Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-01-30


pie that has given to the world a
Luther, Goethe, Schiller, Lessing; a
Mendelssohn, Bach, Schubert, Beet
hoven, Mozart, Handel, Hayden
Wagner; Kant, Hegel Haeckel
Harnack. Eucken, Roentgen, Ehr-
Itch This the characterization Of a
people that has given to the world
an Alfred Fried, winner Of Nobel
Prize for his advocacy of peace, and
a Baroness Suttner whose cry Down
with Aimsl' has been the loudest
peace cry in modern times This
the Characterization OF the German
Americans, who have given to this
country a Pastorius, the friend OF
William Penn a Muehlenberg,
Baron Steuben, whom Washington
acknowledged to have been one Of
the foremost creators Of American
independence This the character
ization OF the COMMUNICATIONS
who have given our country q Carl
Schurz, Schley Schiff, Straus, Nor
gcnthau, Theodore Thomas, Dam
rosch DreXcl Cramp, Steinway,
Roebling, Steinmetz, and scores Of
others equally distinguished for
noble service to the United States
The writer Of the newspapers-ar-
ticle mentioned has probably never
heard of half the names / have given,
or, ii she has, never knew that they
We're German And it is more than
likely that she never entertained
such bitter feelings against the Ger
mans until certain and perhaps in
spircd war-books and magazine ar
ticles and newspapers told her how
the Germans chopped OIL the hands
andf Get OF innocent little children,
and gouged out their eyes, and, Hun
like. committed other atrocious bar
barities. which she in her ignorance
accepted as gospel truth She prob
ably does not know that, while ar
ticles such as hers find welcome
space on the editorial page, re-
ioinder such as this may find no
space at all in the same paper
Seeing that the German-American
arc suspected OF being guilty Of the
outrages committed in the South,
during our Civil War, we may yet
get to hear that Teutons, and not
Romans massacrcd the early Chris
tians at Rome; that Teutons and not
Spaniards were the chief operators
chambers and autos-da fe; that Teu-
tons, and not Frenchmen, perpe-
trated the St Bartholomew night
massacre OF the Huguenots; that
Teutons and not Russians committed
the outrages in Finland Poland,
Siberia, and in the Jewish Pale; that
Teutons and not Englishmen turned
Sudan and Boerland into reeking
,,I,,, laI-
gians committed the outrages in the
Congo States at which the whole
civilized world. stood aghast; that
Teutons and not Italians made holo-
causts OF the inoffending people Of
Tripoli that Teutofs and not the
Serbians and Bulgarians perpetrated
the unspeakable outrages in each
othcr's countries, during the Balkan
wars Seeing that the writer Of the
article mentioned declares, that care
fu search might discover not only
that outrages during the Civil War
were committed by Commandment
cans hut that also other notable
cases Of atrocities We're perpetrated
by men OF German blood, why may
rot such inquiry discover that Ger
man-Amcrican hanged witches at
S2lcm ana CUT OuL tHc lVuSuSn ~
Quakers, that the traitor Benedict
Arnold, and the Ku-KluX-Klan were
Of German blood; that Germans, and
not Americans robbed Indians Of
their own, ana turned some OF them
into savagcs made slaves and mcr-
chandise OF negroes, and burned
some Of them alive; that Booth and
Guiteau and Czolgosz, the assassins
OF Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and
| Mckinley, were all Gcrman-Ameri-
cans? We'll might one invoke the
prayer for The writer of the article
mentioned, and for large number
of other writer's on the present war,
Forgive them, Father, for they
know not what evil they disseminate,
what hatreds they implant in the
hearts OF men
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