New-York tribune., 1918-07-23
Hearst's German
Record Stirs PARTY

~ have the great pleasure in max
ing with you this little pilgrimage to
the Germanic Museum at Harvard.
| have the pleasure Of your company
and share the satisfaction of being
able to express in my small way, as
one American citizen, appreciation of
this generous gift, appreciation of
the German Kaiser to the American
rrs,p.n
"'This evidence of friendship is of
the. greatest significance, and meets
with hearty and heartfelt response
from all American citizens. regard
less of party or section. OF all tho
nations of the earth there are no
two that have greater reason for
friendship, for mutual regard and re-
spect than America and Germany.
Owes Much to Germany
"This country owes much to Ger
many, which it does not hesitate to
gracefully acknowledge.
"In our struggle for indepen
dence no friend of the American
cause did more to aid than Steuben.
he introduced in our armies some
thing of the discipline, the system,
the organization, which have carried
the eagles of Frederick the Great to
victory everywhere.
"In the growth and development
and upbuilding of this country the
Germans have always played lead
ing part; but if there were no influ-
ences from the past, no other reasons
than those that exist to-day, the fact
that so many of our brothers in citi-
zenship are of German descent
would make it absolutely necessary
that Germany and the United States
should proceed forever in harmony
and friendship.
"'We know the Germans from our
nations history which we read as
children, we know the Germans from
the annals of our nations growth to
greatness, we know the Germans as
our fellow citizens, and, knowing
them and honoring them, we eagerly
stretch forth our hands across the
sea to grasp their hands held forth
in fellowship.
"'Great nations have great heroes,
and the wisest guidance for peo-
ple's course is found in following
the precepts and examples which
those heroes leave US.
Washington and Frederick the Great
"'In all history there are no men
more worthy Of q nations honor,
more fitted through genius and pa
triotism to direct n nations destiny,
than George Washington and Fred
erick the Great.
"'Those men were friends.
Frederick the Great called Wash
ington the greatest general of his
age, and only Frederick the Great
could afford to pay so graceful a
compliment, for that was a title that
he himself had won and worn with
out dispute or doubt or question.
My friends. let US follow tu-
day and forever the examples so
we'll set by the two great heroes of
two great nations, and let US proceed
as nearly as may be on the lines laid
down in the first treaty between the
two nations, which agrees "That
there shall be firm, inviolable and
universal peace between the King of
Prussia, his heirs, successors and
subjects on the one part, and the
United States of America, without
exception of persons or places"
"1 1t seems to me that all American
citizens should stand now as ready,
now and always, to carry out that
clause of that treaty as they we're on
the day on which it was written.
Praises Kaiser Wilhelm,
''I am heartily in favor of the most
close and cordial relations between
Germany and the United States, and
enthusiastic in support of all mea-
sures that will promote such rela-
tions.
al am particularly happy to be
able to unite with you on this occa-
sion in expressing the qualification
We all feel at the generous and
friendly act of Kaiser Wilhelm of
Germany.
"'And my friends, give to you a
toast:
"'Here is to George Washington
and Frederick the Great.
"'Here is to the Kaiser of Germany
and the President Of the United
States.
"'Here is to the people of Ger
many and the people OF the United
States.
"Rulers come and go. but the peo-
pie abide.
"'May these two great peoples
ever be friends, and may they ever
have rulers wise enough to express
in their acts the friendship which
the people. feel in their hearts,"
Though the junket to Cambridge an
W now OSSiA HA6AAy SuCCcSS1u u
there is no record of success for tn
other Hearst project-the sending 0
German-American committee to Be1
lin.
Refused Hearst Offer
The anti-nearst delegates who ar
following this matter up take grea
pleasure in the discovery, made throug
prominent members of the alliance
that COMMUNICATIONS felt it unwis.
even in 1907, to accept Hearst's tinan
clal aid for such u propaganda projec
Followlng the convention, Hearst wa
officially informed that while the ALI
ance greatly appreciated his warm in
terest in the cultivating of an under
standing of German ideals in Americs
IT would prefer to wait until it coul
hnance the business itself.
One of The principal witnesses a
the Congressional hearing on the prc
German activities of the alliance wa
| Theodore Sutro, for some time presj
dent and editor of Hearst's "Dcutsche
Journal" The record of the hearin
mentions DR.. c. j. Hexamer's "hie
tribute" to Mr.. Sutro as his "dea
friend and brother in arms"
AT the hearing Sutro was asked t
explain the presence of the alliance
convention at Utica in 1915 of bar
ner extending across the stage. bea]
ing the motto in German: