Arizona republican., 1901-04-01
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, APRIL 1, 1901.
Nothing said by MT. Roosevelt in hls speech to the Legal Aid society on Sat

speech to the Legal Aid society on sat
 urday evening was re- WE ceived with more ap- ARE ALL plause by an audience AMERICANS. made up chiefly of peo-
 pie of German birth or descent than his remark that 1t was a meeting of American citizens and that "he Is an enemy to the development O; our people who permits for one moment the existence of any dividing line of class, creed or race among those Ameri- cans who honestly and in good faith strive for the welfare of America"
 The t.ttemp; of the Staats-Zeitung to draw such a line of separc ,ion in the interest of "Germanism" is simply an indication that actually the line is dis appearing. The vast majority of the population of New York are of foreign birth and parentage and Of these the greatest number of any single national ity are Germans or of German de scent. The German-born almost invariably be- come American citizens by naturallza- tion and are soon mingled in the nass of American citizenship withou. any distinction of 'Gerrnanism." The sec ond generation. educated in our schools, speak our language without a trace of German accent and even their fathers are recognized as distinct va riety of Germans, "German-Ameri- cans" when they return to visit their native land. In inveighing against Americans, therefore. the Staats-Zei- ed Into our citizenship and powerful factor in making the American senti- ment 1t essays to insult. Probably its rage Is due to a consciousness that 1t is losing steadily the sympathy of the great body of the population of New York of German birth and descent, and thus the reason for its peculiar exist ence is departing.
 In striving to keep alive German ism as a distinctive sentiment hostile to Americanlsm, the Staats-zeitung is fighting vainly against the complete assimilation of the population of Ger man nationality which has gone on and is continuing all about 1t. It Is a paper printed In the German language, but the language spoken and read by the great majority of citizens of Ger man stock Is our own, as obviously re- quisite to their progress in this coun- try. Naturally, therefore. Its temper Is not improved by It's struggles in the uphill fight. Germans who have not yet famaliarized themselves with our language may read the Staats-Zeitung, but the number of such, actually and relatively. is now diminishing at a faster rate than ever before; while their children, instructed in our schools. have no use for 1t and no sympathy with it's narrow. un-American spirit. In the very nature of things 1t is paper which must become an obsolete insti- tuition, or at least of insignificant patronage. unless it's follows the people to whom it seeks to appeal in becoming thoroughly Amerlcanized in tone and language.
 The immigration from the German empire has now fallen off greatly from its former vast volume The mass os the Cerman-born here is ID lonec.' re- crulted by large and steady stream of fresh immigrants who cannot read English as was the case formerly. while the number of those already in New York who have that inability is becoming smaller every day, until at length the time will come when Ger mans here will no more need a German printed newspaper than does MT. Roosevelt a paper printed in Dutch.
 This is a development fortunate for both citizens of German birth or descent and for this republic. and it is welcomed by no part of our population with more heartlness than by inrelli-