Neutrality? The crucifixion of public opinion . ley, and Colonel Willich, thePennsylvania and New York in the Revolution; and last, butnot least, the 250,000 German volunteers in the army of theUnion in our Civil War!! They were all hyphenated German-Americans! Werent they? Evidently the editors of the Al-lies press have suddenlylost their memories; evidently, the great historian and author ofThe History of the American Nation, Mr. Woodrow Wilson,now President of the United States, has also forgotten thosenames and American history connected with them. Unaccount-able, unexplainable, aye, ridic
Neutrality? The crucifixion of public opinion . ley, and Colonel Willich, thePennsylvania and New York in the Revolution; and last, butnot least, the 250,000 German volunteers in the army of theUnion in our Civil War!! They were all hyphenated German-Americans! Werent they? Evidently the editors of the Al-lies press have suddenlylost their memories; evidently, the great historian and author ofThe History of the American Nation, Mr. Woodrow Wilson,now President of the United States, has also forgotten thosenames and American history connected with them. Unaccount-able, unexplainable, aye, ridiculous—if it were not so serious— NEUTBALITY 175 is therefore the Presidents speech, made at the silver jubileeCelebration of the Daughters of the American Revolution. In view of his authorship of the above-mentioned work, andin view of he being the President of all Americans, his criticismof those citizens who do not agree with the one-sided course ofhis anglophile administration was utterly out of place and madein bad taste and bad THE MENU. What Is Tour Order, Honorable Sir? Will You Have Manchuria, Indo-China,Hong Kong, Phillipines, Pacific CHAPTER LVIThe Eeal Menace Among the Hyphens. In times like this it is not that Wilson should ques-tion the loyalty of any citizen who has sworn under oath hisallegiance to the United States. It is not within his provinceand many citizens of foreign birth will rightfully consider hisremarks as personal insult. This is especially the case when thepro-British leanings of President Wilson and his cabinet areso decidedly evident that even British newspapers have describedthe adminstrations attitude as a Vconvenient neutrality. Our illustrious President, in his caustic speech, seems to havebeen very much troubled physically, soulfully, and in three orfour other ways, because a large portion of our population wasborn on soil contiguous to the Rhine or Danube. The word Hy-phen seems to have soured his temper very much. Were
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