New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19

c., wo sec all that VIC have reyered fouted
h., the nasty Zimmermanns and then talk
hon. not hating? It is not honest TO talk
hat way. We have bitterly hated the Huns
since thew sent the Lusitania 20 the bottom
and celebrated that crime with a holiday
throughout Germany. The thief on the Cross
was not forgiven until he declared his peni-
,ouce in n way that revealed the true state
o. his heart.
Why not certify American goods 20 save
NJ. from Hun contamination? Every Ameu-
can business concern should carry label
showing that il il 100 per cent American;
that it employs 10 enemy aliens 20 make its
goods. TO buy for IL or 10 sell for il, and that
:. uses all possible diligence TO make sure
that it deals only with concerns that exhibit
the same American label. In the course OF
time that system would put the screws on
Hun business and choke it Off
No Vindictiveness
There is no vindictivcness in this. By toll
Grating the Huns in business here we make
the people Of the Central European countries
believe that they have mastered US by their
military organization. They are familiar
with the vast details Of Hun business in this
country, and the apparent stability OF that
business, and the patering we have exhibited
in shying at il encourages them in the belief
that their hold upon US is permanent. The
curse of the Hun is stamped everywhere IN
this country. In the schools, in the banks,
in the newspaper Offices, in dry goods, in
drugs, in leather, in chemicals in books and
in countless other lines, including public en-
ployment, are subjects of the Kaiser who
want to see him win and our civilization fail
How are John Burroughs and some of the
rest of us going to know that we are yield
ing 10 aid or comfort to Huns unless we
have certified all-American concerns to deal
with? We can't know. No American will
ever again put his foot on a German ship.
That we can know. but unless We have certi-
fed American business houses We cannot be
sure we are not helping the Kaiser to rule
the world.
The certified American business concerns
would back up our soldiers and sailors in one
powerful way: They would send howl
through Germany by the underground routes
leading from Washington and New York
Those underground routes exist and are more
plentiful and better patronized than many of
US are aware.
When it is known that we are in earnest
about casting off Hun business few demo-
Gratis among the Hun junkers will appear
They will then see the big fact: Even
though they win they lose. By elimination
by supervision of applicants for the all
American business label, blacklist is auto
matically framed, and as the boycott pro-
ceeds steps in Congress to help along the
good work. The Huns won't like to look at
that blacklist. As they see this exclusion
coming they will want democracy. They will
see that murder, rapine and robbery have no
place in modern statecraft
A shoddy nation makes dirty, shoddy
war; it makes shoddy goods fit only for those
who love murder, rapne and robbery. We
DO not care especially to buy in a shop where
the proprietor stands behind the front door
with an axe to win our favor by cutting off
the hands of our little daughter. His methods
seem TO us to lead more to his own EXITING
tion than to place in the sun. We do not