Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-07-11
GER MANY DEfEN DED.
81 tbe rditor 81 the Register.

No the Editor Of the Register.
sir: Permit citizen to say few
words in response to several interviews
that have recently appeared in one
paper or the other of this city, all hav-
ing for the subject the pretended expe-
rience OF Wheeling people during their
Journey abroad, especially in Germany.
The undersigned cannot find words
strong enough to condemn such state
ments- stat ements which, while exag-
gerated are remarkable for the i'm
pudent lies which have been and are
being sent over here from London for
the sole purpose of making hostile two
Friendly nations bound together by
bands of blood and the closest COM
mercial interests. 1t is high time to
call a halt to these assaults On the
character of government and q peo-
ple, who love nothing more than peace,
q government which has repeatedly
given assurances of good will towards
the friendly government and people OF
the United States. May God forbid
that these foul methods should lead to
what they are intended-an everlasting
rupture between Grmany and this
country. England has never been and
never will be true friend of ours, ex-
cept perhaps in the present situation.
She is longing for an alliance because,
on account of her perfidious policies IN
the past, she to-day stands isolated and
needs somebody to pull the chestnuts
out Of the fire for her in the future.
On the other hand, as history re-
cords it, Germany has always peen
reliable friend of the Union.
To come back to the statements re-
ferredl to above, / again venture TO say
they are grossly exaggerated, while the
one in yesterdays News has, to any
one that knows anything about ber-
lin and Germany at large, ridiculous
favor. The writer has, from letters
and papers he is receiving every week
from relatives and friends, the assur-
ance that it is only a certain class of
people called greenhorns in this coun-
try, and with whom not many would
care to associate, aided by few papers,
which are using hostile laguage to-
wards us. The latter class OF people
and the greater and more infiuentlaf
papers are with us. -.
In regard to those Chicago fellows
who were fixing some electrical appar-
atus in the metropolitan bar, | might
add that this utterance seems to be
instrumentation of the facts as the
said Fellows" are employees of the Ger
man world renowned firm of Siemens
& Halske at Berlin, with a flliale at
Chicago.
The rest of the interview in the News
about Emperor William and the vii
liam Tell" opera company is as ride
ulous as it is absurd. Emperor Will
liam, man with respect, is seldom to
be seen in other than the uniform of
the Garde cuirassiers, who wear the
eagle helmet, and if the innocent peo-
pie of Berlin almost break their necks
to get a view of the military grandeur
when their beloved emperor at the
head of the troops passes along slow
(not in breakneck speed) up the Under
den Linden, it is left to any foreigner
to look in another direction while the
cavalcade passes.
The paragraph in the said inter-
view about the William Tell' opera
company is the most ridiculous of all.
There are no travelling troops in Ger
many; the theatres all have their own
opera companies. The Royal theatre
In Berlin, the first in Germany, has as
such. the flower of the German artists
upon its stage, and they compose the
Royal Theatre company; only this and
no other company will ever play in this
famous house. And now-Schwamm
d'rueber. JUSTITIA.
Wheeling, w. Va, July s, 1898.