El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-06-05
OPINIONS OF my OWN
BY Claudio Cap6
lx> ll1xa> ~ ---- -4sszs A constant reader Of the
HEARTY THANKS! English section Of Ell I'M
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Trouble published in this column day before yesterday
Your article is far from meeting with my approval as
t sounds too much like pro-GermAn propaganda YOU
"play on different tune song rehearsed by all pro
Germans and pacifsts that do not like to the Ger
mans pay for their conduct during the last four years.
"You write such your article: While the German people
"Wl be compelled to stand crushing indemnity, While
the German nation will be dismembered and Inundated
the leaders, the responsible Where are they? Where
are William Hohenzoern and his son, the Grown Prince
"Hindenburg Ludendorf Mackensen and the powerful
"Herren Junkers? Why don't you also include in your
list those who have violated the of France and
Belgium those who have c1uced the Canadian soldiers
"those who have bombarded undefended towns, ETC.
To dispose first of the light exceptions taken by our
friend in the Transcribed paragraph we shall explain to
him that when said the leaders, the responsible ones
and the powerful Herren Junkers meant to include
all those RESPONSIBLE for the raping of women the
crucfyng of soldiers Canadians and Others the wanton
destruction of cities and other crimes against clvlzatlon
Any fair-nnded reader that our intention no.
other but if we did not express ourselves clearly for
everybody hope this explanation will be sufficient toll
dispe any misunderstanding to our intention. Yes;
military court should have been instituted by the Allies
in order to impose the deserved punishment the RES
PONSIBLE ONES, from William the Second down to the
second lieutenant and last private of the ersarz If that
is the exact the Ger1nansca their last army re-
serve But instead of doing that the Allies paying
much more attention to old convenonality and archaic
international Law which seemingly makes sacred the Ii
of those scoundrels the Allies treadng the old path
are more concerned with crushing ndemnes in cash and
with land grabbing. There is no doubt that Germany
should be compelled to pay her f share in the damages
German people will begin thinking of revanche, just
exactly as the French did, after 1871.
AS far pro-Germanism is concerned, the writer
says so because he is either French French descent
and consequently must be blind by passion But are
not; we are INTENSELY FRANCOPHILE, and as the
good of LatinAmerca that are the first foreign
language studied, when twelve or thirteen
years old, the language of Victor Hugo LatnAmer
lean culture is only copy of the culture of France, al
though in many instances the gross imitation did us more
harm than good; but don't matter we love France just
the same, and can't understand how any Latn-Amer
lean be pro-German, unless he id son OF Germans
obtained his education in Germany. When the war
broke out in 1914 how many times wrote to the New
York papers, trying to win friends for dear France! Wei
predicted in 1914 that the United States would be finally
drawn into the struggle for the sake of democracy and
repubicanism But this gentleman says we are on the
way to- become proGerman! No, friend, don't you be-
lieve it,. We for the Allies, to the of our
bones; but the Western powers trying to brew
trouble for the future and that is why we wrote the
article President Wilson himself according to TIA
liam journalist doing damage to the of the
Allies than Germany ever did, Can you beat it?
Our friend also calls attention to the fact that our
statement in another article that police strikes were
seen before is Incorrect and for information
he states that during THE LAST YEAR there were
police strikes in several Canadian cities, etc. We thank
reader for the nfomation but at the time wei
wish to inform him that assertion that police strikes
have not occurred BEFORE did not apply exactly to this
day. yesterday last week clear that intention
say that never except NOW when the proetarian
forces are coming to the front people heard Of soldiers
will search the chronicles of ancient Egypt China, to
prove to that the police went into strike in the year sol
and SO, B. c., during such and such dynasty etc. !
In conclusion, wish to thank friend for his
marks, which taken in the cordial spirit he mentions
at the end of his letter. We authorities and do
not pretend to be; sef-1nade men, and the only
academcal degree hold is the one given at the
University of Hard-Knocks-in-Life Furthermore on
November 1st 1913 when the first number of Ell I'M
PARCIAL came out, we clearly expressed our opinion
that ampdern newspaper must Of necessity be made up
by the close cooperation of writers and readers Our
friend now sends in his contribution response to which
we only have to say to him: 'Merci ben, mon anil"