THE GERMAN 'INFRA-MAN.’

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145085, 9 September 1916, Page 6

THE GERMAN 'INFRA-MAN.’

WHAT AN AMERICAN JUDGE SAYS. Ai- the banquet in Paris- to eelebralo Independence Day. at which M. Brinnd was present. Mr. Walter Berry, formerly the American Judge in the Supreme Court ot Egypt, arraigned Germany and German methods with a force which will receive little appreciation in the Fatherland (says Tho LawTimes of July 15). Hero arc a few passages from the speech, which whs much applauded: "It is only within the past lew sears that we hare perceived this nicer in onr hotly politic. We hear of ‘hyphenates—of German Americans. It is a state of things traceable not. only to tho nature of the individual, but also to ibe most unrighteous law which a double-dealing Government—a Government without scruples—ever invented. The law Delbrnk permits one German-born to take the oath of fidelity to another Slate, to .-wear .that, lie has renounced his King and his country, and. once the document of naturalisation is in the pocket of the German, the solemn oath which lie lias just sworn counts tor nothing, and In; remains a. German sullied. And the German, with that menlalitv v. hieh is incomprehensible to ns. Ims ini idea of liberty, but obeys mil jn-olits from a fraud which a Frenchman, an Englishman, or an American would reject with scorn. . .

The German boasts if being a snpernuii; lie shows himself to be an inlraimiu. In the great struggles during centuries for liberty is a German's name to lie found f Not a single name of (e'l'inaii origin appears in the Declaration of Indejicndence. As far back ns Bill the Tiers-Ktat was demanding from file Edits genoreanx liberties which the Germans do not possess to this day. It is against such liberties tlmi- lilt* Kjum’T. wiih liis uU'fts of tho Uivino right of king*, is somling his honics. haltering tho impregnable nuns ot Vmiun. Rut it L not. only against Verdun; the K«iscr , > the Dernbergs. tho Doy-EcL, and the vou Papons, arc attacking our institutions. NioUsoiuv who understood lus own. countrymen, has. said, ‘Miieroycr Gcrnsuiv goes she corrupts civilisation. Every American citizen must fight against this corruption, and even in the great German centres of America there is a revolt against the German pretensions. Last year in t htcago, where moro Gormans ate cmigregntecl than in any city in the world save Berlin, they attempted to carry the Mayoralty. A comparatively unknown man opposed the German, and was returned bv an unprecedented majority. J his was a vletoiv for Americanism, ami it is worthy of note that both candidates for the ITesidency tiro now striving to rid themselves of the hyphenates. No American is to he Jound in the German trenches, and no Chapman has given his life for the Divine right ol kings. How is this:- It is because Americans know that France and England are lighting for tho independence ol tlie whole world. '