Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-01-15

"The American Rights Committee
that is spreading similar petitions
broadcast throughout the land. The
head OF this committee is George
Haven Putnam, native Of London.
IL counts among its members out
spoken pro-Britiahers like Abbot of
tho Outlook and other Angiomeu
who would like to see America stand
ing by England in tho greatest peril
she has ever been called upon to
confront. The Anglicised press all
over the country is, OF course hard
at work endeavoring to manufacture
pro-English sentiment. Our pro-
English sheets cannot hide from
themselves the ugly fact that the
country they champion has been get
ting the worst of it in its fight with
Germany. Thus the New York TIib-
une, in summing up the situation on
the last day of the old year, makes
this admission: From February to
December the toll of British loss and
the record Of British defeat and
failure have grown steadily; incom-
potent commanders, incompetent
preparations folles OF selfish polite
ians and mistakes of eager but
ignorant patriots have continued
From Ncuve Chapelle to the Dar-
dancllcs fasco the British have
known the deepest humiliation
Keep in mind that no unfriendly
non furnishes us with this descrip-
ton. The pro-Britsher who wrote
it sympathizes to the full with Eng
land in her present plight It is this
sympathy which is back Of the move
meni TO drag our beloved country
into the European war. DO not let
US be deceived. The element for
which tho New York Tribune speaks
are determined to leave nothing un-
done TO array all the resources Of the
United States on the side Of the
country that has their heart-loyalty.
The pro-British organ we have just
mentioned leaves us in no doubt on
this question. In q New Years Day
editorial IL launched forth into bitter
denunciatiOns Of the United States
for not having allied itself with
England months ago X Is true that
the word alliance is not used, but
reading between the lines we can
easily detect that it is that the Now
York Tribune means when ii re-
Dukes Americans for not having
lived UP TO the spirit Of rs because
they are not ready to risk their lives
in defence Of tho British Empire
Because they have not done this they
are told that they are unworthy des-
cendanta Of the men who fought at
Lexington Concord, Bunker Hill,
Saratoga and Yorktown.
Incredible as II may seem these
names, associated with memories or
resistance to English tyranny and
rapacity, are now invoked in an an
peal to Americans TO fight for Eng
land. Here Is how they are de-
uounccd for not being as pro-British
as the hnglicised editor of the New
York Tribune would have them to
be; Grief disappointment. shame,
these have come 10 all true Amer
leans in the year that has gone. In
tho moment OF great peril, In the
/, hour when all that was best in life
and civilization was at stake when
the very structure Of our democracy
and democracy in the whole world
was endangered The American peo-
pie have turned their backs upon
duty and chosen tho easy road Of
safety and prosperity, when mon and
f4'' 49, ~ WV SCI inN lAlin anu Tie
same creed were giving all for the
cause OF humanity and civilization. y
There is no mistalSing this lang
uage. Il is q thinly disguised appeal
70 ignore The vital interests OF Amel-
ica and to plunge into the hell OF the
European war in order that England
may escape the fate that now
threatens her The pro-Bdtish sheet
that makes this appeal assumes that
we arc virtually British provincial
lists upon whom race patriotism"
imposes the duty Of rallying to the
side of the mother country" in this
her hour Of unprecedented danger
From this time forward the greatest
pressure Will be brought to bear
upon Congress to induce 1t to adopt
the pro-British policy advocated by
the New York Tribune and the other
newspapers that have constituted
themselves the organs Of the most
un-American clement in the country
This evil influence must be fought
IN the interest of the Republic. The
most imperative duty OF the hour is
TO combat Anglomania and all it's
works. II is the hest way we can
serve our country at This time whom
an ATTEMPT is made to link its for
tunes with those Of decadent Eng
land