Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09
QUERIES
(From Marshfeld Herald)

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fact nevertheless. Now | am on the
market for more wisdom-and a little
! first hand information on the following
queries would ease my mind consider
ably, and also add to the store of
| knowledge I already possess.
What's wrong with this country?
Would you rather live in Germany
than in the United States?
Would you prefere to raise your chill
dren in Germany or in the United
States?
Are you better off financially now
than your folks ever were in Ger
many?
How much mazuma did you possess
when you landed here?
Was not the first glimpse you got
of the skyline in New York the grand
est and most welcome sight you ever
beheld?
Have you ever been very homesick
since you quit Kaiserdom?
How often?
Could you possibly be induced to
return to the old treadmill?
Did you leave Germany because you
loved its form of government and its
treatment in general of it's people?
You came here with an honest heart
and willing hands, your capital was
your brawny arms; you got down to
business in the most glorious spot on
Gods green earth, made good; now
you have a competence; when are you
going back to beloved Germany?
You have been helping to make laws
in this country, many of you have
held public offices of trust. How much
political influence did you have in your
beloved Germany?
What did you do with the first mon
ey you earned here? Wasn't it sent
home administration to ship Brother
Fritz to America on the first boat
pointed this way?
After his arrival here didn't both Of
you soon accumulate enough money
to get the rest over? Why is it you
wanted to come to a country four
thousand miles from where you were
born, where every face would be
strange, where a language was spoken
that you could not speak nor under
stand, where you would land with lit
tie money, in preference to remaining
with loved ones at home, and enjoying
the highly agreeable autocratic rule
of beloved Germany?
Why?
If you do not love this country and
its institutions are you not migrate
full? AS long as you are on the square
in this country you're as big man
as President Wilson, aren't you?
Why is it that you don't appreciate
Uncle Sans kindness to you by buy
ing a Liberty Bond, or doing some
thing to please the kind old gent in
return?
If you are too tight-skinned, unpa-
triotic, selfish and ungrateful to help
Uncle Sam whip the greatest pirate in
existence, if you stall on giving finan-
cial aid; for Gods sake give him your
moral suport-that means "shut up"
Amt you afraid that lightning, or
something else, or someone will strike
you when your tongue and comon
sense get separated?
Does this country treat you better
or worse?
What did beloved Germany ever do
for you that benefited you?
Would you trade your east eighty
for a like area in peace loving Ger
many?
Does your check book bear the stamp
made in Germany"
If you are not with our president
and our country today, you must be
against them; isn't that so?
If you are against them you are a
traitor, and you know what a traitor
deserves, don't you?
Of course you do; and any man
breathing the pure free air of oul
country, getting the benefits of its
great institutions for betterment, and
blest with success among its peace
loving people, who does not stand fair
ly and staunchly by it today, shoule
get what a traitor so richly deserves
A straight, and honest answer t
the foregoing qureies, by the enemie:
Iresiding in this country, will be greatly
appreciated by the writer, and nt
doubt by the loyal citizens at large
And as | stated in the beginning, i
will add greatly to our present stors
of knowledge.
Yours truly,
OLD LOYALTY.