OCR Text |
Show WHAT A GERMAN THINKS. A German by birth a Trusslan called on the editor of The Standard and said: "If I had my way. this country would handle the spy problem with the utmost ut-most vigor. There Is I need for firing fir-ing squads." This Prussian and hi father left Germany soon after Schurz and Hecker came to th I'nited Bt&tes. "1 came hero," he said, "to better my condition. My father was very bitter In his denunciation of the arlsto r v of the old country, nnd up to the day of his death condemned the tyrants. I have Inherited that sentiment, and I cannot understand why others who have had my experience, do not unanimously unani-mously Join in denouncing the Kaiser and all his kind "The world would be dark and Rloomy, if the junkers were to win , this war and spread their power and j influence to the four corners of the I earth. I, as a ynung man, detested the slave master. My father, true to his principles of freedom of Individual ac- tlon. foujrht for the north In that great 'conflict In this country. It would be I Just as offensive to me, If the slave j master of the future were a German. I detest any form of feudalism, and, knnwin.cr the Prussian junker mind as I I do, I feel quite certain that If the ! military of Germany were to gain a great victory, this world would go Lack to overlord ami vassal. Americans fought Americans tn lift the colored i man out of vassalage. Why should blood, fight to prevent civilization going go-ing back to the medieval, to the enslavement en-slavement of your child and my child, or of our children's children?" |