Washington sentinel., 1899-01-28
The Washington Press and Ger
many.

The three Washington daily
papers overflow with haired for
the Germans and Germany. The
most atrocious lies are worked
into malicious and abusive editor
ials against the latter. Every
issue Of these papers is filled with
low and dirty attacks on the
Emperor, written IN the style OF a
schoolboy who expects a good
whipping for using bad language
The principal one amongst them
is the Washington Post. 1t is the
leading Administration paper, and
though sometimes it appears to
be on the Democratic side, is
really serving the Republican
interests. In the spring it worked
under the Influence" OF Spain,
now it is engaged by England.
1t abuses the Cubans just as it
abuses the Germans, and it will
not let them alone until such a
government is established that
will assume 100 millions Of Cuban
Spanish bonds and give all the syn
dicates and franchises on the
Islands to the friends Of Beriah
Wilkins. The editor who writes
those mean articles against Cuba
and Germany is a connection Of
.Alger's.
IN the issue OF the aoth instant
the Pest has an editorial, which,
conside ring its connection with
the Administration and its being
the principal paper published at
the American Capital, beats everv-
thing we have seen thus far. We
make the following extracts there
from. After citing some few re-
marks from German papers in re-
lation 10 the Samoan affair, it says
It would be a waste of time to argue
thls case. These excellent Germ3ns
possess the genius OF irugality ana
ACQUISITION, but they are dull. IL IS
beautiful and an amusing dullness' Dut
IL is characte ristic, and II IS incuTaole'
beautifully naive than the HHzeLger
reference to "the uuceremonlousness
.,h,ch the Americans have affected lately
wards us?" Evidently, the HHzetgsr
w ,snhere of sauerkraut and sausage
S " been penetrated by the suspicion
sis-, .iaS ~ attitude is anything rather than
re Stn sscte6" but is, on the contrary
Thoroughly sincere. .,-
SeytsinIv we need not concern our
.,.Svss vyith this stupid German praltie
There is but one way TO ueaI WIN Tue
German government goVsi ileilt ~ :
,,,S;~L interDrets courtesy on the part OF
d. ioretgn mower as a confession OF lear
"a weakness, and which requltes good
.Nrneys as an insult--and that IS TO
- - bv the throat. We have had
N,,-L ol Germany's offensive non
ssnse NOT only IN Samoa heretofore
Nm within the past ten months IN the
Philippines, and for years IN our COM COM
gnercIal relations everywhere II mat,eIs !tLs
little where and upon what PIeIeA,, .H,
Germany makes the ISSUE ne SuSi 49,
has been accumulating IoI yea! auo W
Anerican people ask no grea pIiVl~
Ieoe thau TO meet It with the sword
This is the language Of the prin
cipal daily and the organ Of the
American Administration at the
CAPITAL OF this great RePublicI
That paper cannot speak OF Ger
MANY, the most powerful and en-
lightened country in the world,
without stepping down to "sauer-
kraut and sausage" In speaking ol
the land OF birth of ten millions oi
German. Americans it must hold
un TO them "sauerkraut and sau-
sagep
In such a mean way no paper
has ever spoken OF the Germans a.
this organ Of McKinley's Admin
issration-and that man mckinney
was elected by those German
Americans
But the worst for those RePub
lican blackguards is that even II
the Samoa affair, for which thel
want to meet the Germans "witl
the sword" the latter are not II
the wrong, but the trouble is du
O the American ustlce Chambers
or whose doingS this country IN
stead OF fighting will have yet t
apologize. Whatever the Po'
saws about the Philippine trouol
isa stale exploded lie, which tn
Administration, if it had any ieel
ing of honor left, would some tim
ago have denounced as suef
For there never was any unpleas