Germans have fought and bled on the battle fields of four American wars and furnished a larger proportion to the fighting strength of our country than any other of the socalled foreign elements. In the Revolutionary War. with Baron Steuben they espoused the cause of the Colonies. and the implicit confidence which the Father of our Country placed in their loyalty is a matter of history. In 1861. when many of the English. with instinctive aversion to American naturalization. took out British protection papers. the Germansthat is. nearly 200.000 of themrallied around the flag of Abraham Lincoln to save the Union. They displayed the same valor in the War of 1812 and in the SpanishAmerican War. and their loyalty to the flag in times of war is equaled only by their loyalty to American ideals in times of peace. I should have much preferred if just at this time these historical truths had been uttered by other than a GermanAmerican tongue. but while our proEnglish press is ignoring them.
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Germans are loyal to the flag in times of war and to American ideals in times of peace.