Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1918-05-30
Why We Tight
No.
Eeeaase Germany for Years Has
Been MaleiDg Secret, Teacher
GUS Was on Us
No. /
BY CLARENCE L.. SPEED
sereters Of the War Committee of the
Union League Club OF Chicago


not 5ast 8 diplomatic pretext-why
se are at war with Germany is that
or q generation Germany has been
aking wac on US. Germany has
a2e this war not openly, bravely or
salAanely, hit secretly, treacherously
aa1 perslstently She has sought to
reate race discord, to corrupt and de-
dla politicians and offfeeholders, and
80 create separate German communi-
ties Within our borders. She has poi
isoned the minds of children in our
Sehoois in an endeavor to make Ger
maDS Of them instead Of have them
grow up into loyal American citizens.
She has invaded the sacredness of the
pulpit itself in an endeavor to corrupt
our people through the very leaders
eff morality TO whom they are accus-
toned 70 look for guidance.
These may be startling assertions,
but they are all true, as you Shall see
rom the documents Of the Germans
themselves. We all knew that it was
G iaan fleet which stripped for ac-
ion when Dewey sailed into Manila
hay. Weali knew it was the Germans
who sought to bring about a European
aiIim4ee against us when we were en-
gagged in the war with Spain. Few of
us etSsfzetl, however, that all these
years ffermany has been busy within
oni- oxen Borders, through editors,
teachnss and preachers, seeking to
break down our national unity, so that
wifen fae time came it would be easy
10 Gaecat the United States in open
wagfarA to set at naught our cherish
ed MGneoe doctrine, and to seize, in
fhe western hemisphere, anything
that tiss ,and grabbing rulers of the
German taspire might desire.
The climax Of Germany's under
BANDED WY en the United States came
II 1913 lGoee than a year before the
outbreak o.. fostilities in Europe. This
was the enactment of what is known
as the Dcibgack law, which provides
tl1at Il en- e7nigfant from Germany
Who IS aNoat TO be naturalized makes
application To a German CONSUL he
may retain his German citizenship
even otter he has become citizen of
ais atiopied country.
IN plain words, this law, and the ap-
nlieation OF It. mean just this:
A German Goes into court in this
country ard so,emnly foreswears al
fegianees to tho kaiser and pledges
his wera-tlse temptation was to say,
of hoaer''-thaj he will become a 10y
Al citizen of tie United States. Then
10 slips around 50 the German consul
and says:
"You know didn't mean that, at
all Tnose. Americans are easy markss,
and they fell for that stuff right off.
Bat you. Iast prt me down on your list
as a good, loyal German, and if the
time ever comes when I can prove it,
yen cen count On me-"
So TIC German consul puts his name
dawn n the little card index of which
the Gegaans are so fond, and this
nRn,--}llis creature who swears al
laaienca 20 the country which gives
him an opportunity to make real liv-
ing aaa 10 become somebody in this
world and at the same time swears
secretly to be true to Germany-is
turned loose to work his will, whfse
Americans go cafelessly about their
business and refuse to see the danger
in tho ARRANGEMENT.
T.cng hefore the passage of the Del
brUelS lazy, there was formed. the We
rein FIR das Deutschtum i'm Ausland-
the Union for Gesmanism in Foreign
Lands This organization, officially
fostered in Germany, issued q quarter
" magazine, which, in its very first is
Sue. outlined It's aims as follows:
.'Tne purpose CD this union is the
preservation a5ld promotion OF the
GerplanisTa Of over 100000 people
OF German Blood dwelling outside the
German empire" All it aims to do,
YOU see. IS to keep Germans who come
TO this country from becoming Ameri-
cans.
AWAY back in 1890 the Alldeutscher
Ver5eri, or the Pan-German league,
Sas fsYmeG. r now consists of 269 !
chapters Of witch two now are-or at |
least Y sre Immediately before the war
in lie United States, one in New
Work. and one 10 San Francisco. TO
quote 9som he Aldeutsehe Batter. it's
ofiieiai publication, ''the Pan-German
seaga IS founded for promoting Ger
can Rational interests, both in Ger
many end IN foreign lands"
a few thinking Americans knew
all TIE tlme what was coming-what |
saust come. 3lt America, as a whole,
ven along II that carelessness and
niifl renee with which 1t treats all
nings UNPLEASANT, and allowed this
9esns,n war or our most sacred insti-
tutionS 10 continue unchecked.
s. Garaan9 stands today, with one
foot o. nrosuate Belgium and the 9TH
er on the neck of poor deluded Rl,s-
sia; sita bayonet planted in the
heaft 6 Serbia, and the point of its
sworl NJ tiae throat CT Roulnania.
fhsia L locks out over the yassal
States ee bulgaria and Turkey to In
be aiaa the Orient. And as it staads
sllus, 4 cries to its foes on the west
esa ssat:
amefad' Why go on with all this
ki.,ils lets have peaee nv paoo-