Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-21 | Page 4 | Just German Ire

t t H t t t t t t t t t t M t t I I JUST GERMAN IRE M t t M t M t M M t M t M t M M t M M t M t M t M t M M t t The fact that the disgraceful incident in the House of Representatives cs in connection with which Prince Henry of Prussia Lord an and the American people were insulted on the floor by Jin an m insignificant member is being used b by gentlemen who ought to know better as a means of creating political al capital capit l is greatly to be regretted The Time scurrilous speech in question while delivered d by a Democrat should not be charged to the Democratic party ery e every rem respectable adherent of which in Congress Con Con- gress gross must hon honestly deplore and resent it U But it appears that some majority members are fanning the time flame of popular disgust and anger for purposes purposes purposes' not entirely disconnected from the Con Congressional Congressional Cop Con I gressional campaign next autumn That their t temptation is a strong one as political methods metho s go we admit but it would have ha been better had they invited in the opposition to join with them in denouncing denouncing ing jug the person who has brought humiliation to his country and in providing means to prevent pre a recurrence re me- currence of such a disgraceful exhibition However the offender calls himself a Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat and because of that he has been able to throw mud enough upon the national organization to which he belongs to disfigure and injure re it painfully painfully painfully pain pain- fully for political purposes year The importance import import- ance of the German-American German vote ote in our elections is not ot to be ignored and there is strong evidence that the people who furnish that vote are mad down downto downto to the boots because a most distinguished l land and justly popular German has been contemptuously contemptuously contemptuously stigmatized as a little Dutchman in the Capitol at Washington Few speeches have haye been in such demand as the one which for the honor of the country never shou should d have been printed in the Congressional Record But there them it stands in cold enduring type and the sons of the German Fatherland Fatherland Father Father- land all over the United States are being supplied with s of the issue containing it by thousands and thousands No one who knows the Teutonic character can doubt that the dissemination of f this literature lre will bear fruit at the polls next Novem Novem- her ber Republican Representatives Y s anxious for reelection re re- re- re election election and and nearly all of them are are are are excusable in feeling a sense of exhilaration over o the powder which has been manufactured for them on the other si side e of the House Honse