Question

Briefly describe Newton D. Baker, "The Treatment of German-Americans" (1918). How does each document relate to either A.) Wilson’s proposal to “make the world safe for democracy” OR the goal of winning the war? What is your personal opinion of each document? pls use your own words

Briefly describe Eugene V. Debs, Critique of World War I (1918)
June 16, 1918, Canton, Ohio . How does each document relate to either A.) Wilson’s proposal to “make the world safe for democracy” OR the goal of winning the war? What is your personal opinion of each document? pls use your own words

Answer 1

During the war in Washington DC in 1918, Secretary of War wrote a private letter. He is defensive and afraid the German government would take retaliatory tariffs. Context: underpinning racism-" foreign-looking "poster taken down (propaganda), so he was arrested (Espionage and anesthesia Acts-disloyal language felony), but it did turn out that the poster was from a chancellor of germany and he tearing it down showed his loyalty, but he didn't speak English so he was just about lynched even though those who can't know. HE said that, The country's spirit seems unusually good but the frenzy of suspicion and hostility towards disloyalty is growing. I am sure we would have a fair many cases of individuals being punished unfairly with very small grounds of disloyalty. A number of men and some women have already been "tarred and feathered," and a portion of the press is urging more strenuous efforts at detection and punishment with great vehemence. That generally takes the form of promoting "drum-head courts-martial" and "being stood up against a wall and firing," which might not be that horrible for actual traitors, but are rather symbolic of summary punishment to encourage a crowd mentality that sadly may not require time for us to do so.

In the medieval period, when the feudal lords concluded to expand their domains, they declared war on each other to increase their power, prestige and wealth. But they themselves went no more to war than the modern nobles of feudalism, the Wall Street barons, went to war. — On June 16, 1918, Eugene V. Debs in Canton, Ohio. Eugene Debs delivered his famous anti-war monologue protesting the First global war which raged in Europe. Never before has the working class had a platform to wage war. If war is right, let the people proclaim it-you who have to lose your lives. He was charged and prosecuted for this speech at the federal court in Cleveland, Ohio under the ban on espionage in time of war.