The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-30
Why We Fight
Because Germany for Years Hes
Been Making Secret, Treaoher.
QUE War on Vi
BY CLARENCE l.. SPEED
Secretary of the Wal Committee OF the
Union League Club OF Chicago.

we are at war with Germany Is that
for a generation Germany has been
making war on US. Germany has
made this war not openly, bravely or
humanely, but secretly. treacherously
and persistently. She has sought to
create race discord. TO corrupt and de-
file politicians and oficeholders, and
to create separate German communi-
ties within our borders. She has poi.
soned the minds Of children in our
schools In an endeavor 20 make Ger
mans Of them instead of have them
grow up into loyal American citizens.
She has invaded the sacredness OF the
pulpit itself In an endeavor to corrupt
u people through the very leaders
Of morality to whom they are accus.
toned to look for guidance.
These may he startling assertions,
but they are all true, as you shall see
from the documents Of the Germans
themselves. We all knew that II was
a German fleet which stripped for nc.
ton when Dewey sailed into Manila
bay. We all knew II was the Germans
who sought 10 bring about a European
alliance against us when we were en-.
gagged in the war with Spain. Few OF
US RELAXED. however, that all these
years Germany has been busy within
our " borders. through editors,
teachers and preachers, seeking ia
break down our national unity, so that
when the time came II would be easy
20 defeat the United States In open
warfare. to set at naught our cherish.
ed Monroe doctrine, and to seize, In
the Western hemisphere. anything
that the 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 n year before the
outbreak Of hostilities In Europe. This
was the enactment OF what Is known
as the Delhruck law, which provides
that II an emigrant from Germany
who Is about TO be n~aturalized makei
application 10 n German consul. hi
may retain his German citizenship
ever after he has become a citizen o.
his adopted country.
In plain words, this law. and the ap
plication OF II, mean just this:
A German goes into court in thi,
country and solemnly soreswears al
l%egiance TO the kaiser and pledge,
his word-the temptation was to say
"of h~onor'-that he will become a 10y
nj citizen Of the United States. Thei
he slips around TO the German consul
and says:
You know I didn't mean that. a
all Those Americans ara aosy mn rko
and they fell for that stuff right of
But you Just put me down IN your lis
as a good, loyal German. and II tn,
time ever comes when I can prove II
you can count On me-"
So the German consul puts his nam,
down in the little card index OF which
the Germans are sc fond, and THU
man,-thls creature who swearS al
%leglence to the country which give.
him an opportunity TO make II real liv
ing ana to become somebody In thit
world, and ut the same time swear,
secretly TO be true 10 Germany-b
turned loose to work his will. Will,
Americans 20 carelessly about theiI
business and refuse TO see the danger
In the arrangement.
Long before the passage OF the Del
bruck law there was formed the We
rein fur das Deutschtum i'm Ausland-
the Union for Germanism in Forelgr
Lands. This organization, officially
fostered In Germany, issued a quarter
~ magazine. which, in It's very first Is
sue, outlined Its aims as follows:
1.-THE purpose OF this union is the
nrncnrrayinn nvA -rn,.ato. 49,.
Germanism Of over 30,O00,OOO people
Of German blood dwelling outside the
German empire" All Il aims to do.
you see, Is to keep Germans who come
TO this country from becoming Ameri.
cans
Away back in 1890 the Alldeutschel
Verband, or the Pan-German league,
~as formed. II now consists OF 26a
chapters OF which two now are-or at
least We're Immediately before the wal
in the United States, one In New
York and one In San Francisco. To
quote from the A~lldeutsche Batter, Its
official publication, "the Pnn-Gcrman
league Is founded for promoting Ger.
man National interests. both In Ger
many and In foreign lands"
A few thinking Americans knew
all the time what was coming-what
must come. But America, as a whole,
went along in that carelessness and
indifference with which II treats all
things unpleasant, and allowed this
German war on our most sacred insti.
tutlons 10 continue unchecked.
So Germany stands today, with one
foot on PROSTATE Belgium and the 9th.
er on the neck Of poor deluded RVS
STA with a bayonet planted In the
heart of Serbia, and the point Of its
sword at the throat OF Roumania,
while It looks out over the vassal
States Of Bulgaria and Turkey to In
dia and the Orient. And as II stands
thus, II cries to It's foes on the west.
ern front:
"kamerad! Why 90 on with all this
killingi Lets have a peace by nego-
t%iationf" and, under It's breath, adds.
"Tve got all wdnt for the present."
Can we talk of any peace until