Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1917 — Union Township Germans Are Loyal to the Core. [ARTICLE]

Union Township Germans Are Loyal to the Core.

It was rumored about town today that the Germans of Union township were floating German flags upon their houses. ; ~ 4—--A reporter for The Republican interviewed two very prominent German citizens from Union township today and found that the rumor was entirely unfounded, and that while these men have a very great love for their Fatherland, the land for which their own brothers are giving their lives, yet should a contest come between that country and THEIRS, the Unitetf States, they will be found as loyal as any American to be found within the confines of its wide borders. If the-entire German population of this country is as loyal to the American: flag .as the German residents of Union township there would be no need to be anxious as to their stand should war be declared. Let us hope that the occasion making necessary the shedding the blood of their brothers may not arrive.