nicks on the butt of his rifle in the corner; "you know I'm not a
Kaiserite of any kind. I've got seven scored against him already,
and I'm going to get some more. But the language question seems to
me different. Cut out the German newspapers and the German schools
in America by all means! No more teaching of the primary branches
in any language but English! Make it absolutely necessary for
everybody in the U. S. A. to learn the language of the country the
first thing. Then in the high schools and universities let German
be studied like any other foreign language, by those who want
it--chemists, and philosophers, and historians, and electrical
engineers, and so on. We could censor the text-books and keep out
all complimentary allusions to the Hohenzollern family."

"Oh, shut up, Phil," growled Phipps-Herrick. "You're too soft,
you old easy-mark! You don't go half far enough. We may not decide
to exterminate the Hun race in Europe. But we have decided to
exterminate their language in America."

His hand was groping inside the biscuit-box. He pulled out a little
ditty-bag and carefully extracted a bit of newspaper.

"Listen to this, you fellows. This is from the National Obscurity
Society. You know a chap with a German name is president of it,
but he's a real patriot, hundred per cent, not fifty-fifty, Philly.
'The following States have abolished the teaching of German:
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois,
Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado,
Montana, California, and Oregon.' _Abolished_, mind you! What
do you think of that?"