Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-27
The Hyphen In Politics
June 81, 1915.

Editor The Journal: l want preface the remarks
which I am about to make, with statement that l
am an American-born citizen Of German ancestry
and that from the beginning of the present European
war until recently sympathies were with the Ger
mans-but my feelings have undergone change. The
cause for this l shall now explain in the following
lines:
An oeereaation of aliens hyphens and hybrids have
banded themselves together the apparent purpose
of "foreignizing" this repubc-and as means to this
end they attempting levy political olackmail
on statesmen of this nation. In so doing however
they are performing a poor service elike to America
and the foreign country which they believe themselves
70 aid Not only are they placing themselves in con-
tempt with Americans--but they are also alternating
in America whatever sympathy their cause may nave
been accorded here.
The people who live within boundaries are en-
titled to their sympathes and opinions in the European
conflict-every enfranchised citizen Is p,lNilee
individually and independently exercise the rght OF
suffrage accordance to desire-out aosolutel! no
neople have moral right band themselves together
inn nolteal party or into any sort of non-Amercan
combination weld WELD and abuse balance OF Vot-
ing power, in the interests of foreign natoh over
American interests, policies and issues
In the German-Amercan Alliance, see a grave
menace not only American ideals and traditions
but the heart and soul-to the actual IRE or
the republic. Such tactics are being initiated by
that potical party (the German American Allance)
strike at the very vitals Of our democracy Unless
such foreign and ant-Amercan agitation, within
horders is enectually stamped out in its ncpency,
there is telling where, and how disastrously' II
will end.
Reeardins the sinking of the Lusitania and kindred
events there division of opinion amongst honest
and patriotic Amercansfor after all the said events
occurred outside country and in the European
war zone But in the shameful action of the German
American Alliance in dragging the interests of Ger
many into American domestic afairs-in infusing them
into American polltcsin attempting to browbeat bull
doze and backmail, through their supposed balance
of voting power the representatives of the American
people, in Washington, elsewhere-the German
American Alliance has overstepped the bounds of
priety-and they still citizens in their German
Fatherland and similarly active, in Germany, In
the interests foreign power, they would be
thrown Jail for treason-and they know it,
Does it that these aliens in America,
who regardless of all else will absolutely place
"Deuchand Ueber Ales"-that these misht American"
citizens did not stay the old country-that they
came to America enjoy freedom and opportunities
which were denied them in the Fatherland-and yet
they try drown the strains of the Star Spangled
Banner" with their fervent singing Die waclft
am Rhine?"
am not learned in the law-but IT looks
that congress legslate all traitors
and unfriendly aliens either into Jail Of
country And. If political blackmail, practced by
the German American Alliance, is near-treason,
even present confederation. plead ignor
ance of the meaning of that term.
Althoug, aforesaid. sympathies in the Euro
pean war have recently undergone change, because
of the brazen unprecedented activities the
American Aance-yet, still have great admiration
and deep-seated respect for the German people.
But the innocent have always suffered because of
the guilty-and the German people will lose sympathy
in America, because of the political crime of the Ger
American Alliance
cermanv's cause must will be subordnated to
Aner,can issues-n America. Berlin will be al
lowed 70 control washington-not through
traitorous American Alliance nor through
ether agency. Very truly your,
JULES B. SCHLOSS.