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Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- January 21, 1871[The Armstrade]
Herr R. Michaelis, editor of "Union" demands a motion in Congress against the arms trade, and a vote by name on it, so that in all future no German would vote for a legislator who agrees with the breach of law committed by Grant's cabinet.
Dr. Von Holst who"receives the most stormy applause ever granted to an erator, lasting for more than five minutes" declares that the Americans have been deceived by the French who quickly changed their firm name from "l'Empire" to "La Republique." Von Holst also denies any "gross infraction of International Law" to have been committed. However,"the highest right can become the greatest injustice." "We demand that the laws are interpreted according to eternal moral principles." But through the administration Washington has become morally guilty, their actions have resulted in good. Sedan only finished Napoleon, but the French people had to be broken. The sending of arms prevented a bad peace.
Thereupon resolutions are adopted, imputing to the Government legal skulduggery, moral cowardice etc. accusing it of endangering good relations with the most 2powerful nation of Europe which sided wholeheartedly with the Union during the Civil War. Finally, it is resolved that "we, representing a large part of the population of America" order our representatives Congress to introduce a motion that will prevent further arms sales, and to demand a public vote by name on it.
Herr R. Michaelis, editor of "Union" demands a motion in Congress against the arms trade, and a vote by name on it, so that in all future no German would ...
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Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- January 27, 1871"Neutrality and Cunning" Editorial:
President reported to have prohibited further sales of arms. One editor sharply attacks Secretary of War Belknap who was asked by the German Envoy, Herr Von Gerolt(at the time when the government decided to sell its superfluous store of arms) to wait till the Prussian government could make a bid for the total amount. Belknap answered that the U. S. government would not sell to any foreign government, but only to citizens of the U. S. without caring what these people would further do with the arms. The editor says that legally Belknap has, of course, been correct, but that the Prussia government, of course, would also have used U. S. citizens as middle-men, and that Mr. Belknap's decision, due to the exact moment at which it came, showed his intention to help France.
Shame upon such infamous artifices! The next result of it will be that the U. S. loses all ground under her feet in the Alabama case.
With such a beam in her eye, how can she express judgment over the splinter in England? The German citizens of the U. S. demand no partisanship, no, not even "sympathy", but just an honest and sincere neutrality.
President reported to have prohibited further sales of arms. One editor sharply attacks Secretary of War Belknap who was asked by the German Envoy, Herr Von Gerolt(at the time when ...
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Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- January 30, 1871[Eligibility of Naturalized Foreigners for the Office of President of the U. S.]
Editorial on a bill introduced by Senator Cates to charge the Constitution so that foreigners will be able to be candidates for the presidency. The Illinois Staats Zeitung supports this motion in the name of political equality "among other things the adoption of the Cates amendment would remedy the disagreeable situation of German parents of precocious children. The children would no longer be able to boast that they can become more than the parents, namely President of the United States."
Editorial on a bill introduced by Senator Cates to charge the Constitution so that foreigners will be able to be candidates for the presidency. The Illinois Staats Zeitung supports this ...
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Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- February 04, 1871[The Attitude of the Protestant Anglo-Americans]
Editorial expressing resentment that the Protestant Anglo-Americans have shown so much more sympathy for the Italian unification movement than for the German. "Cavour and the mentally limited Victor Emanuel, in comparison to whom even the old Lehmann is a real man, have been praised in high heaven..." (The fact that the Staats Zeitung constantly refers to William I as' the old Lehmann' or even 'Kaiser Lehmann' and makes remarks about him that in Germany by that time would certainly have been punished as less majeste, is characteristic of the lack of geniune monarchical enthusiasm among the well-to-do liberal Germans of Chicago.)
Editorial expressing resentment that the Protestant Anglo-Americans have shown so much more sympathy for the Italian unification movement than for the German. "Cavour and the mentally limited Victor Emanuel, in ...
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Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- March 04, 1871Editorial: Peace Festivals.
In almost all the larger cities of the country the American citizens of German birth plan to celebrate the end of the war between Germany and France.
But in what manner shall it be done? In most cities the Germans have come out against a public procession, and, we think, with much right. If one celebrates the glorious rise of the German people to the apex of its power. Why do it in a totally un-German manner? These street parades, as we see them in America, are something utterly un-German and would cause nothing but laughter in Germany. Is the fact that several thousand people wade for some hours through ankle-deep or even knee-deep mud, so impressive? Is it likely to have an edifying effect on the minds of on-lookers or participants? Will the fact that several thousand Germans facilitate the street cleaning in Chicago by carrying home on their boots so and so many cubic feet of dirt prove anything to the Americans and the Irish that they dont know already? Will it diminish the envy and ill-will with which certain elements of the population regard the German victory? To all these questions the answer is no.
2A street procession means nothing, proves nothing, and effects nothing. It is nothing but a thoughtless imitation of an American custom. One celebrates with the legs, instead of with the heart and head.
In almost all the larger cities of the country the American citizens of German birth plan to celebrate the end of the war between Germany and France. But in what ...
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Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- March 21, 1871[The West Side German High School]
The German High School on the west side has begun to offer to its boys and girls (separately, of course) athletic instruction. It is given by Turnlehrer Mr. Gloy in the Turnhalle Vorwarts in the presence of a teacher of the high school. On the Northside as is well known, the Turnverein has recently taken in hand the cause of girls' Turnen.
The German High School on the west side has begun to offer to its boys and girls (separately, of course) athletic instruction. It is given by Turnlehrer Mr. Gloy in ...
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Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- March 27, 1871Editor Sharply Defends Himself against Attacks for Lack of German Enthusiasm.
