The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-27
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1918
MADE IN GERMANY


+, Although we are at war with Germany, 5000
tons of toys, every piece bearing the words,
.'Made in Germany" have reached this country
and will be placed on the market for the Christ
mas holidays.
The explanation of this extraordinary importa-
ton lies in the fact that the toys were bought
and paid for before the United States declared
war on the Hun, and have been in storage in
Holland ever since the autumn of 1916.
After much elaboration by government Of
ficals in Washington it finally decided that,
since the toys were bought before this country
entered the war, the toys admissible for
importation.
1t is said that there are enough tin soldiers,
arks horses, wagons, dolls and other novelties
to stock many stores, but whether the importers
can persuade patriotic Americans that made in
Germany Christmas is a display of loyalty to
the United States remains to be seen.
The huge shipment arrived in New York on
board the steamship Nieum Amsterdam, of the
Holland-American line, which made the voyage
from Rotterdam under guaranty of safety by
the German government
Were it not that the arrival of the ship from
Holland carrying made in Germany toys for the
Christmas trade in America has been substanti-
ated by the leading newspapers of New York and
the Associated Press service it would al
most incredible.
The very suggestion that Americans should
buy anything that is or ever has been made by
the nation which sank the Lusitania, sending
innocent children to their doom, and which has
butchered little children in Belgium and de-
vastated France, is nothing less than treason.
A toy that bears the Made in Germany stamp,
put into the stocking of an American child, is
stained with the blood of Babes and the hand
that places it there is traitorous.
This is not war of hate, it is war for hu-
mainly. But it is war,-war against the most
brutal, the most vengeful, the most treachorous
people in the world.
What guarantee have the American people
against this insidious enemy when such thing
is possible? How can American homes be safe
if these toys are distributed broadcast through
out our country? Think of Made in Germany
toy soldier,-for an American child to play with!
Who can say but that these same toy soldiers,
and these gaily painted animals and the other
Made in Germany baubles may carry with them
not only the poison that the hate and craft of
Germany has engendered, but that real men
ace to the health of children may Turk there.
The nation that invented poisonous gas, that
has not hesitated to impale babes on bayonets,
or to kill innocent women, would not stop at
such a small thing as poisoning children whole
sale, through it's Made in Germany toys.
But however this may be, whether it is safe
to place these toys in American homes not,
it is the basest treason to do so. When the
American people have suffered as never before.
when men are dying by thousands on the fields
Of France, to avenge the death of those little
children who have died at the hands of the Huns,
is no time to place Made in Germany toys on an
American market.
If these toys are sold in this country 1t will be