The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-05-04
'HOCHING" DER KAISER

The Tribune made the statement two years ago, long be-
fore we entered the war, that there were German "citizens" OF
America participating in the government of this country VIM
would throw their hats in the air and cheer the kaiser II they
could see the imperial German flag floating from the capital
at Washington and the kaiser's Imperial Guard marching down
Pennsylvania avenue in the role of the conqueror. Please oD-
serve that the word citizen is %"coppered" with quota
ton marks while the word German goes straight"
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They are citizens only in the sense that they are enjoying
the hospitality and the privileges of al government erected In
spite of their kind and existing in spite of them and their lk.
They are in a home that was built to shelter the free. They
gained admittance by fraud; they asked a voice in the affairs
of that home and lied and periured themselves to obtain it;
every right of citizenship conferred upon them was obtained
by perjury, and the common penalty for perjury is the felon's
cell. They lied as felons when they pledged fealty to a gov
eminent of the people by the pople; they lied as felons when
they foreswore allegiance to government by "divine" right OF
a king backed by an army trained to obey. Every minute they
have lived in that home of the free they have lived a lie.
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Their moral status in that home has been that of the sneak
thief innocently sheltered as a favored guest, waiting his OPP
portunity to steal its most precious Jewels; or the arsonite Turk
ing to apply his torch for the destruction of the home and all it
contains, even the lives of those who have sheltered and pro-
tected him and shared their all with him. Their Americanism,
in spite of their pretensions and their oath of featy, is as
spurious as their sense of honor, and their honor is as spuri-
Gus as that of their king who claims divine sanction for the
bombardment of churches and hospitals; divine sanction for
the enslavement and debauchery of innocent maidens; divine
sanction for the mutilation of capives; divine sanction for the
atrocities of his partner the Turk; divine sanction for every
form of outrage that lust and passion and cruelty and the in
stincts of the robber have conceived since the first cave man
bludgeoned his neighbOr to get his %neighbor's cave and his wife.
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The Tribune was pleased yesterday to record the fact that
in Oakland the chief of police had put ten of these unmasked
champions of "kultur" into the chain gang along with other
and lesser criminals, after the supreme court of California had
confirmed his legal right to do it under the sentence the
court imposed. One was a prominent physician. They
had been toasting or "hoching" der kaiser, whom they had once
foresworn in order to gain a place in a civilization where the 2
sanctity of womanhood is respected and Its violation a crime;
where pillage and looting are punishable by death; where the
flag of the Red Cross protects; where the murder of women
and children at sea is neither celebrated in the public schools
nor exalted by pinning medals on the murderers breast; where
business suit or the laborer in his workman's garb as there is
for the sword-rattler in a kaisers uniform; where prisoners of
war are treated as humans protected by the laws of nations,
the laws of humanity and the rules of civilized war; where treat
les between nations are as sacred as contracts between indi-
viduals.
And it is now devouly to be hoped that when this scourge
OF war is over these ten lmpostors and all others OF their lk
will be sent back to the only country where their peculiar
brand of "kultur" is found. In the meantime this country
should as promptly as possible deprive them forever of every
right they have secured by perjury and false pretense and their
citizenship should be cancelled on grounds of fraud.
The German flag will never wave from the capitol at
Washington and the Imperial Guard will never march down
Pennsylvania avenue, but if by any chance of fate they should,
the "citizen" suspected of having a welcome for them in his
heart would be the last to see them. The American is patient
and long-suffering, but the carcass of this spurious type of cii-
zen would scarcely make good soap grease for the cleaning up
process that would precede the kaisers final triumph.
And just now a little service such as Oakland and other
cities and towns have prescribed may serve to recall to some
minds the pledges they gave under oath when they asked to be
admitted to membership in the American household.
A year ago the kaiser promised the pope that Rheims should
not be destroyed, and he carried out that pledge as faithfully as
any he has made.
Our Dutch friends are not exactly reconcned to their situa-
ton, but they must not forget there is a hereafter. If thew re-
fuse to sell us tin, we can find a way to get along without it,
but they might miss our wheat and meat greatly.
The all-highest now repudiates the battle which has been
lost. Just a few days ago he proclaimed it as "my battle" but