Arizona republican., 1903-05-08
German Audacity.

The Grenzboten of Leipzig is a week ly of sufficient standing and influence to make fairly astounding in audacity and disregard of international rights and obligations the article it has print ed on German emigration to Brazil. It is a strong plea for the concentration of all German migration upon that South American country and for givinS those Germans who go thither assur- ance that the German government will eventually convert the Brazilian prov inces in which they settle into a Ger man colony. Whether this amazing proposal was inspired from some source outside the Grenzboten office is. of course, unknown, but wherever the parturient mind from which it came 1t must be a mind characterized by either an excess of inpudence of a de- felt of common sense.
 The article paints Brazil as a future German India. As Asia is becoming more Russian and Africa more British the Germans, the article runs, must take care that they be not shut out Of that part of the earth which is not yet seized by some strong power. There fore, German capitalists and syndicates should look to South America as unex- plotted territory, with special attention to the three southern provinces where already German immigrants make q quarter of the population, own three thousand square miles of land and dom mate trade. agriculture, transportation and local government. Germany, continues the Grenzboten, should pass a law making emigration to any pat of the world except Brazil a punishable ofrense. If Brazil is brought within her sphere We can guarantee emigrants un- disturbed development"
 Then it proceeds to outline the auda- cious policy. Let us, however, trans plant no bureaucracy. Let us permit as much self government as possible. Let the country be ruled by officials raised and educated there. Let us give the country the favored nation tariff treatment, and organize a colonial army wherein every man can serve his time without returning to Germany. Thus we will witness on the ether side of the Atlantic the rise of a vigorous colonial empire which will, perhaps, be- come the most lasting colony old Europe has ever created
 How the United States would look upon the execution of this amazing plan. with the Monroe Doctrine still dominating American sentiment. is, Of course, not considered. The mind that is capable of conceiving the plan would naturally not be disturbed by possibili- ties in that direction. What is more remarkable is that a German weekly Oi responsibility should show such cava- Her disregard of the requirements of ordinary public and private morality. Surely, when such talk is publicly in- dulged in, the South American nations will bethink themselves anew of their relations with the German government and German immigrants. If represent atiye Germans can seriously and calmly consider a scheme for the dismember ment of the territory of a people who have done nothing but welcome Ger man immigration with kindness anu generosity, the South Americans muEt begin to think that they have made a mistake in inviting Germans, and per haps other foreigners as well, to their shores.
 What will then happen will doubt less be something like what has al- ready happened in Venezuela, where a decree has been issued forbidding foreigners in that country to join po- litical societies, to edit political news papers or write about Venezuelan poli- tis, to fill public office, to take up arms In the domestic contentious of the re- public or to make speeches that in any way relate to Venezuelan politics. For eigners now in Venezuela naturally protest against this, declaring that it will put a stop to immigration. But that, if immigration is to be of the kind and purpose suggested by the Leipzig Grenzboten, is precisely what South American governments must de- sire.
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