Show AJ ERICA B AS OF DEGENERATES IN NEW GERMAN BOOK tI Herr r Edward Meyer University Professor in in North America and Germany Assails t 1 President Wilson on and nd His Policy of Ne Neutrality Says Women School Teachers Have Produced an Effeminate Race Germans Must Ce Cease se Attempts at Fr Friendship end hip T The e Americans are arC a nation Cation oJ of del de generates ruled by a a. college professor professor pro- pro fessor lessor who who has no knowledge of foreign foreign foreign for for- eign politics that they have become effeminate be because ause their youth are x instructed by by bi f female mate teachers that their neutrality la is a farce and thit that the they aj are axe hypnotized bY by a degrading x t yellow press these press these are some of the criticisms which fill the pages pages' of North America and Germany a I book recently published in Germany which has just reached America This book which has been welcomed welcomed welcomed wel wel- in Berlin is written b by Edward Ed Ed- ward Meyer Privy Counsellor and I professor history of in the University of Berlin and nd a a brot brother er brot ier of ot Professor Kuno Kurio Meyer lie He begins his book b by bewailing th the tidal Udal wave of hate that swept toward Germany at the beginning of the war and adds that of a all l countries countries countries coun coun- tries the hat hate generated In t the United States States' was the most overwhelming and am Inexplicable bl It was just here her that we expected sympathy and fri friendship says say Hr Herr er Meyer feyer All AH efforts of the kaiser and the German diplomatists have been heen directed to a friendly alliance fiance with the United States To such an end we we have ve-have have effected an exchange of ot professors have sent artists and others on friendly visits and have clone done everything to make malte American students of at art Fart music and science thoroughly at home In irl Germany In Ina a twinkling Ame America seems seema to have I I f forgotten its w war r of 1812 when the British sacked and burned its capital Its Us bloody blood civil war when England was hostile to o the Union and later the conflict with England over Venezuela Venezuela Ven Ven- hil hilE with Germany ith Germany there never yet has been peen the slightest dif dif- But Germany German labored orEd under der der a a. hal hat hat- From the moment that the he Fatherland nd threatened threatened on three her hervery very ex existence ex- ex struggle for in In-a In a sides side had to defend herself a tidal of hate continually augmented wave hv hY British lies so sought to o engulf MS Us n l However since the then the Americans have had plenty of time timo for reflection reflection have bave had both sides of the tion they they- they have have before them an and question put had the opportunity to render an on impartial im impartial im- im partial verdict But the maj majority and just impartial are against an any verdict Expected Colleges' Colleges Sympathy Of ot the real reason for which Germany Germany Ger Ger- forced into this this conflict r flirt ct was many and and do donot th they y h have ve no comprehension That we were not car CArt care to have an any compelled to Invade Belgium and slid nto to battle a against murderers and fra franc franc- nc ncy for our own existence the thedo they y do riot not give the slightest thought ht Germany at least expected the sympathy of the American merican unive have of whose professors sitter many studied with us A few of them Burgess Bur Bur- and Sloane of New hem York York and gess President Wheeler of f the University lot C California took b up the cudgels ir In poi Sour pour our bohemia behalf but the m majority have re rem ret re- re I utti silent There Then a is h a a. pro Ger ro-Ger- ro t m the of ma man roans sentiment in n the University Un Wisconsin and also among s some me of in Columbia m waive ver- ver the professors ors city sih in New York Tork The sentiment of the people is The shipping ship that of 01 the government is permitted permit m- m ping of ot arms to the allies s the ted the American cable cable is at the disposal misted disposal dis mis- of England while even n the us use ure of the wireless to Germany even Is la lim Um- m There is s no complaint because the British consulate in New York openly seeks recruits England can cando cando do what she wishes seize ships hold cargoes and take ore off passengers s suspect suspected sus sus- petted d of being Germans That is what America calls neutrality Goods and food can be shipped to England France and Russia but no o American goods can go to Germany without England's stamp of 01 approval al al and America priding herself on her humanity makes no protest to England's attempt to starve Ger Ger- many But there are two groups in America who have come como to our rescue res res- cue the cue the German-Americans German and the Irish They Thy have openly protested against this one sided neutrality and votes are an important factor In th the congressional c elections In November November No No- vember 1914 they made their in influence influence influence in- in fluence felt feH and there is la every Indication indication indication indi indi- cation that these combined factions will wUl yet force the president and his cabinet to observe an impartial neutrality neu neu- During my visit to America in lp 1914 and 1910 1909 I was wall often amazed at the result of my observations observations of ot the workings of the so called yellow elow press press' Of the depravity depravity and filth of this press it Is scarcely possible possible possible pos pos- sible to give an adequate idea unless one has been in America and observed observed ob ob- ob- ob l served it at first hand E ery time I took one of these papers in my hand handI I was almost overcome by a sensation sensation sensation sensa sensa- tion of nausea and yet the majority of the people are readers of these papers Even the better class of ot periodicals and magazines picture the kaiser as a 4 sinister Individual individual Indi indi- vidual