Evidently Helber Gives Up Hope Of Postmastership

Evidently Helber Gives Up Hope of Postmastership

Evidently Eugene Helber has given up all hope of being appointed postmaster of Ann Arbor. at least, he rather jumps on President Roosevelt in the Nene Washtenaw Post and a man who is seeking an important appointment is not very likely to criticise the president in the manner in which Mr. Helber does in his last issue. One editorial he heads with words which, translated, mean: "Even President Roosevelt stands in with the contemptible navy clique." But the editorial which seeks to arouse the Germans against the president is as follows, when translated into English:

The German government has a just claim against the State of Venezuela in Central America, of about two million dollars. But this claim is refused by the insignificant state. In its refusal to pay this just claim of Germany they depend on being supported by our great Republic. There is even here no lack of German haters, who would be ready to start war with Germany simply to please England and to show the world "that we can lick the damned Dutch." Since the conquest of the Spanish fleet before Manila this hatred exists and the peace between our fatherland and our new home is in danger. Even among our government officials this sentiment is very noticeable, and that even Roosevelt, in spite of his Holland ancestry, is not a great friend of the Germans he snows in his choice of his special advisers and friends, and that with Roosevelt's excitable "burstable" disposition, surrounded by such German haters as Senator Lodge and others, it would not take much to destroy the peace with Germany and a disturbance of peace with our fatherland would certainly not be desired by us German-Americans. The German-American citizen ought to take more interest in politics and make his influence known for in that way only can he quiet the knownothing sentiment of the Americans.