, 1873-06-18
THE GERMANS AND THE CHICAGO TIMES.

'suA U1HNH1s9 ANH IRE NHlNAAV IANtEOs
III Tia Editor qf 7hs chtendo 7+fbuns:
s1n: Tho fair and candid courao Of TIM TnD.
uNE In regard to tho so.oallod !" now departure
Of Afr. HeBing and tho Stats Zoisung, which 40
deeply ngitatos tho community ut present, iB fully
appreciated by tho unprojudlced portion Of quf
citizene, Germans includod,' who hayo no politl!!
cal bias, and for whoBo ears tho voices Of UNI
prlnciplod domagoguos have no charm. I mny3
therefore, hopo TINT an equally fair and candid
statement Of the caso,, although coming from
the pen Of dorman, may find place In your
columns. v",':
There Ia sotno danger at prosont that our fair
city, just emerging from itB ashes, may DO torn
by intor1,al convulHlons, if.waer counaolH do not
prevail, and II national fooling on both BidoB
l. allowed to run higher and higher until at less
oriea Of national aniuositios and religious pzejn7
dicos. In conformity with old and invosotato
habits, which ehouo 90 brightly during. tho timo
Hi the % the %ohicago ans 60 Tmes la a.sn,t s tpg
bo extinguinhod in it's inolpionoy, bytho. aober
sense OF that portion Of tho community tho
mind Of which Is fairly balanced and never runs
/ Ono Of the most infamous artlolea-in koeping
with tho "Kilgubbn J" article published some
;timo ago-aTor ponned by tho notorious slan-
darer Of tho Times appeared In that paper yes-
Difference" IN any other community less law,
abiding thnn tho German community Of Chicago,
this article might easlly havo provoked . mob,
directed against the man wlo wrote It,. Tho
readers Of Tie Nes are accustomed to spithsts
buoklor, y" scallawag," nnd othor improvements
on the Kings English, which daily appear in
That paper; but such downright insult to
large class Of our oitizens as that Of yesterday
oago. The aormans felt. the insult; but their
contempt for tho writer is 80 great that 1t hap
ply provoked moro laughter than ire.
Tho editor Of tho Times With his usual doep
out that the aefma4s arc divided into two
claases /; that 26 por cont Of thom arc really
"Germans,"" who occupy high social and COM
neroial positions, who mover run for Office, md
and @ habs 5 os3e1 % cont sdsa e dsaosSed gS"
as " Dutohmon," who,
We're hewerH Of 4qood and drawers Of W.tAr In ther
own country. They wese mover accustomed to speak
their hnts and tho limits Of thofr horizon WA ths
shop wAero thoy toilod twelve hours day for pit
% s sRq e.; Ed Tsss s ss sss, es saa %
sp a s:s scnsany p inSa sapss oaa tnst
Cd, they mover had mononty or thought or IN a.
pi1ation which was net ownod by aome superior.
mnns, aud who have just a. much brains, dignity,
and value - they had In thcdr own country. They
By sn :; Hss tho prod
mud below aa 10 wills.
1t Ia almost uselosa to try to refuto such bill.
lngagate, which boars itR rofutaron In its own
,lttorancos. If the Times can produce one
Bingle German who subsorihos to this theory,
tho editor ought to produce him at once, aud lot
us haye his testimony.
T is no wondor that the Times bears no good
will toward our German population. At tho
time whom its editor was plotting treaaon against
hta country, the Germans to man wcro truo to
| the Union, and helped to fight tho common
enemy, regardloss Of the fro in the roar kept up
BY the Chicago Times. 1t may DO that so1ne Of
them rejoieed when Gen. Burnside tried to
! silence ita troachorous tongue for q while,-a
crime which tho Times will certainly mover for
give. Besides, the German vote did q great dea1
IN building up the late Republican parity
| iu tho sanctum Of TINT paper. Tho Germans
know. al this, and, hardened wretohos IA they
| arc, thoy will noycr try to curry favor with the
| editor Of tho Times.
| In regard to the caso Of Fiold, Letter d Co.
public sentiment ia somewhat divided Nobody
can blame q buslneas-man for having his own
political opinions, aud expressing thom. In tho
| early timcs of tho Republican struggle against
sayMsry the wsllkn9wn ell yna firm 5o OF Bowen
thet they would loso thoir southern
| custom on account OF their Northern
sentiments, proudly. replied that "Thor goods
wero for sale, but not their principles" Mesars.
snme e1proHaion, md the prevailing opinion
| Boeu.a to bo, that tho members OF tho 1irm woro
not aware OF the character Of the trial at which
eoIne Of their clerks acted as Jurors. On tho
other hand, 1t Is asserted thnt at least ono mom-
bor OF the firm, some timo ago, by his signature
| to document dirootod against AID. McAvoy,
placed himself in tho rankg OF the coercion party
now trying to rule tho city, It Is, moreover,
mon Of Field, Letter & Co., rs soon as t6oy en-
tored the jnry-room, gaye vent to thor feel
ings by telling the other jurora SNOW,
lot us give It to tho d-d Dutchtnanl" The
behavior. Of the clerks, md not upon the mann
bers of the firm, although it necessarily mado q.
| strange impression, that all the young mon
from this store should have such hos
tllo sentiments against tho, "Dut,- ,-men." ="
Or ii Society Of Liberal 0itizens," us thoy call
themRelveH, passed resolutions oHtracBing the
business Of Field, Letter T. Co., thoy certainly
went too fur; but It must be considered that
such az only the fertile brains OF the editor Of
tho Times can invent, md that their patience
sometimes is not strong enough to ailently boar
these abuses. Thor businosH, tor which they
they are claAsod with tho SCUM Of society and
some Of them .haye lately boon treatod 1iko yilo
criminals for tho great orino Of not shutting up
their places OF business carly enough. It Is
natural that those me mon should sometimes oyer.
| buuok tAG A4hIA tl46 t1lduAA1 ubut akAltlSk
| oppressive laws Is not tho special fight Of tho
Germans at large, who insist that this ia not a
beor question, but q question Of personal liberty,
which they intend to argue on high moral
Central Committee aud the election next fall will
| show.
As to Mr. Heslng, tho editor Of the Times may
rest assured that lie has deeper hold upon tho
q very impulsiyo man, who certainly las alao hls
faults aud shortcomings but ho is man Of tho
pooplo, md the people unloratand him. He has
mado moro than ono mistake, and made serious
lcan party caused him to throw the Weight Of
his influence into tho scale Of that party, and
thus elect their tiokot Ho will certainly not re-
pent this er1or nekt fall after hll the thanks he
ming" tho Dutch slaves, and making tho,n
"bellow at tho tprodding Of hia goad," tho
wiao oditor Of the Times knows, Of COURSE, more
about this than anybody else; because lie has