New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-06
4 QUESTION fon GERMAN-AMEEIcASS.

Il
Are Communications to be Germans on
Americans in the pending Presidential election
In another column we present an accurate
and literal translation of an article which ap-
pear6d on September il in the Munich
Neueste Nachrchen" OF all the remarkable
appeals which are coming from European ma
tional and commercial interests to fOroign-born
citizens of this country, in the hope 70 induce
them to defeat the Republican party because
il is an American party, and because it places
the interests of this country paramount to those
Of the rest of the world this is certainly the
most cnriousy frank Thi, article after show
ing how the Mckinley bill has operated to
prevent the importation into this country OF
many German goods. urges upon all Germans
at home who have friends and relations III the
United States the duty OF writing TO such
friends and relations and Of making personal
appeal to them 10 vote for Cleveland. Re
publican success" it says, means pcrpctuation
of the Mckinley law Grover Cleveland cleo
ton would result in its repeal. What
Germanys population in its separate portions
can do toward opposing the Mckinley law ought
TO be done with all possible speed and energy.
love his native land, and those of our old
friends and neighbors who have not exactly be-
come official representatives OF the Republican
party will think it we'll over before casting
their votes for Harrison, and sanctioning there
by the continuation of the Mckinley tariff for
four wears longer If the defeat of
the Republican party can be brought about at
the ensuing election the Mckinley bill will be
done away with and replaced by sensible
tariff law, facilitating the importation of Ger
man goods into the United states under CON
ditons which will enable the manufacturers Of
Europe as well as the American importers, to
obtain better prices"
There is certainly no want of clearncsS about
this, and it cannot fail to prompt the question
in the mind of every German American
whether he owes allegiance to tho country of
his adoption, where he is now employed, where
he is raising his family where he is enjoying
all the benefits that come from the uneXamplcd
prosperity of the people from vast resources,
from peace and quiet. from personal liberty,
and, indeed, from all the conditions TO which
he was a stranger in the land OF his birth. or
whether he owes allegiance now 10 Germany,
the country which however great and power
full. however fair and interesting. is still the
country from which he went away 10 earn
fortune he could not there obtain. This is the
question which 1.-THE Munich News has raised,
and for our part we are glad it has done so.
The German-Americans of this country have
demonstrated their loyalty TO the American flag
and all it represents at every critical emergency.
They were brave and loyal in battle. and they
are distinguished even among our native pop
ulation for their remarkable thrift, industry and
quiet. homeloving life. As a class they have
become Americans 70 the core. and the effect
Of this extraordinary appeal 10 them TO take
the part of German and European industrial
interests against the interests OF the United
States will arouse their resentment and pro-
duce as it ought 10 produce, an outburst OF
patriotic American zeal. IL will cause them to
recognize the Republican party as the American
party, the party that believes in rendering
America prosperous and powerful, and in every
respect they will stand by that party because
they are Americans and because they CRATE
ful to it for having brought about precisely
the social and industrial conditions in which
they could obtain a prosperity here that was
denied to them at their earlier home.
The article Of The Munich News'' is craftily
designed TO effect its purpose. II declares that
the people of the United States have not pros
pered under the Mckinley bill that It was put
together in the interest only of rich and ex
tortiOnate manufacturers, and that German
Americans would really be furthering the in
tereSts Of the land of their adoption, well
as those Of the land of their birth, by voting
for Grover Cleveland. This is tricky. but it is
little too VIGOROUSLY false. The German
American is not a man who can be easily de-
ceived. He understands just as we'll as any
other citizen that the prices OF the necessaries
Of life are to-day lower than they were when
the Mckinley bill was passed, and that do
mestic production has enormously increased
He knows that under the operations of the
Mckinley bill he buys sugar cents cheaper
than he did formerly. He knows that there has
been no increase in the price Of fabrics, except
such fabrics as tho millionaire manufacturers
whom this article so generously denounces de-
sire to pay for, and he has the statistics of the
Census Office ut Washington and of numerous
Labor Bureaus in the United States, Demo
cratic as well as Republican, to prove that
wages are higher and employment moro general
among the people than they have ever been
before He cannot be fooled by noisy clamor
against the Mckinley bill, nor by the false
representation that it has not benefited America
lie knows it has benefited America and he will
vote TO sustain it for that reason. He will
vote to sustain the Republican party also be-
cause it is the party of sound finance, and the
German-Amercan is the man of all men who
believes in honest money.
THE Munich News article throws a food
Of light, however upon the operations of Mr.
Henry Willard and Mr.. Carl Schurz and their
Gcrman-Amcrcan bureau at Democratic head
quarters. Everybody can now see just what
Mr.. Willard and Mr.. Schurz are doing.