New Britain herald., 1917-03-28
INFAMOUS M.ALEF.xtTION.

k Racializedypublic opinion is playing big part in the affairs of the United States at the present moment. On the very edge of war men are trying to
 divide the nation into varied camps.
 Whereas once 1t was sectionalized
 opinion. the viewpoints of the North,
 the South, the East and the West. now 1t Is being allotted according to the races Nowhere in the country is the attempt to formulate this opinion stronger than in our own New Eng land where all the races of the world are gathered. Until war is formally declared this concerted effort will go on ina process of specialization. Then itmust give way for something better, Something bigger, something more substantial. In its present form 1t takes on all the hideousness of treason.
 Politics, to some degree, has been wiped off the national slate. There is no longer talk of Republicans and Democrats. of Socialists. or Progress sives. The men in the national Con- gress have thrown their political togas on the floor The Governors of the various states in the Union have forgotten for the moment to which party they belong. The mayors of cities and towns have done likewise. As this evolution has gone on some thing else has taken its place. 1t is the molding of minds in different channels. It is the attempt to form public opinion by those who view things from outside the boundaries of the United States. The amazing part of the whole business is that natural ized citizens of the United States, men who should know better, are hand and glove in the movement.
 When the welfare of the nation is at stake the cftizenry must drop all differences, sectional, racial and oth- erwise. If the nation were fighting for its very existence it would have no time to hear the plaints of Cali fornia on the Japanese question. If We were at war with an outside pow CT the nation would have no time to consider the problems of the South, or the East, or the West. Sectionalism then would be dead. There would be no North or South. The same must apply to racialism. It is foolishness at this time for men of the United States to rant and rave about the na- tions of Europe. We have no concern there. Our interests are centered in this country. All we want from any nation in Europe is a respect for our rights. When there is disregard for those things the United States must hold the offender to account. whether the offender be England, France, Russia, Germany or any other power. In this case it is Germany that is the offender. No amount of reasoning can show that Germany has not vio- lated international laws effecting the peace and tranquility of the United States. This being the case, we are today rapidly aligning ourselves against Germany. The Imperial Ger man Government is waging ruthless submarine warfare on our commerce. The war has been going on for some time.t It is a one-sided war; but 1t will be two-sided as soon as the ma chinery of the government gets into operation and Congress assemblies on the second day of April.
 When the formal declaration of war is made, if that form is taken, the men of the United States must stand up and be counted. There will be two classes, the wheat and the chaff. the sheep and the goats, the patriots and the traitors. In a nut shell, the Americans and the un- Americans. The question those who are trying to form racialized public opinion mus. ask themselves Is, Which shall it be? To attempt at this time to divide the men of the United States into different camps because of inherent racial sympathies is noth- ing short of treason. To even talk of the United States going into a war of greed. or conquest. or for the pur-