The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-17

ans who consider themselves ar1s-
tocratic and important? One should
be careful not, to look upon the upper
ten thousand American people. Those
gentlemen, also the New York daily
papers, are not of real account. Who'
apparently, was of more importance
than Roosevelt, to whom now even the
dogs pay no attention? I know of no
American election where these aris-
tocratic people were of Importance.
Often, very often, they are on the
wrong side.
'"The feeling of men like Elliott, G. r.
Adams, &c, is quite easily understood.
German they know not. They under
stand neither Luther nor Kant, nor
the history of Germany. They want
of the world and would like to stand
at the helm with them. German abil-
ity, German liberty, German progress
are irksome to these people. By I'M
necessary courtesy Germans have in
creased and encouraged the presun1p-
ton of vanity of the Ambassadors.
Instead of conciliating such minds one
should ridicule them.
"a German should not forget that
Germany needs no excuse-qui excusat
accusat-a German should be naughty,
proud and self-contained.
Where people ask for explanations
one should give them as much as
they can understand, which won't be
much. IF people do not accept the
truth, then one should turn ones back
on them and leave them to the fate of
Sodon and Gormorrah (Matt., x, 13-
80. By this method the apostles con-
quered the world. No compromises,
least of all with Americans who owe
Germany SO much. It is love lost to
remind ungratefuI professors of right
ana fair play, of decency and truth.
The Anglo-Saxon will have neither.
truth nor Nright, he will not have the.
highest and the best; he wants gold
and barter; and he himself will not
fight for his money power; he hires
ercenaries-yellow, red, white and
black-in order to protect his money
power and to increase it England al
lows Belgium, France, Russia to bleed
for her, and she repays herself by an
nexing Cyprus and Egypt
If America does not understand that
I cannot help America. I can only re-
greet that America does not grasp how
much it has at stake. AS soon as we
have ships and trade England will at
tack US in the east, Japan in the west,
and then we shall be astonished, and
we shall complain as we did in 1872
and 1851.
Even today our neutrality rights
are dwind1ing, for England treats our
good right as if we owed obedience to
her. Holland and Scandinavia can
not defend themselves against Eng
land, and we? A world power? AS a
matter of fact Germany is battling
for the freedom of the seas.
People Trust Germany.
set do not believe that the American
people are on as wrong a track as
their learned men. The people recog-
nize German righteousness and Ger
man courage. The American people
trust Germany; they have no trust
in en- nd Nd
their government should it stand up
for American rights and the neutral
ity rights of the world as against
England. The correct American policy
would be armed neutrality. We
should protect neutral goods with our
batt1eships. Every American farmer
would gladly approve if we demanded
free passage for our cotton. copper,
oil, lead, leather, without regard for
England's permission.
Practically, it is a mistake to be
easy going with England or in dis
cussion with her American toadies.'
By curtness. defiance, irony one can
get much further. AS a newspaper
man of many years experience, I have
noticed that frequently.
zone may be permitted to take things
lightly at the tea table, but one should
have care not to increase the vanity
the superciliousness and the preten-
tiouSness of the Anglo-Saxons-men
and women. If one has to make a
correction, which is generally useless,
it should be done with aristocratic
calm. i
''Mi1itarism? One has forgotten that
universal military service originated
in America. 1t existed in MassacI1u-
sets until the end of the revolution.
We have the documentary history of
Massachusetts and her universal mill
itary, service from 1880 to 1889. Prus-
STA seems to have been to school in
New England. The sense of military
affairs has never been lost in America;
it sticks in the blood.
"I am deeply moved, intensely
wrought up. I pray to the Lord of
the Worlds to strengthen his German
people and to bless them that they
may do honor and glory to His Name.
God bless you
&c w ERNST"