Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-08-26
A TEUTONIC TRIUMPH
How the Dutch Have Captured
Pennsylvania.
THY sUPERgEDE THE QUAKERs

THEY EDPER6EDH TIE QUAKEkS
The Friends Died out Bseauss they
Were Too Good to Ldve-who the
Pennsylvania Dutch Are-Thsir Pc
cnIiarIticn Of speech and Custom-No
Reverence for the Fatherland.
AILE1rows, Pa, Aug. o. Are we
all governors now.r inquired the youth
full son OF Joseph Ritner soon after the
Pennsylvania general election of 1885.
NAY: only me und Pop" replied
the good wife Of the g0vernOr-elect.
Whether il was the result OF this joint
tenure OF Office do not know, but GER
tain il is that the state never had bet
ter governor than the shrewd, honest,
obstinate old farmer, Joseph Ritner.
Pennsylvania Dutch was then at its
highest influence; Ritner its truest type.
who Are the Pennsylvania Dutch9
And who are the Pennsylvania Dutchs
We read OF the Quaker in history; we
are told that he settled the state, and
then we are left to assume that he forms
the backbone OF its greatness today.
Yet. as q matter Of fact, to people all
unknown 10 fame, people more inter-
esting. with characteristics more sharply
defined and persistent than. the creoles
Of Louisiapa, numbering nearly 4,O0O,-
600 souls, belongs the honor Of forming
the policy ahd character of the second
state of the Union.
One hundred and seventy-two years
ago this present month the Quaker as
sembiy Of Pennsylvania ordered that
none but English speaking immigrants
should be the subject of naturalization.
The same body provided q few years
later that every foreigner To the English
government arriving should pay a duty
Of 40 shillings and swear allegiance to
Great Britain and the province.
The quaker Has Vanished.
Strange things have come to pass
since then. The Quaker has vanished.
There remains nothing to tell the story
of his former greatness but the quaint
old burying ground on Arch street, and
dozen faded shadbelly coats, heirlooms
in as many Philadelphia garrets. He
persisted in no great tumult of arms,
nor by the march of any pestilence. He
was neither INDECENT or lacking in
shrewdness: he did not starve to death.
nor did the Germans 50 much as crowd
him. He died simply because he was
too good to live-a melancholy warning
which has not been lost upon his sue
cessors in Pennsylvania politics.
The Puissant Touton.
But the prescribed German stolidly
bided his time. He came, paid his duty
and stayed. He took possession of the
rich farms along the Susuuehanna, the
Lehigh. and the Juniata, and filed the
glorious valleys which lead down to the
rivers. lie began to have things his
own way and when the new order was
established after the revolution, he held
in his hands the political power of the
great state which he had turned into q
garden where the gods might dwell.
The most timorous Quaker. fearful of
Gem IN aScendancy, could scarcely
have had a provision of the complete
triumph attained by his Teutonic rival
at the beginning of the present century.
Tho Quaker was already little more than
a memory; the German the potent fact
Of the social and political order. But
10! when the victor proclaimed his con-
quest it was in strange tongue; he no
longer thought nor felt as a German.
The fatherland was not beyond seas, but
here. Germany was no more to him
than It was 70 Patrick. He had become
q Pennsylvania Dutchman.
a Peculiar Dialect.
The Teutonic immigrant brought with
vocabulary of German peasant nearly
200 years ago. HIS pronunciation of
the native tongue was often inaccurate,
Of the English worse: and the deviation
from the vernacular has increased with
every generation until all semblanCe of
the original is in many cases lost. Top
per-" meaning hurry; STAT" forward;
s.nooner, under; ssfattish, done or fin
ished, are q few examples of many
words not easily accounted for. Neither
b German nor an Englishman would
make much of croombeera." The for
mer would say kartaffel, the latter po-
tato. But our Pennsylvania Dutchman
examines the tuber and after much
smelling and tasting decides that It i
berry. If il isn't berry vas der
leinhinker is its'' said one Of them to
me the other day.
Their Ideal Homes.
These people have retained all the adj
miraale domestic, home loving charac-
feriStics Of the race from which they
SPRUNG. No wives are more loyal, no
mothers more devoted to their children
than these. Among the young people
the singing school is a weekly entertain
ment during the winter and dancing Il
held ID favor. But the great social
event OF the year in every family IS the
ssschnitxen ssSchnitzH are sliced ap-
pies. and the fruit in that form retains
the name after it is dried, stewed and
baked into pie. Schnitzen. etymoIo.
gically considered. illustrates very well
the way Ia which many German verbs
turn up IN Pennsylvania Dutch. without
any modification. with all the effect Of
the English participle.
The Schnitxen.
The German verb ssschnitzen, to cut.
or slice. becomes the Pennsylvania
Dutch schnitzing.a pronounced with
ont sounding the g.
BUT socially il denotes the harvest
home, q combination of easy work and
pleasure. the time when all the pent up
gayety OF the year is turned loose. And
s. II i that when The apples are all
schnifzed and tbs young people have
Toasted ON cakes and cider and the fun
begins Ia earnest. Games and dancing
turn into d general romp continuing