The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-11
A GERMANS VIEW
Illinois Editor Talks Very Plain on
Duty of German Americans.

In a recent issue Of the Belleville
News Democrat, the editor, a full
blooded German, publishes an editorial
intended for his German readers, and
which he believes every German
American citizen should purusue. The
following extracts are published by
request:
We meet men every day who were
born and raised in this country who
take seriously and repeat the thread
bare pro-German arguments which
they derive directly or indirectly from
the German language press published
in this country. The editors of these
same newspapers are not loyal to this
country. Most of them are not even
naturalized citizens of the United
States. Some are spies who ought to
be shot. Others are alien knockers
who ought to be deported. Still others
are traitors and copperheads.
They were not for this country be-
fore the war started. They try to be-
little every institution and every other
thing that exists in the United States.
Nothing in this country is good enuf
for them. Still they stick with the
tenacity of ticks. When they are not
kissing the dust at the feet of the
kaiser they are toadying to the fun
kies of royalty who write won" be-
tween their first and last names.
We never saw Herr Won" yet
who wasn't a downright deadbeat. |
Our parents who were born in Ger
many taught us from our earliest boy
hood years to keep one hand on our
pocketbook when one of these sprouts |
of the stuck-up, arrogant, brow-beat-
ing German nobility was around the |
anywhere.
America is our country. Here is
where we were born and where our
wife and children were born. This
country has been mighty good to us.
1t threw open the doors of opportunity
and bade us enter. 1t gave us liberty.
Under the protecting wings of the
American eagle we enjoyed security
md peace until the German war lord
and over lord and autocrat and aris-
.ocrat and despot, whose projenitors
irove our parents out of Germany
md away from their homes, Gifted
he lid off of hell" and commenced the
'iiS Atiis'i oit0i anu OlSY VI |
iendishness and beastiality which de-
troyed the tranquility of the world,
lrenching France and Russia and the
balkan states of Europe in blood and
inverted Belgium into the worst hui
nan slaugter house of which history
makes any record.
Wilhelm Hohenzollern dragged the |
United States into the war We staid |
ut of war as long as we could, but
ow that we are in it we will fight to |
he finish. The German junkers will |
waken to find out that America is no |
onentity and no cipher in the fray |
S they predicted that our country |
'ould be. American soldiers will Il
lake history in Europe. They will Il
e the liberators of Europe and of the II
orld. The name of every man in it II
ill be inscribed on the muster roll II
Immortality. Thrones will crum- II
lie in every land where the stars and
.ripes are unfurled. Liberty and JUS II
&c and free institutions will be the II
eritage which the American troops II
Ill leave in Europe on their depart II
re for the glorious home coming H
owned with laurels and carrying II
'anches of olives. Where are you in H
ms fight? Are you with us or are II
~ against us. H