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Show WHERE OUR GERMANS STAND. A German-American called on The Standard to voice a protect against those who question the loyalty of men of his birth who have become American citizens. He said there are many men of German blood in Ogden, and he did not know one who was not more devoted to his adopted country coun-try than to Kaiser or imperial Germany. Ger-many. He admitted there were strong ties of affection which held him to the fatherland to kindred and to the place of his birth but when he renounced re-nounced h's attachment to the. Kaiser, he did so with full knowledge that he was obligating himself to allow no sentiment to prevail against his new allegiance, and today he stood for America above all other nations. We believe our German friend spokn his real sentiments, and wp further are firmly of the opinion the great majority ma-jority of the naturalized Germans in the United StateB are inseparable from us. The Germans who have settled in the United States have made the very best citizens, and they and their descendants make up a very' big part of this republic. This country coun-try is, In great part, theirs, and it is their duty to help maintain its dignity dig-nity and prestige and safeguard its liberties, and, though it would fall as a great sorrow on them, wo know that in the final test, as between Germany and the United States, they would stand for this, their country. oo |