Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-02-07

country which affirms in the Declare
tion of Independe ice: I'VE would old
these n hs to be self-evident that all
men are porn equal.
"It is this chance of equal oppor
tunity because OF affirmed equ=l birth
that draws not only the German. but
people of other nations TO these shores
"Another eason is, or has been. his
revolt against enforced and despotic
militarism of Prussianism on the other
side. Transplanted into a new soil.
adopted by new people-one with
citizenship an klnship of ambition
and willingness TO WORK to attain sue
cess it would be unnatural for a man
or woman to throw overheard, as bal
last, the memories of The Fatherland.
or feeling of attachment for it No
person Of whatever nationality would
or could respect such transplanted
migrate. True patriotism, a readiness
TO defend right against wrong, has
always been the attitude OF the just
minded American citizen born in Ger
many, as history disClOses. America
has harbered dreams of becoming the
country to bring TO other countries
state of lasting peace: but behind this
dream has lain the determination to
fight TO the fin. sn against wrongs i'm
posed on humanity. This time is here!
''It seems a cruel fatalism that, en-
quilted in war with Germany, the
American citizen, bern in Germany,
united with the interests of this coun
try. yet turn asunder as was the North.
erner aud Scutherner in the Civil War,
brother Oft against brother, must take
up arms against those of the country
of his birth.
"We say that blood is thicker than
water, but we are also convinced that
right must prevail over kinship when
point in the world S history is
reached where no one people, no one
nation shall act upon the time worn
adage, all is fair in love and war. HUI
manitarianism steps in to check such
an antiquated acceptance.
WAR is, and war, for one reason or
another, fear, always will be. Nature
itself is at war for the reconstruction
and good of tile Cosmos Death turks
in renewal To live and to die for the
cause of justice IS the question that
confronts the American citizen of
today, born in Germany, and he will
and must enter the ranks to fight
against the method of warfare invented
and practiced by the German Govern
ment, the like of which has never, in
the anneis of history, been employed
by any people, let alone a nation pro-
Tossing the Christian religion.
"Born with a sense of justice to
which my community will tie 5tify, it
is difficult for me to believe that brutal
acts. immoral conduct. cruel force are
perpetrated only by the Germans. It is
conceded that war through it's democrat
izing lust of destruction is apt, tent
porarily, to make beasts out of some
men But this unfortunate allowance
for spontaneous acts of cruelty is only
one side of war conditions and more's
tue pity. When nation stoops to con-
quer by means of its highly developed
intellect, invents and applies scientific
methods OF slaughter, does not spare
innocent women and childreI on its
road of demoniacal devastation, as we
are told by eye-witnesses from these
slaughter fields, it behooves every citi-
zen of whatever nationality, every
man. woman and child receiving the
protection of this country, to gre time,
work and life, if Iced be. for defense
against such a cruel, arbitrary stand
ard of warfare.
Because of the binding hatred
caused by the barbaric methods intro
duced and pursued by the German
Government, the other nations lose
sight of all that the Germans, as
nation, have. stood for to the world at
large in times of peace.
"Those who know it all, know their
Intellectual endowmepts, literary a.
chievements, their place as musicians,
as world educators, as artists, as scien-
fists, etc., and are just enough to ac.
knowledge 1t. But, to use such talents.
such intellect, such versatility 60 over
power right by might is an attitude
that must arouse righteous Indignation
in anyone Of whatever nationality who
is endowned with sp .rit Of justice