The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-17
CERMAN-AMERICAN
DISCOVERS REAL FACTS
Leaders Are Not Neutral, But Out
spoken Against Germany.

mere, lHG uOluS vi d large H0TIudu-
American population, by the publ
cation of a statement by promi-
nent citizen of German birth in
ness and force how the Republican
party, in its attempt to defeat the
reelection of President Wilson, is
badly using the German-Americans
as catspaw.
The author of this statement is
the Rev. w. Heineke, who for years
was pastor of St. Johns Lutheran
Church in this city and who now is in
business in New York city. The Rev.
Mr.. Heineke while resident OF
Dubuque was chairman of the Ger
man Press Committee of the German
Embargo Conference, as well as OF
the German Red Cross of Dubuque.
He was recognized here as a leader
of German thought and for a long
time was severely critical of Presi-
dent Wilson, Now" he says, Il
for one am not ashamed to confess
that l have misjudged the Presi-
dent"
I'VE misjudged President Wilson's
position in this world conflict" says
Mr.. Heineke in beginning his state
ment, assuming it to be probing
lish and un-AIlerican. Naturally we
identified his actions with those of
the pro-British press, every utter
ance of which appeared to the Ger
man-American element to reflect the
mind of our government.
Republican party interests have
not been slow to make capital out
of this state of affairs and to work
the German-American vote for all it
is worth, assisted by the German
language press. In the heat of the
controversy we overlooked entirely
that the Republican party, if it had
been in power, and containing the
most pronounced anti-German ele-
ment of America, of the type of Ca
bot Lodge, Elihu Root and Robert
Bacon, probably already would have
our country driven into an alliance
with England and into war with
Germany. What a howl that staunch
supporter of Republican Candidate
Hughes, Mr.. Roosevelt, set up
against President Wilson for his fail
ure to take action against Germany
on account of the invasion" of Bel
GUM and, especially, for not prompt
ly declaring war after the Lusitania
disaster.
IL
to show his contempt for German
Americans and to wilfuIly misinter-
pref their stand for impartial neu-
Roosevelt And he takes the stump
For Mr. Hughes, and, after he has
made that wild Maine speech de-
nouncing everything German in
Rooseveltian fashion, he is made the
recipient of a congratulatory mes
sage from the Republican candidate.
IF after these disclosures of the
real sentiment in the Republican
ranks toward the German-Americans
they still cannot see where to get off,
they never will. In the hands of
these men, the United States today
would not be peacefully pursuing her
undisturbed course, but would be en-
quilted in the vortex that has swa1-
lowed almost all of the world pow
ers. With these men in the govern
ment of the United States the hard
pressed German nation could not
have arrived at a peaceful solution of
the difficulties arising between Ger
many and the United States out of
English aggression.
81 harbor no resentment against
1.-THE President now. / feel that Tor
! many things said and written against
him the German-American citizens
owe him an apology. Our criticism
of his actions and motives has at
times passed all bounds of discre-
ton No allowances were made for
the difficulty of the international
problems he had to wrestle with. no
attempt was made to understand his
motives. He was set down as man
whose sympathies were all British,
not American.
'Now, in the light of more recent
developments, in view of Republican
activities and official utterances, l
ask myself, who is American first
and last-Wilson, who has steered
the ship of state through unparal-
leIed dangers and kept us out of war.
or these men, who are the leaders of
the Republican party, and who have
brought all the immense pressure OF
big capital and inflamed public opin-
ion to bear upon that lone man at the
head of the nation, counseling war in
sympathy with England and, while
abusing the COMMUNICATIONS in
terms Wilson never used, playing out
the German vote against the man
who has stood like a rock in the
"
can interests?
Il, for one, am not ashamed to
confess that 1 have misjudged the
President and 1 see clearly that he
felt that he had to speak out as he
did to awaken the country and by
putting upon Congress the pressure
he could bring to bear, force it to
yield agreement to his way of hand
ling the submarine issue, which we
all now must grant was the right
way.
None of the pro-ally Republican
press doubts for a moment that HUI
ghes is just as pro-ally as his spokes-
man, Roosevelt. l wonder that the
} German language press fails to take
. notice of these facts which tell all
German in plain language,
as plain as can be, that the Republ1-
can party intends to use the German
vote merely as a catspaw in this
campaign. The blind 'anything-tO-
beat Wilson sentiment of theirs is a
valuable ally in the fight of the ne
mics of peace against Wilson, and
the Republican campaign leaders
play a very clever game in playing
| the German vote out against the
, President. If we fail to see that
now, we shall have to see our previ-
: Gus mistake after the election, wheI
: the mask will fall off the faces OF
false friends, if, unfortunately, the
president should be beaten.
Il fear when the game is up, Ger
man voters will regret to see that
they have been Sold In the hands
of Hughes and the Republican party
the issues the GermanAmerican
stood for will be handled in rough
| rider fashion, and, what is more,
Americas hitherto wise and peaceful
| course will be put in the gravest
danger"
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