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Show COMMUNICATION I I . 1 I Criticises Mr. Jenks. ', Garfield, Utah. A Kdttor Tril.une The letter entitled, ft "Thinks Genuans Superior," in The Trib- ' une of Sunday contains some very in- JJ. usual statements. It sci-eely is deserv- vy ins' of any serious criticism, but your 'j, correspondent is so insistent of the 1k- , noranee of the mass-es that I am loath to let his letter yo unanswered, lest these Barne. masses mtqht be imposed J upon. First, lei mo state that I have '' no desire lo take issue wilh your corre- 'A spondent from tho standpoint of nation- alify. but let. me also reveal any bias ', 1 mav have bv tiankly statins that I am ' Heore'h. " li Your correspondent asserts that the opinion of unthinking Americans lias been y swayed by English and French lies. Are we to aesunic, therefore, that the opinion of thinkim? Americans has been like- y wise susceptible, In view of the fact that 'j American thinkers of all classes con- demn Germatiy'3 actions? Your corre- spondent imputes base motives to the 'j American people by accusing them of takine; sides with the strong, regardless of rifrht or justice. Then, by inference. ; he lays claim to superior nobility of mind himself bv espousing the unpopular side, ' which, he tells us, is that of Germany. ; Does your correspondent propose to at- tain such ethereal mental qualities Dy tne gratification of his wish surely unique ' in the annals of human history that the blood of his ancestors the people, mark if vou, to whom he owes Ms very indl- vlduallty should be entirely purged from ( his veins? ,' ', Your correspondent states that the Ger- man strain of blood is superior to the Lat- in. Slav and Anglo strains in Americans. J Since, manifestly, not in quantity, I pre- sume ho means In quality, by virtue of that inevitable German culture. Surely, ; also, he Is inconsistent when he excuses ; his quondam contempt for the German 1 people by a half-forgotten contact with t "pome poor, greasy German mechanic, ; who poisoned his (your correspondent's) mind." I resent this with ardor, were It ; only from the circumstance that I am a mechanic myself, but of whom, on that account merely, my country need not be ashamed. Truly, your correspondent is a creature altogether too immaculate for this humdrum old planet. Ninety-eight per cent of tho Germans are educated and of such tremendous mental caliber as will fit them for associating with your correspondent. That leaves - 2 per cent who must therefore compose the great unwashed "the poor, greasy, hard-working German mechanics." I think I am not unduly harsh if I accuse your correspondent corre-spondent of shallow discernment. The workingman is the strength and backbone of Germanv, as or even- oiuer ,j,.'s-ive ,j,.'s-ive country. The Germans may well give pride of place to their workers. Mav I ask If vour correspondent Is just to Britain? She Is todav succoring thousands thou-sands rif homeless Belgians. They are being shipped to her shores by the boatload, boat-load, some of them half-crazed with terror. ter-ror. Has Germany fed any of the people peo-ple whom she has wrontre.l. whose homes she has violated, ravished and burned? Ves, she has fed them with bullets. To I whose account must all this desolation I he laid on? Where will lie the responsi bility for those heart-rending crimes on Belgian soil, from which the civilized world recoils? Let the untramme'.ed jueg-rent of this great American people decide. The voice of posterity also will not be uncertain. I.astiv, against the claim of your correspondent corre-spondent that anv American who upholds Britain Is a traitor to bis country", permit per-mit me to voice my claim, which Is. that anv man. of rnv nationality, who uoholrts the German war pc.nv Is a traitor to mankind and nil those higlily-chens.ied ideais of the human race. I rend the inhuman gospel of Germany s war philosophers; I picture with feel-ines feel-ines o' horror flre-swont and famine-stricken famine-stricken Belgium: I think of the neutral rations compelled to passively survey the depre.ta.lnrs of ihe kaiser (ownrd un Innocent In-nocent and rilkint foe. and then I think of o ,r own Shakespeare and those word" of P,"-'.la "To .in a great rleht. lo a little wrong, and curb this . ;,. lvl of his TCI11." THOMAS JORDAN. |