"UNADJECTIVED AMERICANS,"

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 129, 7 January 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

"UNADJECTIVED AMERICANS,"

XE\V YORK BAXKIXG HUM AM) THE "STAATS /KITING. - '

The following letter has been sent to the editor 01 the "Staat- Zeitung" by Messrs ,1. and W. Celigman and Co., the well-known linn of New York bankers, dated New York. October 16, I'Jlo: "Dear Sir, — \\ e repeat for youi benefit what we thought we had made abundantly clear iu our statement in the pre--:- on September 21*. namely, that 'we are not Germans nor yet Ger-man-Americano, but that we are unijiialitieJ, nnadjectived Americans. While not readers of the •'.Stunts Zeititng,' we are under the impression that there was no mourning border in the noddle of your front page whe 1 American children and Amere-ui women entitled to the sympathy and protect on of every true American were, together with their fathers and brother-, deliberately and heait 1 ;.•-.-; y murdered bv the sinking of the l.u-J tunia. "That black mourning border \->n seem to have reserved for Ame'icen bankers seeking to render a disinter'.*! Ed service to their country l.y hidping to keep its industries going O.ioug;, credit- to its foreign customers "This letter should lie pub'.-ind m the same prominent place on your front page as yea: selected for the mourning border enclosing our linn's name in your i—ue of October 1(3."