Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-23

Robert Schilling of Milwaukee De-
fcnds the Peoples Right TO
Petition Congress.

Petition Congress.
Robert Schilling Of Milwaukee,
who in 1886 was the democratic can
didate for Congress in the fourth
Wisconsin district, has addressed to
Senator Husting the following let
ter, after the Wisconsin Senator had
strongly objected TO his constituents
petitioning him to do his utmost to
keep the United States out of the
European war. The letter reads:
Dear Sir. Having received more
than $4,000 votes as candidate for
Congress on the Democratic and
Populist ticket in the Fourth District
Of Wisconsin in 1896, and as one Of
your supporters and constituents,
do not take the liberty, but exercise
my right TO address you and give my
views on your political course. Our
constitution provides that the right
Of the people TO petition is not to be
abridged, but you seem to hold q
different opinion. You denounce
your constituents that dare to resort
TO that, the privilege of every Amer
ican citizen. While you do not seem
to find much fault with their argu-
ment, you censure the source severe
ly. What difference does it make
who sent the petitions if they are
justified?
"You should bear in mind what
Talleyrand, tho great French diplo-
mat, once said Some one speaking
of an official who had committed a
wrong remarked that the act was
crime. Worse than that, said
Talleyrand, for a statesman. II is a
mistake
Insists on Americanism.
Your denouncing some of your
constituents for asserting their con-
stitutional privilege was such a
mistake. IN the late Wisconsin
primary election La Toilette had
more votes than Wilson. while
Philip polled over 10000. This
shows that Wilson, who carried our
state in the presidential election was
showed under this year AS you have
chosen to stand or fall with him, you
may recognize the handwriting on
the wall You and others may try
to impugn my Americanism for say
ing this, so / want to show you that
| ana q better American than Wood
row Wilson He and ! We're raised
in slave states Ahe in Georgia, ] in
Missouri. He favored the battles OF
the south for slavery. From my
earliest childhood ! saw the horrible
evils OF the accursed system and op-
posed ii.
"When I saw human beings sold
on the auction block like so many
cattle, when l read the Advertisements
in the papers Offering large rewards
4. l,F oil of
the chattels who had sought liberty
by flight, l doubled my childish fists
and resolved to do what / could to
wipe that foul blot from the es-
cutcheon of my country. And when
the Shareholders war began, though
not old enough and the only support
of widowed mother, ! rallied to
Lincoln's call and joined the Union
army. Had Wilson been old enough.
he would have joined the Confeder-
ate army, IL we can judge him by his
writings And two weeks after |
was 81 voted for Abraham Lincoln.
Is Wilson's Americanism any better
or even as good as mine2
COMMUNICATIONS Oppose War.
II have made this personal eX-
planation because every American
who sympathizes with Germany in
this beastly war. is denounced as
'un-American, and lacking in patri-
otiam, while every sympathizer with
England is praised as patriotic and
as a true American The English
sympathizers are frantically for war
with Germany-not one German
sympathizer not even one born in
Germany, has ever limited that we
should declare war on England. Men
who try to plunge our country into
the horrors of this war arc certainly
not honest or patriotic. They are
more English than American. Not
ono of the belligerent countries is
trying TO drag us into war with Ger
many. the only people guilty of this
reasonable action are English and
American Anglomaniacs.
Lord Northcliffe, who owns many
newspapers in Great Britain, boasts
that the syndicate he controls has
purchased q large number of news
papers Of influence in the leading
cities Of the United States. This eX-
plains the pro-English position Of
these papers, and the English in
huence in America They have even
emasculated our national anthem.
When that coterie of pro-Englishmen
had that banquet in New York
(Root, Eliot, Coudert and the rest)
they toasted King George and sang
The Star Spangled Banner but
omitted the third verse.
The Omitted Verse.
This verse you will find omitted
in many Of the editions now printed.
give it here, as ! think you and
many others seem to need its in
spiration
And where is that band who so
vaunungly sworc,
That the havoc Of war and the bat
lies confusion,
"a home and q country should leave
us no more?
Their blood has washed out their
foul footsteps pollution
No refuge could save the hireling
and slave
From the terror OF fight OF the
gloom OF the grave.
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