Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-10 | Page 34 | Pass the Bill

PASS THE BILL. Senator King's bill calling for the revocation of the charter of the National Na-tional German-A m eric an Alliance has attracted the attention of the whole country and we dare' say the 0 b j e c t sought by the Utah senator will be attained at-tained in the near future. The German interests in the United States have been very powerful in the past and the threat of an adverse German vote has usually brought the politicians to time. At the outbreak of the war in Europe, the Germans in this cou ntrv undertook to prevent Americans from traveling on the high seas, and from selling foodstuffs, food-stuffs, niunit ions and 0; her w,i r materials mate-rials to the entente allies. Thev even went so far as lo'place bombs in steamers steam-ers and factories, to a 1 1 em pt the destruction de-struction of railroad ( bridges and to commit various other crimes in order or-der to cripple our industries. But these were physieal crimes and the offenders were always in danger of death or im ; r; son merit. The great attack at-tack upon American institutions was made when the National Geraiati-American Geraiati-American A Ilia nee undertook to con- ':;on thN pent. That they n.ib'd ;rr.;,..( to u-e tr" U.': :! State- as an ai'y ''f C..-.-a.;i::y in the aM":'.pt of . ka:-'"r tit make h:,i. na-- .- L-f the ( v a.-d cow that we ha e e-.fre i ! ho v.-ar ami th-:r purt-.s? ha be..-a ! -evaied. e.;r.gre5 .,re;!l . rev.d e the jeliart'-r of the a'iihnce and ail of it-! ' ri.embe.-s. should be e!n-e!y watched. ! Th"re is only one side to the nues- i Yh"i!"ver a,.y f.-ign el- mcnt a'- I tempts to control one or both of the' great political jarties in 'the Unite-: tates in order to dictate the policies of the a d mi ui-trat ion at W'a-h ingt on . it is time to take tho mo.-t dra-tie action ac-tion that can be taken under the law. ''ertainly no smdi foreign element should be chartered Py ongres and t h li be enabled to eft r ry on its u n h 0 : y work unmolested. 'I.r leaders of the alliance say they have been loyal since Uncle Sam donned his armor. This may well be doubted, for many trails o: treachery lead to their doors, and they cannot remove suspicion by making disclaimers. There should bo only one class of A m eric an cit izens in time o f war and the patriotism of all such eitiens will not be open to question so long as they march together under the starry flag. Unfortunately there are two classes at the present time, ami it has become necessary to take extraordinary extraor-dinary measures to protect our re-publieau re-publieau institutions. There is no longer room for the German-American in our midst, unless he drops t Ue prefix pre-fix and proves by his acts that he is an American first, last and all the time. Senator King's bill should pass. Bolo says he has a thousand reasons why he should not be executed. The French authorities have one satisfactory satisfac-tory nelson why he should. Another case of where the 1000 to 1 shot loses. Minneapolis Min-neapolis Tribune. That reader of the Herald vho urged that the United States take part of Siberia as an offset to the money loaned to Russia and repudiated by the Polsheviki. Polshe-viki. should be advised by Secretary Lansing to first submit his proposal to Toluo.--Nev York Herald. Von ITertiing says ''Germany would not think of invading Switzerland." Just do it absent-mindedly, without thinking about it, as it were. Commercial Commer-cial Appeal. " Lord Lansdowne sees a gain in Bert-ling's Bert-ling's speech. Ifis lordship's eyesight is certainly remarkable for one of his age. Chicago Herald. It is stated. that the French are delighted de-lighted with tlie accuracy of American guuuers. A profound difference in taste will be reflected among the Germans. Courier-Journal.