The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-02
DEFEAT VALENTINE.
"ONE PEOPLE
(NeW York World)

(New York World)
 No other paragraph in Washingtons Farewell Ad dress is pertinent to the crisis that the United States this:
 If we remain one People under efficient
 government, the period is not far off when
 we may defy material injury from external
 noyance; when we may take such attitude
 as will cause the neutrality we may at any time
 resolve upon to be scrupulously respected
 when beigerent nations under the impossbil-
 ity of making acquisitions upon us, will not
 lightly hazard the giving of provocation when
 we may choose peace war; interest,
 guided by our justice, may counsel.
 The United States today is practically at wal with Germany because the German government hat reason to believe that we had not remained "onf People" It believed that under the influence of al aggressive and interruptions propaganda the Ameri can people were divided, and that the controlin. power rested with those elements which de termined to the United States to further the mill tary policies of the German empire
 Even in respect to the proclamation of ruth less submarine warfare, it is reported by the Ameri can correspondents who have left Berlin that officia not allow President Wilson diplomatic rela tions'
 Had the German Government known that we wer. still one People" the neutrality of the United State would have been respected. the elementary rights American citizens would not have been challenged there would be no more danger of between tn United States and Germany than there is between tn United States and France
 primarily upo4 the Germananguage press of the Uni ed States Us responsibility is the greater becaus the motlyeFwas mainly commercial. ''e When the began, the German-language news papers in the United States were rapidly dying. Fo years they hau been SleaQlly losing circulation, nue and prestige. and the end sight The seized upon the war as their opportunity to rehabil tate themselves financially. This could be done onl by organized appeal to the passion and racial darty of Americans of German birth
 The efforts of the German-Amercan press wer. adroitly supplemented by the efforts-and the money of the offcial German propaganda All America, newspapers which not pro-German assaile as the fountainhead Of lies Germans warned no to read them. these newspapers in the pay 0 -the British government Likewise, eminent American whose sympathies with the Allies denounce as paid emissaries of Great Britain. They too hat been bought with British gold,
 This campaign went day after day, week afte week, month after month In every controversy be tween the United States and Germany the full i1 on the side of Germany and against the Unite States The neutrality of the Administration was al tackled at every point and at every angle The Ger mananguage newspapers apparently edited b one and directed by mind. Whatever tn issue they all said the thing. Every ney scheme for bedevilng the United States and incitn sedon for the benefit of German auocracy receive, their strident approval and support
 In time the German government came to believ that the opinion which it promoting and payin for in the United States the opinion of the Amer can people. Even the reelection of President Wilso. did not wholly dislusion it, the submarine deere subsequently proved.
 Whether not have actual war with Ger many the lesson of the last thirty months is the mos vital lesson that the Aemrcan people have had t. learn since the destruction of Slavery Secession This Nation cannot exist half American and hal alen It must be "one People, and if we shrk long CT the task of making it People we are inyitn; the destruction of the Republic