Show d I To Un-teach Un a Nation J I I Allusion frequently has ha been made in this column to th the proof q the loyalty to this country of the hundreds of thousands s of J dermal born born German Americans and their de descendants cenda ts by their free enlist enlist- f- f mints in the army and nd navy by their purchase of Liberty bonds T N- N tL Nand and by various other patriotic acts J This fact doub doubtless less was one of the greatest of the disappoint disappoint- t v. v merits ments to Prussian l leaders aders who who confidently had believed that the great German German element in America would prevent this thi country from t entering g ring the war and t that at if i in the face ace of German opposition America joined the allies the G Germans in in America would start a revolution x xIt It most n st certainly was demonstrated as has been claimed that practically all of the Germans who thus far have emigrated to America left Germany because of their hatred for militarism and Prussian autocracy They realized that the only hope for Germany lie in the crushing of these for forces esThese es These forces have been temporarily beaten down by the armies of freedom but they have not been completely destroyed Theris There Ther I is still much work to be done but not with arms arms and in which I patriotic Germans ex-Germans who still stilt retain a natural love for their fatherland fatherland father father- I land as the place of their birth can be of great assistance I This work should consist mainly in teaching un-teaching as it were th the millions of Germans who were taught throughout the reign of ex- ex Kaiser William that they were supermen and nd as such were entitled to rule the world that the Supreme Being is a German god that force is right and that duplicity is the keynote of success Ge Germany many may emerge from its present chaos as a republic but even cven with the most democratic of governments it cannot be dealt with in safety by ot other er nations until the ideas instilled into the minds of the populace during the past three or four decades are completely eradicated |