The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-08-28

The Germans who settle in this coun-
try have many faults as do other people.
But they are industrious, frugal, thrifty
and honest. They do much to help
build up the material prosperity of the
country. While the great mass of natu-
rallied German citizens voted the Demo
cratic ticket they were hattered and
praised by the Democratic press and the
Democratic leaders. Now that majori-
ty of German citizens vote with the par
ty of freedom, Justice and progress, we
hear different kind of talk. This is
what the Chicago Tgo,es, a rampant Dem
o6ratid paper has TO say:
Anybody who knows the Germans,
knows perfectly well that 75 per cent. of
them never, under any circumstances,
trade with anybody but Germans. No
drove of swine is ever more clannish in
its instincts and gregariOusness than are
the IS per cent. of these Germans. Hence
the threat of diverting the German trade
from Field, Letter IL Co, or any other
American establishments is just about on
a par with the threat of some irate scay-
enger that lie y ssiil.fefilss bosbacil his cart
into peoples dining rooms to remove the
crumbs.
They were hewers of wood and draw
ers Of water in their own country. They
were never accustomed to speak to n
man with a clean shirt, with out humbly
doffing their hats and the limits of
their horizon was their shop where they
toiled twelve hours a day for a pittance,
and the beer shop where they could stu
pefy what few brains they had with beer
and tobacco. Mere cattle in their own
country; lashed by official whips, con-
stantly en4ironed by political sabers,
trusted with nothing, drafted, driven
about, shot, expatriated, they never had
moment, or thought, or an aspiration
which was not owned by some superior.
1t is this class of cattle who are here
banded as Germans and who have just
as much braihsj dighityi and value as
they had in their own country. They are
penned by men like Hesing, and at the
prodding of his goad they pull, back, and
haw, and gee, and bellog as lie wills.
1t will take two generations Of civiliza-
ton to make anything out of these
Dutchmen,
The men wear the same coats that
were worn by their great-grandfathers,
and their women clotho Themselves in
some pieces of unknown StQf that has
/ Oeen handed GOWN through q nalI dozen
generations. Their earnings never drop
into the tiils of firms like that of Field,
Letter & Co. Earning here in a week
what in their own land they earned in a
year, they employ a share of it in mud
ding their brains With beer and nicotine,
and the rest they put away in an old
stocking.
When this class disappears there will
remain no more Germans-only Ameri-
cans. The first fruits, however, of emf
grafton from Deutschland will always be
an uncleanl unwashed foul-smelling G
nuisance. 1t will always take from one
to two generations to dig them out from
the coating of stupidity and dirt that
covers them, and to make of them men
and women
And thus it will happen that so far as
Field, Letter IL Co. are concerned, they
need not take discomfort from. the noisy
threats of the beer venders. They are
Hesing's cattle. They are Dutchmen
They will trade with nobody who offers a
higher product for sale than beer and
sausages.