, 1872-12-11
THE "GERMANS" TALK BACK.
Counter Address to the Temper
ance Bureau.
The German-Amercans in Favor OF the Sup
preston Of Crime, but Opposed to the
Closing Of the Beer Saloons.


10 tHs Ge7AtEMt7& L0MPtatfkb |S t1o-]eI'~N
Bureau:
You have seen fit to issue, in this mornings
TRIBUNE, an address or appeal to what you style
the "Ger1nan citizens Of Chicago" regarding
the enforcement Of the Sunday law, which, IN
our opinion calls for an answer. Before We
proceed to discuss the main points in your ap-
peal, allow us to inquire who you mean by the
"German citizens Of Chicago2" we never
we're aware that our goodly city contained any
such population at least not in sufhc1ent num-
bers to warrant you in issuing separate address
to them, We well know that very large
number of our citizens are Of German origin, but
allow us to remark that, even If TIE, IN our daily
| conversation, aud in our homes, refuse to give
| up our language and Unborn customs, stM "e
consider ourselves as gooa 1eEce1s a Us ao;i Ky
| It has, We are sorry to say, become haols
among those who are born On this side OF tho
| Atlantic to consider themselves Americans par
excellence, ITO the manner born ana niada3 tao
| former Know-Nothing movements more clearly
| broueht out these odious Distinctions. more
forcible, though perhaps, not exactly elegant,
answer can hardly be given to this falacy than
the given at charle7top D. a.: n r9o5 gy "a
hours in denouncing everybody who did
not enjoy the inestimable boon Of having = neen
born in this country; The "fore'gaol5n; 5;aee re-
| married. 9SAAA.@
enco between himself and the preceding speaker,
and these we're: First that 81 the gentleman IS
an American form necessity, while am or one
from choice; the second is that ne came TO thla
country nailed, while I came acith my 6reeches
, on" This, gentlemen, comprises the .:o %hole
thing in q nut shell. We foreign-born citizens,
whether Of German, Irish, French, oeanalnaVinl
or whatever origin, consider Ourselves as 1ull,
and completely A''ercans as tnose m MHose n
/ TO this country; in fact, when VIC VIII spoal
: of tho ndtiue American, We sec no otnei @
, representative of this species than tue " rcf
man Of the Forest Even your fn, ahod
, elso but the Germans and ScandnaVlans nay
before ever Columbus discovered America, LIS
tory teaches US that Danes and Swedes had set
tied on what is now the state OF Ne" 'eise'
then called Vinelald. 50,
And now to your arguments IN taTor OIL In IN
O Sunday lar. You present o few isolated case
q wnere an inorainate indulgence in beer ha
brutalized men so as to- make them apuse 1Hel
families, and that, in eome certain Localities q
;, 's Germans ~ have complained OF disorder Us
8 neishbors who keep becr saloons; This, "
admit, may be al corIest, Dus n e1eer %ner
DO find dannot RUE "ljaou' 5op n memeI. omen
suppose that, fanatics as you may be on this SUI
d ;efti Tou viii as a rule call tho "Gernan" bee
Saloons disorderly and consider the orderly one
's only an exception. But you eonne anoens u
= Class. distinct from otk r nationalites, are q
= posed to this law. This is simply mls-statf
- 1neut, founded eithor on malice or IGNORANCE =
!. If you hnd the opportunity On SUNDAYS 20 nes
!" the anathcmas both loud and deep, that n
:, hurled. in all sorts Of Languages, et the heads
ID "a tie originators Of these intolerably obnoxios
i ;c measures, you would come to q better 1nslSl
" into the feelings Of the nault1tnae
10 and We think the reception your eelf-appolnt'e
It apes and denunciatora occasionally meet VII VII
"a "a ought to open the eyes Of anybody not entire
~ % blinded by bigotry and prejudice.