Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-07-10
The Fourth of July--A Ger
man Born To German Born
Mayor William Harm of Bloomfield, In Dallas
Nebraska News
Nebraska News.


heart you wish Germany to win. Then
and in that case you should feel that
disgrace, for you would be party to
those crimes.
We have heard it said the German
people are free. They have a reich
stag and they elect members to the
reichstag. They do. There they talk
and sometimes vote. But If the gov
eminent wants to put through any
measure and the reichstag is opposed
to it, they are sent home and another
election is called. The chancellor has
said again and again, Il am not re-
sponsible to you. I am only respon-
sible to one and that Is my king"
If the prime minister of France or
England wants to put through meas
ure and fails to get the support of the
members of the house of deputies or
the house of parliament, he resigns
and another comes in his place, the
very opposite of Germany. Germany
has been and is now absolutely con-
trolled by the military staff, and every
decision pertaining to the empire is
made there and every member of the
reichstag knows this. That military
staff is not the kaiser, it is not
Hindenburg, it is not Ludendorff; all
three could disappear and still the mil
itary staff would stay. Those men are
only part Of that staff. This is what
we call an autOcratic government. We
here live in democracy. That means
that we, the people, rule. We hire our
president and he Is our servant.
I was born in Germany and lived
| there seventeen years, and / felt the
pangs of hunger many night / had
to make my own living ever since
was five years old and have felt the
German whip. And then one day let
| ter came from America, and that let
ter gave me hope. 1t said in part, 1--WE
have so many horses, we have SO
many cattle, and we have so many
hogs, and chickens, more than we can
count" Lo, we had not so much as
one chicken. Then we came, hungry
and naked l came and you came. And
the table was set Everything the
country has given us, everything. We
thought that we would come over to
get little more to eat, and, perhaps,
| in our old age to get little home OF
our own, but not one of us ever dream
ed that we would receive all these
blessings It has been said that we,
the German born citizens, made this
country, but I want to tell you that
God made this great country. We did
not bring the opportunities. We did
not bring the privileges and we did
not bring this great, good government.
They were all here, everyone OF them.
All we brought was two willing hands
to work and we did work. And we are
entitled to the fruit of our labor and
the American people and the govern
ment are glad that we are here They
are glad that we are doing well. We
| fled from tyranny and oppression, and
here we became kings and freemen.
There we had no opportunity. There
were classes and many of them. We
stayed in our own, class. We knew
our place and we knew there was no
hope. Here every door was opened
and the American people have helped
us. And now it comes to this, that
the friend who has been our friend
all these years needs friend. say
that the very foundation on which
this country is builded is shaken, and
it's very life is at stake. The very
privileges and opportunities and free
dom which we have enjoyed are in
peril, and that government from which
we fled is again reaching out its hand
to take them away from us. Now
what shall we do? Shall we bite the
hand that freed US? Shall we return
evil for good? No. We are going to be
true to this country. Every dollar that
have, this country has helped me
make, and every dollar they can have
| if they need it. If l give all and we
win this war. with the very opportuni-
ties and privileges and freedom that
we have, can go out tomorrow and
make it again. / know that when ev-
cry German born citizen knows that
this is a righteous war, he, too, will
offer all and everything. An angel
was sent from heaven to bring from
the earth the dearest thing it could
find, and it found flower, and it pick
ed the flower, and then it found the
smile of little child, and 1t plucked
the smile, and then at last, it/found a
mothers love and took it all to heaven.
When it returned to heaven it found
that the flower had wilted and the
smile of the child had faded away, but
the mothers love was still the same
unchanged And so we too, when we
came to Castle Garden, America, moth
er's love met us. We left our faith
er-land and here we found mother
land, for tenderly and lovingly she
gave us all and everything and is still
unchanged.
We hear it said, Peace, peace, .
when there is no peace. We hear it
said every day, II wish this war was
over" How can you make peace with
wild beast? How can you make
peace with serpents? How can you
treat with insane people? That wild
beast must first be tanned, and those
serpents must have their heads cut off.
You cannot make peace with that
bunch. Russia wanted peace and she
got peace to be swallowed up by Ger
many. She was not conquered alone
by German steel, by German intrigue,
German propaganda, not by German
might alone, but by German gold. She
was sold out by Lenine and Trotzky
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