Arizona republican., 1916-06-01

ScrupulOuS politicians by threatening to vote against them, or by actually voting against them, when the Ger man. American Alliance regards their action as unsatisfactory from the ! standpoint. not of the United States, but of Germany. These branches of | the Alliance openly take the ground | that they intend to shape American politics in the interests, not of the | United States. but of Germany. The ! German American Alliance of Penn | sylvania, for instance. as reported in | the public press, states that it intends | to show "the leaders of the national conventions that they have to deal with ! a united German American vote" Such a statement represents moral treason to the republic. Branches of the German American Alliance in other parts of the country have used prac- tically the same language. The Ali ance has put forth no program affect ing America. The program on which
 it wishes American citizens to vote is one affecting Germany and only Ger
 many. 1 do not in the least object to
 1t because it denounces me It has denounced Mir. Wilson almost as often and almost as severely. One of it's favorite forms of denunciation includes
 MT. Wilson, Mir. Root and myself. as
 equally to be opposed in the interest of Germany.
 It is moral treason to the United States for any of it's citizens to act and
 to seek to make their governmental representatives act, not with reference to the interests of the United States. but of some foreign power The Ger
 man American Alliance is, in practice.
 an anti-American alliance Any such political organization, whether Ger
 man. American, Irish American or
 English American, is not a healthy ele-
 ment of the body polite. Any body of
 our citizens have q perfect right to
 oppose any man because of a differ
 ence of Judgment concerning American
 problems; but it has no right to deal with American public servants. or American public men on the basis of 1 the interests of some foreign power The men who so act are disloyal to the I United States, and I say this just
 as quickly of men trying to
 serve England or France as I say it Of men trying to serve Germany. l condemn the American citizen who acts as an English American" just as strongly as l condemn the American | cltlzen Who acts as German
 American If France had subjugated l Belgium l would condemn her just as
 strongly as I have condemned Ger
 many. If British warcraft had sunk German the lives of hundreds of American men.
 women and children, as German sub
 marines did in the case of the Lusi-
 tanla, the Arabic, and other vessels
 would have condemned any English
 American" who excused the act as un-
 hesitatingly as I have condemned and
 now condemn the German Americans
 who now defend or apologize for the
 actions of the German submarines.
 would condemn as strongly the actions
 or any of our people who sought tC make this country subservient to Eng land. as I now condemn those who | seek to make it subservient to Ger many. Such men are not merely un American; they are anti-American t, $. the core, and unfit to be citizens O this republic
 !, l believe that the men thus actin: } not only do not represent but scan , dalously misrepresent the great ma 9 Jority of real Americans of German I origin. l believe that the great mas of Americans of German origin ar now, as they have always been, amon
 the most patriotic and loyal citizens il
 this country
 Here in this city 1 could repeat nam
 after name of men of German birt
 who as American citizens have ha, e distinguished records of intense loyal a ty to the union, and of eminent ma . tional service as soldiers and states s men and above all as patriots. In tn k civil war a much larger proportion c = the citizens of immediate Germa s origin, than of the citizens of ol e Colonial native stock, were loyal to tn union. This state of Missouri, lils $ Maryland and Kentucky. owes the fac that it stayed in the union primaril ? to the German element in its citizen |. ship; and across the river in Illinoi
 the debt owed by lovers of the union {
 the German element was almost a s great. These men knew no divided Il : half-hearted loyalty. Carl Schurz wa " major general in the army, Unite e States senator, and a member of Il 1t presidents cabinet. He was no mo 1t fervently devoted to the cause of u l. union and freedom in the civil wa y than to the fight against political co el ruption and against the spells syste ie in our political life when peace su III ceeded war. By a statue at Fore } Park you of this city have commem
 rated the services of Major Gener .. Franz Sigel. who here entered t ,a United States service So did the aft n, time Major General Osterhaus who NV son served under me as admiral wh I I was president, and whose grandsC .'s as gallant and efficient a young nav h. officer as there was in the servi, of served at one time as my aide. Ere lnsl St. Louis there marched into t he union army no less than nine reg of ments, all of which had colonels bo
 in Germany. This is a great recol GU and it is typical of the record ma i'. throughout the union by the men oi German birth or percentage. But it
 7" not matter of pride merely to Amel nlr nfr