Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-05-28
Another War Against the Beer
GuzZI0PS.

To the Editor of the Daily Times:
1t is high time to give our German
population to understand that Ameri-
cans, whose sires and grandsires fed
from European persecution, to found
on this continent the greatest repub-
lie that ever awakened to glory, donot
intend to endure any longer the inso
lence ofthe German beer guzzler with
out appropriate rebuke. Either that
insolence must be stopped, or the
question of nationality question
dreaded so much by the Volksblatt
and other German 'FBlatts' will be
made the question for this city and for
this State. Germans have grown sim
ply impudent and unindurable in their
manners in consequence of the liber-
ties allowed them in this free country.
They have run liberty into licentious-
ness. They are grown SO insuferablY
arrogant their pretentlOns and in
their prophecies of how they will rule
this country in twenty years that the
only thing left for Americans to do is
to raise the question of nationality,
and teach this foreign element that if
it means to live in peace and in good
neighborhood with American citizens
it must Americanize itself at once, and
not seek to transplant and propagate te
vile customs and manners of foreign
extraction into our social structure
It is not becoming that beggars for
homes, for bread, and for liberty should
introduce into the palaces that receive
them their filthy habits or their vile
insults, or raise in revolt against the
laws of the house, or seek to usurp its
government. If the largeness of Amer
lean liberty shall forbear to raise the
question of nationality, while the for
eign element exists only to menace,
corrupt and destroy society by its god
less, infidel, and drinking customs, ii
will be forbearance that will end in
ruin to all our American institutions.
Who but fool would dare dispute the
maxims, England for the English, Ire
land for the Irish, Scotland for the
Scotch, Germany for the Germans
France for the French, Russia for the
Russians, and so on with every nation
ality? And who but fool or traitor
to his country would dare to dispute
that America should be for the Amer
cans ?
What is it we see in our city2 The
Bible kicked out of the school, the
civil law set at defiance, the Sabbath
ordinances repealed, attempts made tc
legalize prostitution, Christianity pub
licly mocked at and maligned, pious
women arrested and entomed for a he
roic effort to put down drunkenness
the preaching of the Gospel driven
from the street, the city government
in the hands of men who refuse to be
bound by their official oaths, and who
discriminate in the enforcement of Law
against law abiding citizens and against
every moral interest in society AnG
Gelmoni&ne, beer -guzzling, tobacco
tuning, Whisky-sWallowing, Sabbath
prOfaning, infdel- boasting Germanism
the chief element at the bottom of all
And whenever the moral indignation I
of society is aroused, and attention
directed to the humiliating fact tha
Americans allow American civil anC
religious liberty to be abused by for
eign element into the grossest form!
; of lawlessness and licentiousness, ant
into the most outspoken atheism, th,
pulling cry Of prescription on accoun
of BIRTH is at once raised, and unde
its protection, while politicians run tc
the rescue, the destroyers of the pub
lie welfare are permitted to escape tn,
punishment they so richly deserve
1t is time to have done with both non
sense and timidity. Good men every
! whele and Of every birth, who low
r our American institutions, must organ
e ize for their defense, and rescue Amer
, icau civil and religious liberty from
, the clutches of the foreign element
/. who, emigrating from their own re
jected land to enjoy the freedom O
: ours and its peerless advantages, hav
r shamelessly prostituted the fair form
. of liberty in the public streets befor
our own eyes, and dare us to raise up
OIL them the question of their beer
e drinking nationality. We want n
{ more Germanism, nor Irishism, no
I Elglishism, nor Scotchism, nor an,
| other foreign ''ism" in our land. W
want American civil and religious lii
= eIty, unprecedented; our Bible in th
3 school; our sabbath; our equal laws
I morality; justice; good order, an
/! good manners. We want temperance
i truth and every virtue in our societ
for eur own and our children's sake
We want to maintain our respect 70
8 woman in this land, and not suffer he
t to be insulted by race of men VIII
8 comFel her, in her native land, to cal
! ry the muck basket on their back an
I manure the farm, while her so calle
= ''manf sits and guzzles beer; to b
8 hitche1 and harnessed like brute to