Speech #630421662

The letters clearly show that they have been influenced by reading bitter attacks against this Government charging it with failure to enforce neutrality. The GermanAmerican is among the most loyal of our citizenship. and these printed attacks. paid for. no doubt. at space rates. have done him a great injustice by leading some. to believe he is not loyal to his own adopted country. No greater mistake could be made.- The naturalized American is for his adopted country first. and he wants his adopted country to keep hands off the European situation. and I want him to know that that Is exactly what his country is doing. One of my correspondents had been so Inflamed by the misrepresentations he had read that he was led to ask me if I had a soninlaw in England who had told me to oppose the resolution. which -indicates the methods employed to injure the adminis�tration in the eyes of our naturalized American citizens. For the benefit of my correspondent and for the purpose of qualify. lug myself to discuss the subject impartially in the eyes of those who favor this resolution. aid who usually charge everyone who Is not in favor of it as being a partisah of England.*I will state that I am a fullblood German by descent on my own account. Upon the account of my wife we have several first cousins. natives of Germany by naturalized parents. who are now fighting in the kaisers army. if they have not already given their lives for their country. We are very much concerned about the welfare of these relatives. and our natural sympathies for Germany are very great. But we have no political sympathies whatever as between the belligerents.