The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-04
OUR BRITISH NEWSPAPERS,
20 the Editor Of The Herald.

IOurthS or all the RepuDtlcan .ueWSpa-
pers in the United States are published
by British agents. When our oppressor,
John Bull, got licked by our forefath-
ers, when he had to acknowledge the
independence of the United States, he
had to change his policy. He sheathed
his sword, but ever since he has tried
to rule the United States by his money
power, and we have to admit that he
accomplished more than he may have
expected himself. He is ruling us yet
to a great extent. In the first place his
language was adopted as official; then
all his laws have been kept in force up
to date; and his social customs pre-
vail. We may ask how this could come
about? There are, and always have
been, twice as many Germans as Eng
lishmen in the United States; more
Scandinavians, and perhaps just as
many of other nations. Why do we
speak John Bulls language and adopt
his social rules and live. up to his Pc
culiar religious ideas? The answer is
very simple John Bull is in posses
sion of our free press, and he is using
this power in his interest. Before his
hired writer's nobody is worth any
thing if he is not an Englishman or is
living as such crank. The most
powerful nations, whose business OPP
positions are dangerous for him. are
hated the most, and as a natural con-
sequence the Germans are in his way,
and his agents have to fight them.
What the German-Americans suffered
by these men is well known by every
intelligent citizen. AS one of these
agents we have to consider the editor
of the Salt Lake Tribune Whenever
an opportunity is offered he has it in
for the Germans. He permits himself
to make fun of the most intelligent ma
ton on earth. He ridiculeS the best
citizens of the United States. So again,
in his editorial of the 26th of August,
where he relieves his spite under the
subject, Germans. Not German-Amer-
icans," he says:
I'm the old northwest there are large
German settlements, where they speak
the native tongue only, where they
read nothing but German literature,
and to whom Carl Schurz and two or
three other German Americans are lit
tie deities. They are not Americans in
fact They all vote one ticket They all
vote as some special big man born in
their country dictates. They get all
their impressions from that class of
German newspapers that follow the
lead of Carl Schurz; and they do not
represent the average German-Ameri-
can in any respect. They have not yet
taken on any conception of the spirit of
free institutions. They only know that
whereas they came here poor and OBJ
tanned large tracts of glorious land
cheaply, they are making more money
than they ever dreamed of making
through all their childhood, and they
want to be let alone. A little city ordi-
nance to compel them to go slow on
their beer-drinking picnics on Sunday
is sufficient to make them all vote in a
body against the party to which the
men belong which passed the ordi-
nance. Their sons and daughters will
eventually grow up to be good Ameri-
cans, but they are simply Germans and
it is mistake to call them German
Americans. 1t would take as long to
make real Americans out OF them as
they are situated. as. it would to make
them outgrow taste, for viennavursts,
sauerkraut and lager beer
: Every intelligent citizen knows what
a Islander this is. When he claims that
all those who talk their mother tongues
are not American citizens he would re-
duce the 100000 considerably, and
even a good many Englishmen would
have to be taken from the list. They
don't talk the official language of the
United States, and we hear just as well
the Irish and the Scotch speaking their
old country language, and even If they
try to talk our language there is a
brogue in it. Why, then, shouldn't the
Germans speak their mother language?
They are entitled to it. There are
about 2000O,0OO of Germans in this
Not only that they love their
language just as well as others, but
they know that with their language all
their manners and virtues would be
buried. Does that editor hate for
eign town because his education is not
so far accomplished to handle more
than one language? What can he
blame about the Germans? Are there
better citizens in the United States?
done more for our industry, art and
Who has defended our coun-
try better than our German-American
OF course, theretare few old people
in German settlementsswho don't talk
Or understand English, but does that
hinder them from being good American
citizens? ~ - r.
I'll pet anything that there are more
without naturalization
papers than Germans. 4 These British
agents seem to believe that their Ian
guage alone make them ull-fledged
American citizens without doing any
thing but talk to make themselves use
full. Another lie has to be nailed down.
When he says that all the Germans in
those settlements are led by men like
Carl SchurZ, it is a malicious uatruth.
All Germans can be proud of Carl
Schurz. but they are intelligent enough
to judge for themselves. Furthermore,
this mudslinger hints at the power of
ager beer, Sauerkraut and wiener
wurst. This, of course, is so old and
absurd that an answer is not neces-
sary. but I'll remark that there are a
hundred times as many English drunk
ards in this country as there are Ger
mans. 1E
In the same issue the Tribune made
IN attack on the German singers from
he New York Arion. He said that the
brewery held them back from going UP
20 Fort Douglas. The truth is that the
motor could not pull the three cars up
lill. They got stuck and the proprie-
-or of the brewery. Mr.. Moritz, was
gentleman enough to invite the singers
nto his establishment. Shame on the
Tribune for such SANDER!
The yellow press in John Bulls SER
vice has disturbed the peace to such
In extent that the German American
citizens in the east wouldn't stand it
my longer. They are protesting and
hey are supported by every good citi-
zen, and only papers like the Tribune
ire making fun of them. How long
will Germans here stand it? A real
gentleman in this country treats all
nations alike. He does not care where a
nan or his parents come from, or what
ais religion is, as long as he proves
% be good citizen of the United
States, and that is what we Germans
,laim to be.
That the Tribune is nothing but an
gnorant mudslinger is proven since our
asst election, and nobody has ever