The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1917-09-27
FROM AN Ex-CERMAN
Missouri Professor
Explains Views

anu says tIlaL Cno views eXpfcSS6
by the writer covers the situati0
better than any he has seen an
for that reason asks for its pub
LEGATION.
Professor Meyer, Of the Miss
ouri University, in answer t
cards sent him asking him to de
clare his sympathy with the ''Peo
pies Council for Democracy AM
Peace" and to pledge monthly pay
ments to support it, says:
The viciousness of your propa
ganda consists in its combination
OF aims which are clearly in thu
interest of democracy and peace
and which | have always gladly
supported, with others, stateC
more or less hidden between. which
are in the interest of autocracy
of caste system of social organi-
cation and militarism.
How can you ask a citizen of
the United States, in the present
crisis, to pledge his moral support
and his money in order to enable
you to work for the repeal Of the
CONSUMPTION lawE Such re-
quest is but little short of an insult.
It is an insult when addressed to /
naturalized citizen. You being
citizens of this country merely by
the accident of birth. may not un-
derstand this.
Il am thoroughly familiar with
the present organization Of the
German social body and with its
elimination of the present German
/ am much more IA
miliar with it than any of the
members of your committee |
have lived in Germany twenty-five
years. | was born there. | was
educated there, not in the sense in
which some of the members of
your committee were educated
there, who visited a German uni
versity for year or two. Ispent
nineteen years of nv life in Ger
nan educational institutions from
;he kindergarten to the research
Il confess at the beginning of
The war my sympathies we're de-
7ided. The German nation had
many justi6able complaints against
is neighbors. But whatever
wrongs the German nation may
laye suffered in the past from
,ther nations, the German govern
nent during this war has had
more than one opportunity to have
hem set right and to terminate
he war. Its actions show that
world domination, not justice, is
is aim. / sympathize with the
German people, but not with their
Perhaps you would |
your American citizen
hip better if, like me, you had
,een brought up in Germany.
IF Germany wins this war fifty
Tears hence its government will
ule the American people. | do
lot want nv American children to
e put under this yoke / escaped
y coming to America. My hope
; that the German government
ill be oYerthrown and that the
Ierman nation, my relatives and
riends, will enter an international
rganization for peace and justice.
ut the German government, this
,arful danger to our future, can
overthrown only by raising
'mies, not by sitting around the
'uncil table of the peoples coun- !
| of America and working for the ;
peal of the CONSUMPTION laws"
1t is pitiful to see such propa- >
INDIA as yours led by an Ameri-
n university president. a distin-
Iished scientist, who evidently :,
res nothing for the freedom of :
IT children. 1t is pitiful to see ,
en- whole universities ia trouble y
rough the shortsighted activities y
their professors in favor of the =
envy. Please do not count on me :
bringing this dispute upon the
iversity of Missouri, the institu.
q to which | bclong.o
The action of the women of
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