GERMANS IN AMERICA
A SHOCK TO PUBLIC OPINION ! LIMIT REACHED SCATHING PRESS COMMENT London, February 2. 1 The "Times's" Washington correspondent states that Mr. R. Barthold's ■meeting on Saturday was a great shock to public opinion, particularly the threat that five million members of German-American societies would take part in tho contest in favour of proGerman candidates. The New York "Times" says that Americans are very indulgent to German citizens, but when in their insolence they threaten to use the ballot to punish Americans who refuse to apPuiud the Kaiser's enterprises of blood and slaughter,, it is necessarv to warn them that they havo reached the perlimit. Many other newspapers publish similar stneturea. [Mr. Richard Barthold was born in Germany in 1855, and went to the United States when a boy. He.learned the printing trade and became Editor-ii'-Chief of the St. Louis "Tribune," IKN.-92. He was elected to Congress in lof.M, and is still a Congressman.]
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 5
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156GERMANS IN AMERICA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 5
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