The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-07-26

and unscrupulously wronged. We
must set our faces like flint against
all foreign racial solidarity in this
country; We must treat the Hun with
in our gates as the worst traitor to
this Republic; and we must treat
agitation for a premature or incon-
elusive peace as treason to the Re-
public. The German spy, the alien
enemy here at home, and the even
fouler and more despicable native
American who serves the alien,
should be interned at hard labor or
if his office be rank he should be
buried. The surest way to stop the
activities of spies and plotters is to
shoot every one of them who is
caught in a fragrant ottense.
This is one side of Americanism.
The other and equally important side
is to insist that every man who
shows himself to be a 100 per cent
American, wholehearted and single
minded in his loyalty to this country,
no matter what his birthplace, nation.
al origin or creed, be treated as on
full and exact equality with every
other good American. The bulk of
American, citizens in whole or in
part of German blood (and ! am my
self in part of German blood) are
absolutely loyal. They have furnish
ed as large and as gallant a proper
tion of the fighting men of our army
and navy as any other element; and
of course it is the fighting men who
meet and furnish the highest test of
sound American citizenship at this
time Moreover, in civil life they
furnish their full proportion of the
/ leaders in the movement to insist
upon unified, an unqualified and an
undivided American loyalty to our
country. These men are fit to fill
every civil and military position in
this country, from the very highest
down. 1t is not only an outrage, but
it is deeply unpatriotic and un
American to discriminate against
them in any shape or way. We are
all Americans together and we must
neither permit any divided allegiance
in our citizenship, nor any attempt
TO divide our citizenship along lines
of old-world nationality, nor any at
tempt to discriminate between o.
against good Americans because o
their national origin
Americanism means that we are {
nation. But it is no use to be a ma
tion if the nation cannot defend Itself
if its sons cannot and will not figh
for its existence. The one task t,
which at this time we must all of u
devote all our energies is to viii
this war and to win it now. w
must speed up the war. We must In
sist upon absolute efficiency in ou
war activities. We must insist upo
a peace conditioned upon the con
plete overthrow of Germany an
: the removal Of all threats c
) German world dominion.
: We have across the seas
, most gallant American army. TIL
, do not thrill with pride as he read
( of the feats of our fighting men l
r France. Moreover, at last, we hav
' begun to send over enough soldiers [
. count for something real in tn
r struggle. We have begun to civ
( them some airplanes, AS yet the
{ only have what cannon we can g,
1 from the French, and we could G,
1 the army across at all only by I'll
/. lavish use of British ships. But W
S have seemingly made real start
n ship production and airplane produ
3 tion at home, and we actually hay
Y several hundred thousand soldiers I
/. the fighting front. We owe much
e this achievement to the work of I'll
I Senate Committee on Military A
n fairs; and we owe even more to IL
n success Of the German drive whiC
q began in March. At that time o,
) fighting army at the front was smal
). er than that Of Belgium anda Tin spi
r of its striking gallantry it 8puld n,
y (Coninued on page A.