St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-09-26

More than three-vunrters, or to be particu-
lar, 70 81 per cent of your foreign born citi
Gems are Germans. Indeed the German ele-
,nent constitutes more than third Of your
whole population, and forty per cent of
your whole immigrant claim. Germany gives
you almost as many citizens as the New Eng
land, the Middle and Western Free States
combined. Stearns then is emphatically
German County, sort of High Dutch edition
Of knickerbocker' Nieup Ntderiun,z. The
inevitable cosmopolitan Irishman plays IA in
significant Fundamentally, Of course
Heaven forbid that should mean otherwise
than numerical -on y theatre so preoccupied
by the historic enemy Of his race. Whisky
and Lager Ceer DO not mingle we'll in the 80
cial potation. The proportions in which tho
great foreign divisions Of our table contribute
to your population and that Of the State will
be shown by the following comparisons:
. Stearns Co. State.
Brit Amer Prov's per cent. PIP All
G. Brit and Ireland 299 lO49
Rest of Europe " " 37.65 1909
OF Particular Countries.
Germany ratio per cent a4ol 1913
Emigration follows not only analogies Of eli
mate, but atfnities Of blood and speech
Scarns County is recommended ty our table
as the special paradise Of Germans, Buckeyes,
Badgers and Maineites. J. W. WuEELocE.
As Mr.. Wheelock surmises the report
Of marriages is incorrect. We have taken
the trouble to run over our files for go,
and find the marriage notices Of eight
persons married in this county, during
that year, by Protestant clergymen. We
have no reason to suppose that those are
all Of that class, and as considerably more
half our population arc Catholics and their
clergymcn have never sent in any notice Of
the marriage ceremonies, in which they
oficiate, it would be unreasonable to sup
pose our columns had chronicled one third
the marriages.
1t is due Mr.. Grandc;meyer, who took
the census, to say he is universally esteemed
very careful, reliable business man.
We find in our issue of May 18th, 1860,
a notice Of his appointment to take the
census. lie worked with energy, and We
think, completed his work during the
summer. Only one Of the marriages We
have on record, was prior to his appoint
ment; two Of the others after he had
passed over their localities and one after
he had completed his work.
It occurs to Us that the mistake lies in
attempting to chronicle the events Of the
year before they had transpired. Should
not the report Of go have been of the
events Of SO? The list of marriages in
that and SO must have been larger than
in go, for prior to 80 the supply Of mar
riageable women had run out in St. Cloud
and We advertised for supply Of "the
raao material to be manufactured intc
brides" We afterwards repented and re-
tzactcd, on the ground Of avoiding com
phcity in fraud. Any woman who resign,
her right to life, liberty and the pursuit.
Of happiness, and becomes semi-chattlt
"a bond servant for life ia consideration
Of Just such remuneration ~ her maste,
pleases, must do % without completely OF
our part. We would rather steal . poo
servant girls trunk, than aid in Robin;
her for life, Of her rig bit to wages. So
Mr.. Wheelock, it is not ourseH who vii
try to supply the deficiency in women
With view 70 entrapp,ng them into tn
4 net matrimonial It is only about on
man In one hundred Who IS ct to have
wife under our present marriage lavs.-