New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-16
A. TRADITIONAL AND ACTUAL
Is II No, Time Thoughts and Organize Against Disaster
sMustBe Treated as Germans

,blance OF purpose. There are those who say
we should be at war with Germany The truth
is we cant be.
According 10 statistics, there are not less
than two million five hundred thousand or
ganlzed Germans In this country-tvo million
five hundred thousand potential traitors.
Don't take my word for H. Take their word
for g. "As COMMUNICATIONS" declared
the president Of the Alliance at the 1911
convention, I'VE are a people that can look
back upon a glorious past and can look Tor
ward Nth confidence 10 a no less orillian,
future: az Americans, on the other hand, We
are merely an unknown quantity in the great
racial tumble Of this land" For such an
utterance there can be no sentimental eK-
tenuation: II is deliberate choice contrary
10 the honor Of an osth-the kind OF expe-
diency that laid waste Belgium, without, here,
the excuse OF wars excitement. said the
stats -Zeitung" at about the same time: "The
race war which we will be compelled TO go
through on American soil will be our world
war; Compelled TO 90 throughD "A
world Germansm will evolve reads a re-
port Of the Alliance, "and 70 foster this world
Germanism will be the problem OF Germans
in every country on the globe" In this Ut
terance we behold even the hyphen discarded
and our NermhhS openly sfoNi"S '"N'"
selves.
These things are no longer matter for
whispers. All this, with a detailed account
of how these forces have worked over here
since the war started is available in book.
Their True Allegiance costing but fifty
cents, from Macmillan.
There are in this country now 900 Ger
man reservists New York City harbors 3d.
OOO Chicago $4,000 The confession Of a
member Of the German secret service which
implicated Captain Won Pspcn, says this book
established the project of an invasion OF
Canada BY German reservists. That Is, there
is in this country now not only an organized
propaganda, but an army large enough and
well enough equipped TO project an entry
into Canada considerably more Of proposi-
ton at any time than Mexico!
What thought our fine minds have 20 give
20 the subject of war had best be concen-
trated here. To-day our President informs
US that his Sussex pronunciamento IS re-
voked. Isn't il about time that Americans
stopped blaming the President? Isn't II
about time that organized our little prop
uganda? The balance Of power over here
can be usurped By any combination Of in
terests until we fight strongly enough and
without overconfidence 20 regain IT, We
should have no concern now with any otner
question but the primary one -Americanism;
il is our duty 70 our children 10 make that,
more than barrel-head chant. Can't We
learn to regard "Amercsnism" as something
vital TO our lives? Can't we revive prepared
ness? Can't We take treason seriously and
90 down, even, in trying to enforce the oath
Of allegiance? Anything ID better than q
stupid compacency.
Let us think and plan. Of and for our own
country, in terms Of menace confronting US
that germ Of pestilential war the German
mind. Let US fight if we have to, but crush
it as we must Let US give over German
'tradesmen and any remain German
friends. We can oppose Germany II we begin
now and begin here. Let all Americans, Of
all ancestries, including those who came from
and forgot Germany prior to the 7O's, unite as
an active force against that force which has
desolated Belgium. and is now established
here.
Germans must be treated as Germans. II
is our security as it is the security OF the
world h
Cornwall, ~ Y, Dec. -, 1915.