The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-05
THE TWO KAHNS.

Christian Science Monitor: julius
Kahn, Republican representative In con'
gress from the fourth California dis
trict. which embrac IS san francisco. a
native of Baden. Germany, and otto
Kahn. financier. banker, economist, pat
ron Il the arts, and promoter OF opci a,
a nati.. ul Mannheim, GermaHS, VINO
servel one year ~ the GerrSrh arm V
before leaving for the United States by
way of England. have recerty peen
much in the public eye and the pIblic
press. So far as is known, the 'wo
Kahns are I'm no wise related The en-
fire width of the American continent
divides them, when each 10 at home
They are OF different tastes and diifer
ent callings one, upon arriving in the
United States. as boy. fell III nnme-
diately with the ways Of California ana
became a typical exploiter Of the climate
and possibilities of the Golden state.
The other having had experience In
banking abroad. fell into that profes-
sion naturally. upon arriving in New
York The first was quickly weaned
away from German Influences: the lat
ter. owing To- environment. association
ana business connection. clang 10 the
hyphen practically until the United
States entered the great war
Julius was living the free lie of the
Californian and forgetting that he had
ever been otherwise. while otto was still
conversing with his associates, in the
banking houses of Kuhn. Loeb q Co.,
and Speyer Il CO. in his native tongue.
it was an easy matter for julius to
think i'm American when the crisis ar
rived: it was no easy matter Tor QUO
to pun out from beneath the native Oh
session that German autocracN could
not err. Yet divided as they were geo
graphically, by more than 5000 miles
ne crisis came to each alike. and each
was compelled to face il. Both were
Germans by nativity, by ancestry u
one had left the kaiserS dominions
earlier than the other. tradition held
him no less tightly than it held the
other TO certain obligations. which car
be better felt than expressed by natives
OF a country which comedies no rights
or liberties To the individual that might
in any way supplant the authority over
him of the state American citizenship
was claim spurned by Berlin it might
be assumed as a convenience il neNer
could mean To Germany surrender Of
authority over its sons.
But the way Germany felt about II
affected native Germans in the Uaitej
States in various ways. Julius Kahn
recognized 70 claim of Germany upon
HIM past, present. or to come. He had
hecone thoroughly \mericanlzed, and
only the interests of the United states
Iconcerned him Eecausa he was a ma
tive ~ Mannheim il became necessary
for him frequently to explain why he
WINS such an ardent advocate of Ameri-
can interests. in and cut of congress.
This he did by telling what it has been
attempted to make clear here, namely,
that he had long ago ceased To regard
any other country than the United
States as his own.
Representative Kahn has been one
of the strongest AMI most useful sup
porters of the president in the house. ne
has subordinated partisanship and for
gotten his Eepublicanism, in order that
he mii,ht help the executive and the
cadSe of democracy
With Otto it was not so easy. yet the
difficulties he had 10 encounter make
the loyalty he has displayed all the
more creditable lie was. so to speak,
cntangled in German interests. He had
been for years IN close association with
bankers and financiers who took their
inspiration from the Reichsbank and
the Deutsche Bank of Berlin; neverthe-
less. when il came 10 the parting of the
ways. he said. Speaking as one born