The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-12-10
A Tempest in q Teapot.

The recently reported expulsion Of
Germal-Americans from the island of
Foehr (Sleswick) by the Prussian gov
eminent, which, as would appear from
Yesterdays dispatches, has been made
the subject of protest on the part of
MIR. Pendleton, the American minister,
is thus explained by the correspondent
of a German newspaper in New York:
In regard to the reported expulsion
of a number of German. Americans
from the island of Foehr, L am i'm q
position to give the following inform
alton: ''The German government has
of late rendered the stay of German
Americans upon the island as difficult
as possible, throwing all sorts of OBJ
stacles in the way. But the principal
motive which caused this summary
action on the part of the government
seems to have been that several Foehr-
lens, residing in Brooklyn, N. Y, last
summer caused an article TO be pub
lished in the Inseibote, q paper issued
on the island of Foehr, in which they
bitterly complained that all amuse-
ments, more especially the innocent
recreation of dancing, was prohibited
by the government, while in all the
large cities of Germany these places
of amusements were accessible to all
young folk; that, consequently, moth
ing wa offered to the German-Ameri-
cans to make their stay at their old
homes pleasant" The article con-
tanned the additional rather imprudent
remark that a number of FOehriens
would soon visit their old homes
again, when they would use every eff
fort to discover the reason of the pro-
hibitiOn of these amusements by the
government, in which endeavor they
would be energetlcally supported in
America. The writer of that article
received a friendly warming from
FOehr to abstain from UGH expressions,
as the German government had an ex-
cellent memory, which might bring
them into trouble at their next visit to
the fatherland. A number of German
Americans from Brooklyn and from
California who had been sojourning
for a few months upon Foehr have, as
we are crcdibly informed by letter. as
sumed q somewhat provoking attitude.
Thus, Tor Instance, it is said that N
of them decorated his saddle horse
with American flags (Which, of course,
must be very Objectionable to the aver
age Bismarck Officially. The LnSetbote
of Oct. Is contains, consequently, u
warning and an order from the Prus-
sian minister. Won Puttkammer, in re-
lation to the German-Americans on
that island (the language of which is
not repOrted). This appears to be the
full explanation for the expulsion of n
number of COMMUNICATING from
the island of Foehr.
The Illinois StaatS-Z eituRg in repub-
l!sEing the above. says:
For want of a better explanation,
the above will have to be taken as con-
elusive. 1t can be read between the
lines, however, that the Messrs. Foehri-
ems, from Brooklyn, we're bOasting of
their Americanism in a fashion which
will not be tolerated by the Prussian
officials. There is also a bare POSSIBLE
ity that the dancing amusements"
which were prohibited were not entire:
ly innocent. but rather boisterous and
coarse. Every European power re-
serves to itself the right to expel from
its territory foreigners who are making
themselves burdensome and obnoxious,
and nothing can be done against it il
this right is enforced in the manner its
own judgment deems best. The fact
that commandments who have not
given Olfense have beer expelled from
Prussia has not yet been heard of.