St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-11
He Regards 1t as Impossible
for Bismarck to Make &c Z
Battle e914
Against a Nation Which Cofi-.
tains So Many Former Ger-yi
man Subjects. IRA
What Blaine Would Probably
Do If War Should Be De-
claped. nv,

"The Suicide" Outside the newsboysl
were calling, ''War with Germany?
An American man-of-war blown up?''
Certainly so per cent of the inhabi-
tants, of st. Paul are Germans and
probably more. They form the back
bone of our commercial and banking
circles. Their social standing is high,
and their clubs and societies are among
the most powerful of the city. In poll
tics, when they choose to shake off the
lethargy common to people more en-
deared to the comforts of trade than the
turmoil of Ofice-seeking, they can sue
cessfully carry municipal cleo
ton. / deem it difficult task
to find an enterprise in st. Paul worthy
of that name which has not either a
German connected with it directly or
his capital giving its infant limbs
strength. In this municipality the Ger
mans; count for our conservative. relia-
BILE and industrious class-in the judg-
ment OF many, more so than any other
foreign nationality in the country.
According. to the. census of 1885 there
were 1896 Germans in Minnesota.
one-siXth. of the total native-born, and
more than: the number of any other for.
eign element in the state.
A war with Germany, then-Such as,
has seemed imminent to the nervous
ones would. be frought with intense
interest for the natives of the Father
land on our soil. aud who, though loyal
to the republic in every sense, can not
turn heart nor eye away from the figure
of the imperial chancellor and the
slopes of the Rhine.
81 do not believe it," exclaimed Stern
with sudden .abruptnesS for as COM
posed a 'Teuton as he is.
believe What?' echoed.
This nonsense about the destruction
of an American man-of-war by. Ger
man one. No-no-it cannot. be. You
see the story originally comes from a.
German paper hostile to Bismarck, and
there is no confirmation with it. Ii is
America. | cannot believe that, he
"UGMIu' o,, ':itSse
Are there, rot hundreds of thou
sands of Germans; now citizens of thiS
country?"bringiug his hand down on the
table with force. ''Does the chancellor.
forget them aud the position such a war
would place them in. loyal as they, are
to their adopted land2 Certainly it is
not his policy to antagoniZe the one ma
ton of this world that rests. one of its
supports upon its German American
citizens. He hates-not America-but
-? 80. x - ~. asE
.;''England?n II. -
Yes, England and the English. The
HanoyeTlan ALLIANCE has never beensah
agreeable one to him. As for Amerfca.
think that he Will eventually sayotfo
heriSTake SAMOA 10 .
"Why these rumors of war. then?'itif
''Stock-jObbers and enemies to his
policy who would cGmpiicate his rela-
tons with a friendly power. They
cannot do it. Bismarck has not for
gotten the thousands and thousands of
dollars sent from German-Americau
citizens to the home, government to aid
in the Franco-PrusSian war. He is too
shrewd. There will be no war with
America"
. what about the German-American
press?''
"The leading papers composing it all
discredit these reports and frOwD down
any intimati0n of war. They under
stand too we'll that it is next to impos-
sible that it should be. Bismarck will
protect his own interests and those of
his nation, but he will not atfront good
friend. l feel quite confident that in
this matter his aim is against the En-
giiSh, whom he does not love-"
But if this report of an encounter
should prove. to be true?'' so3
u presume Mr.. Blaine would declare
war at once against Germany, and as
an invasion of that country would be
impracticable, he would declare an en-
barge against all German ships-c1ose
all of our. ports to- them. Still, do not
consider this as possible; it is all nom
sense. Bismarck is not man who
destroys what is for his own good. The
best posted of cur German-American
citizens and Our leading journals have
all held that, whatever the outcome of
this Samoan trouble. it would not end in
war as far as America was concerned.
l think the troubles at Samoa all
originated with this German-Ameriean
Klein, who is mischief-maker.'' az
Would an embargo be serious?'
Excessively so. The stOppage of
families; the effect upon the German
merchants of New York city, who form
an influential class, the separation be-
tween Fatherland and adopted home,
all these would tend to deplorable
state of affairs. There would be no
question of the loyalty of the German
Americans to the republic, but think of
the disturbance of commercial relations
and the suspension of amicable relations
between two nations so near AKIN
The boys in the street were still
shouting ''All about the war;" but
there was peace in my mind. The
editors of the VolkZeitung, while Ger
mans by birth, are intense Americans,
and their sentiments as reflected by
Mr.. Stern are from long and conscieh-
tious study of the Samoan question:
and personal knowledge of the
iron chancellor which few Americans
have. He has been such a lite-study TO
the intelligent OF his nation that they
have mastered him as the mechanism of
an automaton is. He is mysterious to
those of other nations; like Jove en-
shrouded by clouds when facing his en-
emieS, but to his own people man7of
indomitable villa tactician,a strategist,
a Bismarck, German. The German
Americans feel that they speak by the
authority of long quaSi-intimacy with
him when they say that with America he
can have no misunderstanding so great
as to make him forget that the Rhine
and the Fatherland have hundreds of
thousands of hearts beating with tie
strokes of their veal or woe on this side
of the deep, blue sea. III. l. c.