mans. The latter however, are more often confounded with their nearest of kin, the Hollanders. "At that time," says Anton Eickhoff ("In der Neuen Heimath") "the distinction between Hollanders and Germans was not as pronounced as nowadays. The loose political union which had never been very close, between Holland and the German Empire, was formally severed by the Peace of Westphalia. But though politically it was no longer a German State, Holland continued to be regarded as such in public mind. The common language of the Hollanders and the Low Germans was Plattdeutsch." Dr. William Eliot Griffis ("The Romance of American Colonization") refers to the confounding of Germans with Dutch. "The Isthmus of this peninsula was called 'Dutch Gap', after the glassmakers who set up their furnace here in 1608," he writes. "Most Englishmen then made and uneducated people now make, no distinction between the Dutch and the Germans, who ar-e politically different people."
ECKERT, THOMAS. — General superintendent during the Civil War of military telegraphy, and assistant secretary of war (1864). Given the rank of Brigadier General. Appointed general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Co. in 1866, and in 1881 became its president and general manager, and also director of the American Telegraph and Cable Co. ; also of the Union Pacific Railroad.
ELIOT, PROF. CHARLES W—One of the most eminent as well as bitter enemies of the German cause. Prof. Eliot has attacked German civilization and German institutions in magazine and newspaper articles and in a book. Yet in 1913, one year before the war, at a public dinner, Prof. Eliot paid German "Kultur" this high tribute : "Two great doctrines which had sprung from the German Protestant Reformation had been developed by Germans from seeds then planted in Germany. The first was the doctrine of universal education, developed from the Protestant conception of individual responsibility, and the second was the great doctrine of civil liberty, liberty in industries, in society, in government, liberty with order under law. These two principles took their rise in Protestant Germany; and America has been the greatest beneficiary of that noble teaching." Yet with all these political and civic virtues, Prof. Eliot reversed himself like a weather-cock within a few months and became the hysterical spokesman of the most violent section of the Anglo- American coterie which operated in Wall Street to coin fortunes out of the shipment of dum dum bullets, submarines and shrapnel to the allies and who sought to unload a $500,000,000 war loan of the Allies on the American people.
AMERICAN EMBARGO CONFERENCE—Headquarters, Room 406, S Beekman Street, (Temple Court Building), New York. Officers: Col. Jasper Tucker Darling, President; W. R. MacDonald, General Manager; J. H. Forrest, Secretary; C. Hjalmar Lundquist, Secreatry ; William D. Fark, Treasurer.
EMBARGO ON ARMS NOT AN UNNEUTRAL ACT—In the discussion of the position of neutrality of this country the argument has been frequently advanced that the President could not now put an embargo on arms and other war supplies without thereby committing an
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