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"1683-1920": The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—GermaSchrader, Frederick Franklin

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"1683-1920": The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germa

Schrader, Frederick Franklin

Germans -- United States; World War, 1914-1918 -- Miscellanea

It has been extravagantly modish to distort ethnological facts and
set up new gods, but the assailants of the German race have not
been able successfully to deny that tremendous influence which has
given birth to the free institutions of the world, and there are
not wanting among Americans of authority those who have been openly
outspoken for the truth. President Garfield in his article on “My
Experiences as a Lawyer” in the “North American Review” for June,
1887, p. 569, observed, alluding to a speech made by him on the death
of his friend, Representative Gustav Schleicher of Texas in 1879:

    “We are accustomed to call England our fatherland. It is a
    mistake; one of the greatest of modern historians writing
    the history of the English people has said that England
    is not the fatherland of the English-speaking people, but
    Germany. I go into that and say, ‘The real fatherland of
    the people of this country is Germany, and our friend who
    has fallen came to us direct from our fatherland, and, not,
    like the rest of us, around by the way of England.’ Then I
    give a little sketch of German character, and what Carlyle
    and Montesquieu said, that the British constitution came
    out of the woods of Germany.”

In a like manner Charles E. Hughes, while governor of New York State,
in a speech at Mount Vernon in 1908, said:

    Did you ever think that a very large portion of our people,
    despite their present distinction of home and birthplace,
    and even nationality, are descended from those common
    ancestors who a few years ago lived their life in the
    German forests? There were nourished the institutions of
    freedom; and if any one were to point to any place in the
    world to which, above all, we trace our free institutions,
    we would point, above all, to the forests of Germany.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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