Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 125, 7 April 1917 — Page 10

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Note The following editorial is re-j produced from the New York American. "We" have no quarrel with th3 German people. We have no feeling toward them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days, when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools. "We are, let me say again, the sincere friends of the German people, and shall desire nothing so much as the early re-establishment of intimate relations of mutual advantage between us, however hard it may be for them for the time being to believe that this is spoken from our hearts. We have borne with their present Government through all these bitter months because of hat friendship, exercising a patience and forbearance which would otherwise have been impossible.1 "We shall happily sttll have an opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions toward the millions of men and women of German birth and native sympathy who live among us and share our life, and we shall be proud to proveJt toward all who are in fact loyal to their neighbors and to the government in the hour of test. They are most of them as true and loyal Americans as if they had never known any other fealty or allegiance. They will be prompt to stand with us in rebuking and restraining the few who m$y be of a different mind and purpose. If there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression; but, if it lifts its head at all. it will lift it only here and there and without countenance except from a lawless and malignant few." FROM PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS. A small number of corporations, firms, clubs and individuals have set the very bad example of discharging from their employment all Germans and persons of German descent. This is not patriotism. It Is downright stupidity. And it Is a blow at the country's only weak spot. Above everything else now, the nation requires peace within and all its available labor. Any firm or person that makes a peaceable and well-disposed German resident or German-American citizen sullen and resentful by unmerited discharge from employment and by thrusting him out in the street face to idleness and hunger, does just that much to add to the nation's troubles, which are enough now. Such stupid and unmanly treatment of unoffending employes does worse, (or it deprives the nation of workers when above everything else the nation needs workers. The government has just warned the country that our food supply is alarmingly short. The country has been stripped, as few realize, to feed Kurope. There will be severe privalion among all but the very well-to-do l'efore the coining harvests are gathered, and the conditions promise to be th'very worst this nation has ever fen AFTER the harvests, unless evry available pair of hands Is engaged in production.

There are not less than three million German, Austrian and Hungarian workers in this country, and If this asinine and thoroughly unpatriotic boycott of these workers should spread from the fools who first thought of it to the country in general, we will not have enough labor to provide the nation's food and equip the nation's navy and army. Every man who insults and abuses peaceable Germans and German-Americans and so stirs up hatred and resentment, and every man who throws a peaceable and unoffending German or German-American out of employment, does his own country a severe injury. Such a- man is not showing patriotism. He is exhibiting a species of idiocy, and is guilty of moral treason to the nation's welfare. The President expressly deprecated such folly in his speech to Congress. We happen to know that he looks upon all such conduct with aversion and contempt, and fears its evil effects more than any efforts of open enemies. The desire of the President and the hope of all sensible and patriotic men is that everybody will treat the Germans resident among us and the German-Americans who are our fellowcitizens with a manly and magnanimous courtesy and a full consideration of their difficult and painful situation. And that is what every really brave and patriotic and sensible American will do. This is no time to be sowing discord and suspicion and encouraging animosities and hatreds here at home

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Such conduct is more than foolish. It is criminal and its results are treasonable. ' ' We ought to set the highest example of reasonableness, forbearance, toleration, good sense and the capacity to keep level heads in the most exciting times that the world has ever seen. The brightest reputation that we can possibly gain is to have the world say afterward that we showed as much good sense and chivalry at home as our sailors and soldiers showed endurance and valor in the camp and on the field of battle. The man. who stains that reputation by mean and abusive treatment of helpless and inoffensive persons of foreign birth or foreign parentage here at home is no friend to his country's good name, and proves himself, as a matter of fact, to be just one of the sort who are the mcyst belligerent in peace and the most to be depended upon to run from real danger. Really brave men are as courteous to and considerate of those who are unfortunately and painfully situated as they are cool and fearless in the face of threats and danger. We trust that the good sense of manly Americans will put an immediate stop to this propaganda of cowardly mistreatment of our German residents and our citizens of German descent. They are 'behaving themselves admirably, under the most trying circumstances, and everybody should recognize that fact gratefully and treat them accordingly as the President urges us all to do.

Kaiser Juggles Nerves of Germany

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Germany to say how. long it will be before the break-up comes in Germany. Many Crises Weathered. Many times during the war Germany has been on the verge of a collapse. President Wilson's ultimatum after the sinking of the Sussex in the English Channel brought about one crisis. Von Falkenhayn's defeat at Verdun caused another. The Somme battle brought on a third. General Brusiloffs offensive against the Austrians upset conditions throughout the Central Powers. Rumania's declaration of war made another crisis. But Germany passed all of these successfully. The ability of the German government to convince the people that Wilson was unneutral and wanted war caused them to accept Germany's note in the Sussex case. The defeat at Verdun was explained as a tactical success. The Somme battles, with their terrible losses, failed to bring a breakup because the Allies stopped attacking at the critical moment. Von Hindenburg's appointment as chief of the General Staff gave him authority over all the armed forces of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, so he remedied the mistakes of the Austrians during" Brusiloff's attacks by reorganizing the Dual Monarch's army. Tha crisis which Rumania's entrance on the Allies' side brought in Germany and Hungary was forgotten after von Mackonseu took

j Bucharest. I In rnch of tlipse" instincts it will be

; rrjirnf that he crisis wa siicecfully j 1 pr:RS"d by "stimulation." Ths German rnrd ;?- pi'de to l.lirrf y.'hat the; j :- .. -..v. i. T'li v.'o.n'' chou!- the future? Is I here! i ., i r.u: rp'-'sa v.-ol! 'of ' stintitialton in j

: (".rn-ruiy ' !l't:re these questions fan be answercd others must be asked: Why

don't the German people think for themselves? Will they ever think for themselves? An incident which occurred in Berlin last December illustrates the fact

that the people are beginning to, think. After the Allies replied to President Wilson's peace note the Kaiser issued an .appeal to the German people. One morning it was printed on the first pages of all newspapers in boldface type. When I arrived at my office the janitor handed me the morning papers and. pointing to the Kaiser's letter, said: "I see the Kaiser has written US another letter. You know he never wrote to US in peace time."

