The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-08-22
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UyAM4u8 eWhE U4 U0s has
made this war not openly, bravery. or
humanely, but secretly, treacherously
and persistently. She has sought to
create race .discord, to corrupt and de-
He politicians and ohlceholders, and
10 create separate German communi-
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 endeaYor to corrupt
orr people through the very leaders
iuf morality To- whom they are aacc1s.
TONED to look for gpiqanca.
These may be startling assartiopa,
but they are all true, 40 you, shall see
frnm the documents OF the Germans
themselve& We all knew that II WAS
II German, deet. which stripped s1aP &C
tiuh when Dewey sailed, into Manila
1bay. We an knew 4 was the Germans
who sought. TO bring. about . European
alliance against IA when we were en-
1gaeed m the war WITH Spain. Fetwsof
B related, however, that all these
years Germany has been busy within
,dur own bofde9A through sditors,
teachers and spreacheia, seeking to
break down our national unity, 60 that
when the time came It would be- easy
to defeat the United States, In open
warfare, TO Get at naught our cherish-
led Monroe doctrine, and 10 seize, IN
the Western hemisphere, anything
That the land grabbing rulers OF the
German empire might desire.
The climax Of GermanyAs under
handed war on the United States came
In 1918, more than q year before the
Outbreak Of hostilities In Europe. This
wzs the enactment Of what Is known
rs the Delbruck law, which provides
THAT II an emigrant from Germany
who Is about to be naturalized makes
application to q German consul, he
may retain his German c~itizenship
even after he has become o citizen Of
his adopted country.
In plain. words, this law, and the ap.
plication Of 1t, mean Just this:
A German goes into court IN this
country and solemnly foreswears al.
Iegiance to the kaiser and pledges
his word-the temptation was 70 say
'aof honor"-that he win become y 10y,
al citizen Of the United States. Then
he slips around to the German consul
and sayss
'You know I didn't mean TINT, II
IN. Those Americans are easy marks
and they fell for that STUFF right on
But you just put me down IN your list
as q good, loyal German, and IL the
time ever comes when I can prove Il
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
man,-this creature who swears all
legience to the country which gives
him an opportunity to make a real liv
ing and to become somebody In thil
world, and at the same time sweara
secretly to be true to Germany-ia
turned loose to work his viii, while
Americans 90 carelessly about their
business and refuse to see the danger
IN the arrangement
Long before the passage OF the Del
bruck laN, there vas formed the We.
rein fur das Deutschtum i'm Ausland-
THE Union Tor Germanism In Foreign
Lands This organization. pficially
fostered In Germany, issued q quarter
II magazine, which, IN its very first -
rsuA, outlined Its aims as follows:
THE purpose o. this union p the
preservation and promotion ofp the
lGermanism at over 8O,OOO,O0O people
of German blood dwelling outside the
German empire" All It aims 70 do,
You see, IL to keep Germans who come
ITO this country from becoming Alier4-
lcans.
Away back II 1880 the Alldeutscher
,,,Yerband, or the Pan-Gernan league,
vas formed. II now consists Of 280
Chapters Of which two now are--or at
least we're Immediately before the war
lin the United States, one In New
York and nj In San Francisco. TO
quote from the Alldeutsche Batter, its
Official publication, athe Pan-German
lieague n founded for promoting Ger
man National interests. both IA Ger,
many and Ia foreign lands
q few thinking Americans knew
fan the time, what was coming--what
must come. But America, as q whole,
twent along In that carelessness and
indifference with, which II treats all
things unpleasant, and allowed this
German war on IN most sacred in4t-
tnttons to continue unchecked
So Germany stands today. with one
mot on PROSTATE Belgium and the 9TH
t4f on the neck of poor deluded Rms
ddaj with q bayonet planted Ia the
Ghsart Of Serbia, and the point sof its7
sword at the throat q Roumania.
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States o& Bulgaria and Turkey fo b
@a4and the Orient. And a. e stands
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IN font3
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Nlling1 Lets have 4 peace ~ negor.
Ntet1onr and, under I'll breatA add1,
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