Show FEDERAL JUDGE I ON DISLOYALTY Parties So Proven roven May la Be Interned And AmI Property Confiscated A Federal judge has made a ruling ruling rul- rul ing ig that when a naturalized American Ameran Amerl Amer- Amer ican l an citizen has been proven disloyal he e loses his citizenship becomes an enemy nemy alien allen an and may be interned for or the period of the war and may mayhen then hen be deported As we understand It t his property may also be confiscated con- con fisc seated ted by the U. U S S. S All of which Is s right and proper and as it should be e. e We hope this ruling will become nationwide nationwide t When the foreigner who has taken advantage of our hospitality to betes better bettes bet bet- tes ter es his condition has so little appreciation appreciation ap- ap of the privileges that he enjoys as to commit disloyal acts and nd utter disloyal speech against his benefactors the only remedy is the withdrawal of those privileges There are hundreds of thousands of foreigners for for- eigners who have come to our shores to o obtain relief from oppression in their own countries and to secure opportunities for tor themselves and their heir children which could never have been secured under their home governments Most of these foreigners foreign foreign- ers h have ve become assimilated and are Americans But in the case of Germany the Germany the German government government government govern govern- ment holds that no German citizen ever loses his citizenship In Germany Germa Germa- ny no matter where or how many times imes he Is naturalized In other coun- coun tries ries It will plainly be seen therefore therefore there- there fore ore that to the German government government government govern govern- ment no German Is ever naturalized naturalized natural zed in any sense of the word because because because be be- cause he is German Mst first last and all the he time and is simply a transplanted transplant transplant- ed German In too many cases this has las proved true and Americans have found to their cost that the natural natural- naturalization oath is to many Germans not even so much as a scrap of paper paper but merely a means of ot securing a ahome ahome home for tor nothing and immunity from military service To such persons persons persons per per- sons the only punishment is property proper proper- ty confiscation and loss of personal persona liberty and consequent curtailment of opportunity for doing harm to the most and generous gov gOY on earth which until the present war was forced upon it has ha given gi Iven all a and d exacted nothing from tram i its ts foreign population Many people perhaps are no not I aware that hundreds of thousands thousand of acres of of the most fertile land in th world under the most favorable climatic conditions are owned by German-born German citizens all ov over r the United States notably in the states state of Iowa Illinois Wisconsin Kansas Nebraska and North and South Da Da- Da- Da kota In these states there are large communities of Germans who acquired acquired acquired ac ac- their land under the Homestead Homestead Home Home- stead Act who not only speak Ger Ger- man but have German teachers preachers and congressmen who spread German propaganda and ar are veritable hotbeds of sedition se These Thes people le paid nothing for their land it cost them nothing to develop and produced abundantly Many of these so-called so naturalized German citizens all over the country countr have more material wealth than the they ever dreamed of and with less labor labo than it would take for tor the barest bares existence in Germany For these Ingrates ingrates ingrates in In- grates interment confiscation and later deportation are mild punish punish- ments After the war let them start star where they left lert off oft and build u up their fortunes in the country an and under the governments they serve To our mind there are no Ger man Americana they man they are Germans German Germanor or they are Americans no hyphen and no compromise The United States is now at war with one of th the most brutal and vicious governments government the world has ever known and theris there ther Is is no mi middle dle ground ground except except No No- NoMans NoMans NoMan's NoMans NoMan's Mans Man's land When the American troops get Into in into into In- In to the thick of fight fight when when th the casualty lists contain thousands Instead in instead instead In- In stead of scores of names each day day day- when nearly every home has its lIttle cross somewhere in France the France the temper of the American people will change There will be bo no sympathy for tor the slacker the disloyal foreigner foreign foreign- er the spy and traitor It behooves each man and woman to walk circumspectly circumspectly cir cIr- cir cir- and to guard his speech Pro or pro anything else is a sting of the past It is either American or enemy enemy enemy ene ene- my friend or foe Like Marc Anthony I do not seek to stir you up but merely to sound a note of warning to the strangers within our gates He who is not for us is against us He who is with us is our brother be he of whatsoever natio natio- He lie stands for right and Justice justice justice Jus jus- tice and we grasp his hla hand in fellowship fellowship fellowship fellow fellow- ship and th the names of the suffering masses and the American nation |