El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03
HOW ONE. GERMAN-AMERICAN
REBUKES THE PACIFIST CREW
n 6 p

FTJHE GOVERNMENT VIII receive the hearty approval
Of the mass Of American people If 1t deals vigorously
with those self styled pacifists who are endeavorng
TO handicap the government by propaganda against Ame
can participation the and against the principle Of
universal liability TO military service, and to weaken the
morale Of the American people The time for paclss 10
talk against participation in the before the United
States entered the war, and the time when arguments
against universal military liability were permissible was
before the army law passed. Now all such efforts are
too unpatotic to be endured They even have strongly
Teutomc tnge-
There are various Of these organizations their titles
usually including something about Peace The Of their
arguments fight Germany One such organization
received fitting reply probably far different from the
expected from Max + Meyer professor IN the university
Of Missouri He wrote the Peoples Council Of America
for Democracy and Peace, West 18th street. New York
follows:
~You have sent me by mail two cards which you
request to declare my sympathy with your aims and
pledge money IN monthly payments Tor the support Oh
your propaganda. What are your ainss
"The vicousness Of your propaganda consists in its
combination of aims which clearly IN the interests
Of democracy and peace and which have always gladly
supported, with others, or less hidden N between
which are In the interest of autocIaCy, of caste system
of social organization, and Of militar5sm
aHov can YOU ask a citizen of the United States IN
the present crisis 20 pledge his moral support and his
money order TO enable you to work for the repeal Of
the CONSUMPTION laws?
Such request but little short Of insult It IS an
insult when addressed TO naturalzed citizen You,
being citizens Of this country merely by the accident OF
birth may not understand this.
81 an thoroughly familiar with the present organization
Of the German social body and with its elimination the
present German government I am much more familiar
With It than any Of the members Of your committee
have lived ID Germany Is years born there was
educated there spent 19 years Of my life IN German
educational institutions from the kindergarten to The
research laboratory
aI confess that at the beginning Of this my sym
pathies were divided. The German nation had many
ustiabIe complaints against its neighbors But what
ever wrongs the German nation may have suffered IN the
mast from other nations the German government during
this war had than one opportunity TO set them
night and terminate the war.
ats actions show that world domination and not justice
Is its aim sympathize with the German people but not
with their government. You, however, act as voluntary
agents Of the German government Perhaps you would
appreciate your American citizenship better IT. ike me-
Won had been born and brought up IN Germany
sf Germany wins this war so years hence It's govern
ueut VIII rue the American people. do not want my
american children TO be put under this yoke which
escsped bv coming to America Ny hope IS that the Ger
man government VIII be overthrow and that the German
nation my relatives and friends VIII enter an 1nernaonal
organization for peace and justice.
aut the German government, this fearful danger 10
our future can be overthrow only by raising armies
not By sitting around the council table OF the PeoPe
consumption law"