Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-02
Ger,nan-An,ericans' Course

CENATOR HUSTING. OF Wisconsin, created
~ sensation In the Senate the other day
by his revelation that responsibility for the
flood of kilograms that had descended on
Congress, and which sought to embarrass the
foreign policy of the President, was charge
able to the American Embargo Conference.
one OF these kilograms. that Senator Husting
himself received. was signed by Frederick
Pabst, of the family whose product made
Milwaukee famous. and the Wisconsin Sena-
tor has created new public interest by his
reply.
In substance. the telegram from Mr. pabst
suggested that Senator HustinE use his in
fuence to persuade the President TO back
down from the position he had taken in the
submarine controversy with Germany. In
response Senator Husting advised Mr. pabst
to appeal to the German Emperor and tho
German people to abandon practices that
threaten to plunge the United States
into war.
Mr.. Pabs says he has been insulted by this
advice, but he should not Be. On the con-
trary, lie and other COMMUNICATIONS whose
affection for the Fatherland has led them
into wrong course. should welcome an OBJ
portunity TO follow the right one IF they
had done this in the past. it is unlikely that
the relations between Germany and America
would now be at the breaking pointT
II is natural that those of German birth or
descent should desire the triumph of the
central powers in this great struggle It is
more than natural-it is proper and ineyi-
table--that they should shrink with horror
indcscrbabe from the prospect of war bo
tween the land OF their birth or their an
cestry and the land of their adoption They
must. If they be true men. seek to avert that
calamity.
The only criticism is Of the means thew
have adopted, Some Of them have engaged
III conspiracies to destroy muntion plants
and ships lying al our piers Some. It is
currently believed. have done what they could
TO stir up dsaffection in Mexico Great num
bcrs OF them, who have scorned to partici-
pate in such infamies at home, have vet given
thelr unhesltating support to every policy of
frightfulness the German admiralty mas
initiated and TO every crime against law and
humanity the German submarines have com
mitted There was rejoicing or ilI-conccaIed
satisfaction in sections Of the German
American press, let il be remembered when
the Lusitania, with the shattered forms of
It's innocent victims. sank beneath the
reddened waves
since mat day, nearly d year ago the
president and his policies have been bitterly
attacked from German a IN erican ranks The
chief executive of the nation the man who
mas sought increasingly to keep his people
out OF war. has been accused of every
treachery and of every baseness No effort
mas been spared TO weaken or dscrcdit him
what II another course had been followedp
suppose these German-A Americans had exerted
their influence on the German government
rather than on the American government?
suppose they had pleaded with the Kaiser
10 abandon methods OF warfare certain IF
persisted in, to array this nation against tbe
haiscrs hosts? What if they had taken the
STAND mat DR.. Bernhard Dernburg takes to-
DAY ana declared that America is justified
in her stand? There would be ano,bo-
story TO tell and another sort of feeling bc
tween Germany and America
The Times. Dispatch has the deepest SYM
pathy with those elements of the population
VINO came themselves. or whose fathers came
from the Rhine or the Danube Their sjtua
ton is as difficult as it is delicate. but tbev
should understand the Presidents situation
also is difficult. He is as entitled to tboir
support as he is 10 the support OF other Iowa,
Americans In time of war, we believe he
would have II, but he should also have il now
California professor says modern dances
come from germs. They certainly come n