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THE FATHERLAND
the unhappy dupes of England may still continue fighting England's
War.
Who are the associates of Putnam and Coudert on the Committee
of Five Hundred? tVe see there Herbert Langford tVarren, born
in Manchester, England; Josiah Royce, of Oxford University;
Ralph A. Cram, fellow of the North British Academy of Art; VVil-
liam Roscoe Thayer, Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy;
Herbert Adams, the pupil of Mercii: at Paris; J. Mark Baldwin, of
Oxford and Glasgow; Chevaliers of the French Legion of Honor,
such as Hobart C. Cliatficld-Taylor and H. E. Krehbiel. “7e see
Wall Street bankers, such as Frederic H. Prince, of Boston, whose
son is fighting with the English in Flanders; A. B. Johnson, Presi-
dent of the Baldwin Locomotive iVorks, head of a munitions con-
cern that is making and will make millions out of the war.
hilcn of Fecblc Wits
Among these Five Hundred are many superanniiatcd college pro-
fessors, some of them more than eighty years old, half blind, with
feeble intellects, who were persuaded upon this act of disloyalty to
their race and country. It is such men as tlicse-that are imposed
upon by the silly British propaganda, liy the food for infantile in-
tellects that is fed out to them, such as that German Zeppelins kill
Only babies; that the Kaiser has lost his voice; that he wears a
silver palate; that the Russians in defeat are victors; that Maoris,
Japanese, Hindoos and Senegal negroes, fighting the battles of their
white masters in Europe, represent liberty and civilization.
Led by madmen, these men of English sympathies and education,
men of feeble wits, men who profit by ivar-it is such as these that
comprise the Committee of Five Hundred. It is men such as these
that violated the neutrality injunction of President Wilson, and
ii‘! an effort to bolster up the cause of England, published their
"Address to the People of the Allied Nations" to inform them that
they had the sympathy of American people.
"Our judgment siipporlr your cause, and our .t‘y1Il[7all1ll‘S and
hope: are with you in this struggle.”
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Is this true? Do the American people sympathize with the Rus-
sian Hun, the brutal Cossack, whose lash is laid on the backs of
the Russian people? Do they sympathize with Japanese, coated
with the thin veneer of civilization? Do they sympathize with the
Servians, these assassins of their own leaders? Do they sympathize
wit.h Italians, who did not hesitate to betray their allies? Do they
sympathize with the French, who brought into Europe to destroy
a white race, Senegal negroes and Algerians? Do they sympathize
with Englishmen, who sent into Flanders Hindoos and Maoris for
the purpose of crushing the Germanic peoples? Do they sympathize
with a coalition of decadent races, which combine for the avowed
purpose of starving into submission a brave people fighting for right,
justice, civilization and their human kind?
There are in the United States thirty millions of people of German
blood. Has one amongst these come forward and agitated on be-
half of the entrance of this country into Europe's war on Ger-
many’s side? These people have been mindful of the President's
injunction. They have kept peace and silence.
The attitude of these people of German blood is a telling example,
a lesson in patriotism to be learned by the English and pro-Eng-
lish agitators among us, such as the Committee of Five Hundred,
the American Rights Committee and the other mischievous and
traitorous organizations, representing a small, noisy group of
partisans, led by madmen.
With the organization of the Committee of Five Hundred, the
agitation of Putnam and Coudert has reached its anti-climax. This
“Address to the People of the Allied Nations,” published in Petro-
grad and Tokio, has left a. bad taste in the mouths of our people.
Even Ochs, in the New York Times, publishes this “Address" in
shame-faced fashion, on an inside page of his newspaper. The
English partisans realize that at last their propaganda has gone too
far. The reaction has set in. One step further along such lines,
and the slow, slumberiug wrath of the American people will be
awakened against these disloyal citizens who are trying to infiainc
them into a war against the country’: will.
ENGLISH PLUTOCRACY VS. FREE AMERICANISM
(We print Mr. Kennedy’: open letter because it is ititcrcslirig. lVe also print Mr. Scltraderlr reply. A federation of the three great
Gtrmanic nations‘, Germany, Great Britain and the United States, is an ideal that has been espoiised eloquently by Professor John ll’.
Biirgrsr. It is an ideal that is worth contending for.
But we cannot indorse a combination of two of the Powers agaiiist the third.
Parhafws, or Mr. Kennedy .rugge.rI.r, 11 great Germanic Fcdcration may have been the dream of Cecil Rhodes. At the present time it .reem.r
fllrtlicr from rmligagign than ever, because the criminal folly of English stotesnten ha: siibsmuled for this dream of brotherhood the red
flag of fratricide.)
An Open Letter
T0 the Editor of Tina FATHERLAND2
An anonymous donor has sent me an excerpt from Tiii-: FATHER-
uxn of March 22, 1916, entitled "The Great conspiracy Exposegi"
1“ if you charge certain Americans with secretly l>10Nl"S ‘f’"h
certain Britishers to bring about the “absorption of the United
States by Great lgrigain." you imply also that what they are
doing they do because of the “corruption of Cecil Rhodes’ gold
in their systems."
You refer to my book “The Pan-Angles" and SW9 if 3 Place
among the first branches of your poisonous npas tree of treason.
Your contributor, eager to make violent charges, could not have
been expected to read “The Pan-Angles" with care nor with ‘an
“nprejudiced desire to understand its thesis. Let me summarize
for him. '
The civilization of Western Europe-and this includes America
‘Presents, in contrast with the other civilizations of the earth, a
“ery real homogeneity. In the great contiicts of the future, the
nations of this civilization must stand together or they and it will
be obliterated. I do not wish it to be obliterated. I wish my
nation to strengthen itself by effectively joining forces with other
nations of this Western European civilization, first of all-beC3USe
their language, ideals and habits of Government most closely re-
semble ours-with the six Britannic nations. A Patflmlc and fa"
-‘Ming German, whose vision reached beyond the dreams of tem-
Dorary glories and profits to the great future when this civiliza-
tion is to be tested as to its right to survive, would have wished
his nation to ally itself with such an association. He would have
seen that his country will inevitably need the assistance of the
Pan-Angles as the Pan-Angles, when that day comes, will in-
evitably need the assistance of his. (See pages 154-156.) That
Germany did not see this and that by the short-sighted policy of
the present war it has weakened itself and the whole civilization,
are matters for the gravest concern and may be the undoing of
us all.
English-Speaking Reunion
The passage you give as from Rhodes‘ 1877 will is not in my
book. You, of course, did not mean to imply that it was. Your
second quotation (barring what are doubtless slips in proof-read-
ing) is to be found on page 190 of my book. Possibly the idea
that “the peace of the world" might be "secured for all eternity"
so horrified your contributor that he did not read to the bottom
of the page.
in 1891 was ready to consent “to the absorption of the British
Empire in the American Union" and that he felt the importance
of ‘English-speaking reunion so great “as to justify even the sacri-
fice of the monarchial features and isolated existence of the British
Empire" are difficult to twist into cause for alarm. But your con-
tributor has a mania for brevity. Otherwise he would, in the in-
terests of the spirit of truth, have completed his quotation from
the 1899 will of Rhodes and written the “ctc." in full, thus, “but
without I hope withdrawing them (American Rhodes scholars) or
their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth." He
might even, had space been available, have mentioned the fifteen
scholarships for students of German birth, totalling a sum of over
$18,000 annually--appointment you will remember lay with the Ger-
It is as well that he did not, for the facts that Rhodes.