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Show TWO AMERICAN'S Julius Kahn, republican, representative repre-sentative in congress from the fourth California district, which embraces San Francisco, a native of Baden, Germany; and Otto Kahn, financier, banker, economist, patron of the arts, and promoter of opera, a native of Mannheim, Germany, who served one year in the German army before leaving for the United States by way of England, have recently been mueh in the public eye and the public press. So far as is known, the two Kahns are in no wise related. The entire wjdth of the American continent divides di-vides them, when each is at home. They are of different tastes and different dif-ferent callings. One, upon arriving in the United States, a hoy, fell In immediately with the ways of California, Cali-fornia, and became a typical exploiter ex-ploiter of the climate and the possibilities possi-bilities of the Golden State. The other, having had experience in banking bank-ing abroad, fell into that profession naturally, upon arriving in New York. The first was quickly weaned away from German influences; the latter, owing to environment, clung to the hyphen practically until tho United States entered the great va.. Julius was living the free life or the Californian and forgetting that he had ever been otherwise, while Otto was still conversing with his associates, as-sociates, in the banking houses o." Kuhn. Loeb & Co.. and Speyer & Co.. in his native tongue. It was an easy matter for Julius to think in American Ameri-can when the crisis arrived; it was-no was-no easy matter for Otto to pull out-from out-from beneath the native obsession that German autocracy could not err. Yet, divided as they were geographically geo-graphically by more than,;' 3,000 miles, the crisis camo to erioh alike,, and each was compelled to face it. Both were Germans by nativity, by ancestry. If one ha(:?left' the kaiser's kai-ser's dominions earlier than the other, oth-er, tradition held' him no less tightly than it held the other to certain obligations, ob-ligations, which can be better fell than expressed by natives of a country coun-try which concedes no rights or liberties lib-erties to the individual that might in any way supplant the authority over him of the state. American cit izenship was a claim spurned by Berlin; Ber-lin; it might be assumed as a'.-.-feuifj venieuce; it could never mean to Germany surrender'0f authority over its sons. But the way Germany felt about it affected native Germans in the United States in vai'ious ways. Julias Kahn recognized no claim of Germany Ger-many upon him, past, present or n come. He had become thoroughly Americanized, and only the interest, of the United States concerned him. Because he was a native of Baden, it became necessary for him frequently fre-quently to explain why he was suen an ardent advocate of American In- ificMS, ill dun uiu i uniii trss. ini:- lie did by telling what it has been attempted at-tempted to make clear here, namely, that lie had long ago ceased to regard re-gard any other country than the United States as his own. Represt ntative Kahn has .been one of the strongest and most useful supporters sup-porters of the President in the house: he has subordinated partisanship partisan-ship and forgotten his republicanism, in order that he might help the ex- ccutive and the cause of democracy. With Otto Kahn it was not so easy, yet the difficulties he had to encounter encoun-ter make the loyalty he has displayed all the more creditable. He was, so to speak, entangled in German interests. in-terests. He had been for years in close association with bankers and financiers who took their inspiration from the Reichbank and the Deutsche Bank of Berlin; nevertheless, when it came to the parting of the ways, he said: "Speaking as one born in Germany of German parents, I do not hesitate to state it as my deep conviction that the greatest service men of German birth or antecedents .car., render to. the . country of their origin is to proclaim and stand up for those great and fine ideals and national Equalities and traditions which they inherited from their ancestors, an-cestors, and to set their faces like flint against the monstrous doctrine and acts of a rulership which has robbed them of the Germany the-loved the-loved and in which they took just pride. th Germany which had t' good wilL respect, and admiration c the entire world." And he added: '"The fight for civilization which all fondly believed had been won many years ago must be fought over again.. Hi this sacred struggle it is now qur privilege to take no mean part, and to it it is our glory to bring sacrifice.''. It would be exceedingly interesting interest-ing to know what the military .caste and the. Pan-German shouters of Berlin think of the impression they have made upon the Kahns, and upon up-on thousands of others like them, in the United States. C. S. Monitor. |