whose whole brutal hand even comes conies between lovers Think Little of Our Army Herr Meyer speaks sarcastically of ot the small army of the United States and the confidence every man has inThe InThe in inThe The Hague peace tribunal as the panacea panacea panacea pa pa- which eventually will bring about world peace and yet et they would n not t for a moment submit the tho Monroe Doctrine to that tribunal for fo r decision as to its its legality He asserts as- as asserts ass as as- s that Americans have become effeminate effeminate effeminate ef ef- since the civil war owing owin g to the fact that the education an and gd d training r ining of our Dur youth are in rn ne hands of women and that some Americans even Ven go sd far in in- their theil silly m p prejudice prejudice dice against anything pertaining towar to towar war that they request the Numbers toy manufacturers to c cease ase making toy soldiers In In fact he adds in their frenzied frenzied fren fren- business life Ufe and lust for gain Americans have become a nervous sickly race During my visit in 1914 no other question was put to me so often otten as that the concerning concerning the degeneracy degeneracy degen degen- of the race Americans know no rest They do not walk walk they they run Every American American- has either dyspepsia sia or some other ailment and this accounts for the remarkable success of ot Christian Science The decrease in the birth rate is alarming and the increase in divorce cases equally so The Anglo-Americans Anglo are slowly dying out and immigration alone keeps Uie he population going President Wilson no doubt is an honest man but he knows nothing of international politics in the opinion I of Herr Kerr Meyer who gives a. a history a-history I of 01 the Mexican question to illustrate this and criticises the president for not h having Ving recognized Huert U Because Huerta was no n ne regularly elected president of ot Mexico l Wilson r refused fused to recognize him a if it any y election in Mexico or even in the United States for that matter 1 i. i really a fair election not dis disgraced of e d b by corruption and nd all kinds of ot illegal megal methods to produce a desired result he he writes In In this and other international tonal questions Q President Wilson has not helped the democratic patty party H lie Ite e is c convinced that England i 1 j In the right and Germany in the wro wrong g. g Inthe In Inthe Inthe the Mexican an revolution lie placed an embargo on arms and he no doubt felt justified as he did not consider a government existed in Mexico Because the German-Americans German and the Irish oppose his administration tion Wilson has termed them hyphenated hyphenated hyphenated hyphen Americans and this Ignominious name is also given to others who have haven havea n IL good word to say In Inthis Inthis this he shows himself a a. real school school- master Only those are real Americans Ameri Ameri- Americans cans who cover themselves with the mantle of a false false- neutrality and align themselves on the side of ot f t the tho he allies These latter have perfect freedom but th those se who sympathize with Germany must hold their tongue In reality the pro-British pro are in the and in accordance with ideas of 01 American freedom the majority majority majority ma ma- rules and th the minority has to remain silent Defends Defend Lusitania Attack Therefore these folk and so naive and unsophisticated as to believe that Germany could consistently spare a n. British ship like the Lusitania loaded with arms ammunition and Contraband Contraband contraband contra Contra- band jut just t because there were some American millionaires on op board who laughed at the warning which was given I Herr Meyer attributes all an this hale hate to jealousy and envy of Germanys Germany's nys ny's re remarkable remarkable re- re development thoroughness mess and efficiency and the natural enmity that Americana have against a mon mon- m mon n- n archy If the kaiser and Germany were destroyed he lie says it would please the Americans immen Immensely ely Considerable space in the book is devoted to a 8 survey of our o our previous wars with England and the writings I of at Thomas Jefferson and President Monroe A hundred years ago he lie adds I America was in err a 0 similar position t to I the one she is now At that time England waged her war against Napoleon NapOleon Napoleon Na Na- just as she Is now waging her war against Germany and the United States and her commerce were then I as now held up by the British navy American harbors were watched by English ships many American ships were seized plundered and sunk so I that President Madison declared war war On May 24 24 1813 Thomas Thoma Jefferson wrote a significant letter to Mme von in which he ho asserted that England always had been and always always' will be the enemy of ot all seafaring nations nations na na- and that her entire aim was to enjoy a n. monopoly of the seas and crowd off all commerce but her own Thus did the founder of ot the Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- party express himself a century century century cen cen- tury ago while President Wilson who is at atthe the head of the Democratic party today on December 28 1914 wrote that the British were fighting for the freedom of the seas and that the American Americ n government was in sympathy with her fight which had always been waged for the benefit of the weaker nations I Herr Meyer summarizes the situation situation situation situa situa- tion by saying the lesson which Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many h has s learned from all this unfriendliness Unfriendliness unfriendliness un- un un Un- friendliness and hate is manifest We should and must give up all attempts to win the friendship of th the Anglo Americans The friendly offers which we have always extended must now and forever cease We have only Injured Americans imagined there were sinister motives behind all these courtesies Polite we still will remain re xe- I main but the sterner and cooler we weare weare are the better |