Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-07

Woodrow Wilson at the White
House. The potentate of America
was using his right royal preroga-
tive.
1T is now more than 20 years ago,
Senator Hitchcock, that large
party of German landed proprie-
tors and gentry was touring through
the United States. In order that
they might have personal escort
on their special train from Chicago
to San Francisco, the Union Pacific
railroad invited a few German
speaking citizens to be their guests
OF honor. l had the pleasure of be-
ing among these. Everywhere
these German gentlemen-these
Huns, barbarians, boches and canni-
balls Of. the future, were received
with open arms. Omaha bestowed
upon them the freedom of the city,
and it was you, Senator Hitchcock,
at that time a young and active
congressman, who delivered the
speech which babe them welcome on
the soil of Nebraska. My old diary
is in New York-in it is recorded
the exact date upon which you held
this speech. The speech itself was
published in The Omaha Bee and
may therefore be looked up.
Confidence in Hitchcock.
1T would prove more than inter
esting, senator, to read over again
what you said then about the friend
ship between Germany and America.
and about the German race as a
whole which had done so much in
building up our state and the whole
west. I felt then that you spoke
from you heart to these Germans
who were making triumphal tour
through Nebraska amidst waving
flags, rousing music and hearty
cheers. l felt then that you ex-
pressed convictions which were hon
est and which were capable OF I'm
dergoing a test. This test they TN.
derwent during the tidal wave OF
press-begotten hatred, which swept
the land and foamed against all
things German.
al have not been able to follow
your speeches and your actions dur -.
ing the war as closely as | should
have liked. But ! believe that you
remained a1oof from the gutter pa
triotism that ran amuck through
out the land. / believe you main
tanned the dignity that is inherent
IN your character and should be IN
herent in your office. However, this
may have been polluted by many,
perhaps by most of your colleagues
Only clean souls and earthquake
and poison proof minds were able
to stand that avalanche of beastli-
ness that swept the land under the
bidding of the satanic press. Only
men who were free from the beset-
ting American sin of moral coward
ice, men who dare to be i'll the right
with two or three, were able to keep
their hands and their consciences
clean and remain true to their prin-
ciples. -
Pleads for Help.
"Our land has drifted rapid
ly downward in a moral sense,
ever since the sophistry of Wood
row Wilson and the powers be-
hind him poisoned the souls of
our people. We have been paid
for our degradation by a false
prosperity which is built up on the
losses and misery of others, which
will prove curse to us and to our
children. We have permitted our
selves to, be made womanish and
hystericalN and to be swayed like
lose rags by inferior minds whose
profitable business it was to breed
hate. We have permitted the whole
vast machinery of our land to be Or
gained in the service of a ruthless
imperialistic, capitalistic war against
a people from whom we had never
suffered harm and to whom, on the
contrary, we were more endebted
for benefits received, than to any
other. We have broken with the
principles upon which the safety and
integrity of the republic were reared,
and permitted the cunning and
INSCRIPTIONS diplomacy of the
greatest robber-state in the world
to use us for its own ends and
to recover its power over our minds
and our institutions.
All this has come to pass because
honor and manhood stood cowed
and impotent and allowed the forces
Of evil to triumph--over freedom,
over thought and speech, and the
innate independence of the Ameri-
can people. Brave and great-hearted
men still worked among us-and
among these l believe you are en-
titled to be numbered. 1t is only
such men who can save the country
by regenerating it, by restoring to
it peace and contentment and real
liberty-the precious thing which
Wilson destroyed. 1t is only such
men, who instead of seeking to suck
the last drop of blood out of un-
fortunate Europe as it is now the
plan of our financial vampires to
do, will extend to this bleeding con-
tinent the hand OF fellowship, of
help and sympathy. For Europe is
today suffering not only from the
war but from the diseases with
which Wisconsin inoculated it.
Afraid of Sentiment.
"The long gray columns of fine
print in the Times report Of the
senatorial investigation will make
appalling reading for the historian,
the just historian of the war. Here
the whole story lies revealed, how