The union Democrat., 1870-09-10
LETTER FROM SAX FRANCIsco
San FRASclsco, Sept. 4sh, 1870.
GERMANY CELEBRATES.

GERMANY CELEBRATES.
Last evening thousands of Germans with
masic, banners, bombs and songs, marches
through Montgomery and Kearncy streets, eel
ebrating the the Fall of the Third Napoleon
Many Americans celebrated With them. The
Alta Office blazsd with red, blue and green
FIRE for half an hour. The Alta has expert
enced no difficulty this timc in getting on the
popular side.
We have a new flag. It is one or other ol
the German tri-colors. Il has for week
past been floating from scores Of housetops.
This Is now German City.
Next "Wednesday the Germans will take
San Francisco. They will vote tits expected,
en- mdsse tho Tax Payers Ticket. The SYM
pathetic pnlsations of foreign war are felt
in American politics. They may affect even
an election for town trustees.
THE DISAPPEARING AMERICAN.
Were red hot Native American. should
feel mere animalculae in the political pud-
die. Some Americans feel that they have
shrunk quite eoutof sight. Hefthe American)
may not be said to be unpopular. It is
ical Indifference.
This is a glorious country. The oppressed
of all nations come here to make money.
They are naturalized to make American citi-
zens. But you cannot out Of a man natural
ize the love Cor the Fatherland or the Old Sod.
Body and business are in America; heart,
soul and sympathy in the lands CT their birth.
This IS we'll. 1t is right and natural.
So when an election for pound-naster is
about to come off, and John and William
Smith are opposing candidates and John
Smiths sympathies are with the French and
Bill Smiths with the Germans and Bill
Smith is for such sympathy rewarded by the
German vote and becomes the head of the pound,
tho redhot Native American, who expected a
deputyship in case of John Smiths election
becomes disgusted and fills himself full of
Native American whisky and, taking his sta
tion prone in the gutter says:
.sD-n this foreign interference in our pol
itics Whar's Ameriker? Can't Ameri-
cats rule Ameriker WHAT'S the use Of bein
an American unless one can have s'put ?'
Here's a lot of fellows whose been drove out
tions revolrshuns. Couldn't chip thar
Well what then? They come pikin over to
the land Of the free and the horne of the brave,
and the mint they're off the ships gangway
plank that landed them, they start US natives
CT the silo with kick. and say "Come
now Get out of this You've been foolin
here long enough. We couldn't get put
over there, but d-n you, we'll get even on
YOU ANYWAY We're the oppressed of all ma
tions Hurra for Ould Ireland Vive La
France Hurra for King William!
REPRooF.
But this spirit is all wrong. One should
neither drink SO much Native American whis-
ky, nor be so red hot Native American.
We must take q broader view of the matter.
1t is better, far better that these men take
somc interest in cur politics, even though snch
interest be SO largely shaded with partialitv,
sympathy and interest for their respective
countries. 1t is unreasonable to demand that
on becoming citizens all their sympathies
should cease with the lands of their birth or
even that sympathy with their respective
countries should not take some active and
practical form. This country with all its po-
litical turmoil, its incessant round and worry
Of conventions, and elections, its agitations of
this and that question thrown to the surface
in the boil and bubble of the political pot, is a
grand free school for the foreigner as we'll as
ourselves. Nor does it follow in all cases,
that because we are the older, we are the
abler scholars.
PRENTICE MILFORD.