Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-07-20

| American committing "moral tressonn,,
is so funny that it is almost impoolu
| BILE to resent the impudcnce of 'V, n,
| SANDER. Such it is, for where 10 we
proof? We refused-not for Gern' ule
| but for American reasons-to v,,uah
Roosevelt. That is why the rough riGg
er raved. '"'
So this Interpretation Shove 49,,
the emptiness of the motto Howo,'llV
we must give the adversary an W.
chances which are due to him %,
haps he means that we ought TO AN
| ericanize;' he wants us to assimiIa,,
the American culture. The troublo
that up to now there is only an AnT,i"
American culture and we rcfIso y,
| assimilate that: we refuse to ba
glicized. Perhaps there would bo %,
| American culture by this time II \,
| had not been for Anglo-Americor
But as they did all in their power y.
| keep the country i'm the old rroo,,'
! there are only symptoms. forpbodir,
! Of a future American culture an1
! we German.Americans demand Nm,
! privilege Of helping to build il mn ".
are willing 10 Americanize the natio,
| but we decline to live up to the stand
! ard of Boston or the highly cultural
old fashioned southern gentleman
| America is justly proud of Boston
| tW3iliam Dean HOWells has ono NJ
| the characters say: Il always feel
! little proud of hailing from Bostor'
| my pleasure in the place mounts tbo
farther / get away from it's The dlr.
| nificd cavalier from Virginia. whom
! ! never saw in life, is an adorable
| character in fiction. But neither New
! England nor the south is typical n
the ideal America of the future
The moment is rather queerly cbos.
en- to demand assimilation on the part
OF the Germans. May ! huublv HIT
at the fact that almost all the ideas
which our most thoughtful and far.
! sighted men are proclaimiug and
! promulgating now are German IDEAS
We want to be prepared q am speak.
ing as an American, as a man who
is just as much interested in the wei.
fare of this country as. if my grea.
grandmother had been burnt at Sa.
/ lem; We make propaganda for uni.
Versal service and universal military
training. (Scharnhorst) We realize
that for such an idea We must win
the masses, the workmen, and that
without their hearty consent nothin.
can be cane. SO we try to make this
country worth while fighting and dy.
( ing for, and besides all the natural
and social advantages it gives them.
we strive for a system of nationwide
insurance against accident, sickness
and old age. CBismarckD
If we want an efficient army we
must get an administration of honest
men and experts, we must get rid Of
graft and waste. (FriedrCh Wilhelm
J. We admit even that something is
wrong in American family life l25,.
/ 600 divorces in one year) and in edu-
cation, that we need more Coherence
ana discipline. We are willing to
correct our hyper-individualistic con
Ception of life and feel that German
coordination and even subUrdinaton
are Indispensable ingredients of the
national makeup.
All these are German ideas. and at
the moment when our most prominent
statesmen and writer's recommend
them We German Americans are eX-
hOrted to adapt ourselves, II is the
other Way-mOst decidedly the other
way. For at least twenty years AM
erica will have to adapt herself to
German IDEAS if this country shall
become what ii ought to be- Amer-
ca is abandoning the English conccp'
ton of life. England despiscd tho
idea Of the "Nolkshcer." She prefer.
red to let menials fight her battles.
England exploited her lower classes
in the most shameful way. England
gloried in individualism England re-
veled in political bribery (WalpoIe
George IIl) England cultivated this
horrId prettifying literature from
which the more serious minds in this
country turn away now with shudder-
ing
This is not an indictment against
England; as such it would be very one
sided ana uncOnvinCing; for, although
these facts can not be denied Eng
lands cultural performance remains
and her political record UNI
cqualcd only want to show that
we are on the verge of abandoning
the English ideas which have domiu-
1ted this country for centuries and
mat We are going to adopt German
specifically German theories. 1t
strikes me as funny to hear sOCallcd
row at us in this very mo-
ment. THE hyphen must gO,'
mink it even timely to state that this
'ountry never should slayishly mi-
ate continental methods The mission
IF this nation, which is a new nation,
S to find new solutions for the old
problems solutions which are adapt