The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-06-15
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II now develops that the Prussian
Eendearmerie and other officials, who
have been 70 Industrious in banishing
Danes from ~Schleswig, acted wholly
without authority, and that all the Sex-
lies are at liberty to. return whenever
they choose. The police and magis-
|trates are almost paralyzed with con
sternation. for, in the light Of the decis-
ion by the high court at Kiel,, their
actions are revealed as tyrannical In the
highest degree.
"a lone woman has thus brought re-
lief to her friends and triumphed over
the brutal police. Little did they know
what a hornets nest they stirred up
when they drove Miss Helene Reimers
across the border into Denmark from
|Sandeborg last December. She returned
4 few days later, and was arrested and
sentenced to imprisonment by the local
court. The district court sustained the
sentence, but Miss Reimers appealed to
the higher court, where the order was
reversed.
BY the treaty Of Vienna. the inhabi-
.tants Of North Schleswig were allowed
to declare themselves as Danish citi-
zens, and many did so. Some went to
Denmark, but thousands remained. The
right Of option expired on Nov. 16, 1870
Among those who declared for Danish
citizenship, was Miss Reimers' father;
but he remained in Sandeborg. The
police construed the law that he and all
others who had taken the same course
could, with their children and grand
children, be banished from the country,
and for many years past they have been
busy with their harsh work. Miss Rel
me.s was born after the. option, period
expired, and, having lived all her life
In Schleswig, contended that sheshad as
much right there as anyone. In this
contention she was sustained by the
court at ,Kiel. The court went even
further and declared that those who had
availed themselves Of the option did not
a to be Prussian subjects until they
left the country and acquired q resi-
.dence in q foreign country. Conse-
quently, these who had continued-to re-
side in Schleswig were. free to go any
where IN Germany as subjects Of En-.
7eror William. i
All honor to brave Helene Re!mers!
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thanks to her courage and steadfast
purpose. With the fear of exile and
less Of property and station always
hanging over them like q threatening
cloud, their daily life was n OF r
sow and apprehension. For a people to
hum the songs that cheered them in
their youth, to speak q kind word for
Denmark or the Danes, was equivalent
to Punishment II the police ever heard
Of 1t. They generally did, for spies
were everywhere. Not an arm wal ev-
er raised against the servants or tnsti.
tutions OF Prussia; no thought Of q rev
.olution was ever dreamed Of In North
schleswig. There is nc more peaceful,
thrifty and Industrious people In the
whole German empire; but, like. des-
perate felons and red-handed rebels.
they were bounded from the country.
The outrages attracted little or no ats
teln,tion, as the police, were willy n
banished but a few at q time one q
two. possibly, whose places were Inn
mediately filled by Germans, while the
higher oficials and press Of the empire
ookedicomplacently n Q : were, posi-
bly,. ignorant of the work. gss I 81
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