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10 THE FATHERLAND
THE F ATHERLAND
Fair Play for
Germany and Austria-Hungary
NEVV YORK, MAY 26, 1915
WHAT WILL THE ANSWER BE?
EFORE this number reaches our readers Germany
will probably have replied to 'Mr. Bryan's note.
What will the answer be? We can only hope that Ger-
man diplomacy, familiar with conditions in Washington,
will make allowances for the peculiar shortcomings of our
Secretary of State.
THE LYNCHING OF DERNBURG
HOUGH Dr. Dernburg is innocent of any offence,
he and his charming wife are being hounded out of
the country by the combined efforts of the press and the
Administration, while General Huerta buys real estate,
establishes a bank and settles down with his family in
New York. In view of such occurrences is must be dif-
ficult for a foreign visitor to think of us as a rational
people.
IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS .
T is an insult even to question the loyalty of the Ger-
man-Americans. Have they not shown by their wise
moderation that they are better Americans than those who
would drag Uncle Sam into war as the henchman of
England?
ENGLAND’S PAPER OFFENSIVE
HE atrocity charges made against the Germans in
Belgium by Lord Bryce came at a very opportune
moment for England. Evidently it is the beginning of the
great offensive predicted by Lord Kitchener for the lirst of
May. Having failed on the battle-field, the English again
transfer their activities to the newspapers. Y
It is quite evident that this statement was concocted in
order to forestall the publication of the affidavits collected
by the German Government on Russian atrocities. This
collection is now in this country and will undoubtedly
shortly be published by the German Embassy, as far as it
is publishable. Most of it, unfortunately, is unfit for
publication.
As a matter of fact the Belgians are happier under
German government than they have ever been before.
Belgium was a nation of industrial slaves before the en-
trance of the Germans. Germany brought with her not
only her 42 centimetre guns, but also her social welfar
legislation. -
The actions of the Germans in Belgium are governed by
the German military code, which George Bernard Shaw de-
clares to be the most humane in the world. At any rate,
Germany's instructions to her soldiers, which are obeyed to
the letter, are not one whit more severe than the instructions
issued by the United States to her soldiers in a similar case.
Perhaps the English think that the publication of the
Belgian atrocity fake will make the world ignore the recent
erection of a monument in Pretoria to the 26,000 women
and children murdered in the British concentration camps
in South Africa. I I I I
“ENGLISH MURDER,” SAYS HOBSON
Former Congressman Denounces England as Respon-
' siblc for the Sinking of the “Lusitania”
FORMER Representative Richmond Pearson Hob-
son, in expressing his views on the President's
note to Germany, May 14th, declared that Germany
had no motive for desiring to destroy the lives of
American citizens, but that such motives existed so
far as England is concerned, on account of her inter-
est in seeing the United States embroiled in war
against Germany.
‘In the course of an interview he made the sensa-
tional statement that a widowed cousin of his who
had gone to the Cunard steamship company's ofiiccs
to reserve passage on the Lusitania, had been advised
by one of the oliicials, an old friend, not to do so, as
he had received warnings from the British Admiralty.
The lady was put under pledge not to mention to any
one that she had been warned until the Lusitania
should have arrived at her destination.
Representative Hobson asks why the Cunard Line
had neglected to give the same warning to all pas-
sengers. Instead of issuing a general warning the
company took hundreds of passengers aboard, includ-
ing many prominent persons, whose death would nat-
urally arouse general resentment. Why did not the
company prescribe the safe course around the north-
ern coast of Ireland? Why was the Lusitania making
only seventeen knots through the danger zone? How
was it possible, he further asks, for a torpedo to sink
a ship in twenty minutes? Anyone with experience
in such matters must know that some "internal” cause
must have existed. Why did the Admiralty neglect
to convoy the vessel? Why were no preparations
made on the coast? How was it possible for so man)’
persons to perish at high noon in a calm sea and a
clear day?
VON MACH’S LETTER TO THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
THE FATHERLAND, unlike Professor Von Mach,
has abandoned its belief in the fairness of Theodore
Roosevelt. We published Von Mach’s letter, nevertheless.
because the high opinion that Theodore Roosevelt has re‘
cently expressed of the author lends a certain piquanc)’ ‘0
his epistle.
EDITORIAL REFLECTIONS
ENGLAND has begun her little “pogroms.7" The sec‘
tions destroyed by the drunken mobs in London, Liver-
pool, even in Canada, are predominantly Jewish sections-
THIS is the reply that an American sent to the Eveniilg
Mail, which editorially inquired where the German’
Americans stood on the Lusitania case: “I stand on the
plain American platform that if a man hits me I hit back;
if he gets six others to help him, including savages, I gmb
the first thing that comes to hand and let him have it; I
he then draws a line around my house to starve me and my
family. I dig a tunnel under his house and blow him up, CV9“
if he has invited company.” -