The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-02-07
SATAN Tempted;
GERMANY FELL
NOTED BANKER TELLS HOW
PRUSsIANS TURNED THE
EARTH TO RUIN.
GERMANS HERE LOYAL

Otto H. Kahn, directing member Of
the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., n of
the two argest international banking
houses in New York, was unable to
appear at the dinner planned for him
last Saturday night by the Chicago
bankers club.
The address, however, which MI.
Kahn had prepared for delivery has
been made available to the members.
MI. Kahn was born in Germany, but
of the present Prusssian rulers he
says:
"Upon them rests the blood guilt
for this dreadful catastrophe which
has befallen the world"
The appended extract from Mr..
Kahn's address, dealing with the at
titude and duty of the American citi-
zen of German descent.
His View Is Stated
"Until the outbreak of the war, in
1914" Nh. Kahn says, II maintained
cose and active personal and business
relations with Germany. L was we'll
acquainted with some of the. leading
personages of the country. I served
in the German army thirty years ago.
I took and active interest in further
ing German art in America.
"I do not apologize for, nor am
ashamed of my German birth. But
am ashmed-bitterly and grievously
ashamed-of. the Germany which
stands convicted before the highest
tribunal of the worlds public opinion
of having planned and willed war; Of
the revolving deeds committed in Bel.
GUM and Northern France; of the in.
fanny Of the Lusitania murders; OF
innumerable violations of the Hague
convention and the law of nations; OF
the abominable and p%erfidious plotting
in friendly countries and shameless
abuse Of their hospitality; of crime
heaped upon crime, in defiance of the
laws Of God and Man.
II cherish the memories of my
youth, but these very memories make
me cry out in pain ad wrath against
those who have befouled the spiritua
soil of the old Germany in which they
were rooted.
Honor For the Loyal.
There is abundant evidence that tn.
overwhelming majority of Aem1ican:
of German descent meant what the!
said when they swore sole and full al
legiance to America. They will no
permit the blood in their veins t,
drown the conscience in their breast
They will heed the call of honor be
yond the call of race. They will wea,
as a badge of honor, as I do, the abus,
and spite of those few in this countr!
who love Germany better than the!
love America. n.y. s
IT believe we should speak out, be
cause our voices will reach the ca:
and the conscience of the German PEG
pie when no other voices can, becaus'
they will reach the ear of it's rulers
The east, I know, counted upon tn
moral if not the actual support of tn
German born American, and to the ex
tent at least of preventing our join
ing in the war; and now, when W
have Joined, they count upon that sup
port to agitate for any and unrighte
GUS space. g.. .
N.Y.. Germany Has Altered.
There are some of you, probably
who will still find it hard to believ'
that the Germany you know can b.
guilty of the crimes which have mad
itNsan outlaw among nations. But d,
ySSp know modern Germany I? Unles
ygn have been there within the las
twenty-five years, not once or twice
but at regular intervals; unless 70,
have looked below the g~littering sur
face Of the marvellous material pro
cess of achievement, and seen how tn
soul of Germany has been eaten ava!
by the virile poison of P%russianism,
unless you have watched and followed
the appalling transformation Of Ger
man mentality and morality under tn,
nefarious and puissant influence Of tn
priesthood of poWer Worship. YOU a,
not know the Germany of today an,
generation.
ut is not the German of old, tn
land Of our affectionate remembrance
i is not the. Germany which men nov
in middle age or over knew in thei
youth. It Is not the Germany Of tn
first Emperor William, a modest an
God fearing gentleman. It is not tn