Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1917 — A GERMAN-BORN AMERICAN SPEAKS OF GERMANY [ARTICLE]

A GERMAN-BORN AMERICAN SPEAKS OF GERMANY

Every once in a while some dis tinguished citizen of German an eestry, but naturalized as an Amer lean, speak's in burning words thal should be dinned into the ears bl all native-born or naturalized. Professor Max F. Meyer of thJ University of Missouri, recently thl recipient of an invitation to joil one of the, organizations with higlj sounding names, whose real objel is to paralyze the fighting arm of the American government, in rel Plying that the invitation was an] insult, said: j h," 1 am / hor °ughly familiar with the present organization of the-Ger-man social body and with its cul-'

urination the present German government. lam much more familiar with it than any of your committee. I have lived in Germany twenty-five years. I was born there. I was educated there. I spent nineteen years of my life in German educational institutions from the kindergarten to the research laboratory.” Professor Meyer cites these things to show that he knows Germany not from the outside, but from the inside, as a land in which the inilitary‘'class is the governing class. Stating these facts. Professor Meyer then utters this solemn warning to disloyalists in this country: “If Germany wins this war, flfly years hence its government will rule the American people. I do not want my American children to be put under this yoke which I escaped by coming to America. My hope is that the German government will be overthrown and that the German nation, my relatives and friends, will enter an international organization for peace and justice. “But the German government, this fearful danger to our future, can be overthrown only by raising armies, not by sitting around your council tables and working for the repeal of conscription laws,”