The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-22
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The St. Paul Dispatch: Perhaps 1t had
70 come; IL so, there is no better time
Tor st. Paul to take up the fight
against Socialism and especially tnat
brand which has allied itself with
kalserism, defied and denounced the
government Of the United States, OPP
posed the war. attacked the draft and
aTrayed itself against every attitude
OF AmeTicanism.
There is no use blinking the situa-
ton that has been created by the pri-
mary election for mayoralty nominees.
While there is no great or alarming
manifestation Of Bolshevikism in the
election figures, the situation so
framed itself as to permit what there
Is Of II to name a candidate for mayor
on the official ticket.
Such a possibility was pointed out
by these papers on Sunday. The null
titude of candidates without a posi-
BILE chance of nomination so divided
the vote that a small minority, made
up OF ultra-Socialists, with undouht-
ed support from prO-German sources,
was able to secure second place on the
ticket.
We might as we'll come to a show
down and perhaps the earlier the bet
ter 1t will be St PauTs first oppor-
tunity to so on record through the
ballot box and the issue will be clear
and clean. On one side is Laurence
e Hodgson-"Larry Hottie young
American known from end to end Of
the city, cIear-minded and clean
hearted, OF whose attitude toward ev-
cry public question there is no doubt;
on the other is Julius F. Emme, So
Cialist
The size of the majority st. Paul
will give Larry Ho" i'm May win best
express the preponderant loyalty sen
timent Of the community. For that is
what is chiefly at issue-loyalty.
The Minneapolis Tribune: German
born citizens of North Dakota, in
convention at Jamestown, set an eX-
ample Of loyalty to their adopted land
cry state of the union. Gathered to
organize the first state unit of the
United States of America Loyalists
association. they shouted their ap-
prevail of speeches enjoining whole
hearted devotion to the American
cause, pledged themselves to generous
support of government bond and
thrift stamp issues, volunteered will
ing sacrifices TO promote war relief
and welfare work, and signifed their
purpose to pray daily for the success
OF American arms.
It is doubly pleasurable TO record
the fact of such a demonstration Of
loyalty when so many men of Ger
man blood or German sympathies
over the country are showing a toler-
anCe or worse for the wrongs commit
ted by the Prussian autocraCy against
the laws of nations, against democ-
racy and against civilization itself.
The jamestown convention expressed
its conviction that kaiserism must go
and that every American must be an
alI-American in spirit, in word and in
deed.
otto II. Kahn. of New York, a one
time German soldier and now an
American citizen, lays upon his broth
ers in blood a peculiar obligation TO
stand by the land to which they have
come to work out their individual
destinies. He stresses the point thar
the native American citizen is here by
accident of birth without his own eX-
pressed wish or consent, while the
foreign-born citizen is here because
he personally chose to come. The citi-
zenship Of the native is automatic,
that OF the foreign-born acquired by
reason Of his own initiative In taking
the prescribed oath of allegiance. For
these reasons, in the opinion of Mr..
Kahn, the German-born American cit
izen is bound even more by honor and
logic than the native to render to his
country his undivided fealty. To that
tenet Of political faith the jamestown
convention apparently has subscribed,
Anyhow it has set up a precedent that
merits countrywide acceptance and
effect.