The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-23

WHEN OUR BOYS COME BACK "
Il FROM THE FRONT THEY WILL
BE AMERICANS, SAYS GERMAN
Dr. Carl Mathie Calls on Citizens of Teutonic
Descent to Be True to Trust That They May
a4s Not Be Ashamed to Face Sons on Return

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, disloyal Teachers, ministers and 9TH
err leaders must search their hearts
in these trying times to see if they
, are measuring up to their great mis-
sion as Americans.
Acid Test Of Loyalty.
do you know how you can ties:
your own loyalty. Here is the acid
test. If, when you read linden
burs's vain boast that he would be in
Paris April |, YOU felt in your heart
a thrill of racial pride. a glow of ey
ultation over that prophecy. then you
are not yet a good American. for be-
tween iindenburg and Paris tonight
there extends a line Of trenches pro-
tected by thousands and tens Of thou
sands of Americans boys, your boys
and my boys among them, over whose
dead bodies Hindenburg must go be-
fore he can reach Paris. for the Amer
lean boys know that they are fight
ing for Your liberty and mine and
that freedom and justice and demOc-
racy may be preserved TO our be-
loved America. and TO all pee de great
and small that breathe the air OF lib
erty"
The speaker then paid a glowing
tribute 10 President Wilson for his in
1uence in helping 10 keep hatred out
OF the passions OF war. for sharply
defining the issue as a fight for prin-
Ciple and not a fight between races:
q war not OF our own seeking, but one
forced upon US by military ma
chine bent upon domination of the
earth and LAYING is under tribute. .
We can divide Americans into .
three groups. those who were invited .
10 come here: those who came here
OF their own free will and those who .
came by the accident Of birth. The .
first are the negroes We. here to- ,
night or our fathers belong to the
second class. We came here because /
we wanted to and for that reason we
can not let our patriotism be any less |
complete. Nobody asked us TO come. /
but we were made welcome and it is .
in our hands TO see to it that no one .
regrets our coming during the more /
trying days of the war before us.
The German Good Name
think what good name the Ger
mans had in every part OF our coun- /
try four years ago. If now that good |
name is under suspicion whose fault
is it? Not heads Yes, zealots! Yes, !
the unthinking. Yes. military mas |
tiers of Germany?' Yes. All these in
part. But most fall on our, own reluct-
ance. We know that the overwhelm-
ing majority of our stock is loyal.
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that. We must overcome our own
reserve and become positively agrees
sively loyal, stirring up our own blood
to heroic sacrifice. What makes Ger
| many strong in this ware Three
things: Unity, efficiency and self.sac-
| ritice.
,"It would be a calamity if we did
not work for a unity at home greater
,uan tnat OF the Germans. ESPECIALLY
/ after the sacrifices made by the Ger
man bows in the Civil war to preserve
/ our union.
Must Exert Ourselves
1T would be pity now if we did
not exert ourselves each in his own
! work to do his best. to produce all he
/ can to make all the money he can so
/ that he can help the Red Cross, the
! Y. NJ G.. A., the Lutheran society and
the Salvation army and so that he
can help Uncle Sam by carrying lib
erty bonds.
/ This means sacrifice! But can we
lot sacrifice as much as our blood kin
! in Germany? Can we not do these
! things when our own boys are in
France, fighting for all that makes
life in America worth while? 1t is
| little enough to ask We are in the
season of lent. There can be no
! Easter day for us: no resurrection
day until the war is over and ! call
upon you to suffer for the sake of our
, beloved America: for the good of our
race that no racial hatred may black
en- our future days and for our be-
loved boys in the bloody fields Of
! France
! Der Tag for Us.
"Some day, the war will be over.
Some day most of our boys, not all. l
grieve to say, are coming back. They
are coming back Americans. Ameri-