New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-28

IVl Is n part Of these United States
OF America which, looked upon IN
these Indian summer days, makes one
| feel that this is n land worth fight
! ing and dying for There is some
| thing about Southern Minnesota's as
pect that inspires feeling OF mt
macy and love OF native land. The
state is cast in a physical mould that
/ makes it different from all the other
I states. For one thing. it is green
( land from snow 10 snow. Then there
are so many lakes and rivers, marshes
/ slouChs and swales that II is not com
pletedly checker-b boarded into prlm,
square farms, with every inch under
cultivation. Here are inviting past
ures, beautiful groves. and rolling
pra:ries. 1t has neither the sternness
of the desert nor the solemn vastness
| of the plains. II is restful coun-
| try. II is not so old as to look worn
| out. and il is not young enough to be
| raw. II is the middle age OF rural
/ DEVELOPMENT. II is neither East nor
West Its farmers neither gamble with
| vast field ventures nor retire embit-
tered from a losing game. There are
no new farms and no abandoned ones
The Indians loved it, this sylvan and
prairie land Of Cloudy Water, and
Sioux and Chippewa fought long tribal
wars for its possession. 1t had ITS
war troubles ffty-hve years ago, as
it has them to-day, and 1T met them
bravclv. as even now it dauntlessly
does its great part. 1t seems incred-
| ible that fifty-fve years ago this sum-
mer oil of this fair land was threat
ened with Indian reconquest, and that
! much Of il was occupied with a rush
as swift and deadly as that OF Won
Kluck into France.
An Enemy at Home Now
To-day. also. Minnesota has AZ en-
| erov at home. And he is being dealt
9Th as sternly as Sibley dealt with
the Sioux. There ia no philanderlng
| With the internal enemy here. In
! Minnesota YOU are either American or
| not and If mot" look well 80 your
words and actions. There is no senti-
! rental pussy-footing.
! The Public Safety Commission Is
! speciallv charged with dealing with IN
, ternal enemies. There is no procrastl-
! mating waiting for Federal initiative
! The commission has its eye on all VINO
are under suspicion Of disloyaity'. IL
/ does not forget. Some are warned INTO
| goodness, some are arrested, some are
/ discharged from public service, ne
| pro- German local official suddenly hnuS
! himself suspended from office. he
! iaeginp pacifist in school or university
| i elected. A soap-box orator Wines
| the President and he hurries TO JAN
| in front OF bayonet.
A saloonkeeper talks too much Ter
man and he is jerked out OF his place
before he has time TO adjust matters
with his cashier. A public employe
| confesses 10 pro-German sentiments.
! lie is Immediately suspended. No
| toriously disloyal Socialists give notice
of a public meeting and u is not per-
! mittcd. A poor fool OF Russian VINO
| knows no better how 20 enjoy liberty
/ in this country tran his befudd!ed
| countrymen at home begins to abuse
/ the authorities and he is promptly
nsbbed
Insists on Loyalty
The Minnesota commission realizes
that there Is as much difference be-
,v,aen a country at war and a country
at peace as there is between discl-
plincd army and a town meeting ror
one thing the commission is determined
{ that no person who IS not loyal snali
be allowed TO remain IN pubic once,
high or low For example. IT recently
handed to the regents OF the University
Of Minnesota list Of persons on ,he
payroll of that great institution that
wnre Of questionable loyalty. One of
the names on the list was that OF FRO
fassor William Schaper, OF the depart
meut OF economics.
The case is interesting as showing
how the Minnesota commission insists
that in this time Of trial every citl-
zen is either loyal or disloyal Scha-
morris offence was omission rather than
commission. He had not been actively
disloyal He had been invited to speak
n the officers training camp at Fort
Smelling. but had previous engage
r,cn.s. He had been urged TO TAX" an
active mart in formulating loyal SEN
timent. but had declined to boost for
the war" On receipt Of the COM
missions information. Schsper was
called before the regents and ques-
toned as to his attitude. Nothing
sensational was developed at this IN
ouirv. but il was brought out that
tho professor was not in sympathy
with the war md was not willing to
do anything TO promote its success.
Professor Is Dismissed
on the theory that a patriotic state
university is no place for neutrais
when the Republic is at war. Schaper
was dismissed. He then published n
defence, which was in itself ample
justification for his dismissal. Aside
from his lack of positive patriotism
his statement showed a curious lack
Of nbi!ity 10 think strsightly and a
subiectivity to sentImentalism when
demonstrated that he was not OF the
vigorous stuff of which instructors OF
Americans should be. He found him
self unable TO take sides in the war
because he had cousins IN the Ger
man army and nephews in the Amer,
can. The war had no higher appear
TO him than that OF the pain OF d.