Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1920 — HYPHEN AGAIN LIFTS ITS HEAD [ARTICLE]

HYPHEN AGAIN LIFTS ITS HEAD

The hyphen, that detestable phenomenon of American society, is agaih lifting its hydra-headed hideousness and discharging its venom that it may live and be athwart disnatur’d torment once more. The German-American national conference, of which George Sylvester Viereck, that poisonous fang of German propagandism, is secretary, has adopted this resolution: In view of certain enlightened statements in Senator Harding’s speech of acceptance and in his subsequent utterances expressing his unalterable opposition to the league of nations and the perfidious foreign policy of the present administration, we shall, unless unexpected events transpire, regard it as our duty to support the Republican candidate. The “perfidious foreign policy” of the present administration has been to declare war upon and send to perdition the greatest dream of conquest and oppression that the world has evei- seen. , Are American citizens, who gave themselves, their sons and their property freely to the country between April, 1917, and November, 1918, forgetful of their sacrifices? Are they willing that the hyphenated American, that halfbreed who eats American bread and sucks American honey, should now undertake to control the election of the chief executive of the nation? Must the battle for Americanism which raged in this country during the war, be fought again? The half-breed wants America to make a separate treaty With Germany. The reasoning is clear. If America is not joined with her allies in enforcement of the treaty which is the fruit of the war, Germany may realize easiei’ terms. She may again be enabled to throw her armies across the face of Europe. She may agaih look with lustful eyes on Paris. She may again swish her tall across the Balkans, spreading desolation and despair. She may again Bagdad and send her flaming bopabs on the quiet English coast. She'may, again send

American lives to doom on future Lusitanlas. Tbe patriotic Americans of German. origin in this country themselves despise these snakes in the grass. ( The half-breed bases his support of Senator Harding on the basis of the latter's declared hostility to the league of nations, on the possibility of the consummation of a separate peace with Germany. Thus the Republican program, professing a doctrine of pure Americanism, is allied I with the desires and ambitions of the enemy sympathizers. Is there ' more eloquent proof of the fallacies | upon which the anti-leagjie policy Is based?—Louisville Courier-Journal.