The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-24

outstanding, clear, open, American look,
you can see on all Americans, even
some Of whom are Of German stock no
y farther removed. These people all have
that peculiar German" look that
Mark Of the Beast. These people be-
long to the German Lutheran church
and their preacher was the leader in
un-Americanism, He maintained a pri-
vate school taught principally in the
German Language and. he influenced his
epople to be openly sympathetic with
Germany as long as. they dared and
later encouraged. secret opposition to
every thing American, a,r s
\ We have another colony OF German
Russians as the bishop calls them,
similar to those, in North Dakota, but
they also are mostly German Luther
ans. These people We're less educated
than the German colony and less able
to dosharm, but were All Intensely pro-
German. anti American and ssullenly
hostile throughout the war. After the
armistice was declared they read III
some paper that the kaiser had gone.
back ION the throne and they had d
celebration. They also had a parochial
school, where the teaching was almost
all in German and where a. text book
on American history was used that de-
voted four pages to Baron Steuben and
only half a page to Abraham Lincoln
and mentioned Washington in line.
; These are the kind Of people this
resolution was intended to hit. If the
bishops flock are not OF this kind why
should he become excited?
USE OF ENGLISH BANNED!
I was not in. North Dakota long
enough to become acquainted with all
the people, but I have heard enough
about North Dakota to believe that it
is almost as bad as South Dakota in
this regard. Captain Baker once told
me about a public school district not
far from Bismarck where the direc-
| tors passed an official resolution to dis
continue the use of the English Ian
guage and thereafter teach only Ger
man. Think of it In a public school
in America! And probably the same
directors had run away from Germany
to escape the military system and had
taken -hOmesteads for themselves and
their numerous brood. Citizens? OF
course they became citizens in name
just as soon as possible because they
wanted to get our free land. But
not time to learn our language. Oh,
no! Too busy making money. No
time to become citizens except in form
sufficient to get the land and the right I
to vote. s.. ia+4tr... ..-, ~ |
Wasn't it in Morton county that Will
liam LANCER had to invoke the law
to get school boards to put the Amcri-
can flag over your school houses? |
Wasn't it in Bismarck that Judge Ami:
don issued his scathing dcnunciation to |
Il German preacher who had been |
found guilty of violating the espion-
age act? One Of the most clear-cut I
which he said IN part: -
You have cherished everything
German. and stified everything,
American. You\ have preached
German. prayed German. sung
German. EVERY thought "a Of, your ~
mind and every emotion of your
heart through al these years has,
= been German. Your body has been Y
pa in America, bntyour'lifc has been Il
in Germany You have influenced 7
others wlb have been under your
ministry to do the same.
Every citizen and every prospective
citizen in North Dakota should haye u
copy of this article which appeared in
Your paper about August 18th last.
I want to warn the bishop that such
OPPOSITION as. his comes with bad grace
and that our people are in no temper
to stand it. We are not going to let
YOU, bishop. confuse us by bringing in
the religious question. fol" that has
nothing whatever, to do with it, This
is a -clear-eut question of MAILING Amer
lea for Americans, and of either max
ing Americans out Of the foreigners we
have among us or kicking them out
regardless of whether they are Ger
man. italian. or what not. or even de-
generated American. We have too