The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-24
GERMANS I'M BRAZIL.

1t is strange that Brazil has not
awakened before this time to the de-
Matchmaking of her southern States.
For years the Italians and Germans
have been building up political instiru-
tons there which are crown colonies In
| ali but name. The Germans. especially,
have been active and open in furthering
this phase of imperial policy and ac-
cording to Frank G. Carpenter, who
wrote of the matter about a year ago,
they have succeeded in reproducing, in
| the Rio do Sui region the distinctive
characteristics of German national life.
Their schools are German, their houses
and habits and observances are Ger
man and the merchandise they do not
produce themselves is imported from
Germany. Their children, born on the
soil, know nothing of Brazil. as a re-
public. but are trained to regard them
selves as subjects of the Kaiser and
loyal sons and daughters of the Father
land.
Finally. Brazilian publicists have
taken alarm at this state of things
which. as they clearly see, is pregnant
with causes of future mischief The
policy of the German government in
respect to actual colonies is to make
them and keep them national. They
were started to divert from the United
States the stream of emigration which
has. for so many years, been absorbed
into the currents of American life. The
Kaiser soon tired of seeing German sub
jects turned into loyal and patriotic A
mericans, as hundreds of thousands of
them are. So he is doing his best to
attract them to German East Africa.
TO Samoa and Shantung. It was to
have been expected that, in these COL
onies, the German idea would be al
ways kept to the front; but why, it is
asked, should the Kaiser pursue the
same policy III a country which, like
Brazil, has no Ieadings of manifest
destiny towards German institutions
and where, if the republic chooses to
exercise it's rights, and is not coerced
therein, the population may, through
schooling, army service, German
tariffs and the like be gradually turn
ed from the Fatherland and assimilat-
ed with the sovereign population of the
State?
The conclusion has great force that
Germany intends, in due time, to make
Southern Brazil her, own. The Adver-
tiser, which regards the Monroe doc
trine as an outgrown policy that is
likely to do the. United States more
harm than good, and especially to him
der world progress, would be glad to
see such thing come to pass with the |
full assent and appreciation of this
country; but the. Brazilians, of course,
take the opposite view. They want
their great empire for their own use.
But they begin to see that if the south |
ern states are held by German popu-
lation the latter may in time revolt and |
seek prOtectOrate from the KAISER or |
actual union with the Fatherland. That |
the German emperor hopes and expects
such a movement may almost be taken
for granted Surely he is not trying |
to build UP Brazil at his own ex-
pense. Why should he undertake
to achieve as respects German
to Brazil precisely what
he is trying to prevent in respect to
German immigration to the United
States2 If German subject is lost,
what does it matter whether he is lost |
in North or South America? But the
Kaiser does not intend to lose a subject |
who settles in Brazil and the Germans
there, apparently, do not propose to !
lose the Kaiser. And this raises the !
joint query. What does Brazil propose
to do about it and into what complica-
ton may not her action or non-action |
ultimately draw the United States?