El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-11-12

alive for future time.
More than all else, his propaganda
I IS destined 10 reach Americans For
: the German recognizes how little the
mass Of Americans know about the
Que1 -cn Of Ai7ace-f 1rr7l0e and how
/ much downright and malicious criti-
Z cism OF France is being circulated
I in the United States a. the present
I hour Do socalled liberal journals and
I spokesman
T-urh o. Situation Plain.
The truth Of the situation Is fairly
plain AT the moment when the Ger
mans annexed the Rhine districts in
I 1871 there was a population OF 1900
I 600 absolutely unanimous in their de-
sire 10 remain French. Following the
I annexation nearly 100000 Inhabitants
Z actually emigrated 10 France and this
i migration continued for many years
J So intensely did some Of the residents
Z OF Net feel, that they even exhumed
D the bodies Of deceased members Of
rfelr II mfIv. that these might be re-
I inferred in French soil.
In the place Of this considerable
I emf grafton there was a rapid influx
Z OF Germans. ENCOURAGED by their gov
7 eminent, which treated the new
I Reichs-and as q colony OF eLploita-
I ton and gave to the German immi-
grants all the positions in the gov
eminent service. these Included the
z railway administration, the local po-
] lice. p0stoffce. schools and something
/ like an actual army Of functionaries
was thus planted in the new German
! territory.
Germans Became Dominant.
After almost half a century OF Ger
] man occupation, therefore, the sirua-
I tion was this; The populationu has
] risen to nearly 100000 but the ma
I tive population had not made good
I the loses Of the emisartion and num-
I bered lit1le more e. 1900. 1000. be- its
side lived 100000 Cerma immigrants
/ rhe balance were aliens from Ital
T Belgium and LuLemours- mainly, who
were drawn thither By the Industrial
I development These 800 900 Germans
I were concentrated fin the larger towns,
they had dominated the situation
and the return Of the French was TO
them a terrible calamity.
To take an illustration o. this in
Ultra ton f-cz had N 1870 apnroNi-
mately $4,000 Inhabitants among
whom there was scarcely a single
German, for che city, in its modern
history and Roman tradition. was as
ru~alv Fra0cn as Orleans OF Torrs-
had only increased by some 10000.
but the French element had declined
from $4,000 20 10000, as the result
Of the emigration. On the contrary,
in all the countryside which was also
purely French, the peasants had
stayed by their farms and the French
element was stil overwhelming
Some Germans Expelled
With the return OF the French last
December. q certain number OF the
most CONSPICUOUS German agents were
expelled. but the French pursued to-
ward the less prominent that tolerant,
easy gOilE method which is charac-
f6rizffr Of French rule eVe-~where.
Taking advantage Of this. the
Germans are now eudearorlnE TO
"a
in Aisuce-Lnrr-ine TO give the
world the Impression that there
il strong nro-(ferulam sympathy
in the two provinces There e., but
Il a entirely limited 20 some -
percent which represents the
coIouistE sent into tie conquered
provinces by the Germans. after
1871. Tor the express purpose OF
GermnniEins the territory.
By contrast more than SO percent
OF the population, the real native
population. Is thoroughly French in
its sympathy. In the world war it
srnD'ie Fronce wifh seve-al score
OF generals and more than 10000 vol
unteers, who fled from Alsace-Lor-
raine during the war and at the FISK
OF their own lives and those o. their
families. enlisted in French armies.
More than this. other thousands. who
could not escape were used by the
Cerras on rhn HrrGian frontier. he
cause Il was unsafe 10 put them be-
fore the French
The Germans annexed the two pro-
vinces IN 1871 without any pleDiscites
and against the unanimous protest OF
the first delegation Of legislators
elected TO the German reichstag. as
well as OF the last delegation which
( represented the three departments at-
fected in the French chamber. They
now demand a plenlscite merely be-
cause they know the French VIII not
grant f. not out Of fear as TO the
result, there can be no doubt as 20
that, but merely because such course
would suggest that the Germans pos
with the French il Is point OF honor
pure and simple.
Election Real PIebIselte.
IN the forthcoming general electiou
Z IL France % members OF the french
chamber viii be elected in the dis
tricts until recently under German
rule. This. as the French point out,
viii constitute real plehiscite- Forty
eight years ago. when Germany an
neTed the territory, the first deleea-
tion which went to Berlin unanimous
y protested against the annexationi
OF the delegation which goes to Paris,
under circumstances which, II not
similar. have something in common
with those OF half century BEFORE.
Ero--IelIllan sentiment IN aal4lr-
Lorraine IS exclusively limited 70 the
German colon ISIS. sent 10 rule anu
administer CONQUERED lands as the io-
mans sent old soldiers 20 col0nize
their later concuests. These colonists
are concentrated in cities, nearly f0,-
600 IN Metz and upwards OF $4,000 IN
Stras toure Until recr1flv thr- con-
troled all the machinery alike or
administration, OF communications
and OF industry. Unless they can re-
store German rule they are ruined
for they can have no standing IN
the territories they recently terror
ICED and administered with charac-
teristic German brutality, therefore
they quiet naturally respond 20 every
suggestion coming from Germany, TO
advocate German interests.
would Impress America.
Beyond ali else the German IS en-
dearorinE 70 impress America; he