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Show NO KOOM I OR THEM. Naturalization will no longer save German-Americans from the internment intern-ment camps in tlte United States. The plan adopted by the government for the punishment of natives of Germany Germ-any who fail to prove loyal to the Stars and Stripes is to revoke their citizenship papers and then put them into the enclosures along with the other enemy aliens. Carl Sweigen of Seattle has the unenviable distinction distinct-ion of being the first German-American to undergo this process. Sweigin was naturalized in 1313, but has recently re-cently been charged with strong disloyal dis-loyal and anarchistic tendencies, so it was decided to make an example of him. According to Washington advices ad-vices similar action is to be taken in a number of other cases. We are in hearty accord with the program. There is no room in the United States for either anarchists or pro-Germans and if such individuals have secured citizenship papers the federal courts should revoke such papers at once and after the war is over we should deportthe riffraff by wholesale. Our entrance into the war disclosed the fact that we had been sleeping over a volcano and that the distinction of the republic was being plotted while we slept. Now that the I. W. W. and other conspirators have been exposed, let each one of them pay the full penalty of their crime. The cleaning clean-ing up process should be thorough, now that the opportunity has presented present-ed itself. Tribune. |