The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-04
TWO GERMANYS;
ONE INT0LERABLE
(From the Oregonian)

Americans of German origin, espe-
cially those in Wisconsin who are to
take part in the election of a senator.
are not asked to turn against the
country OF their birth or origin by
helping their adopted country in war
upon il. They are asked TO choose be-
tween the Germany represented by
Carl SchurZ in the mid nineteenth cen
tury and BY Otto H. Kahn in the twen-
tieth century, which is one in purpose
with the United States and ether dem
ocratic nations. and the Germany
which is represented by the kaiser, Won
Hindenburg, Won Tirpitz, the junkers
and the fstherland party. Which type
of men and ideas represents the true
Germany? Let them choose and then
battle on the side which most nearly
expresses the ideals which they should
have formed after enjoyment of Amer
lean liberty and association with
Americans whose British forefathers
fought against that which represented
the evil of Britain.
After fighting unsuccessfully against
Prussian despotism in the revolution
of lS4S, Carl Shurz came to the United
States, settled in Wisconsin and be.
came a champion of the Union and hu.
man liberty in the decade preceding
/ the Civil War and in the war itself
Throughout the rest of his life he was
leader in the fight against corruption
and privilege, twin evils which thrive
under the rule of military aristocracy
such as that of Prussia. Franz Sige
also fought for German liberty in lS4>
and for the American Union in tn,
/ Civil War. and his daughter now send!
her son to fight against Pan. German
ism in Europe.
The same type of men and ideas il
represented at the present time by
Otto II. Kahn. the banker born il
Germany who has given up the entire
surplus of his great income to tn,
cause of America and her allies an(
who goes about the country speaking
writing and working for democracl
and against the kaiser. He is "bitter
i ly and grievously ashamed of the Ger
many which stands convicted befor,
the high tribunal of the worlds publ,
opinion of having planned and willie,
war of crime heaped upon crime il
hideous defiance of the laws of Go,
and men," He said in a speech a
Milwaukee:
II revere the high ideals and tin'
traditions Of that old Germany and TIL
time-honored conceptions of right con
duct which my parents and teachers o
my early youth bade me treasure
throughout life, but all the more burn
ing is my resentment, all the NOR
deeply grounded my hostility agains
the Prussian caste who trampled thos
ideals, traditions and conceptions il
the dust. "
This man is one in spirit with tn
men of l848 and with their loya
American descendants. He still love
the true Germany of his youth and h
does not war against it. He wars onl
against the brutal caste which has be
fouled its good name a caste whicI
despise and grinds down the yer
classes from which its sympathizers il
America have sprung.
Americans of German origin are no
asked to fight against Germany the,
are asked to fight for the Germany fo
which Schurz and Sigel fought and 70
which Kahn speaks, and against tn
Germany which has made the land o
their fathers a byword and reproach
a synonym for perfidy, brutality an
barbarism. They alone will be true t
the land of their fathers who prov
loyal to the land they live in.