Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-16
AN INSULT TO GERMAN CITIZENS.


annex. and the contagion of contact of our
incapacity to elevate and fit them for free
dom. They speak slightingly of benevo-
lent assimilation policy. We have certain
ly at hand those who by their changes in
manners and i'll language and in knowledge
ire adequate to refute these aspersions-the
French Creole of the Mississippi. the Mexi-
can upon our border; the Hibernians, Teu-
tons and Poles of our oities. In their tute-
iage we have not been altogether unsuc-
cessfuI."
The remarks of Rev. DR.. Clark, at
the Episcopal Congress in session at
st. Paul, last Thursday, in which he
compared the German, Irish and
Polish citizens of this country
with the Tagals and other
tribes of the Philippines, has stirred
up representative Germans in many of
the States, and the insult promises to
become potential factor in the com
ing political campaign, for Dr. Clerk
is recognized as having spoken author
itatively for the Hanna administration
and to have reflected it's sentiments
In Cincinnati the large German popu-
lation is indignant beyond any descrip-
ton which words can convey, as may
be understood by these expressions
from the most prominent German cit
liens of that city:
Rev. Edward Voss, pastor of st.
Paul's Evangelical Protestant church.
said:
Bishop Clarke's utterances are those of
demagogue. and an insult to a nation
which, in point of civilization and culture
is second to none in the world
Mayor Tafel said
''Dr Rufus w. Clarke or Detroit. will go
down into history as the man who rendered
to. the Hanna Mckinley combination the
same KIND of service that the well known
eve Of the Presidential election of 1884 by
ms alllterat1ve aspersiens against certain
classes of voters.
"The Hiberlans, Teutons and Poles. al
thouSn not a4hterauVely referred to by the
Doctor. will certainly the Eth day of
November next pay their respects to that
lot OF benevolent assimilators who while
attempting to stamp the Filipinos as the
Yer est savages in order to excuse their
brutal and cruel conduct toward them at
the same time point their finger as the
classes, of American citizens above named
In order to show from what low state of
degradation they have succeeded in re-
claiming them by having them brought in
to contact with their honorable selves.
Inc learned doctor evidently does not
know that annually thousands of Ameri-
can youths repair to Germany in order TO
obtain instruction at its unrivaled seats of
learning, and that the Irish and Polish
for more than thousand years have been
among the highly civilized nations of Eu-
roRTi o,.,u,..,
. oh pnt1iny
Bishop Potter"
DR.. G. H. Truman said:
DR.. Truman pointed to a picture of his
father hanging on the wall.
Does he look like a man who needed
his brains and ability and money 10 Ibis
country with him. and did his share in
bringing about the prosperity of Cincin-
cities of the United States
Then for some man inspired by hope
of reward from the White House to say
that German pioneers were civilized by
benevolent assimilation is an insult to
tl.e intelligence of any fair minded person
Il is an insult that the German citizen will
SCI condemn this whole imperialstic pol
icy which the administration is trying TO
put into effect, and then to have the adj
diuonal insult of one of the mouthpieces
of this group come out and compare the
men who did the most to make this coun-
try great to the savages of the Philippines
Is too much"
Rev. Hugo G. Eisenlohr remarked:
Il am surprised that the administration
which lately has tried to coneiliate the
Germans would unbridle the tongue of such
a man. whose comparison of us to the
Filipinos is an audacious insult"
And Rev. DR.. Ewald Ham, pastor of
St Peters German p E. church, is
quoted:
Il can hardly realize that Rev. DR..
Clarke gave tongue to the words ascribed
to hnn, in which he places the F'ilipinos
upon the same plane of civilization as the
Germans, but If that is really true / have
not enough words at my command to ex-
press my contempt of him for the Insult
thus offered my eountrymen.
These are but samples of the indig-
nant expressions of Cincinnati Ger
Nan-Americans, and the words uttered
will be re-echoed and endorsed
throughout the land, not only by citi-
zens of German birth or descent, but
all other fair-minded men.