Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1918-08-01

for a generation Germany has beer
making war On Us. Germany has
| made this war rot openly, bravely OF
humanely. but secretly. treachcrously
and pcrsistently. She has sought e
createrace Giscord, to corrupt and &c
/ file politicians and oGiccholders, and
to create separate German communal
ties within our borders. She has pol
soned the minds of children in our
schools in an endeavor TO make Ger
mans Of them instead Of have them
grow up into loyal American citizens
She has invaded tire sacredness- Of the
pulpit itself in IA endeavor to corrupt
our people through the very leaders
Of morality to whom they are accas-
toned to look for guidance.
These may be startling assertions,
but they are all true. as you shall see
from the documents of the Germans
themselves. We all knew that 1t was
a German feet which stripped for ac-
ton when Dewey sailed into Manila
bay. We all knew it was the Germans
who sought to bring about European
alliance against us when we were en-
gaged in the war with Spain. Few Of
US RELAXED, however, that all these
years Germany has been busy within
our own borders, through editors.
teachers and preachers. seeking to
break down our national unity, so that
when the time came it would be easy
to defeat the United States in open
warfare, to set at naught our cherish
ed Monroe doctrine, and to seize, in
the Western hemisphere, anything
thatSthe land grabbing rulers OF the
German empire might desire.
The climax of Germany's under
handed war on the United States came
in 1913, more than year before the
outbreak of hostilities in Europe. This
was the enactment Of what is known
as the Delbruci1 law, which provides
that If an emigrant from Germany
who is about to be naturaliZcd makes
application to a German consul, be
may retain hts German citizenship
even after he has become & citizen OF
his adopted country.
In plain words, this law, and tsle up
plication of 1t. mean just this:
A German goes into court in this
country and solemnly foreswears al
iegiance to the kaiser and pledges
bis word-zthe tempta ION was to say,
"of hOnor"-that he will become 10y
oil citizen of the United Stateg. YheE
he slips around to the German consul
end says:
"You know I didn't mean that, at /,
NIL. Those Americans axe easy marks,
and they fell for that stuff right of.
But you Just put me down on your lis4
as good loyal German, and if the /
time ever comes when I can prove 1t, .
you can count on me-"
SO the German consul puts his name
down In the little card index Of which
the Germans are so fond, and this
creature who suears al
leience TO the country which gives
him an opportunity to make real liv-
Ing and TO become somebCdy"in this
world, and at the same time swears
secretly to be trua to CcrnGny--is
turned loose to work his viii, while
Americans 80 carelessly about their
business and refuse to see the danger
n the arrangement
Long before the passage Of the Del
1ruck law, there was formed the We
Gin fur daa Doutscntrm i'm Auslard---
he Union for Cermanism in Foreign
lands. This organization, officially
ostcred IN Germany, issued a quarter
y magazine, which, in its very first is
ue, outlined its aims rs follows:
"rhe purpose Of this union is the =
and promotion of the
1crlaanism of over 30O00,OG0 people
e German blood dwelling outside the
German empire" All II aims to do, :
on soc, is 20 keep Germans who come :
o this country from becoming Ameri- !
ans. !
Away back in 1890 the Alldeutscher :
Ferband, or the Pan-German league, !.
,as formed. 1t now consists of 26S !.
hapters Of which two now are--or OF q
,ast were Immediately before the war !,
in the United States. one in New z
OTk hUu Uuc III odl rIuhNiSCOs ~ y
uote from the Alldcutsche Rlatter, its 4
ficlal publication, "the Pan-German :
'ague is founded for promoting Ger /.
ian National interests, both In Ger =
amy and in foreign lands" =
A few thinking Americans knew =
Il the time what was coming-what 9.
ust come. But America. as whole, .
ent along In that carelessncss and 4
difference with which it treats all
llngs unpledsar., and allowed this N
erman war on our most sacred insti-
Itions to continue unchecked. =
So Germany stands today with one y
ot on PROSTATE Belgium aud the 9th !
on the neck of poor deluded Rus. -
a; with bayonet planted In the !.
art of Serbia, and the point OF its Z
word at the throat Of Roumania Y
hle. II looks out over the yassal }
.ates Of Bulgaria and Turkey to In Il
a and the Orient. And MS II stands y
us, II cries to it's foes on the west
n front: =
"Kamcmd! Why 20 on with all this 2
lllngl Lets have a peace by nego-
,tion7" and, under its breath, adds,
We got oil I want FOR the present"
Hou toiL nf ppupn unttl =