The Pascagoula chronicle., 1918-07-06
Why We Fight
Because Germany for Years Has
Been Making Secret, Preacher.
Gus War on Us
BY CLARENCE L. SPEED
Secretary of the War Committee Of the
Union League Club OF Chicago

mot Just a diplomatic pretext-why
we are at war with Germany is that
for generation Germany has been
making war on us. Germany has
made this war not openly bravely OIL
humanely, but secretly trcacherously
and perSlstently. She has sought ia
create race dlscord to corrupt and de-
file politicians and ofIiceholders, and
to create separate German commune
ties within our borders. She has poi
sOned the minds of children In our
schools in an endeavor to make Ger
mans of them instead Of have them
grow up into loyal American citizens.
She has invaded the sacredness of the
pulpit itself in an endeavor to corrupt
our people through the very leaders
Of morality to whom they are accus.
toned to look for guidance.
These may be startling assertions,
but they are all true, as you shall see
from the documents of the Germans
themselves. We all knew that it was
a German fleet which stripped for ac-
ton when Dewey sailed into Manila
bay. We all knew it was the Germans
alliance against us when we We're en-
gagged in the war with Spain. Few of
us RELAXED, however, that all these
years Germany has been busy within
our own borders, through editors,
teachers and preachers seeking to
{hn{
when the time came it would be easy
to defeat the United States in open
warfare. to set at naught our cherish.
ed Monroe doctrine, and to seize, in
the Western hemisphere, anything
that the land grabbing rulers of the
German empire might desire.
The climax Of Germany's under.
handed war on the United States came
in 1913, more than year before the
outbreak Of hostilites in Europe. This
was the enactment of what is known
as the Delbruck law, which provides |
that If an emigvant from Germany
who is about to be naturalized makes |
application to a German consul, he |
may retain his German citizenship
even after he has become a citizen OF
his adopted country.
In plain words, this law, and the ap
plication of it, mean just this:
A German goes into court In this
country and solemnly foreswears al
legiance TO the kaiser and pledges
his word-the temptation was to say
nf bpt he ,,ri1I
al citizen of the United States. Their
he slips around to the German consul
and says:
"You know ! didn't mean that, a
all Those Americans are easy marks
and they fell for that stuff right off
But you just put me down on your lis,
as a good, loyal German, and if the
time ever comes when / can prove it
you can count on me-"
So the German consul puts his name
down in the little card index of which
the Germans are so fond, and this
creature who swears al
legence to the country which gives
him an opportunity to make real liv
ing and to become somebody in this
world, and at the same time swears
secretly to be true to Germany-is
turned loose to work his will, while
Americans go carelessly about theil
dsiness and refuse to see the danger
n the arrangement
Long before the passage of the Del.
,ruck law, there was formed the We.
ein fur das Deutschtum i'm Ausland-
he Union for Germanism in Foreign
.ands. This organization, officially
ostered in Germany. issued quarter.
Y magazine, which, in its very first is.
ne, outlined Its aims as follows:
THE purpose of this union is the
reservation and promotion of the
of over 3O,0000OO people
German blood dwelling outside the
ierman empire" All ii aims to do,
on SCI. Is TO keep Germans who come
this country from becoming 7a tiffts'i'
ms.
Away back In 1890 the Aldeutscher
erband, or the Pan-German league
as formed. Ii now consists of 268
lapters Of which two now are-or at &
asst were Immediately before the war b
in the United States, one in New
1rk and one in San Francisco. To
tote from the Alldeutsche Batter. its
fetal publication. ''the Pan-German :
lgue is founded for promoting Ger
m National interests, both in Ger
my and In foreign lands" b
A f.
the time what was comng-what
list come. But America, as whole,
mt along In that carelessness and
Inference with which it treats all
nes unpleasant and allowed this
rman war on our most sacred insti-
ions to continue unchecked. u
So Germany stands today. with one
It on PROSTATE Belgium and the 9TH
on the neck of poor deluded Rus
/; with bayonet planted in the
lrt of Serbia, and the point of its
ord at the throat of Roumania,
lie 1t looks out over the vassal r
ties of Bulgaria and Turkey to In
and the Orient. And as it stands
IS, 1t cries to Its foes on the west
front:
Kamerad! Why go on with all this
ing? Lets have a peace by nego-
ion?" and, under its breath. adds, cet
re got all 1 want for the present." col
an we talk of any peace until we
h Germany is absolutely defeat nu
Shall we negotiate a peace and DIR,
w all these German preparations nh,
world domination to go on until chi
time is ripe for Germany to COM an,
e its conquests? wo
u,cc nos