South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-08-21

imply a sympathy continuing be
You'd that date, though TO many
minds this is either an impossible
+ paradox or symptom OF credul-
ity imposed upon by almost bare
4 faced hypocrisy. II is neither The
German-American oehoiding a war
between Germany and the allies.
sided with Germany He had NOT
/ been ahenated from Germany as
the rest of ms had been ahented
/ COY the revolutionary war; from
| England He saw merely a contest
| between foreign powers and sided
with that from which he spra ne
/ But when his own country came to
actual war with Germany the
/ German-American found himself 10
/ be an American. Nevertheless. 10
/ is hard for him 10 show his patriot
/ ism when we say 10 him Now.
YOU dirty German-American drop
! your tricks and and speak up Re
/ peat these words in a loud shout i
am an American and 1 love the
flag and IL you don't shout loud
enough Wen kick YOU and maybe
Wen kick YOU anyhow such in
struction does not seem quite
statesmanlike. or over-ChristianLke.
either
Margaret Deland, lately returned
from France. says that over there.
not long ago. q company of Ger
man prisoners, just captured. were
being sent back from the front
when they encountered an Ameri-
can regiment, largely from Wiscon-
sin. moving mp 20 the trenches.
Many of Wisconsin troops were of
German origin, some among them
indeed could hardly speak Eng
lish, and the prisoners We're aston
ished to be greeted ncisily and
garrulou~'v in their own tongue.
They VIC even more astonished at
the nature of the comments which
these strange Germans from Amer
.ca made upon them In fact the
episode was unamia bile Oaths in
the German tongue were frequent
and intensive. The German
speaking men Of The Wisconsin regi-
ment cursed the captured German
soldiers with an inhospitable frank
ness very shocking 10 the prisoners.
who had been passed i'm silence by
other American regiments and had
received cigarets from battalion
/ of English Words like DUNN
kopf' and "scheinhund- were en-
F ployed. with prophetic explosives;
and the general sense of what the
F Wisconsin men said TO their Ger
man cousins was as follows You
wash BANKED iackasses and idiots.
: we and our fathers left your old
+ Fatherland and went four thousand
miles. to live in a better place Now
we have 70 come am the way back.
four thousand miles again yet 20
f slaughter you. because YOU haven Z
got any more sense than TO believe
and obey that old pig dos of a
kaiser, Wen send Your kaiser and
princes 20 sheol. where they can't
+ do any more harm. and as for YOU.
( dunderheads. Won ought 20 be hang
cd for making us all this trouble OF
coming over here 10 teach YOU
some sense with our bayonets"'
The citizens once called German
Americans will work lUt their own
salvation if we do not make it too
hard for them What man can show
enthusiasm Tor anAShiug. when ne
lis threatened with punishment IL
ne is not enthusiastic LOYALTY IS "A
+ feeling: it is not spoken word.
f You cannot possibly produce a
beautiful feeling in any man bv
threatening him or prosecuting him
.et us not threaten al an. and let
MS prosecute only when we have
evidence lis 10 certain evidence that
"a man is Iova1 If he have son ir
the American armve No. There were
rebels I'M 80 who had sons In the
northern armies Is II certain evil
de7ce that man is dislovaI IN he
have = son IN the German army