Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-26
KAISERISM'SDOOM
DEMANDED KAHN
Banker Declares Outlaw
Greed Must Be Discredited
by German People
NO PEACE WITH EVIL
Warns Foreign Born to Show
Allegiance to Nation Fighting
in Noblest of Causes

HARRISBURG, Sept 26.
There can be peace answering to the
true meaning Of the word no peace per,
mittIng the nations OF the earth, great and
small, to walk unarmed and unafraid, until
the teaching and the leadership OF the
apostles Of an outlaw creed shall have
become dlscredited and hateful In the sight
OF the German people," Otto H. Kahn,
banker, of New York. told the members Of
the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce be-
fore whom he spoke at noon today prelim-
mary TO the opening OF the second Liberty
Loan bond campaign In this city.
Mr.. Kahn came here upon the invitation
OF the Chamber of Commerce, which Is
back of the second Liberty Loan campaign
that Is 70 be staged In a few weeks. Last
spring Harrisburg's allotment of Liberty
Bonds was $4,000 900, but following an
address by Frank A. Vanderlip. New York,
and as the result of an organized cam
paign, nearly $4,OoO.Ooo was subscribed.
PRUSSIAN CUNNING
Mr. Kahn made vigorous address, say
ing in part:
81 speak as one who has seen the spirit
of the Prussian governing class at work
from close by, having at its disposal and
using to the full virtually every agency
for moulding the public mind 1 have
watched II proceed with relentless persist
ency and profound cunning to instil into
the nation the demoniacal obsession Of
power worship and world dominion, to
modify and pervert the mentality, indeed
the very fber and moral substance, Of the
German people.
~ have hated and loathed that spirit
ever since II came within my ken many
years ago, hated II all the more as / saw
il ruthlessiy pulling down a thing which
was dear to me, the old Germany to which
was linked by ties of blood, by fond men,
ories and cherished sentiments.
THE world fervently longs for peace.
But there can be no peace answering TO
the true meaning of the word, no peace
permitting the nations of the earth, great
and small to walk unarmed and unafraid
until the teaching and the leadership of
the apostles OF an outlaw creed shall have
become discredited and hateful in the sight
OF the German people, until that people
shall have awakened to consciousness OF
the unfathomable guilt of those whom they
have followed into calamity and shame
until a mood of penitence and of a decent
respect for the opinions of mankind shall
have supplanted the sway of what Presi'
dent Wilson has trenchantly termed
turbulence and treachery.'
God grant that the German people may
before long work out their own salvation
and find the only road which will give tc
the world an early peace and lead Germany
back into the family Of nations from which
II Is now an outcast.
DUTY OF CITIZENSHIP.
Whatever ones views and feelings, what
ever country of ones birth or kin, only one
course was left for all those claiming the
privilege OF American citizenship when by
action of the President and Congress the
cause and fight of the Allies was formally
made our cause and our fight. The duty OF
loyal allegiance and faithful service to his
country, even unto death, rests, of course
upon every American.
But II 1t be possible to speak of a com
AAa~ 4Nv.ar a.Vt., 1T.
as 1t is. the most elementary attribute o
citizenship, that duty may almost be saiC
TO rest with an even more solemn anC
compelling obligation upon Americans o.
foreign origin than upon native Americans
For we Americans Of foreign antecedent
are here not by the accidental right Of birth
but by our own free choice for better or fol
worse
"woe to the foreIgn-bOrn American VIII,
betrays the splendid trust which you hav,
reposed In himi
Woe to him who considers his Amer
lean citizenship merely as a convenient gar
ment to be worn in fair weather, but to b,
exchanged for another one in time of storm
and stress!
Woe to the German-American, so-called
who. in this sacred war for a cause as higl
as any for which ever people took up arms
does not show an eager determination to b,
In the very forefront of the struggle ant
to outdo his native-born fellow-citizen fl
devotion and in willing sacrifice for tn,
country of his choice and adoption.
ITO defend the very foundations OF lib
erty and humanity the very groundwork o.
fair dealing between nations. the very bash
of peaceable living together among the peo
pies of the earth against the fierce an,
brutal onslaught Of ruthless lawless, faith
less might to spend the lives and the for
tunes of this generation so that our de
scendants may be freed from the dreadful
calamity of war and the fear of war-tha
Is the highest cause for which any peopl,
ever unsheathed its sword.
''He who shirks the full measure Of hi
duty and allegiance in that nobIest o
causes, be he German-American, Irish
American, or any other hyphenated Amer
lean, be he 1. w. w. or Socialist or what
ever the appellation, does not deserve I,
stand amongst Americans or indee,
amongst free men anywhere He who Sc
cretly or overtly, tries to thwart the de
clared will and aim Of the nation In thi
holy war, Is q traitor, and a traitors fat
should be his"