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Show lis lQ'l to none of these, but let our action be jsoverned chiefly by considerations considera-tions of our own country's welfare and not of the welfare of the countries en-yagei en-yagei in war. DEBATE THE LOAN. From rueful thoughts about ammunition ammuni-tion the Germans of this country are turning to the consideration of the proposed pro-posed billion dollar loan for Trance and England. It is said that a nation-wide propaganda against the loan will be instituted. in-stituted. If this propaganda is conducted conduct-ed without the unfortunate violations of law which marked the propaganda against the shipment of ammunition it should serve a useful purpose. It can do the country no harm to discuss the loan from all points of view. Above everything else the loan should be considered from the American point of view. We should study with the utmost ut-most care not only the immediate effect of making such a loan but all possible future effects. It goes without saying that the floating of the loan is entirely with'm the law. It is equally true that the German propaganda against the loan is within the law. The questions involved do not relate to the legality or illegality of $he loan. They are questions of morality, of expediency, of the future welfare of the nation. There are in the United States at least 15,000,000 people of Teutonic blood. The greater part of them sympathize sympa-thize with Germany as the fatherland from which they or their ancestors came. Only a few have been guilty of over-zealous acts which have tended to violence. No doubt a much larger number num-ber has applauded these acts and has encouraged them directly or indirectly. This has resulted in much bitterness and the charge that the German population popula-tion is loyal first to the kaiser and second sec-ond to the United States. But this charge has been made in wrath by enthusiasts en-thusiasts for the allies, its application, applica-tion, if justified, is to but comparatively few as compared with the 15. 000,000. "While it is true that we arc a nation in every sense, yet we are a nation unlike un-like any other that ever has existed. Our population is polyglot. We have recruited from the whole world, but especially es-pecially from all the nations of Europe. These people bring from their home lands their loves and prejudices, and when a crisis arises in which the home land is involved love and prejudice dominate the latest comers and even those who a re merely attached to the home land as the land of their fathers. tt is because we are such a -different nation that we must bo tolerant of all reasonable and just difiTererrrfs of opinion. As long as difference of opinion does not conflict with patriotic duly io the government it is respectable and worthy of a tt cut ion. The mere fact that a certain section of our people takes issue with the majority docs not stamp the minority as out of sympathy with the land of their adoption. As a nation we owe due consideration to all the elements of our population, and so long as those elements show due consideration con-sideration to the nation at la rge they should enjoy unlimited liberty of expression ex-pression and action. Such a standard might not be practicable or desirable in a count ry where the people are all o t" one race, but in the world's melting pot such a standard is not only just, but preferable. Therefore it is to be hoped that the contest over the loan will go merrily on. Let us have all the arguments for and against the loan. Let us lend to England Eng-land and France and to Germany or let |