The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1915. PRO-GERMANS IN AMERICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 32, 8 June 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1915. PRO-GERMANS IN AMERICA.

Though the attitude of the United States Government with regard to German outrages may be very difficult to understand from some points ol view, it is not so difficult from others. For instance, there is really nothing that America could do towards enforcing any ultimatum she might decide upon, and Germany is certainly well outside any influence of moral suasion or any appeal on the grounds of humanity. It has also been suggested that President Wilson has been 1 earful of giving offence to the German vote in the United States. But it does not appear that he really need be so timid, for tiic great bulk of America’s best citizens could never look with calmness or approval on such horrors as the Huns have perpetrated. To any one who thought otherwise the result of the Chicago Mayoral election must have been of special interest. This city of industry, with its enormous foreign population, was considered a safe Democratic stronghold, and it has a large foreign population. Yet at the Mayoral contest in April Mr Thompson, the Republican candidate, defeated Mr Swoitzer, the Democratic nominee, by the unprecedented majority of I*lo,ooo votes. All the leading Germans and Austrians signed a circular urging the voters of German, Austrian, and Hungarian descent to vote , for Sweitzer, and although there were other issues in the contest, the deciding factor must have been the strength of the anti-German feeling in the city. It may be fairly argued that the lesson of Chicago indicates that horror and resentment of Germany’s foul deeds is powerful enough to make the pro-German clement in the States one that is rather to ho avoided than sought for in support of any political party. Republicans and Democrats will not be anxious for an alliance with the pro-Germans. They ought to be last diminishing in the face of the fact that Germany now assorts she will never admit she did wrong in murdering the men and women who were on the Lusitania.