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Show ZIMMERMANN AGAIN. Our excellent and good friend, Herr Allied Zimmermann, is engaged once more in Hie delightsome task of exonerating exoner-ating himself, sprouting wings and furbishing fur-bishing tip his halo. No doubt this admirable ad-mirable Teutonic diplomat will bo able to cover himself completely with homemade home-made whitewash and he will gleam and glitter with snowy chastencss in the eyes of his countrymen. What could there possibly be wrong in trying to win over Mexico and Japan as allies in case of war with the United States! ho asks with that air of innocent inno-cent wonder so characteristic of German foreign secretaries. Nothing wrong at ,ii ,i m... ' 1 4-- P ntlior. an, lilt! leuiimm nuni.a vjl uuv A..uv,. land will chorus back. Hut in this white man's land the high virtues of Herr Zimniermann will arouse, not admiration, but horror and disgust, for it was li is proposal that Germany Ger-many 's Mexican ally should be allowed to seize. Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, Mex-ico, while the Japanese ally was to receive re-ceive our Pacific, coast states together with certain intcrmountaiu regions, including in-cluding all of Utah. We believe we are not overstating, sentiment in this country when we say that tho Zimniermann proposal will arouse universal repugnance among German-Americans. There may be German-Americans German-Americans in Utah who would rather serve as slaves uuder a Jnpaneso vice-' roy than stand erect as citizens beside the German-American governor, Simon Bamberger, but we fancy they will be hard to find. And we wonder what the ( lornian-Americans of Texas think about Herr Zimmermann's plan to hand them over to the tender mercies of the Mexicans. Mexi-cans. We have been glad in these United States to welcome Germans to citizenship, citizen-ship, to make them governors and senators sen-ators and mayors. They have given us generals for our armies and commanding figures in science aud business. They have worked togethor with us for American ideals and that high standard of life of which we and they have been so proud. And now a German minister of state, acting for the kaiser, would turn us and them over to the Japanese and the Mexicans. Herr Zimniermann may be able to convince con-vince tho Germans of -the fatherland of the purity of his Durrtoees. but he need not expect to arouse any intensity of enthusiasm among the Germans of Utah, California or Texas. |