The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-08-09
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the United States in June, 1874, ana
had asked how his sympathies lay as
to the commercial warfare going on be-
tween Great Britain and Germany. the
chances are that he would have
shown cold Indifference and an ut
ter lack of partisanship. As between
Great Britain, recorded in all school
books as our hereditary foe. and Ger
many, country that sent us many of
our most amiable. industrious and
useful citizens, the chances are that
he might have expressed a good-nat-
ured desire TO have Germany get the
upper hand in the markets of the
world.
Only FIVE years ago the prosperous
Americans who made frequent voy-
ages TO Europe or the West Indies
showed a marked preference for the
Hamburg American or the North
German Lloyd. You would find on
one of those German boats an almost
fraternal relationship between the
officers and the frst-ciass passengers.
/ was on a big German ship in the
West Indies a few years ago and
recall, with some shame, that We eel
ebrated the Kaiser's birthday and sent
him long cablegram Of conSratula-
tions and good wishes.
Our students OF music and art, our
families seeking the placid.ty of an
-old-world atmosphere, our young doc
tors and surgeons, have fiocked to
Berlin and Vienna and Munich and
Dresden, have adjusted themselves
easily and comfortably to the German
manner of living and have come
home with a sincere affection for Ger
man friends.
OF all languages other than English,
German has been favored in our pub
lie schools. The accepted soVerness
for a child of wealth has been frou-
lein.
When England subjugated the
Beers, our sympathies were with the
Beers, although the war was between
an Eng;isb-speaking people and a race
related to the Continental Teutons
and we got all our news from British.
sources.
We have had two great waves OF
immigration from Germany. Great
Britain sent to us only the Irish and
they came to increase our distrdst
and dislike of the so-called English
speaking cousins.
We have fraternized with the Ger
hai oil or-
amples as to foaming beverages and
Frankfurter sausages, but we have
always shied at an Englishman fresh
from his own shores.
What ! am trying TO lead up 10 is
this rational conclusion that in the
closing days of July. 1914, there was
in this country sno deep-seated racial
prejudice in favor of the Angio-Saxon
as against resident of the German
Empire.
To begin with. We are not an An
glo-Saxon people. We are a compos
ite-a melting-pot mixture. We do
not even speak the English language
l can prove that by the literary re-
VIEWS VI bItdt DIlldlH
Only a few alarmists and extremists
ever suggested that we were in danger
of German invasion and the man
who wanted TO talk about the coming
European war couldn't find any one
to talk to. Why. David Starr Jordan
had demonstrated by higher mathe-
rnatics and biological research that
such calamity as a general Euro
pean war was an absolute impossi-
bility and that it was criminal folly
Tor us 10 bufid up an army and navy
with money that might be devoted to
the strengthening of each Congress-
man in his own district. DIR. Jordan
is still running around. trying to col
1ect the fragments of his busted theo-
ries. He is our best authority on
fishes and he proves it every time he
talks about war.
All the soothing assurances Of the
peace-lovers have come to naugbt
This time the cry of "Wolf," was not
false alarm. The unbelievable thing
has happened. We are at war with
our friends of yesterday. We have
marked as an enemy every man who
gives undivided allegiance to the
Kaiser because we know that the
Kaiser would. if he could. do to us ten
times over what he did to unoffending
Belgium.
In Germany it is commonly believed
that the pro-ally sentiment over here
is a poisonous product, encouraged