The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-05
GERMANS ENTERED VIGOROUS PROTEST Birmingham Courier Prints
 Strong Resolution TREATED WELL IN SOUTH Reply to Statement in Norwegian Jour nal Warning immigrants Not to
 Come South-Duty to
 Fellow-citizens.

Tho Birmingham Courier, the German paper published here, in It's edition or November A. prints the following pro test in reply to the article which appear al in a German paper of the north warn ,ne German immigrants not to go south;
 Tho Germans in the southern states should enter their protests against the shameful islanders of our southland, set into circulation by the New Yorker Morgen Journal" The Birmingham Cou- rier publishes below the protest issued by the German Immigration society or Alabama, and we appeal to all German newspaners to join us in this undertaking. Every German society, for whatever pur- poses organized, should pass this resoiu- tion. substituting It's name Tor sGermah Immigration Society of Alabama or py adopting resolutions of similar import and when so passed copies thereof ought to he sent to the Imperial German Elm bassv at Washington, and to the Der Ieiner Tageblatt" This is duty an act of justice due our southern fellow-cit- zens, and we feel that every society and newspaper will discharge this duty.
 The Birmingham Courier will publish A list of every organization joining Tn this protest.
 Society Protests.
 Birmingham, November l. 1905.
 Whereas the "Berleiner Tageblatt pup lished on the 29th ult., the following ar ticle, warning against immigration to the southern states, and taken rom the New Yorker Morgen Journal viz;
 "New York. July S, 1905. (Private Cable praro Immigration broke the record in the past fiscal year, coming up to total of 1O27421 persons. Austria-Hungary furnished the largest number. followed by Italy, Russia Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries. The Morgeh Journal warns Germans against immi- grafton to the southern states, as they are forced to work there, at the point of A revolver, and are treated worse than slaves"
 Be 1t resolved, by the German Immigra- ton society of Alabama. That we con demn this accusation against the south. as entirely untrue and unwarranted. Similar charges have appeared from time to time in German American newspap pers published in the northern states, and es- pecially in the northeast. The motive underlying these islanders Is due to an effort to secure the decrea sing German immigration for certain localities to the exclusion of other sections. The Ger man Is appreciated at his full worth in the south. This is best shown by the ex- istence in almost every southern state of organizations, usually made mp of the membership of commercial clubs and | boards of trade of the largest cities, which have for their object the bringing | hither of desirable, and especially of German immigrants. This fact. of itself
 stamps the accusations of the Morgen l Journal as untrue.
 Germans Esteemed. | The Germans living In the south are | as highly esteemed as those living in 1 any portion of tho United States. Men of | German birth are found here nearly everywhere, holding political offices. Con | sdering their numbers they are most l creditably represented in the business world. and socially they are treated as equals by their American-born neighbors | The German settlements found in Ala
 bama. such as Cullman, Hancevlle, Vine | mont Garden City Thorsby, Fruithurst | Chunchula, Sand Springs and St | Flourian. are speaking examples of the prosperity of the Germans. and they are | respected portion of the population of | our state.
 l Resolved That thls protest be published | in the Birmingham Courier" and that | copies thereof be sent to the Imperial
 German embassy al Washington, and to
 the "Berleiner Tageblatt''
 | THE GERMAN IMMIGRATION SOCIE- | TY or ALABAMA
 | Emil Lesser, president: Frank Decd | meyer John Neff, August Schillinger | Wm. Engehardt, K. c. Kayer. vice | presidents; Lee J. Marx, secretary.