| Show Overtaxing Patience Z Kt KUHN German American r a eri an b bund d. d l leader a r J 1 tells an audience in New York fet t the bund will wUl campaign to rid this country coun- coun try of Jews Jew sand and will pattern its program pro- pro I gr gram m after that of Adolf Hitler It t Now in America from its earliest beginnings Germans ns h ve played a foremOst foremast part in settling set set- this country pushing the fro frontiers tiers westward westward west west- ward tilling the the soil establishing industries carrying business enterprises forward serving as statesmen and in short having a full share in all aU the constructive endeavors which built the he country from a thin line of se seaboard board colonies colonies col col- col- col onies nies where a few thousands of harassed persecuted pere persecuted per per- e and oppressed peoples found safe haven t io t it its present wide continent expanse the homel homeland homeland home home- l land nd of free citizens For many many decades Germans have continued to arrive in the United States to become assimilated with the rest of the people and to take their part in the national life The he Ger German German- an- an r American is not set apart here from the thee Americans Americans Ameri Amen c ans cans of any other racial stock or geographical origin Except for the convenience of the cenus cen- cen sus us taker we see ee few occasions when it is necessary necessary necessary sary to refer to him as a German He Heis Heis is simply an American He has been welcomed into nto every community in the land and as an equal he has enjoyed equal rights with every other citizen native or foreign born a and d has faced equal duties and responsibilities Since the World war this type of German has continued to come to America Every Everyone one has hM fared better than he could in his homeland Every Everyone one has fared as well v ell as the Americans he found here upon his arrival The newcomers have had no heavier load to carry during the depression years than have the rest of the people Unhappily there have been Germans of another another another an an- other stripe arrive here bent only on stirring strife organizing for violence and preaching anarchy Fritz Kuhn is only one among hun bun He professes not to act at the behest of the German government Whether or not he does docs is a matter of small consequence He profess profess professes pro pro- fess s a to be working only among German Amer which is a matter of no consequence whatever what what- ever veri They are Ameri American an citizens Kuhn is not a danger to the nation he is merely an offensive noise a parasite playing soldier soldier sol sol- sol sol- dier in a brave uniform and setting up a stench wherever he goes to rant and rave of the pretty things ings going on i in Germany preaching a political doctrine conceived in Germanys Germany's underworld underworld un- un out of beer cellar in v spewed a Munich Mu- Mu nich penned in prison and bel hed into the nostrils nostrils nos nos- of a distraught people overtaken in a moment moment moment mo mo- ment when they were grasping for any faint hope for survival under the terms of u unspeakable speak speak- able cruelties imposed upon them by a conquerors conquerors conquerors' conquerors conquerors' con con- treaty V For Kuhn and his ilk there is no room in America He may succeed in gathering about h hint him n many thousands of former Germans who may ay seek to take the law into their own hands He may may call caIl them bunds if he wishes but the American people will know them only by the familiar name of Acts and threats threats' by y them against any part of the citizenry will constitute a violation of law By what stretch of police imagination can it be construed that a meeting held to foment h hate te to formulate a campaign of persecution to tolay tolay tolay lay plans for overriding lawful authority to deny equal opportunity to any element of the citizenry is a peaceable assembly In the Queens bund meeting the taxpayers of the borough borough borough bor bor- ough paid out over for policemen to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent interference with the plotters' plotters jabbering The unjust and unwarranted reaction that flay follow a mollycoddle attitude toward Kuhn and his un-American un comrades comrad s may well turn turnout turnout out to imperil the welfare of German-Americans German throughout the land I It is not their task to h handIe handle han han- n- n dIe dle the matter but the task of oL national state and nd local officials as representative of the whole people If fail to do violate they so they their oath-bound oath trust |
