Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-07-03
CREATING FALSE ISSUES.



of the partisan organs of President
Wilson. This question can easily be
answered with an emphatic mo"
but to that answer may well be
added also that neither shall the
Gar, King George, the Kaiser, King
Albert, King Peter, Gar Ferdinand
or the Sultan elect q president Of the
United States. This happens to be
business which will have to be at
tended to by the electorate of the
United States and no injection of
fake issues will help in electing one
Of the candidates for the highest
Office within the gift of the American
people.
If there be any one foolish enough
to think that all the projections of
this country will vote for Mr.. Hughes
or that all the pro-Allies will vote for
Wilson, he will be sorely disappoint-
ed on the evening Of November 7th,
1916.
AS a general proposition the Amer
lean voter, no matter what his creed,
birth or ancestry, is accustomed to
vote according to his political faith
on real live American issues and not
as a pro-German, a pro-Turk, a pro-
English, q pro-French, or a pro-
Montenegrin If Woodrow Wilson can
really convince his fellow-citizens
that he has done his level best in the
interest of the United States there
will be hundreds OF thousands Of
American citizens with pro-German
sympathles who will vote for him
If he fails to convince the American
electorate that his continuance in
office will be beneficial for the coun-
try, then will millions of citizens
with decidedly English and French
symDathies vote against him.
Why then was it considered neces-
sary to insert in the Democratic
platform the socalled anti-Hyphen
plank. parts of which read as fol-
lows:=
There Is gathered here in America
the best of the blood, the industry,
and the genius of the whole world,
the elements OF q great race and a
magnificent society to be melted into
q mighty and splendid nation.
Whoever, actuatcd by the purpose
to promote the interest of a foreign
power in disregard of our own coun-
try's welfare, or to injure this Gov
ernment in it's foreign relations or
cripple or destroy it's industries at
home, and whoever by arousing pre-
judices of q racial, religious, or other
nature creates discord and strife
among our people so as to obstruct
the wholesale process of unification,
is faithless to the trust which the
privileges Of citizenship repose in
him. and disloyal to his country.
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versive of this nations unity and in
tegrity, and as destructive of its well
fare, the activities and designs of
every group or organization, Doliti-
cal or otherwise, that has for its OBJ
ject the advancement OF the interest
of a foreign power, whether such OBJ
iect is promoted by intimidating the
Government, a political party, or rep
resentatives Of the people or which
is calculated and tends to divide our
people into antagonistic groups and
thus destroy that complete agree
ment and solidarity of the people
and that unity OF sentiment and ma
tional purpose so essential to the per-
petuity of the nation and its free in
stitutions.
We condemn all alliances and COM
binations of individuals in this coun-
try OF whatever nationality or des-
cent, who agree and conspire to-
gether for the purpose Of embarrass-
ing or weakening our Government or
OF Improperly influencing or coercing
our public representatives in dealing
or negotiating with any foreign
power We charge that such con-
spiracies among a limited number
exist und have been instigated for
the purpose of advancing the in
terests Of foreign countries to the
prejudice and detriment OF our own
country. We condemn any political
party which, in view OF the activity
of such conspirators, surrenders its
integrity or modifies it's policy.'l
Does it not go without saying that
every loyal American citizen can sub
scribe to these sentiments? They
are so self-evident that the mere con-
tinued mentioning of them sounds
like the protestations of the man
who always emphasizes that he is an
honest man and who carries GER
tihcate of honesty in his pocket to
prove his assertion
When a man is suspicious of every
bOHJ NiDN AS '1ttil ilOt bC DSiitNtu anu
should not be trusted. The indi-
vidual who at all times poses as the
only simon-pure American and calls
every man who disagrees with some
of his views a disloyal Hyphenate
subjects himself to the grave sus-
picion that he judges his fellow-man
by his own standards under a cloak
of patriotism. The French have
characteristic way Of expressing their
view about such individuals con juge
les autres d apres soi-meme." Are
we to believe that our patent patriots
who continually cry "hyphen" and
make wholesale accusations against
millions of good American citizens
without giving particulars or speci-
fications are disloyal themselves and
are trying to FISH in troubled waters?
This European war marks the con-
flict between two ideals Why it
came about and how Is a matter OF
personal opinion to neutral Amer
leans. While disappearing many
things which Germany did during