Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-11-30
THE SPIRIT OF '48 IN 9l7.

that 1.-The long-cherished hopes of her
patriots and martys" were ''reafzcd.
at least in great measure" andttha-
Germany was steadily progresrinA
in the path Of political, sociaf,.s nrall
religious reform" Again, in 1897
a few years before his death....hsa,
wrote:
Germany will survive the storm of
another century-great, questions in
volving its domestic and foreign poIi-
cies. its social and economic condi-
tions. its existing militarism, the sta
tus OF its common people
must be settle; they will and cannot
be avoided by foreign operations, by
new burdens .imposed on the people,
nor by the mere nse dixft of power.
In 1902s the articles from which
this is taken were published in Mann
helm, Baden, under the title TDenk-
wurdlgkeiten aus den Jahren. q1S4S-
1s49:" but the above paragraph is
omitted
There Is prophecy III these woTds
that may come true. Franz Sigei had
not in so years forgotten "militar-
ISM" the ism" the Status Of the
,co,pmcn PEOPLE. Germany was unit
ed, powerful. yes; but there were
questions still to be settled" not to
be avoided by foreign operations"
'M+ snew burdens to be imposed on
tina people," by 1.-The merA,ipse dixit
of-power." Did he not fbs old age
dream the dreams of hk youth, even
,ANaSSsdastt wssAl iaa.slA2#wRid ne en0aHastil
II lElt n! e erman psoSasA the
liIl68Hs'yt peDhle. the tfsNISS Df so
years aga ,aH ioOk towsrda theft ul-
n Nsnats NEa4iifion2 fh~SS II
thssaxfe Of Franz Sigel show
sAMs no hope for the gGel9nan
Efrom the. absolNtigm ffe 3om-
llsatsin youth? WouiAl|Ae nSt now
Sltasid true to his lifelon convi $tfons,
tSae to the Ideals heQlfSnghttAot on
two continents, true toaehe rip
tiQn on his Tombstone placed there
at his written request, AN American
array himself on the sidefof America
in the struggle to make the world
safe for democracy? Hills article on
THE American Republic" in the In
ternational MagazineF quoted above.
concluded with the Words:
If there are utterances specially
appropriate to the great task before
us they are those breathing the spirit
of the sturdy and heroic English sal
lor at the battle of Trafalgar-to ap-
ply the words of Nelson to our own
American Republic
expects every man to do his duty"
l know he; would repeat these,
words today. ..s / - J )
In the fires of the Civil War the
North and the South were welded
into one great union of states If the
fires OF the present war will weld the
many nationa1ities in our citizenship
INTO one great cohesive union Of ma
tionalities, and burn away the ad jec-
t1ves OF nationalism from" American"
then there will be a national profit
that will more than balance the ter
iiiake fiIi'4aFl' all l 4
~ Where do we, the sons of men. like
Franz Siegel and his companions in
the struggle for liberty. stand? II
we are true to them and the ideals
for which they fought, we must stand
to-day on the side of Ati1etica" ana
freedom against the German Govern,
ment and autocracy. we, shall not
then fight against our blood Kindred.
but, in the, broader sense. We shall
fight for them against a Government
not Of their creation. We Shall SIC
cure for them the right Of seYf-gov-
eminent, the right OF the people and
not of a Kaiser to find' Its place ain
the slin"-2the. SIN of liberty and
equality. h'"a ri
II we are to emulate the example
OF. Franz Sigef. What shall we 40? Let
him answer in the, words of the last
public speech he ever made, In Cdr
man to GERMAN A mericans: .'s5s
Politically, am an American and
nothing else; butt am proud to, be q
German, l would Consider myself
less than q. man were to forget the
tremendous SACRIFICE ma de bv the IN,
migrant lGefnans, in defense Of their
new "Fatherland, Shall this bloog
have flowed IN vain? Shall we now
attack this America to which we gave
all we had to give? This country y
our country. our interests are its III
terests: here we are, here will our
descendents be-; here we, shall stay.
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