New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
LET Them Feel the Fist of
Our War Rights" Says
''KoInische Zeitung"
Calls u. S. Braggart
Belittles Military Efforts and
Warns We Must Pay for
"Unfriendly Acts"


German submarines on the American
coast made great sensation in the
German press. 1t was printed under
headings occupying the full width of
the front pages, and the sinking of
fifteen steamers and the temporary
duly featured.
The comments of the "Koelnische
Zeitung" were highly interesting and
significant. The editor took occa-
sion to concentrate into few par
agraphs as much venom as he was able
within that space to pour out upon all
things American. Here is what he
wrote:
There is scarcely one country on
earth with which we-in spite of an oc-
casional injustice in it's treatment of us
have so lived and so wished to live in
peace and friendship as the United
States.
Revelation 10 Germany
"When the war broke out America IS
very remarkable attitude, which we
venture to think did not even CORE
spond to its own interests, was sur
prlslng revelation to US, which, how
ever, we had to put up with. To do this
the United States helped us with all its
power, for the feelings which Wilson S
policy neces sarily called forth among
us can be briefly characterized as
nausea at such extraordinary hypocrisy
and embitterment at such baseness as
we were experiencing from America.
For the policy of the United States
Wilson Is, of course, responsible to an
extent far beyond anybody else, Just as
he is for the present mental attitude in
the United States, which one may more
appropriately characterize as a mental
disease, as form of rabies.
Holds People Guilty
And yet not he alone. Even
gulltier than he are the business cir
cles whose interests he is caring for.
AAd the American people also are
guilty; those who strut and vaunt
themselves as free as 'democrstic. as
mastery and modern like no other peo-
pie, and as 'humane'-oh. prodigiously
humane They did not find the cour-
age or the means to hold in check their
errant President and to carry into eff
feet their popular WILL which was orig
lnally against going to war. as would
nave been proper for free and dem
ocratlc' people; nor did they find WAYS
and means to prevent England's hunger
war against great states and their en-
tire opulation-including the sick and
weak, women and children and the
poorest of the poor-though such a war
was contrary to international law and
humanity. On the contrary, they glory
in beng one of its organizers, lust as
they have never been able to suppress
or wanted to suppress their hearty do
hght 'n negro batting, in lynch Justice
IN the tarring and featherine of men Of
education and intellectual and moral
eminencc.
Belittles United States Aid
If we consider, in addition to all this
!he corruption Of their public life as
IL manHests itself in election cam
palgns and in freakish sensationa-
trials to such q degree that one is dis.
posed to doubt whether we are dealing
with realities or with a very. very evil
cream, we get a real picture of peo-
pie who, in spite OF all their material
wealth, stand in the presence Of real
culture, civilization and morality as a
mere upstart-and we know what he is
worth. This parvenu, moreover, is also
one of the greatest Tartuffes (im-
postors), is hraggadocio, a big talker
who would overwhem us with figures
whereas his achievements at the front
are only very modest in comparison
with his prodigious boasting- achieve.
ments which We do not need more pre-
clsely to characterize, inasmuch ne
there are already enough English and
French opinions at hand that sneal,
for themselves.
The America at the front already
knows US; it is imperatively necessary
that the people in the homeland of the
Yankees also learn to know and appre-
ciate US to some extent
Warns of Reckoning
"They shall pay for the unfriendlv
acts meted out to US, one after ths
other, by their political leaders even
before the entrance of the United
States into the war; they shall pav for
the American help that was given even
then to our enemies in richest meas
ure; they shall pay for the flood of in
suits that America poured out and is
still pouring out against us and for
throwing all the military power of VII
sons people and country into the scales
against US.
1T is, therefore. no more than RIGHT
and reasonable that we also at once
make use of our military resources and
show these humanitarians in their own
homeland what war looks like and what
war means.
Fora long time already our U-boats
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