New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19

! To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Americans should stand with John
Burroughs. who said in your paper on the
| i4th:
For my own part 7 will never again use an arii-
| clr made in modern Germany II ! know ~ VII.
never look into modern German booh' WI,
favor the exclusion Of the German language "n1
I.erature from our schools and colleges. "ouin
drive every unnAturalized German from TINS coun-
try We do not want their ideas or their methods
Their idens are subversye of our democratic Ideals
| and their methods ensaye the mind ana ean 10
efficiency chiefly in the field OF organized robbery
When the gentle Burroughs, the friend Of
| the pacifst Henry Ford, writes Ike that
Americans may know that the Hua mas
reached the limit Of his deyiltry here We
ought TO do as John Burroughs says he -
going TO do-have nothing more TO do with
Hun products.
| The American mother gives up her young
wage Garner to fight for liberty Her boy
had fine future and was getting good pay
He throws up everything for his ideals and
takes $50 a month. In this country, espe-
cially right in New York, are thousands OF
Huns being made rich by the war. They
should be combed out and, as John Burroughs
says driven out Of the country. The govern
ment has il to do and must soon set about
doing it. No Hun should be allowed in an
American bank where he may get hold OF m
formation that the cute and devilish military
masters of the Huns can use to our undolng.
No Hun should be allowed TO dabble here IN
drugs or chemicals. All sorts OF epldemics
might be traced TO these liars and ROBBERS
and murderers if we allow them IN these
! lines, where only honor and regard for
sacred obligations fit man TO do business.
The Huns say that honor is fraud; that all
pledges are made TO be disregarded. And from
what they did in Belgium we may be sure
what they will do here, spreading disease
and disintegration, the latter slowly by
psychology or by ramming and explosion as
at Halifax. Every American mother who SENDS
a soldier son to France is left to carry
New York or other American business Hun
OF her poor back.
Hush, Hush"
Secretary of War Baker says there must
be no shibboleth of hate" This amounts to
what they call in England Hush! Hush!
conservative friend of mine writes to me:
"You want 70 comb out the Huns doing busl-
ness. | want TO comb out the Huns doing Hun
business. Those doing what you might call
straight ordinary business seem to me to be
doing no harm, as President Wilson seems
to think in his proclamation dfferentiating
between Austro-Hungarians and Germans.
To treat them all as Huns would tie up ma
tional business: mines, steel plants, etc.
Three-fourths or more of all nominal Austro-
Hungarians are in fact fiercely against their
LONE government Probably a much higher
ratio"
have no wish to go against the President,
or to think contrary to what he would have
me think, but | cannot be as loyal as all
tina. if it means | must help swell the war
~ offs of Huns-many thousands OF them
licking up huge gains as we bond ourselves
and our posterity for billions. John Bur-
roughs, man of gentle spirit, can't stand it,.
How then can the rest of us be expected to
stand it?
1t is cant to tell US we must not hate. How