The Jersey City news., 1891-08-08
Apa,pable swindle.

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The decision given by Chancellor
McGill, to the effect that English is
The legal language of the United
States, will strike every one who gives
any thought to the subject as practi-
cal, common sense view of n matter
whose Importance to the public can
not well be calculated. 1t was brought
out by proceedings to set aside sale
that had been advertised in the German
language in German newspaper.
The Chancellor ruled that while it
might be proper to print legal ad-
vertisement in a German news
paper, it must, to comply with
the law, be printed in English.
That is equivalent to saying
though the Chancellar did not
touch upon that phase of the question
that legal advertisements should not
be printed in German newspapers.
Obviously such newspapers are
printed for the benefit of Germans
who do nor speak or read the English
language. OF what use is it to place
before such readers an advertisement
that they can not read2 1t is q double
swindle-first upon the poor German
who pays his money thinking he is
buying something that he can read,
and secondly upon the person whose
property is in jeopardy and who is
taxed for an advertisement that can
not possibly benefit him-whose
money, in fact. on that account
might as well be cast in the sewer.
This whole business of giving the
State and legal advertising to news
papers printed in the German Ian
guage is political delusion as well as
a subterfuge. The primary object
Of the statutes which are passed
on the subject by cheap and
reckless legislators, is to secure
influence among Germans, and
SO ensure their votes to the party
bestowing the patronage. But, as
rule, the German who has not been
in this country long enough to ac-
quire the English language is not
possessed of a vote.
As to the supposed in fiuence of
these German newspapers, that is
another error. None of them have
any circulation worth speaking OF.
The great Staats Zsitsing of New York
does not begin to compare
with the English newspapers
Of the metropolis in circu-
lation and influence among the Ger
man people. AS for those outside of
the big city, they are merely catch
penny affairs, designed solely to put
money in the pockets of men who
manipulate the German idea for
all it is worth-to themselves. They
are SO many blood suckers fastened
upon the local or State Treasury and
should be Topped off. The Germans.
who are independent, honest people,
do not support these papers because
they know the purpose for which they
are established, and despise it. They
know what is going on in German
social and business circles and they
know that they will get all
the information of that sort they need
in the English newspapers. They
also realize that if they want to know
what is going on among their Eng
disappearing neighbors they must
read the English newspapers. They
will find nothing of these important
matters ia the German publications.
AS a matter of fact, these German
publications are devoid of enterprise
of any sort. and are made up of stale
foreign news, the important features
OF which were given in the English
papers while it was news, and the
rest is made mp of stories clipped from
European publications.
But a still more serious objection to
these sheets is found in the fact that
they do their little best-not much, it
is true-to prevent newly-arrived Ger
mans from becoming Amerieanized;
and that is a detriment both 10 the
country and the immigrant who comes
here to make a new home for himself
and to obtain the advantages of
American citizenship.
Thus there is no good purpose of
any kind served by these papers.
They are excrescences upon the body
polite in every way. They are
fraud upon the political parties which
encourage them in the hope of secur-
ing votes because they have no votes