New Britain herald., 1918-09-28


and incarcerated, or killed outright,
by community for its own safety.
And so Germany has run amuck;
and all the most virtuous nations of
the world have been forced, by her ,
insane determination of world-dom-
ination and indiscriminate merciless
slaughter, to arrest or to kill her, in
self-defence not only, but in defence
of her own people, and all that in this
world is worth living for. The Kali
ser, the personification of the evil
enslaving them, is hiding behind the
German people; lf-deceived, they
suffer and die in defence of the
cause of their German scourge.
We really help the world-cause and
the German people themselves, then,
not as Germans or as even the best
descendants of Germans, but as rep
resenting an International leaven Of
principle which is superior to even
German blood relationship.
[ cannot believe that any organiza-
ton as a war measure, even, that
savors in the least of Germany, is
justi1able, in the light of the past
exposures of German untrustworthi-
ness and iniquity Only the German
or his descendant who loses himself
in individual aggressive Americaniza-
ton is at this time safe from German
manipuIation,-a miasma, directly or
indirectly, inspired by Germany.
Societies which still SAVIOR of Ger
man pride can not help cherishing a
false mesmeric sentiment which
is not conducive to a killing condem-
nation of the German evil which
claims to have made German-war-
measure societies necessary.
American statesmen and those of
our Allies, are unanimous in the con-
clusion that the only argument that
will avail with the Kaiser and his
high command under German autoc-
racy is cold steel we'll Delivered; and
only Americans, shoulder to shoulder
with our faithful Allied soldiers, can
impress this enforced rule of reason
eloquently and conclusively upon Ger
many; therefore. organizations which
speak to Germany, ever so sincerely
in German, or as of German blood
from America, will either not be
heard, or the Kaiser, through the
/ avenue of national or sentimental APP
. proach, or through Germany's too
well organized intrigue-army, will
rob them of the good they would do,
and could, as humble individuals, by
an unheralded invulnerable self
sacrifice, rather than through vuIner-
able world-procIaimed organizations
/ Individually proved, rather than
racially organized, loyalty, is the de-
mand Of the hour.
Patriotism. that individual sense of
principle which is dependable and
helpful to the world cause of univer-
sal freedom, must be demonstrated by
Germans and Americans of German
ancestry not so much by organiza-
lions with new, perchance patriotic
/ names, as by their voluntary disso-
! luton of all German inspired institu-
| tions in this country,-this "home of
the free",-by disorganization of
every "verein" all sanger bunds",
etc, all places that foster more or less
the German self-indulge1ce which is
inimical to civilizations great cause
of world-freedom.
By voluntary patriotic action, tend
ing to prove to the world American
unanimity and loyalty, whole hearted
Americans no longer German, either
by adoption or nativity, would do
themselves and their foster-land JUS
tice, while helping honestly to seal,
with their blood, a victory by Amer
lea and her Allies, which shall mean
not only justice to Germany and her
various dupes, but the greatest bless
ing to all mankind.
Democracy is not national. Ger
mans and their descendants in Amer
lea who are friends of democracy,
will in every way prove themselves
individually sound to the core, from
principle; and so, doing their best
toward proving the soundness of de-
mocracy in America, by American
deeds. not words, inviting the German
people to a democracy that shall be
more than German.
A humble German self-denial,
spurning the possible< pride lurking
! in German patriotic organizations,
/ will, by a righteous example, give to
| the German people what they just
! now have most need ola whole
| some respect for America, a leading
step on their part toward establish
ing a responsible government of their
| own.
The only organization in America
that is able safely and effectually to
! help Germany, is that purely Ameri-
can one,-the American government,
of which we should all be reliable
and active members; and this we'll
established American organization is
already speaking officially, to, and
for. Germany, through the growing
American army in Europe, in the lam
| guage which even the Kaiser, dead
as he is to every speck of manhood
or principle, will hear and under
stand.
JOSEPH G. MANN.