Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-31
Why We Fight
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Because Germany for Years Has
Been Making Secret, Teacher.
Gus War on Us

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One Of the deep. underlying reasons
not Just a diplomatic pretext-why
we are at wal with Germany Is that
for a generation Germany has been
making war on US. Germany has
made this war not openly. bravely or
humancly. but secretly, treacheroasly
and persistently. She has sought to
create race dlscord. to corrupt and de-
file politicians and O~fficehOlders, and
TO create separate German communl-
ties within our borders. She has pol
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 endeavor to corrupt
our people through the very leaders
Of morality TO whom they r accus.
toned to rlook for guidance.
These may be startling assertions,
but they are all true, as you shall see
NUN llit uONhlhNIliS VI tllC Itl liluIla
themselves. We all knew that 1t was
a German fleet which stripped for ac-
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 wal with Spain. Few of
us RELAXED, however, that all these
years Germany has been busy within
our own borders, through editors
teachers and preachers, seeking to
break down our national unity, so that
when the time came 1t 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.
The climax of Germany's under
handed war on the United States came
In 1913, more than n year before the
outbreak of hostllitles in Europe. This
was the enactment Of what is known
as the Delbruck law, which provides
that If m emigrant from Germany
who Is about to be naturalized makes
application to a German consul, he
may retain his German citizenship
even after he has become a citizen Of
his adopted country.
In plain words, this law, and the ap
plinn4inn nf a. pnoon i,,ct %h;os
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 q 10y
nj citizen Of the United States. Their
he slips around to the German consu
and says:
"You know I didn't mean that, Al
all. Those Americans ere easy marks
and they fell for that stuff right off
But you just put me down on your lis
as a good, loyal German, and If thu
time ever comes when | car prove II
you cal count on me-"
So the German consul puts his namt
down in the little card index of whicl
the Germans are so fond, and thi'
man,-this creature who swears nj
legience to the country which give
him an opportunity to make a real lv
Ing ana to become somebody in thit
world, and at the same time swear
secretly to be true to Germany
turned loose to work his will, Will,
Americans go carelessly about thei,
business and refuse to see the DANCE
In the arrangement.
Long before the passage of the Del
bruck law, there was formed the We
rein fur das Deutschtum i'm Ausland-
the Union for Germanism in Foreigl
Lands. This organization, o%ficiall!
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 tn
preservation and promotion of TIL
Germanism Of over 100000 peopl,
of German blood dwelling outside th'
German empire" All it aims to do
YOU see, is to keep Germans who com,
to this country from becoming Amerl
cans.
Away back In 1890 the AlldeutScheI
Verband, or the Pan-German league
was formed. 1t now consists of 26'
chapters of which two now are-Or n
least were Immediately before the wa
in the United States, one in New
York and one in San Francisco. II
quote from the Alldeutschc Batter, it,
official publication, "the Pan-GcrmaI
league is founded for promoting Ger
man National interests, both in Ger
many and in foreign lands"
A few thinking Americans knew
oil the time what was coming-wha
must come. But America, as Il whole
went along in that carelcsSness an(
Indifference with which 1t treats al
things unpleasant, and allowed thi.
German war on our most sacred insti
tutionS to continue unchecked.
So Germany stands today, with on,
foot on PROSTATE Belgium and the 9th
or on the neck of poor deluded Rus
sia; with a bayonet planted in thu
heart of Serbia, and the point of it,
sword mt the throat of Roumania
while it looks out over the vassa
States of Bulgaria and Turkey to In
din and the Orient. And rs it stand.
: thus, it cries to its foes on the west