them his enemies had laid in
wait for him, and treated him
in that manner on account OF
his patriotism. Upon this the
multitude loudly expressed their
Indignation; but Scion came up
and accosted him: Son OF Hip
pocrates, you act Homer's Uys-
ses but very indifferently, for
he wounded himself to deceive
his enemies, but you have done
it to impose upon your coun-
tryrnen." Notwithstanding this.
the rabble were ready to take
up arms Tor him
Truly the German-Ameriean
can say that if anyone in this
land has done aught subversive
of the nations unity and in
tegrity, and as destructive Of
its welfare or who has by in
timidation calculated to divide
our people into antagonistic
groups and thus to destroy that
complete agreement and solidar.
ity Of the people and that unity
Of sentiment and national pur-
pose so essential 10 the per-
petuity Of the nation and its
free institutions has been
WILSON.
*. a.. M. s."
No self.respecting American
of German birth G. extraction
can vote for President Wilson /!
What, as American patriots, are
we to do?-Tt has been suggest
ed by several Of our newspapers
that Gefman-Americans should
entirely refrain from voting at
the next presidential election.
Such a course would be child
ish and unpatriotic. We certain
Iy as manly men cannot pout
and sulk ike punished children
1t is the duty of every Amer
lean citizen not only fearlessly
to express his convictions, but
it is also a sacred trust, impos-
ed upon him as a free American
citizen, that he should vote at
every primary and regular cleo
ton.
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