Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-23
TIE RUTLAND HERALD,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER II, 1873,
GERMAN OPPOSITION TO Evil
GRAFTON.

Germany is again trying to stop the
III, Of emigration that is flowing from
rrrsborcs to America. But she might
q; well attempt to retard the wheel of
time. as to endeavor to stop the mighty
stream of emigration that is annually
Training from her empire thousands of
her Young men. The latest edict pro-
mulrated by the Berlin Cabinet is That
all emigration agents are to be expelled
by the local authorities. II is strange
that a government whose enlightened,
liberal, and brilliant policy for the past.
few wears has been the common wonder
Of the world, should by such narrow
minded measures as these, detract from
the high reputation she has gained
among the nations of the earth Es-
pecialv does her action seem strange
nasmuch as it is, or ought to be,
Obvious to the dullest comprehension,
that such laws as these, in their effects
can accomplish nothing, except it be to
increase the flow of immigrants from Ger
many to this country. The world has
arrived at that point .in'the vista of time,
at that point of civilization, when no
enlightened nation of the earth should
be allowed to control the freedom of its
subjects or citizens, as far as emigration
or removal of self or property from one
nation to another, is concerned. If. a
person can't support himself, or eke out
acomfOrtable subsistence, in the country
in which he is born and to which he has
always owed allegiance, then it is con
trary to the laws of God, and should be
contrary to the laws of man, to attempt
to prevent by tyranical manifestos, the
immigration of that man to other climes,
and other lands, in search of personal
betterment, and more extended field in
which to perform his life's work, Ger
many is a great nation; it has some
equitable and grand laws it has eXhib-
tied in many respects most liberal and
exalted spirit; and yet it is with regret
that we are forced to say that its rulers
have not as vet incorporated into their
doctrines, those grand fundamental prin-
ciples of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, that ''all men are created equal
and are endowed with certain inalien-
able rights among which are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness"
Kaiser William and his prime minister
have accomplished grand results in the
past few years in the matter of Ger
manic unity, and in placing their nation
among the leading nations of the earth
Now, if the imperial William would bu
confer greater personal freedom and lib
erty upon his subjects, his good work
would be completed, and Germany would
not be deserted and depopulated by the
emigration of her young people to other
lands Kaiser William should under
stand that no such law as has just been
promulgated will suffice to keep at home
the restless element in the German pop
ulations that feel the heavy burden OF
the paternal government and see across
the Atlantic free republic where youth
and its hopes are not sacrificed to the
ambitions of dynasty or the policy OF
state. The tide of European emigra-
ton cannot be stopped. America-great
expansive, liberal, free Americas
spread out before them, with its vast re-
sources, developed and undeyeloped
its fertile soil, its liberal laws, and its
republican institutions. In America they
have better chance for the acquisition
ofproperty, and for soon attaining to al
the rights of free and enlightened citi
zenship; and let us extend the hand ot
welcome and of good fellowship TO these
immigrants! We need them. we neeC
their labor, their skill, and their steady
industry. Kaiser William may not rel
ish the fact, yet it is true that the mum
Der of German emigrants is annually in
creasing, and very few of them ever re
turn to their native country for the pur
pose, or with the intention, of again in
cooperating themselves as German citi
Zens.