Edited sentence: " An article in the Atlantic Monthly accused the German language press of mass disloyalty.Coalescing with the hate propaganda spewed by Wellington House and its American collaborators, these sentiments inspired the American Protective League and thousands of other freelance patriots to join in a nationwide attack on German-Americans and the German language and culture.The New York Times agreed that German-language newspapers never stopped trying to surreptitiously support Berlin's cause.The Saturday Evening Post, already one of the nation's biggest magazines, announced that it was time to rid America of "the scum of the melting pot