Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
A GERMAN KNOWNOTHING.

Ilelu DctllOCl DIT dilu NCE' blItilGl NJ
this city, to read the following
editorial taken from the Milwaukee
Sunday Telegraph. 1t suits their
case exactly.
Many personal friend of Hon
P. V. Denster, editor and propritor
of the Milwaukee Seebote, now
abroad on a prolonged visit, read
with no small degree Of sorrow
translation from the Seebote head
ed: Look out, Germans" The
intention of the writer was plainly
apparent from the first to the last
of the column article. He delber-
ately entered upon the work Of
predj udlcing the German people
against the English speaking
people, and particularly the repub-
lican party. He conveyed the idea
that the Bennett law was concoct-
ed by the republican party wholly
for the purpose Of dealing a deadly
blow at the German, his tongue,
his customs, his church and his
school. The writer then went on
to claim that that was only a pre-
Jude to a general assault upon the
Germans, their language and their
customs, and that the republican
party would not rest until it was
unlawful to speak the German
language in America. A more
wicked, malicious cluster of bare
faced, unmitigated falsehoods was
never placed in the columns Of a
paper. The writer is evidently a
we'll educated and intelligent man,
and, as he wrote, he knew in his
heart that he was uttering false
hoods, and that he uttered them
because he hoped to array the
Germans against the native born
Americans and republican party,
and that his motive was wholly
bad No man ever wrote more
like demagogue, pure and simple
like a n2n who knew he was
lying-than the author of that
article in the Seebote. Will the
writer Of it please stand up while
we talk to him for a few minutes.
Sir, point to a single action where
in the native born American, or
the republican party, has ever
placed an obstacle, in the way of
the German speaking peoples ad-
vancement and prosperity, their
political honors, commercial hon
ors or social honors. You make the
bold, false assertion that the party
has done these things, but we defy
you to show particle of proof to
substantiate your assertions. You
are democratic demogogue, lying
in the interest of your party, that
has not been right on any great
question for more than thirty years
and you know it. Point to north
western state, where SO many
Germans live, in which the repub-
lican party has not elected Germans
to state offices; point to a single
county in all of the northwestern
states that have not chosen Ger
mans TO county offices; point to
any community, in any portion Of
the United States, where native
born Americans have not repeated
~ extended kindnesses to their
German fellow-citizens; point to a
single German church edifce in
Wisconsin that was erected with
out substantial assistance from
native born Americans who are
republicans; point to a single
church fair gotten up by the Ger
mans IN the interest of their
denominations, no matter what
the denomination, in which there
were not native born Americans
and republicans who contributed
to its success; point to single
school house built by a German
society, of whatever nature, that
was not helped along, financially,
and in all other respects, by native
born Americans who are republic
cans. You cannot do it, you know
you cannot, and yet you have the
brazen- facedness to sit down and.
in a cold-blooded way, try to plant
botraI for ,oti1-a ho,, A ,,o,.;c,.