Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-06-28
DR.. PATTON ANSWERS.


CAPE GIRARpEAu, Mo-, June Is, 1917.
Editor Register-~Your paper OF
issue June 14th, contained an article
from Mr.. Otto Lueddecke. OF Pilot
Knob, Missouri, and from what he had
to say in defense OF the Kaiser, it is
natural to believe that your cores
pondent looks upon Captain Won Pa
pen as one OF the Apostles, and upon
the Emperor as God.
II Mr.. Leuddeeke we're bona tide
American, he would condemn rather
than approve the insulting reference
to the American people made by
Dynamiter Won Papen,
What Won Papen did as q German
official in Washington is q part OF the
propaganda which has caused the civ
ilized world to look upon the Kaiser
and his band as outlaws and as
menace to the world.
BY inference MIR. Lueddecke brands
the "purported poem,' or Kaiser Won
Hindeuburg verses, as false, idiotic,
unfair, ungentlemanly, unjust, and
prompted BY hatred.
As l understand it, poetry in its
widest sense is that which is the
product Of the Imaginative powers
and fancy. The verses, then, can
not be regarded as a poem, but as
plain statement of facts, with weak
effort at rhyme, said facts having
been CLEANED from reading many OF
the leading newspapers, and maya
zines published in America. No part
OF these verses was the result OF
the Imagination on the part OF the
writer thereof and il falsehood has
In anyway been indulged in, then Won
Lueddecke is the offending party.
There is no right or reason why this
gentleman (?) should charge untruth
and idiocy in those verses. Here is
the milk in the cocoanut: He is so
saturated with ro.Germanism, 1t is
so paramount in his composition that
he cannot believe---o will not see any
evil in the people who boast SO freely
Of "kultur." =
Judging from what Maximillian
Harden, the noted German editor, said
in a recent issue Of his paper, and which
was reproduced in the metropolitan
newspapers. in the United States,
the masses OF Germany donot approve
OF the criminal course being pursued
by theGerman Kaiser. There may be
people living in the United States
who sanction the German program,
but they arc not here to help build a
greater United States than we now
have, but they are here because they
are here. It may be true that there
are people living in this country who
earn more money, and are more
respected than they would be on their
native heath, and yet some Of them
despise the name America, and pray
that "a q nation 1t will soon perish
from the earth.
But II there are such people, they
are no worse than somo OF the Ger
mah Kaiser's official Representatives
to this country were. But as Missouri
survives the James boys, this nation
can forget the diplomats who came
from Berlin, supposedly to represent
anation, but who were found sneak
ing in our official pantry, and foment'
ing sedition. Tney have gone, o.
course, and the feeling left behine
IL similar to that Of the Good samsri.
tan who took In the stranger and lafel
found thst the doormat, bearing tn
word, welcome, y had been stolen.
Many Of the exponsnts Of pro'qer'
inanism, Il ~ was set out IN ths
propaganda maintained 10 this coun'
try BY the Ksissr's Government 10
many months, are .timidly showini