The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-03-27
thy and some of them born subjects
of Great Britain.

of Great Britain.
From the day, therefore, thai val
broke out, the president and these
ro-Engiisn advisers began TO see the
war from the Anglc-SaXon angle. be
sides they were saturated With the
Washington atmosphere, strongly
pro-Britisil, and their minds and tAe.l
political affairs we're moved by an
!merican pi ess :.lat were SO per cent
English.
Since TIVE war broke out England
herself his been the best witness o.
Wal ,.c links or the strength or
the call &C the blood She resorted
to atrocious cruelties in her treatment
OF people in England who had even
German names. Men Of the third and
fourth generation, descended from
German on one side and whose trace
OF German blood was very thin, were
imprisoned for no other reason than
that they might hear the faint call
of German ancestry. TIE head OF
the British navy, the Duke Of Batten-
burg, had about sixty-fonrth OF
German blood in him, and so much
did the people clamor for his head
that he was compelled 10 resign MS
post in disgrace. 1t has been intl-
mated that even the English king
might not be loyal, because his grand
father was a German prince, Baron
Spever. who was exalted into the
highest social position in England,
and who wore a proud English title,
had German blood in him. and he was
so utterly Getested on that account
that his title was taken away and he
Quit England and came to America,
renouncing forever all allegiance to
a country that was so narrow to one
upon whom SO many honors were
conferred, but from whom they were
so ferociously taken away.
A prominent English clergyman's
wife was born in Germany. but rails
ed in England. and was the mother OF
a large English family. He and she
were put in Jail, because the erst-
while clergyman was suspected OF be-
ing German spy.
These are but come of the instances
which prove the weight given in Eng
land to this question Of blood. How
then could We expect the government
of the United States to remain neu-
trail when it's whole personnel was
either of English descent or Of actual
English birth? Would anyone sup
pose that if three or four Germans
had been members of Wilson'S cab
met Lansing would have dared to
take his absurd attitude, involving
the utmost special pleading, by which
Germany has been condemned and
England excused at every turn?
Of course not. Hence it is clear
that the one hundred million Amer1-
can people. only a small percentage
CT which are Of English descent, are
being dragged into this war because
in the hours Of her desperation Brit
ain calls to British blood flowing IN
the veins of an Anglo-SaXon Amer1-
can government.
Do these conditions, therefore, not
make it more obligatory upon those
who may even yet speak, to challenge
every sten to examine every foot OF
The ground over which we have come
during the last months and especially
to implore congress when it meets III
a few days to sift through the finest
sieve of parliamentary analysis the
reasons offered why we should &c to
warp Thv should we go to war? OF
course a thousand excited so-called
reasons might be given; but isn't it
arrarnnt that we have already done
enough for the allies? Surely this
AS not in its inception our war.
It was European, pure and simple.
The cry has been raised that the allies
are fighting our battles, and of course