New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-01-13
IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA.
RESTRICTIONS ON EMIGRATION FROM
GERMANY


STATEMENTS By BERLIN sEMI-oFFIcIAL JOUR-
NAL-THE COMMENTS IN AMERICA STIGMA
TIED.
lrRos A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNg.l
BERLIN, Dec A.--The comments in America
about restrictions German emigration caused some
stir in this country OF the Berlin journals hasten
10 reject the Interpretation put the official order bat
this amounts to nothing. recollect the order when 1t
was published 1t short and formal. containing
nothing TO suggest hidden purpose. IL struck many
Germans with surprise, because 1t was the sudden
abandonment OF policy which was thought to De hghy
sagacious and Just The reduced rates for emlgrans
were merely intended TO attract them to Bremen ana
Hamburg and German steamship lines, and away rom
Antwerp, ostend Havre Liverpool, and foreign naVi'
CATION companies The sudden reversal OF this pohcy
ia therefore something than Of practical
administration. The bunder OF some OF the American
press was less the theory itself than In imputngto
the German Envoy. One Of the Berlin journals mas
taken up the subject In exhaustive not an eeetu
way TheIspenersche ZeitNng is Liberal journal as
Liberalism is understood by a certain party
in Germany, and 1t Is on conndenun OerniS
with the Government. When the rumor pup
lished In America reached Germany that Jourha'
published cautious denial. day or two ago It re-
turned to the subject and published an article OF tnree
columns full Of the ugly convolutions and obseur
ties, which In German indicates strong passion. The
anus Of the sheet is in view OF its relations, 80 sig
nifcant that send translation full OF the article.
1t is entitled The American Press aud German Emga-
| ton, and it says:
Tho State land private railroads Of Germany have
grants, and placed all passengers on common footing
Such measure wholly domestic affair, and the right
of no COMPANY 20 its release from unpronaOe arrange
ments viii be contested. We greatly surprised, In
Decd that this is done so ardiy for one can hardly
understand why corporations should thus saerhce large
sums and much less why the State should put premium
emigration FIVE and twenty years ago 6Is PoSy
competition with Antwerp Rotterdsm Hsyrs ana .ld
stettin have almost monopoly Of the emgrsnt Trans
port they receive annually 100000 passengers OF tnat
would be at che expense the best interests Of the rail
way companies. The latter have therefore done well
| companies In similar circumstances would have
done the thing Nevertheless the greater portion
| OF the American press make this measure the
of solemn reproaches and even attacks against
the Government Of the German Empire though it mad
nothing DO with the matter. These s.1ne American
papers, which make no protest when ther own ran,
roads and States repudiate their obgations-as has
been done half dozen times within the past yearde-
scribe simple financial measure as one OF opposition
to emigration; these same Sheets which are silent over
the Rock Island swlnde the Chattanooga and Alabama
frauds the Minnesota reputation, and many onr such
outrages-these same sheets chorus Of indgna-
tion over step taken the interest OF German pond
holders and railway owners detect therein the empty
Of Germany for the United staes indeed some OF Them
90 so far to threaten to call US to account at the
proper time COmca as are these threats there Is new,
ertheess a certain method in them. The intention OF
the writer's is TO represent their land TO their German
readers the land of freedom which protects the lmn
grant and Germany as the tyrant which Expresses him,
and by these tactics 10 throw on another country the
responsibility for their own faults Oh omission IN THIS
The worst offender is again The Ne,O YORK Herald.
While Of its cotemp0raTles especially IN the nte-
rior print or reprint false news through ignorance The
Herald acts with the intention and the VIII TO speak
t6ey can bear and it acts accordingly. To-day the MIN
OF Commerce raises the rates on the ocean steamers
morrow the War Minister forOds the movement OF emf
grants. Day after day The Herald published Bernn tee-
grams made in YORK; attrlbutng the worst meas
ures to the German Government Daily was the same
| laatf naffh her
threw his paper on the table WIN an ~ pre- @ Hra
abandoned the subject for while.
Little as can be surprised by the freaks of The
| Herah much the astOunded that respec-
| table Journals, like THE NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE, send
abroad similar false reports about the disposition OF the
which gave the 18th OF this month 10 the state
ment attributed by IE IRBgSE 70 tne Yer Seran Minister
demanded that letters be put on emigration In order TO
keep German subjects at home in view OF threatened
trouble with France II IL needed great degree OF
innocence to put such declaration In the mouth OF
Columns OF a great Journal which publishes
without thinking 1t necessary TO give any caution or 10
In the same path as these two representative journals
follow the other sheets, dst0rng, Intentionally or not
the measures Of the Germsn railway administration IL
IL scarcely worth the trouble them by one
the proofs already given are enough for our reade In
will not disturb things which alone We
slider it the ncontestbe right Of the Union to pat head
send back crppes idiots and personsover 60 years ola
same and not presume to discuss German
affairs until they have mastered them. Finally there
field wherein the American press instead OF dealing IN
Injustice can work hand teihend with Germany that ~,
the adoption of treaty for the protection OF the lmnl
grant, The responsibility for failure up To tins time
lies probably not the side Of Germany. For more
than four % years the Imperial Government patiently
! worked ard treaty but until now the Americans
| have not met ia the same spirit its liberal offer aud
moderate demands. They have done as good as nothing
for the Immigrants With the exception OF two or three
musy statutes of 1919, 1896 1855 1885, the Washington
layoyernment has left all TO the separate states.
| Mr. Seward appointed commission OF personal
and we-pald but incompetent frends but Was only
| copy OF the New-YOrk Immigration Board, and dld
nothing At the time OF elections the Official orators
Land; indeed. last Summer, the electoral movement
developed the increasing strength OF the German ana
Irish element, the President c0yenR for his Admins
tration their support suddenly published message ex
tonR the advantages OF mgration; but this rhetoric
has no further object The German Government, ON the
contrary in spite of the fact that the migrants
actual loss the country have by treaties and otber
in no tring spirit OF chcanery but like great State,
conscious of honor and its responsibility the sew
era notably the treaty OF 1863 whereby the
right OF and of the freedom OF tho
emlgrants was recognized. And Germany has no fur
Their interest those people who important TO
America She demands Also purely in the interest OF her
departed sons international rule for their projections
10 insure such useful clae OF citizens against eDcroach-
ments on their personal and positive rights task TO
which the American press called aud would be wise
to confne itself TO that, without presuning Ia ssa
measures which it does not will not understand.
ENIGRANTS FROM GREAT BRITAIN.