A VOICE FROM GERMANY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1568, 24 June 1916, Page 4

A VOICE FROM GERMANY.

AMERICA AND GERMANY,

The .following is a translation From an article in tin; Paris .journal “Lo Matin,” of April Kith last: “For the benefit of President Wilson and other American ultra-paci-fists, the words of their great compatriot. Benjamin Franklin, written over 1()3 years ago, may well he exhumed. Writing to his friend, Collinson Pierce, under date May Oth, 1753, he said : “ ‘1 am quite of your opinion ; measures of great prudence are necessary with the Germans. I fear that through their fault, or ours, there will one day arise great disorder among the Americans. Being unaccustomed to freedom, the Germans do not know how to use it with moderation. In brief, unless this wave of immigration he directed to other colonies, as you judiciously propose, the Germans will become so superior in numbers that, despite the advantages we possess, we will not be in a position to preserve our language and our hold on the power of government will become precarious.’ ” “Benjamin Franklin was a wise and far-seeing man, and, to use a modern American colloquialism, ‘some prophet.’ The danger he foresaw has almost arrived.”