The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-11
Other Mems Views
An Editorial THAT May or May Not Square
With The Views of The Forum
The London Daily Mail:

The London Daily Mail:
Why should q Hun living in Great Britain be
allowed TO make money out of q war which has
been forced upon us by his brother Huns in Ger
many?
This is a question which is being asked in
every Army canteen, in every barrack room, In
every military hospital 1t is being asked by
mothers and widows of the gallant dead It is
being asked by the wives and the children of the
men of so who have to answer the countrys call.
diers, and by the pals they have left behind in
the trenches. Why" they say, should the Hun
hold an advantage over the Briton?'
J. for one, don't know. What do know, and
what the army knows, is this: There are reput-
ed to be 5000 unnaturalized Germans at large
among us. Since the war broke out nearly 1870
enemy aliens have been given naturalization pa
pers. BY the terms of Sir Georges Caves Bill
these certificates are to be carefully reviewed,
Which means that some may be withdrawn and
some not
In the piping days of peace often wondered
over the mysteries at Messrs. Maskelyne and
Deyants, but never a mystery there mystified
me half so much as the mystery of the wartime
Hun in Great Britain. He laughs at our re-
verses. He sneers at wounded. He piles up
his money at the bank. He is found in govern
ment offices and in places higher STILL And we
meet him in protected areas. Why?
With consummate ease we have conscripted
millions of Britons for the army; with painful
difficulty we may conscript the Huns who are
ing with the attitude of the Bill, but why it
should be SO is-weI, a mystery.
We say to the Briton: You must join up,
your country needs YOU, We are at war with the
deyil'
we say to the Hun: IF you can furnish proof
that you are not disloyal to our king you can
carry your business.
The Briton joins up. The Hun goes to his
pacifist friends for the proof asked for
The Briton reduces expenses. His wife and
family leave their home and go into rooms The
Hun wakes fatter and fatter, because we are fools
enough to believe that when he left Germany he
left his love for the Kaiser as well.
The Briton comes home on leave and sees the
Hun, and he thinks and talks and curses and
goes back disheartened to job that demands
spirit and enthusiasm. His wife is pinching in
order to make ends meet; the family of the Hun
is happy and contented, If the Germans should
invade the Hun will explain that he would
have returned to the fatherland to fight but we
kept him back And il victory is with the Allies
the Hun will smile with the 8ictors in his shop
and curse them in his parlor. 1t is the Huns
way.
Six thousand Huns at large in Great Britain;
enjoying comparative freedom and growing rich
out or a war of their own making. Six thousand
spies Six thousand devotees of an ism that
makes war a god, that idolizes rapine that tor
pedoes hospital ships, tortures the wounded tears
up sacred treaties poisons wells, and transforms
fair lands Of peace into bowling hells of war six
thousand of them free
Yes. it is good to be Hun ia this Hun-ridden
country Of ours Ia war time