Show ON rERILOUS GROUND t German American Papers Stand Against Imperialism + I THEIR POLICIES OUTLINED r t I NO BRITISH COLONIALISM BUT AJiIERICAN REPUBLICANISM t > Any Effort In This Country to That End should Be Suppressed and the headers Repudiated and Dis grace1Party Favoring It Should Be Wiped Out of Existence to St Louis April IlL The Vestiiehe Post will tomorrow print an article in the English language defining the policy pol-icy of aU GermanAmerIcan papers In this country regarding Amerlcamsm against imperialism The article in part follows Time and again the attempt has been made to supplant American republicanism re-publicanism with imperialism Time and agaIn American patriotism mIll that high and far = seeing love of mankind man-kind whIch unltcsmen of all coulllrieJ in a common brotherhood of humrnity 1 have Illlled and won against it V hen I half a century ago we had the canna crIes of manifest destiny Ute can querLng Saxon expansion and all the rest we are hearing over again nw Americans as radically I opposed tc Caen tr other In most things as were Calhoun and Corwinjcined with Clay Webster Lowell Clayton and Clemens against lit What American can read this without di sn out an Indignant tefusulto consent that I the blood of those onCe our allies shill saturate the soil on which they Wre porn that we may be praised by the i London TImes for our noble work for progress In furthering British plans for dismembering and robbing China John M Clayton himself the author of the ClaytonBulwer treaty and openly open-ly 11 favor of cooperating with EnJ land In business was openly opposed to having anything to do with the oultl cal methods of BrItish imperialism What is there In stalwart Ameri canfsm Its native Americanism If yU I will except what GermanAmericans arc sayIng now In declaring that they gave up home and friends and came I thousands of miles into an unknown country for the lovenot of BrUsh colonialism but or American repub llcanism To that they are loyal now and always To AmericanIsm not to British commercialism or the bayoret to Americanism to liberty to progress to freedom from militarism to the Ix I pectation of a time to come when he world will be no longer shackled by Imperialism with its bayonets and otters ot-ters to that GermanAmericans rho I renounced imperialism in Europe are devoted now as they were fifty years tgo when they listened to Seward lS I he said of these same expansionists Sir they have sent the American eagle abroad bearing not the olive branoh but a shackle in his talon The flag of this great republic sldn snow s-now not for what the London Times approves but for what 1t meant when Seward stood under It to utter this In mortal sentence GermanAmericans Stand Such republicanism as that was not his nor Is It that of any loyal German Amer can or of any other American who is loyal to his flag and to hIs country try May heaven forbid that it ever should be May the time never mime when the American people will applaud those who drabble a flag dedicated to freedom and human progress in the blood of men who die on their own soil resisting the same principle of British imperialism against which America triumphed tri-umphed at Yorktown and New 0 icons Such ideas will never prevail in America Any part which commits itself to them will be wiped out of existence ex-istence Am leader who attempts to check civilization and progress and American institutions and American principles will be repudiated and disgraced dis-graced any foreign nation which for its own selfish purposes attempts to use the American people as a catsp win w-in schemes of fraud and violence whll find itself the victim of Ute reaction < o t fits f-its own malevolent scheming Justice IIbertJprogress through justice antI liberty until the whole world Is eif vated by our national life as it has been by the individual life of Washington that Is the manifest destiny or America Amer-ica for that the flag stands and fur that GermanAmericans are willing now as they have always been to stake everything knowing that when Issues are made against liberty and In favor of imperialism everythIng Is at stake for them the American liar art for all that is worthy of survival in the world |