The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-03

side the pale of the military circle. to
make a home where one man stands
the equal of every other man so long
as he obeys the law and lives q re-
spectacle life.
That the same reasons that induced
our German friend to shake the dust
Of Germany off his feet and cast his
lot with America influenced thousands
of his countrymen to seek home in
America there can be no question,
and where they have become amalga-
mated and as one with the native
horns they do not hesitate to say so.
They left behind the ties of kindred,
smothered the natural love Of coun-
try, turned their backs upon old ideas.
ideals and traditions inculcated from
childhood to begin a new life in new
land where the chances of success are
not restricted to the few, severing
allegiance to the old to swear allegi-
ence to a new form of government, and
in almost every single instance pros
pering In the land Of their adoption
as prosperity was never possible in
the land from which they departed.
These Germans have seen their chill
dren grow up enjoying advantages
that were impossible for themselves
to attain in their native country unless
born in the purple. To them and their
offsprings are open offices and posi-
4. tons Of responsibility. trust and high
/ al ,aln mt in,
] the foreigner has an advantage over
/ the native born. as he is granted the
| right Of suffrage after few years
residence, while the native born must
round out a full twenty lone years be-
fore being permitted to exercise that
| privilege.
One would suppose that under such
beneficent government, where the
German stands on an equality with
the native born in the matter of TAX.
ing up free land after declaring his in
tentions: where he has the right to
mine. to Craze stock on the public DO
main. in fact to exercise every right
granted to a native; where success in
every avenue in life is attainable
through effort, with the avenues open
to him and no one to say him nay;
where he stands upon the same level
enjoying the same privileges and OPP
portunities, as the native born, at a
time like this, when the ferocity of the
ruling classes-a class they sought
the shores of America to escape
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against Germany. every naturalized
! German in America would stand as
true to the land Of their adoption
would be outspoken, earnest and sin.
cere in their loyalty to the country
! Of their choice as the German-borr
naturalized citizen whom We have lie.
ferred to above. But unfortunately
this is not the case. While a grea,
preponderance of German-born citi.
zens, or native born citizens of Ger.
man parentage, stand true to the flae
and the government, there are still
many Of them tainted with the virus
Of disloyalty, who still sympathizt
with the kaiser and his myrmidons
showing that at heart they have moth.
ing in common with a democratic
form of government, have failed te
fuse In the great melting pot. and
would prefer to obsequiously struggle
along under the humiliating oppres.
sion Of military rule.
Government officials should keep q
careful record Of all Germans who
have in any manner expressed sym.
pathy for Germany during the war
and when the war finally ends, as /,
must end some day. see to it thai
those Germans are forced to return
to the land for which they entertain q
greater love than for sthe land they
sought OF their own volition, and thai
they take no more away than they
brought with them.