Think
what the German spies and propagandists have done in America.
Schools full of pacifist and pro-German teachers; text-books full
of praise of the German Empire and the Hohenzollern Highbinders;
newspapers full of treason, printed in the German language. Why,
it's only a piece of self-defense to clean it all out, root and
branch. No more German taught or spoken, printed or read, in the
United States. Forget it! Twenty-three for the Hun language!"
"Noble," gently murmured Mitchell, shaking his head again; "very
noble! But not very easy and perhaps not entirely wise. Why should I
throw away something that has been useful to me, and may be again?
Why forget the little German that I know and burn my Goethe and
refuse to listen to Beethoven's music? I won't do it, that's all."
"Our little friend is a concealed Kaiserite," said Rosenlaube. "He
wants to Germanize America."
"No, Rosy," said Mitchell, thoughtfully running his hand over some
nicks on the butt of his rifle in the corner; "you know I'm not a
Kaiserite of any kind.
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