"We are not and don't feel like Imperial and Royal subjects, but as republican-minded American citizens of German birth."
"He who puts (in viewing the most recent history of Germany) the main emphasis on princely and other "high" personalities; who, like an humbly obedient slave, trembles in his boots when an independently-thinking German-American like Herr Hesing boldly tries on the mysterious veil that the German military and civil bureaucracy uses to cover all those faults and evils which we are used to expose to the public in American - such a man should better emigrate to Germany because he will surely make an excellent Imperial and Royal subject, but to be a free citizen of a republic he is not qualified."
"We are not and don't feel like Imperial and Royal subjects, but as republican-minded American citizens of German birth." "He who puts (in viewing the most recent history of Germany) ...
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Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- April 03, 1871Lengthy Report on the "Phace Celebration" (Not "Victory Celebration") Held by the Germans of Chicago in Crosby's Opera House - Celebrating the Victorious War of Germany against France and the Creation of the German Reich.
At half past seven the rush began to be terrific and even dangerous. Ten policemen were not enough to keep back the eager masses which filled all the streets leading to the Opera House. There were more Germans inside than had ever been before in one building in Chicago. The expectation of a deficit has not come true, on the contrary, in spite of the low admission fee about $800 will go to the benefit of the invalids.
The Singers of Chicago and their director, Otto Lob, have covered themselves with glory. The program opened with the Jubilation Overture by Carl M. von Weber, so brilliantly produced that it was surpassed only later on by Beeth oven's Funeral March. In the treatment of the pianissimo and crescendo passages the example of Theodor Thomas was easily recognizable. The main speaker, Fritz Annecke spoke for twenty minutes, examining the causes of the war and of the German victory. The main cause of the first was the insolent greed for conquest of the despot Mapoleon III. Of the second, the intelligence of the Germans - "Primarily," he said, "it was intelligence in which the Germans from the private 2to the general staff were vastly superior in every direction to the Frenchmen." The main advantage derived from the war: The unification of Germany. The next aim: Realization of the ideal of freedom through humanity in order to increase the ascendancy of Germany over other nations.
There were four impressive lebende bilder (living pictures, tableaux) arranged by the painter Conrad Diehl - but apparently somewhat diminished in effect by the non-appearance of Frau Pelissier, the Goddess of Peace in the fourth tableau, who was to recite a long somewhat involved poem. The poem remained unrecited, but is printed by the Illinois Staats Zeitung.
The Staats Zeitung finally characterizes the celebration as "impressive though remaining somewhat behind expectations."
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Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- April 15, 1871(No headline)
(The New York World warns the Democratic Party that the Germans would not vote for a party that is exclusively interested in State rights.)
The Illinois Staats Zeitung says:-
"The observation of the New York World is far from new...One can acquire a new nationality because its outlook, rights, duties can be absorbed by the mind, but the so-called "smaller patriotism" (local patriotism) can be gained only by birth, because it is a sentiment which grows in a human being only due to exterior conditions and these conditions cannot be exchanged. Especially with the Irish and the Germans this "smaller patriotism" is very strong. For centuries it has been with the Germans stronger than the consciousness of nationality. Attempts occasionally made by German Democratic papers to awaken in their readers a specific State-patriotism have never made, anything but a ridiculous impression. Only Municipal or village patriotism can flourish together with national feeling. The faster a city grows the greater is its assimilative force. So that the German will be much quicker at home in Chicago or St. Louis, then in New York, not to speak of the almost completely 2stable towns of New England or the South. But an enthusiastic Chicagoan or St. Louisan is still miles from being a zealous defender of the sanctified particularistic rights of the States of Illinois or Missouri.
Immigration has been by far the most important factor in the development of the strong national feeling in the Northern States. Without immigration that national feeling would never have grown to that sharpness and distinctiveness that led to and armed conflict with the south...
(The New York World warns the Democratic Party that the Germans would not vote for a party that is exclusively interested in State rights.) The Illinois Staats Zeitung says:- "The ...
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Illinois Staats-Zeitung -- April 20, 1871[The Recent Chicago Census and the Foreign-Born]
Frequent complaints about the recent striking increase of the Irish element in our police force has induced us to make an exact tabulation. Our police force numbers 459 members. Of these are: Irish, 158; American, 131; German, 117; English, 11; Norwegian, 9; Candian, 8; French, 5; Dutch, 4; Swedish, 4; Swiss, 3; Scotch, 3; Danish, 1; Polish, 1; and Russian, 1.
According to the census of Chicago published today, on this same page we have here 39,000 Irish, 154,000 Americans, and 53,000 Germans. (The Americans in Chicago outnumber the Europeans only by 10,000 - 154,000 to 144,000 - so that after all Chicago is more American than St. Louis, where the foreign element forms the majority. However, even so, the numbers would show a preponderance of foreigners if one would count the children of the Germans, etc. as Germans - as they actually remain - and would not put down everybody who is born here as an American, as the census does.)
So then it turns out that we have 39,000 Irishmen and 158 Irish policemen; 154,000 Americans and 131 American policemen; 53,000 Germans and 117 German policemen. Or, in other words, that the German element is stronger by 14,000, and has 41 fewer policemen than the Irish. If one were to appoint policemen according to their nationality the Germans would be able to demand 165 policemen, the Irish only 110. The actual proportion is just the opposite 2and therefore really bad. If one takes into consideration that the Irish in overwhelming majority belong to the Democratic Party, while the city is largely Republican, one cannot help being very much astonished.
Frequent complaints about the recent striking increase of the Irish element in our police force has induced us to make an exact tabulation. Our police force numbers 459 members. Of ...
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