Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-05-09
SHOULD BE STAMPED OUT

The last issue Of the Manufactur"
ers' Record, published in Baltimore
contains an editorial which states
facts in plain language and has the
right ring to it. The suggestions
made should be carried out TO the
letter in every city, town and hamlet
in the United States. It says:
German language papers, the teach
mo of German in public schools, the
singing in any school of German songs
should be vigorously suppressed.
The very thought of Germany and
of Germany's past and future musS
be made so odious and hateful to an
decent human beings that the WORD
German will for generations TO come
carry the meaning of all that IS VIE
and inhuman wherever heard. !,
The worlds civilization and the
STRENGTH of our moral forces demand
that all that is German IN name or
thoupht or deed must be regarded
frono the cradle to the grave as we
now think of lustful, british beasts,
of n7llrderers, of treacherous scoun-
drels. Of ali the vilest criminals VINO
have sunk to the lowest depth OF hu-
man rottenncss.
Not to think Of Germany IN TINS
wav would be 20 prove our own moral
Habbiness and our own, readiness 20
count as bosom friend the unre,
pentant outrager OF Womanncoa anu
the murderer of helpless infants.
The criminal, who standing by the
side Of the cradle murders IN CO..,
blood the helpless infant whom God
had sent to bless the earth, is not
more to be despised than Germany.
The lecherous scoundrel who betrays
and outrapes the innocent is not more
deeplv sunk in sin than Germany.
The murderer who, in order to en-
rich himself, kills the sleeping family
and burns the dwelling has as his
equals in foul depravity and devil
.nnided work millions and millions OF
Germans.
Germany the accursed is possessed
of the devil and by the devil, and Tor
its own financial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
murders, outrages, burns, starves,
bl;sters unto death with its hci!lire
and smothcrs with hell-devis@d deadly
gases millions of the very flower OF
our civilization.
Your boy and your neighbours boy
must stand between the women OF thls
land andthese british beasts-a!l be-
cause Germany for half century has
been training its armies ard teaching
its people to take whatever they want
ed wherever and whenever they had
the power, regardless of morality or
of right and wrong.
Therefore Germany must be MADE
odious to all the world, and no honest
hearted, pure-minded man or woman
should during the life of this genera
ton ever deal with pro-German, ever
buy or sell a German-made product,
ever associate with pro-German
Ostracism in business and in private
life should be the penalty of pro-
Germanism, and he who fails to pur-
sue this policy will show that ne re-
CARDS business or social ties more
highly than morality and honor, and
that he has no hatred OF murder or
lust or all the other vile crimes which
have brought to the world the great
est sorrow and anguish ever known.
Let the nation therefore move with
energy and answering determination
to crush the reptile propaganda which
has wormed its way into our nation
ard which now seeks to sink It's pols-
oaed venom into the breast that has
warmed it into life
Locate, eliminate and e,itermInate"
all that s prc-German in language, III
thought or in deed, wherever found
and under whatever guise.
We fight the most desperate, hell
devised power which humanity has
ever faced, and if we show mercy it
will be counted as weakness, and II
we should punish not the guilty with
ont any sentimental neurotic ideas OF
morality such as those of degenerate
women vino write scented notes to
murderers and bedeck the cells OF
rapiSts, we would cease to have any
individual or national morality.
War, accarsed war, war of murder,
IS being made against US, and we must
fight to live.
We must fight Germany and pro-
GermaniSm IL whatever form they ap-
pear and utterly destroy their power
for evil now in evidence throughout
our country. Our beloved boys from
"over there call US to heroic work
here TO stand behind them and de-
stroy those who are stabbinc them in
the back from vantage points in
America.