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THE FATHERLAND
The Fatherland
FAIR PLAY FOR
Germany and Austria-Hungary
Edited by
GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK
FREDERICK F. SCHRADER
A weekly published and owned by the international Monthli.
. e N. Y. Commercial Bldg. 715 Broadway, New York
City. Telephone. Spring 1792. Cable Add:-as, Vierec New
York. President. George Sylvester Viercck; Vice-Praident.
Joseph Bernard Rethy: Treasurer. M. Binio
H..Reisinger. Terms of Subscription, incl., postage in the
months. In Cans ‘ . p . .
Subscriptions to all foreign countries within the postal union,
82.25 per year. Single copia, cents. Newsdealen ‘and Agents
throughout the country supplied by The International News
Company. Manuscripts, addressed to the Editor. if accom-
panied by return postage. and found unavailable. ‘will be
returned. The Editor. however. accepts no responsibility for
unsolicited contributions.
Covyfizht. 1914. by the international Monthly. Inc.
Entered at the Post Office, New York, N. Y., as Second Class
Matter.
TO OUR READERS.
E are a power now. We shall remain a power
as long as we represent you. This we shall
do unflinchingly. But there must be no slackening
of the reins. Never before in the history of Amer-
ican journalism has a great weekly been created
merely out of the enthusiasm of its founders and
readers, without capital and Without business ma-
chinery. Now we must build a firm foundation for
the future, for never again in the hour of need shall
Americans of German descent and affiliation be found
unprepared and unrepresented in the language of
our country. What you have done is great. What
you must do is greater still.
You must continue to help us until the battle is
won all along the line.
Send us your contributions to our press fund.
Subscribe for yourself and your friends. Send us
names of sympathizers. Demand “The Fatherland’
at the news stands.
The German troops at this moment are smash.‘ 1,;
their way into the heart of France. But even with
Paris fallen, the task will not yet be done. We have
fought our way into the consciousness of the Amer-
ican public. You must help us to retain what we
have gained until fair play is surely established for
all times. THE FATHERLAND.
MORE ENGLISH THAN THE ENGLISH.
()lJR contention that the Anglophile press in Amer-
ica is more English than the English themselves
is confirmed by the latest number of the London Aca-
demy. “At times of general strain such as the present”,
remarks that conservative British Journal, “there is al.
Ways a tendency. among the least thoughtful of the com-
munity, to exaggeration and violence of language. Of
such a category is the abuse of the Kaiser as ‘the
Mad Dog of Europe’ by a certain section of the Press."
This applies aptly to Dr. Parkhurst, the famous ex-
pert in frog lore, if we may trust the investigations of
the Lexow Committee. “ln spite of rumors to the
contrary,” the Academy goes on to say, we quote for
the benefit of the Anglo-Saxon Pulitzer Estate "it is
still very doubtful whether the Kaiser is really respon-
sible for the international conflict. In any case, Ger-
many’s position was an extremely difficult one, and
in fairness-a quality which is likely to be strained
when sudden hatreds are aroused in the individual and
collective mind--her policy should be received without
wholesale and thoughtless condemnation, however
mistaken, in our judgement it may be.” If the “neu-
tral" American press were as honorable as this publi-
cation of the enemy in its attitude toward Germany and
Austria-Hungary there would be no necessity for THE
FATHERLAND. Unfortunately newspapers like the New
York Times insist on groveling in the dust before Eng-
land, for which England will despise them no less than
every straight-thinking American.
SHOULD THE GERMANS DROP BON-BONS
INTO ANTWERP?
HE Belgians and the American Vassals of Great
Britain in the newspaper world complain be-
cause Germany hurlcd bombs out of the air into a
fortified town. Thay were not at all excited when
French aviators dropped bombs into Cologne and into
the unfortified town of Nuremberg even before'Wal'
was declared. We presume that the English aerial
fleet and the French deadnaughts of the air would have
d"0PP9d peppermints into besieged German towns if
the opportunity offered. lf the editor of the New York
World were the “war lord,” he would probably have
shot chocolate drops into Antwerp. War is all that
Sherman said of it. Women and children have no D1393
in a fort. If they stay there, they must bear the con-
Sequences. if a city seeks to save its non-combatants
from an occasional canncnball or a bomb, it should
surrender. Soldiers have no right, to hide behind the
pettycoats of their women or the swaddling clothes of
their babes. ‘
THE REVOLT OF ISLAM.
HE seizure, by England, of the two Turkish W37‘
ships built in English wharves has aroused the
bitter resentment. not only of Turkey, but of all Islam-
Again the flag of the Prophet will he unrolled. England
who has sown the storm must reap the whirlwind. ll’
her Moslem colonies and in those of France. the CF55’
cent will again assert itself. Both England and FranC6
will yet me the day that they called upon Asia and Africa
in their mad desire to destroy the culture and the C0m‘
mercc of a peaceful white nation,