The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-27

of disturbing the peace by unlawfully |
holding an assembly failing to dis
burse at the order of the police; also
a district superintendent removed for
refusal to participate in a patriotic |
meeting; and more recently a Bishop
in Utah giving up his diocese because
of lack of patriotism for the govern
ment. Mr.. Wilson's paragraph in his
address directed at pacifists is too
mild: Il hear men debate peace who
understand neither its nature nor the
way in which we may attain it with
uplifted eyes and unbroken spirits
But l know that none of these speak
for the nation. They do not touch the
heart of anything. They may safely
be left to strut their uneasy hour and
be forgotten"
What a remarkable contrast be-
tween the utterances of some of the
so-called pacifists and the patriotic
utterances of some of our citizens of
German birth. AS for instance, the
patriotic utterance of Otto Kahn:
This appalling conflict which has
been drenching the world with blood
is not a mere fight of one or more
peoples against one or more other
peoples In determining ones
attitude toward it, the time has gone
by-if ever it was-when race and
blood and inherited affiliations were
permitted Today Americans of
German birth are called upon to rise,
together with their fellow citizens of
all races, to free not only this coun-
try, but the whole world from the OPP
pressions of the rulers of Germany,
an oppression far less capable of be-
ing endured and of far graver portent.
e" Would life be tolerable if the
power of Prussianism, run mad and
| murderous, held the world by the
throat, if the primacy of the earth be-
longed to a government stepped in the
doctrines of a barbarous past and
supported by a ruling cast which
breaches the dedication of sheer
might, which despises liberty, hates
democracy, and would destroy both if
it could? To that spirit and to those
doctrines we, citizens of America and
servants of humanity, will oppose our
solemn and unshakable resolution, to
make the world safe for democracy,
and we will say with clear consci-
ence in the noble words which more
than 500 years ago were uttered by
the parliament of Scotland: at is
not for glory or for riches, or for
honor that we fight, but for liberty
alone. which no good man loses but
with his life"
Let the pacifist listen to the brave,
patriotic words of Franz Sigel, the
son of General Sigel, famous as an
exile from autocratic Germany in the
years 184S-49, and as one of the BRAY
est of the brave in the civil war;
81 am full blooded German, des-
cended from German 'forty-eighters,
My forebearers had all sacrificed the
home of their birth in their devotion
to the cause of liberty Later they
fought for the Union and the freedom
of the slaves. Where do we, the
sons of men like Franz Sigel and
his companions stand in the struggle
for liberty? If we are to be true tC
them and the ideals for which they
fought, we must stand today on the
side of America and freedom against
the German government and autoc-
racy." Let us hear General Sigel in
the words of the last public speech he
made, in German to German-Ameri-
cans:
POLITICALLY, ! am an American and
nothing else but 1 am proud to be
a German. l would consider myself
j less than man were l to forget the