Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-31
MORAL TREASON
TO u. S. CHARGED
CONTINUED From First Pagel


Urging the motto America for Am
orleans" for all Americans whether
they were born here or abroad, the
former President declared that 1.-The
salvation of our people lies in having a
nationalized and unified America, ready
for the tremendous tasks of both war
and peace"
Il appeal to all our citizens" the
colonel said, mo matter from what
land their forefathers came, to keep
this ever in mind. and to shun with
scorn and contempt the sinister in
trlguers and mischiefmakers who
VINO would seek to divide them along
lines of creed, of birthplace or of ma
tional origin"
Condemns Hyphens
Col. Roosevelt said he came to st.
Louis to speak on Americanism-to
speak or and condemn the use of the
hyphens whenever it represents an ef-
Tort to form political parties along ra-
cial lines or to bring pressure to bear
on parties and politicians, not for Am
erican purposes. but in the interest
or some group of voters of certain
national origin, or of the country from
which they or their fathers came"
he was equally against the native
American of the wrong kind and for
the immigrant of the right kind, the
:
Immigrant who did not become in
good faith an American lis out of
place" in the United States He said
each nation should be judged by its
conducts and that the United States
should oppose encroachment on it's
own rights whether Germany, Eng
land, France or Russia be guilty of
misconduct.
This is not a mere abstract ques-
ton which l am discussing At this
very moment it is blazoned forth in the
pubic press that branches of the
German merican Alliance so-called,
in different parts of the country, are
attempting to coerce timid and un-
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 interest, 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 IL intends
TO show the leaders of the national
conventions that they have to deal
with united German American vote
Moral Treason to l.. s.
Such statement represents moral
treason to the Republic. Branches of
German-American Alliance in other
parts of the country have used prac-
ucally the same language. The ALI
ance has put forth no program affect
ing Germany and only Germany. | do
not in the least object to it because it
denomces me. 1t has denounced Mr.
Wilson almost as often and almost as
severely. One of its favorite forms of
denunciation includes Mr.. Wilson, MIR.
Root and myself. as equally to be op-
posed in the interest of Germany
1T 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-Am merican Alliance. Any such
political organization, whether Ger
man American, Irish American or i
English American, is not a healthy ele- |
ment of the body polite"