Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-06-05
Why We -.ht Because Germany for Years Hst Been Making Secret, Preacher.
 cue War on Us
By CLARENCE l.. SPEED Secretary Of the War Committee. of the Union League Club of Chicago.

By (LAHhNCE l.. SPEED
 Secretary Of the War Committee. of the Union League Club of Chicago.
 One of the deep, underlying reasons not just a diplomatic pretext-why we are at war with Germany is that for a generation Germany has been making war on us. Germany has made this war not openly, bravely or humanely. but secretly, treacherously and persistently. She has sought to create race discord, to corrupt and de file politicians and otficeholders and to create separate German communi- ties within our | s5ers. She has poi soGed the min ed. I children in our schools In an endeavof to Intfke 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 endeav0r to corrupt our F-~people through the very leaders of morality to whom they are accus- toned to n9ok for guidance.
 These may be- startling. assertions, but they are all true, ass- you shall see from the documents of the GeyRians themselves We all knew that it was German fleet which stripped for &C., ton when Dewey sailed into Manila bay. We all knew 1t was the Germans who sought to bring about a European alliance against us when we were en- gagged in the war with Spain. Few Of ls relaxed, however, that all these years Germany has been busy within our own borders, through editors, teachers and preachers s, liking to break down our national unity sso that 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. eAsse
 The climax of Germany's under handed war on the United States cama in 1913, more than a year before the outbreak of hostilities in Europe. This ] was the enactment of what is known 1 as the Delbruck law, which provides l that if an emigrant from Germany who Is about to be naturalized makes application to a German consul, he l may retain his German citizenship even after he has become a citizen of his adopted country.
 Tn plain words, this law, and the ap. i 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 "of honor"-that he will become Toy. al citizen of the United States. Then he slips around to the German consul and says:
 "You know I didn't mean that. at all. Those Americans are easy marks, l and they fell for that stuff right off But you just put me down on your list as good, loyal German, and if the l time ever comes when l 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 man,-this creature who swears a1- legience 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 their business and refuse to see the danger In the arrangement.
 Long before the passage of the Del bruck law, there was formed the Ve- ! rein fur das Deutschtum i'm Ausland- the Union for Germanism in Foreign ] Lands. This organization, officially fostered in Germany, issued a quarter ly magazine, which, in Its very first is- sue, outlined Its aims as follows:
 "The purpose of this union is the preservation and promotion of the Germanism of over 30000.000 people of German blood dwelling outside the German empire." All 1t aims to do, you see, is to keep Germans who come to this country from becoming Ameri- | cans.
 Away back in 1890 the Alldeutscher Verband, or the Pan-German league Vas formed. It now consists of 26S chapters of which two now are-or at least were immediately before the war
 in the United States, one in New York and one In San Francisco. To quote from the Alldeutscfre Blatter, its official publication, "the Pan-German league Is founded for promoting Ger man National interests, both in Ger many and in foreign lands"
 A few thinking Americans knew all the time what was coming-what