New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-29
Infected
Those Bitten by the Mad Dog OF
Europe Should Be Locked Up

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: How long, Lord, how long is the patr
otto and real American part Of our very mixed
population to be jeered at, Haunted, anc
our laws misuscd, evaded and openly broker
by galvanized Americans, enemy aliens in
our midst, anarchists, that acknowledge
neither laws nor country, and last, but b!
no means least, legislators whose politica
fortunes depend on the votes of their pro
German constituents. and whose love of Of
flee overbalances their love of country--ir
case they have any love Of country, save
that denoted by the known quantity repre-
scented by S?
Are the rights of our loyal citizens to free
speech and free press to be so interpreted
By muddle headed theorists that in the
present time of actual war the press agents
of Germany shall still have a free hand
and proceed with their Business as usual,
notwithstanding that that business is to
SO influence public opinion that We will be
in the right state of mind to humbly and
gratefully range ourselves under German
protectorate at the close of an unsuccessful
war. lost, due to our Job-like patience and
Christian federation, 1T a most inopportune
period in our national existence as a democ-
racy?
When mad dog is known to be at large
whole neighborhoods turn out with whatever
weapons are at hand to kill the brute be-
fore he has done irreparable damage; all
living beings that known or suspected
of having been bitten and infected with his
deadly virus are either destroyed at once
or placed in confinement under observation
Germany's mad dog has been loosed for
three dreadful years and the fruits OF her
kultur may be seen in devastated Belgium
and Northern France, with their attendant
records of murdered men, outraged women
manned and mutilated children, the destruc-
ton of architectural world treasures that
have braved the storms of ages, the million
or more bleaching skeletons but half buried
in the sand deserts of Asia Minor, Of masss-
cred and starved Armenians, and, almost at
our very doors, the daily occurring acts of
piracy and murder on the high seas by the
submarines
In the face of and in spite of these facts
that are the property of all who care TO
know, our pro-Gcrman foreign language
press and others that are published in Eng
lish show their sympathes with Germany
10 an extent that proves concluslvely that
they are infected with the virus OF kultur
20 a perilous degree. and are not fit moulders
of public opinion to be at large, but should
be placed in confinement under observation
until our time Of national peril is past
These words imply no slur on our citizens
Of foreign birth, who when they swore al
legiance to our flag did so from their hearts,
and are many of them more loyal and true
than others born in the country. On a
United States battleship is one young Ameri-
can sent By his mother with JOY and pride
TO answer the first call for volunteers. And
she is German born and bred, but ready
and eager to do her "bit" and give her
hearts treasure, her first born, 10 fight for
the land of her adoption.
There are many thousands like her. They
need no watching. A. D. TEMPLE.
Eagle Pass, Tex, Aug. %, 1917