GERMAN-AMERICANS ON THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 278, 13 August 1918, Page 6

GERMAN-AMERICANS ON THE WAR

REVULSION AGAINST THE FATHERLAND. Out in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where men' live '.close to nature and speak their mind freely, without diplomatic subterfuges, a morchant by tho name of, James Gould several months ago printed at tho head of all his stationery and on the envelopes the following lines:— "I swear as long as I live never knowingly to purehaso any article made iu Germany. Will you make tho same pledge?" Almost every business house tho man deals with, and to whom ho bos' sent letters with the abovo inscription and query, has responded in the affirmative. Before the war the "made in Germany" label was often considered a recommendation. Business men'no\y. recommend their wares by stating "not made in Germany." One thousand Gorman societies in America have disbanded in the last few weeks. Theso. socioties were scattered in every part of the United States. ■' Restaurants bearing German names have changed their names. Restaurants that used to have bills of faro in both German and English are now printing bills of fare in English only. And there is a vengeanco in this rooting out of everything German, even though it is dono by men of German origin. As one proprietor of a German restaurant put it:

"President Wilson has given Germany evory chance to keep ofl' tJio United States. It should lmvo kept off. But it deliberately provoked,us into the war. 'Ihoy forced us noft only to send our sons to battle, but to send them across the sen. The American soldier has a double ordeal to go through. Long before he Tenches the dangers of the battlefield he faces tlio dangers of the submarine. The men or nations responsible for that must be hated bitterly. What if I do come of German blood. Long before I was German I was human. Germany has derided all the humanities in this war; w'e Americans of Gorman origin do not recognise it. It has become a monster.'" ,