Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. NOW THIS IS SOMETHING LIKE Patriotic League Would Bar All Foreign Language Papers. Lafayette, May 16.-—Lafayette's newly organized Patriotic league has taken a determined stand against the circulation of German newspapers and purposes to suppress them iff Tippecanoe county. At a meeting last night the league adopted the following resolutions: Whereas, Certain elements of our population, while enjoying the benefits of our laws and institutions, have retained for generations the language, customs and opinions of the land of their origin and failed to amalgamate with the people of this nation, and Whereas, In a community Where public opinion governs, a foreign language press tends toward the solidarity of racial groups, prevents the free operation of public opinion and otherwise threatens the safety of the commonwealth; and Whereas, The German language press of this county has been the field of propaganda subversive of the interests and safety of the nation, Be it therefore resolved, That the Patriotic League of Lafayette employ all means at its command to prevent the introduction into this commiunity of papers printed in the languages of the nations now at war with this commonwealth, and that the policy of the league shall be to discourage foreign language publications in general, except for educational purposes.