The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-07

Note-The following editorial is re-
produced from the New York Ameri-
can.
1--WE have no quarrel with the Ger
man people. We have no feeling to-
ward them but one of sympathy and
friendship. 1t was not upon their
impulse that their Government acted
in entering this war. 1t was not with
their previous knowledge or approval.
1t was a war determined upon rs wars
used to be determined upon in the old.
unhappy days, when peoples were no
where consulted by their rulers and
wars were provoked and waged in the
interest of dynasties or of little groups
of ambitious men who were accustom-
ed to use their fellow men as pawns
and tools.
I'VE are, let me say again, the sim
cere friends Of the German people,
and shall desire nothing 80 much as
the early re-establishment OF Intimate
relations of mutual advantage between
Us, however hard it may be for them
for the time being to believe that this
is spoken from our hearts. We have
borne with their present Government
through all these bitter months be-
cause of that friendship, exercising a
patience and forbearance which would
otherwise have been impossible.
1--WE shall happily still have an op-
x~ hnf ~ dchi N in,
our daily attitude and actions toward
the millions Of men and women OF
German birth and native sympathy
who live among US and share our life,
and we shall be proud to prove 1t to.
ward all who are in fact loyal to their
neighbors and to the government in
the hour of test. They are most of
them as true and loyal Americans as
il they had never known any other
fealty or allegiance. They will be
prompt to stand with us in rebuking
and restraining the few who may be OF
different mind and purpose. II there
should be disloyalty, it will be dealt
with with firm hand of stern repres-
sion; but, If it lifts it's head at all. it
will lift 1t only here and there and
without countenance except from a
lawless and malignant few. FROM
PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADDRESS
TO CONGRESS-
A small number of corporations,
firms, clubs and individuals have set
the very bad example of discharging
from their employment all Germans
and persons of German descent.
This Is not patriotism. 1t Is down
right stupidity. And it is blow at
the country's only weak spot.
Above everything else now, the ma
lion requires peace within and all its
available labor.
Any firm or person that makes a
peaceable and well-disposed German
resident or German-American citizen
sullen and resentful by unmerited dis
charge from employment and by
thrusting him out in the street face to
idleness and hunger, does just that
much to add to the nations troubles,
which are enough now.
Such stupid and unmanly treatment
of unoffending employees does worse,
for it deprives the nation of workers
when above everything else the nation
needs workers.
The government has just warned
the country that our food supply is
alarmingly short. The country has
been stripped, as few realize, to feed
Europe. There will be severe priva-
lion among all but the very well-to-do
before the coming harvests are gather
ed and the conditions promise to be
the very worst this nation has ever
seen AFTER the harvests, unless ev-
cry available pair of hands is engaged
in production.