The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-04-04
take off my hat to any man un-
less I want to and the men in this
country who are big meet me on
an enua1 fOntinp.

take on my hat to any man un-
less I want to and the men in this
country who are big meet me on
an equal footing. .... .aaS ~.
Instead of being poor laborer in
Germany am the manager of good
sound business institution here and
myself and my family are happy AND
reasonably prosperous. The Other
business men, no matter what theil
nationality or their line of business
treat me with respect and as an equaI
and my family enjoy the same socia,
advantages that theirs do.
When / look around me and see
what a lot of our German people there
are in this country who are worth
many times what they would have
been worth if they had stayed ir
Germany, and l think about these free
homesteads, that were given them
and of the free schools, and the right
we have to vote and be part of the
government, and when I think of al
the freedom we have here that We
didn't have there-and when I reaC
the papers and see what is going or
ocer there now and what would have
had to take part in if was over there
and not here, I ask my brother ane
sister Germans living here to con
slider all of this and if you havn't de-
cided fully to stand by America as {
true citizens should, that you do. s.
now and forever. -
Our plain duty lies in support
ing this government that is CIV
ing us homes and protecting us
and. our families. We must do
this not only by words but by ac-
tiOn as we'll. We must not be
German at heart and American on
the outside. We must not secret
ly rejoice when Germany wins a
battle. We must not stand with
one foot on each side of the line.
we must get clear over on the
We should be glad we are Free
Americans.N one will blame us
for being sorry for the stain that
has been put on honest German
blood by the Prussian military
power but ours won't be honest
blood unless we backe0p 0ur oath :
of allegiance of our sympathy ::
and love for our adopted country.
+ If we won't be honest about it
the nwe should 60 back and never
let it be said that Herman blood
is two faced.
We know that Germany is fighting
for conquest. We know that Americ.
stood out as long as it could befor,
going to war. We know that Ameri
cans have always fought for Libert!
for all the people and when we reat
how the United States is today fight
ing and spending large sums of none!
for the little down-trodden nations
that they too may be free and indie
pendent just as we are, who wants t.
go back?
Before the war our German citizens
, here were spoken Of with pride. W.
have been thrifty; we have been hon
est. We have worked hard and pros
pered. If we are loyal Americans w
can still hold up our heads and peopl
will still respect us. So let us stan'
up for this Government. It is nov
OUR government. If it needs ou
! time and money we must give just a.
other citizens give and maybe NOR
because we know better than other
do what this free country reall,
means to the common people.
Don't let us kick about high price
and because everything isn't done jus
as we want to see it done. The Gov
ernment is doing it's best. We hav
loved peace over here so much tina
it takes long time to prepare TO
war. If we save our money and los
this war what do we gain?
We mustn't be selfish. Our boys ar
at the front with those boys from
here of different blood. They ar
brothers in one cause. We must bacl
tkem up and though it hurts becaus
some of us are on the other side w
must be fair and keep the German
name on this side of the water fre
from the stain of guilt.
When someone argues that if
! we side in with America we are
fighting our own blood let us tell
them that fighting against its own
blood is what makes America the
land of the free today. Didn't
| the first settlers in the New Eng
land states fight their own blood
| when in the Revolutionary war
! they whipped England? And
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