The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-07-24
AMERICAN TEUTONS AND THE WAR
An Editorial by Otto H. Kahn

An Editorial by Otto H. Kahn
 century and half ago Americans of English birth rose free this country from the oppression of the % CTS of England Today Americans of German birth are call ed upon to rise together with their feOwctzenS Ot all races to free not only this country but the whole world from the oppression of the rulers of Germany Oppres sion far less capable of being endured and of far graver pOrtent.
 Speaking as one born of German parents, do not heS tate to state my deep conviction that the greatest ser vice which men of German birth or anecendents der to the country of their origin to proclaim and to stand up for those great and fine ideals and national quail ties and traditions which they inherited from their anceS tors and to set their faces like flint against the mOnSrOuS doctrines and acts of ruerShp which have robbed them of the Germany which they loved and in which they took just pride the Germany which had the good w respect and admiration of the entire world.
 do not hesitate to state it my solemn conviction that the more unmiStakably and whOeheartedly Amer cans of German origin throw themselves into the struggle which this country has entered in order to Ger many less than America and the rest of the world from those sinister forces that are in President Wilson's lan guage the enemy of all mankind the better they protect and the repute of the old German and the true advantage of the German people.
 Gentlemen, measure my words. They are borne out all too emphatcaly by the hideOus elOquence of deeds which have appalled, the conscience of the civilized world They borne out by numbess expressions written and spoken of German professors employed by the State teach its youth
 The burden of that teaching that might makes right and that the German nation has been chosen to exercise morally, mentally and actually, the over-ordship of the world and and will accomplish that task and that des tiny whatever the cost in boodShed misery and ruin
 The spirit of that teaching in it's intolerance its mix ture of SanctmOnOuSneSs and coveOsness and it's self righteous assumption of world-imprOving mission is closely akin to the spirit from which were bred the reg of past through the long and dark years when PrOtestants and Catholics killed one another and devas tated Europe.
 speak in sorrow, for am speaking of the country Ofmy origin and have not forgotten what owe to it.
 speak in bitter disappointment for am thinking of the Germany of former days the Germany which has con- trbuted it's full share to the store of the worlds mpersh able assets and which in not few fields of human endeav or and achievement held the leading place among the na tionS of the earth.
 And speak in the firm faith that after it's people shall have shaken off and made Onement for the dreadful spell which an evil fate has cast upon hem that former Ger many is bound to arise again and in due course of time will again deserve and attain the goodwill and the high respect of the world and the afeconate loyalty of all those of German blood in foreign lands
 But know that neither Germany nor this country nor the rest of the world return to happiness and and fruitful labor until it shall have been made manifest bitterly and unmistakaby manifest to the rulers who bear formed and misguided peoples that the spirit which un chained it cannot prevail that the hateful doctrines and methods in pursuance of which and in compliance with