Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-01

& GRAND FORK
sing the songs he learned upon. his
mother's knees and love the lore and
legend which he loved?is Did not the
news which came togS him issue from
sources which he did not trust when
he himself and all his deeds were
scruttntzed, suspected, and the hound
ing of the hypen was begone. because
q few poor souls unworthy Of Ameri-
cas- name did wrong. while he knew
himself as innocent as the light Of
day, what was more natural than that
he should feel the injustice and the
wrong reacttng humanity to it all?
The agony which such souls passed
through, though they were innocent
ever tell. II. you will pardon an al
fusion to matters very personal, l will
say for n hat my heart has been
Wrung by this f%erocious fight. for. in
three armies my own immediate, KIN
has fought and is fighting still, coIns
Ing from Wuerttemberg, and Poland
and u own United States. Man does
not veal his heart upon his sleeve.
Man doe not like to speak Of the
Gethsemane to which he goes alone to
drink the bitter cup. This is the first
and only time that L have given pub
lie ~utterance to this thought, and you
must pardon me. But put of this
agony and trial men have come forth
purified and strengthened, with hearts
uplifted by the matchless ideality ex-
pressed by the master Of our ship of
state. 5.l
II hold no brief for any man who
does a wrong whatever tongue he
speaks. whatever rank he holds, NV
lnm0Ef lnnI raholo N 0a irS tL1a -
who shows d%isloyalty to those high
principles on which my native land
America-now wages war for the
amelioration of all men. do en-
phatically reassert that it is wrong to
stgmatize an entire group of our
composite population, almost one
fourth of our entire citizenry. because
a few Indicators have sought to hin.
der h holy crusade upon which
we're engaged. such indiscrimination
and the use of epithetis in public ut
terances and the press have done a
lot OF harm. The use of epithets. does
good to no n but lowers the in
d1vidual or nation using them. The
splendid idealism which is at all times
expressed by President Wilson and
his associates, the moderation of his
speech. the dignity and grandeur of
MS every word should be emulated by
us all. Like the immortal Lincoln,
the hberator of men, he expresses no
hatred, no ranking epithets come
from his lips. Like the great martyr
president his soul is wrung with grief,
but nothing but deep sincerity. a lofty
ideality. even those under the militar-
lstc lash of the Ho%henzollern, per-
vades his words. Again and again he
mas held out the olive branch IF peace
10 n German people, If they will but
rid themselves of their decadent over
lords and choose responsible repre-
sentatives from their own midst.
Failing in this orr being impotent to
do so Americas sword must stay un-
sheathed- until the lofty aim of our
government has been accomplished.
Where in all the annals of record
ed TACT or lore can loftier ideality be
found?
We may rest assured that that
part of our population whose ances-
tors presented the first written. pro-
test against American slavery, who
rendered such conspicuous service
during the Revolution, who furnished
100000 volunteers in our Civil war,
who furnished some Of the great sea
fighters in our war with Spain, are
loyal to our present cause, now that
the aims and ideals OF this war have
clarified and are sharply defined. For
every red-blooded American, worthy
OF the name, agrees that the democ-
racy of the world is endangered and
must be defended whatever the cost,
An enlightened world has no need of
Kings and emperors. The. voice Of
man shall be the voice Of God indeed.
Until that end is attained there can
be no peace. The world is weary of
Kings n emperOrs. and parasite au-
tocracy.
Upon the walls Of the German i'm
tperial parliament building a hand has
written in burning letters the words
beheld by Belshasar Of old: Meme,
meme, Tekel. Upharsin. A Daniel
has come who has interpreted the
mystic writing. Mene-God has mum
bered thy kingdom and finished it.
Tekel, thou art weighed in the bal
ance and are found wanting. Thy
kingdom is divided. :.
Discussing the question of German,
language in American schools, DR..
Bek said, in part, as follows:
In order. to ascertain as to what
was the attitude in France in the mat
ter OF German instruction, Mr.. Ste
phane Lausanne of the French ma
tlonal committee in this country was
addressed. 1T is true" replied sir.
Lausanne. that the German lam
guage is still taught in French ele-
mentary schools. An experience of
fifty years has shown, us that Ger
many was not known enough among
the nations of the world. We learn
German, not as a tribute of admira-
ton to Germany. We learn German
just as we have been obliged to learn
to protect and defend ourselves and
civilization"
Concerning. the attitude that our
present for sake in the matter Of
modern language study, Dr.. Young
quoted from the Mannheim Gazette,
as follows: The modern LANGUAGES
occupy a prominent position in our
schools. No arrow minds will de-
mand their curtatlment because of
our unpleasant experience with the
French and the English. on the con
uary. the knowledge Of these Ian
Euaees is absolutely necessary to ue,
especially English. Ignorance of q
foreign language or Of a foreign ma
ton Is not an element Of strength, but
OF weakness. Besides Germany has
no intention Of soatine herself from
the re=t OF The world when the war is
over. TIE modern languages ought
to be given more. not less, tine than
heretofore" ~
Ladies' ind gentlemen, there are
ideals which we must not allow our