New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-28
A PRO.GERMAN VIEW
Showing That We Ought to Love
the Prussian.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The present day patriotism OF many
Americans consists mainly IN the abuse and
defamation of Germany, which has shown her
attachment for this country for more than
hundred years When Frederick the Great
Of Prussia sent a sword to George Washing
ton. inscribed "From the Oldest General TO
the Greatest General" he never dreamed
that a day would come when Prussia would
be in the eyes Of Americans nation to be
cxecrated and considered outside the pale o.
civilization. Neither the violation OF Bel
GUMS neutrality nor the sinking Of the Lust
tania had anything 70 DO with this animoslty'
because il showed itself Immediately after
the war commenced. When England swooped
down upon the Boer republic and again lately
violated the neutrality Of Greece America
looked serenely on without word OF pro-
test. The ravaging Of our commerce b.
Great Britain brings forth only mild note
with the request to be more careful. Inc
deplorable loss Of American lives on the
Lusitania could have been avoided if the
warning given had been needed.
Germany fights for her existence against a
world in arms, and IL she thinks that in her
submarine warfare outsiders have no rights
which she is bound to respect she only fol-
lows the same logic which this country
adopted in allowing the expectation Of arms
and munitions with which to slaughter her
soldiers. If Britannia rules above the waves
Germany rules below the waves and she viii
continue to do so and brook no interference
not
thought Of by the trainers of international
law; hence Germany Is not bound by tina;
law.
The pages Of history abound with the en-
nifty Of England toward this country. In the
War for independence she paid s. to her Ind
ian allies for every scalp of patriot, not
spsring women and children. In 1872 her
soldiers burned the Capitol at Washington,
and in 1876 she allowed the Alabama TO
be fitted out in her harbors TO prey on our
commerce and was on the point Of recogniz-
ing the Confederacy. And when you visit
the martyrs monument in Fort Greene Park,
in Brooklyn, you are reminded that here res
the bones of ten thousand American patriots
cruelty starved and tortured to death by per
fidious Albion. England, with the assistance
Of her ally. Japan, will at not distant da5
give Americans again the chance TO increase
the love and affection so generously given her
to-day.
The rawlings against German-Americapa
would be ludicrous if not so shameful. Moth
ing occurs here, from the explosion in a
munition factory to the massacre Of Ameri-
cans by the Mexican bandit Villa, which is
not instigated or abetted by Germans or Cit
zens of German descent. Being myself a So
called hyphenated citizen (and immensely
proud Of t), who fought for the Union IN
lS6l-'65, | wish TO impress upon our over
Jealous Anglophobes the saying that chickens
are apt to come back to roost. The foreign
born citizens, German. Irish, Italian, Swede
and so forth have made this country what i
is to-day, and it would be wisdom on the part
Of great many native Americans to initiate
their patriotism, loyalty, integrity and hon
esty. EUGENE WIFE Lhh'
Brooklyn, March -, 1916.