There are evidences, too, that others are beginning to think. The Russian

revolution is going to cause many Socialists to discuss the future of Ger

many.- They have discussed it before,

but always with lowered voices. I at

tended one night a secret meeting of

three Socialist leaders of the Reich

stag, an editor of a Berlin paper and several business men. What they said

of the Kaiser that night would, if it were published, send ever man to the military firing squad. But these men didn't dare speak that way in public at that time. Perhaps the Russian revolt will give them more courage. But the government is not asleep to these changes. The Kaiser believes he can continue juggling public opinion, but he knows that from now on it will be more difficult. But he will not stop. He will always hold forth the vision of victory as the reward for German faithfulness. Today, for instance, in the United States we hear very little about the German submarine warfare. It is the policy of the Allies not to publish all losses immediately; first, because the enemy must not be given

any important information if possible, and, secondly, because losses have a bad effect upon any people. U-Boat Successes Dwelt On. But the German people do not read what we do. Their newspapers are printing daily the ship losses of the Entente. Submarines are returning and making reports. These reports are published and in a way give the people the impression that the submarine war is a success. We get the opposite impression here, but we are not in a position better to judge than the Germans, because we don't hear everything, t The important question, however, is: What are the German people being told about submarine warfare? Judging from past events, the Kaiser and his navy are undoubtedly magnifying every sinking for the purpose of stimulating the people into believing that the victory they seek is getting nearer. The government knows that the public favors ruthless torpedoing of all ships bound for the enemy, so the government is safe in concluding that the public can be stimulated for some months more by reports of submarine victory. Military operations In the West are probably not arousing the discussion in Berlin that the plans against Russia are. The government will see to it that the press points regularly to the possibilities of a separate peace with Russia, or to the possibility of a Hindenburg advance against England and France. ' The people have childlike confidence and faith in von Hindenburg. If Paul von Hindenburg says a retreat is a victory the people will take his judgment. But all German leaders know that the time is coming when they will have to show the German people a victory or take the consequences themselves. New Peace Offer Probable. Hence it would not be surprising if, after present military operations are concluded, either by an offensive against Russia or by an attack on the Western line, the Chancellor again made peace proposals. The Socialists will force the Chancellor to do it sooner or later. They are the real power behind the throne, although they have not enough spunk to try to oust the Kaiser and tell the people to do their own thinking. A big Allied military victory would,

of course, change everything. Defeat of the German army would mean defeat of von Hindenburg, the German god. It would put an end to the Kaiser's juggling with his people's nerves. But few people in Germany expect an Entente victory this year, and they believe that if the Allies don't win this year they never will win. Germany is stronger militarily now than she ever was; and Germany will be able for many months to keep many Entente armies occupied. Before the year is passed the Entente may need Amrican troops as badly as France needed English assistance last year. Admiral Lacaze, the French Minister of Marine, told me in Paris that "that side will win the war which holds out one week, one day or one hour longer than the other." And then the active little admiral, 'who looks like a financier, dressed as he is in civilian clothes added: "And the Allies are going to win." But General von Falkenhayn, former chief of the German General Staff, told me about the same thing last December, in Rumania. Says Teutons Will Win. "In war everything is uncertain," he remarked. "Nothing 13 certain except that everything is uncertain," he added, "but one thing I know is certain: We will win the war." America's entrance, however, may have the decisive effect. The Allies, especially the French, appreciate this. As a high French official remarked one day when Ambassador Gerard's party was in Paris: "There have been two great mo

ments in the war for France.' The first" was when England declared war to ' support us. The second was th breaking of diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany." The Germans don't believe this. A General von Stein, Prussian Minister of War, said recently, Germany doesn't fear the United States. He said that, of course, for Its effect upon the German people. The people must be made to believe this or they will not be able to hate America in true German fashion. ' America's participation, however, will upset Hindenburg's war plans if

the United States acts immediately. American Intervention can put a stop to the Kaiser's juggling with his people's minds by helping the Allies defeat Germany. Only a big military defeat will shake the confidence of the Germans in the Kaiser, Hindenburg and their organized might. Tne people are beginning to think now, but they will do a great deal more think: ing if they are beaten. So the answer to the first question every one asks: "How long can Ger many hold out?" is really answered by saying that Germany ran keep on until she is decisively defeated militarily.

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Friday 13, comes next week. We're j

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Lest we forget the city election this fall. Wonder how It feels to spend money for something and then not get it? Pity the defeated candidates in the primary. But what about the successful ones. They've bought something but don't know yet whether they will get it or not. Nominations don't' pay salaries. They are licenses to spend money.

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