New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Observation-Disclosures and pro-

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fundity'
This is one of the officially enunci-
ated aims of the National German
American Alliance, the organization
whio;, in 1915 sought to hamstrng the
Allies by procuring an embargo on
American exports of war material
fought President Wilson's election a
year later and is now under fire in
United States Senate sub committed
which will resume hearings tomorrow
on Senator Kings bill to revoke it's
charter.
Gustavus ohlineer, Toledo lawyer
testified that the purpose of the ALI
ance was to carry on in the United
States subtle propaganda like that
which made Austria practically a sub
ject nation of cultured Kaiserism.
After Mr.. Ohlinger completes his ties.
Wilmington, Del, present head Of the
alliance, and Adolf Timm, of Philadel
phia, who has been its secretary
throughout the war period, will be
called to show cause, if they can, why
the charter should not be revoked.
What they will have to face and ex
plain, or supply alibis for, are asser-
tons like these. taken from "Mitteilun-
gen." the official journal of the or
SdHlZaClOn.
"Blessed be the sword and the help
ing hand for the Fatherland."
american textbooks of history must
be revised the cultural achieve
ments of the Germans must
be added'
"Come save our Fatherland, German
Victory Enemies tremble Wait, you
will get a taste of German victory"
These quotations are from two issues
of the journal, for February and March,
1915, which TEEN with the chronicles of
the organizations activities at that
time to force Congress to enact an
arms embargo in favor of Germany and
which contain attacks on "well- to do
German Americans" who have failed to
demonstrate their patriotism no to the
United States, but to Germany by con-
tributing to the Kaiser's war chest.
In one of the same issues, Bismarck.
the man who wrested Alsace-Lorraine
from France, and has been described as
the reincarnated Satan who sowed the
seeds of the present war, is cxtolled
ton and Lincoln as the "ablest, wisest,
most human statesman of I'll the ages"
Written by American
This eulogy of the builder Of the
present empire Of Prussianism is from
the pen of George Nordlinger, an Amer
lean by birth, but "for many years a
member of the National German-Amer-
lean Alliance"
Speaking of the proposed celebration
of Bismarck's centenary, which the
Throughout German America" Mr..
Nordlinger declared, call pro-Germans
will have an opportunity to manifest
their sentiments"
"And no public authority may dare"
he added, "to injure the mpressiveness
and dignity of such celebration. They
must concede our right Of doing honor
OF the mental heroes of German kultur.
On with futterlng aags!"
The declaration of the alliances pur-
pose to open America to the victorious
march of German ideas of liberty and
justice was made in report rendered
by Henry Weismann, then president
of the German-American Alliance
brance, Of Brooklyn, on the duty of
German Americans to speed kultur.
Mr.. Weismann wrote:
"The immense culture work which is
being done in Europe amid the thunder
the United States too. Shall America
be opened to the victorious march of
German character? Shall German hon
esty, ightfarwardncss and pro-
fundity; German ideas of liberty and
justice supplant vanishing English in
1uence also in this country? Such
aims will be our great historical duty
to kultur.
"Ths great epoch" he further wrote.
must not be allowed to pass without
seeing that American democ-
racy is fortified by adopting German
customs, German ideas of duty and JUS
tice."
German colonial policies which de-
veloped the horrible atrocities suffered
by the natives of Africa under Teuton
rule prior to 1914 is characterized by
"Mitteilungen' as one of the acts of
humanity which must be added, with
other achievements of Kultur, to re-
vlsed American historical textbooks.