Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-11
A NEW GERMANY IN BRAZIL.
Half a Million Immigrants Founding
a Branch Deutschland.


a Branch Deutschland.
Germans long for foothold In Bra
zil, says the Fortnightly Review, and
they are marching to a realization OF
their hopes with a patient confidence
born of we'll organized plans.
Already 100000 Germans, emigrants
and their offsprings, are residents I'D
Brazil In the south, where they are
thickest, they have become the ruling
element. German factories. ware
houses, shops, farms, schools and
churches dot the country everywhere.
German has superseded Portuguese, the
official language of Brazil, in scores OF
communities.
Twenty million pounds of vested IN
terests claim the protection or the
kaisers flag. A cross country railway
and a still more extensive projected
system are in the hands of German
capitalists The countrys vast ocean
traffic, the Amazon river shipping and
much of the coasting trade are domi-
mated by Germans.
Over and above this purely CONNER
cial conquest, however, looms rae
tor of more vital importance to North
American eptibilities-namely, the
creation of a nation of Germans In
Brazil That is the avowed purpose OF
three German coloniZing concerns
which have become lords and masters
over 5000 square miles of Brazilian
territory. an area considerably larger
that the kingdom of Saxony and ca
pable of drawing half a dozen German
Grand Duchies.
1t is the object of these territorial
syndicates to people their lands with
immigrants willing to be kept Ger
man a race of transplanted men and
women who will find themselves amid
conditions deliberately designed to
perpetuate "Deutchthum," which
means the German language, German
customs and unyielding loyalty to Ger
man economic hopes.
These various colonizing concerns
conduct sleepless propaganda
throughout German speaking Europe.
They vie with one another in painting
Brazil as a picture of glorious future,
always providing that Germans in
goodly numbers go there to develop it..
Public lectures are delivered. The
Berlin Tagebatt in response to the
growing interest of Germans in South
America, has despatched a special
commissioner to Brazil to make COM
prehensive report upon the status Of
"Deutschthum" there.
All sorts of tempting bait are dam
gled before the Hans and Michaels. who
are contemplating emigration. They
are assured that Germans may live in
Brazil for years without a sight of a
policeman or a soldier. Another report
mentions encouragingly that lager
beer, brewed by German breweries on
the spot, is gradually supplanting Par
aguay tea as the national beverage of
the country.
Great stress is laid upon the ease
with which families are bred, thanks to
favoring climatic conditions. Parents
with twelve or fourteen cnllQren are
described as common throughout the
German colonies" and it is pointed
out that amid the urgent demands for
manual labor in Brazil they constitute
real blessings instead of mill stones,
as they frequently prove in Germany,
with it's bitter struggle for existence.
Moneyless emigrants, with qualmS
about a home in Brazil. are informed
that very decent existence can be
enjoyed for the first year or two in
log huts, with palmetto leaves for roofs.
The colonizing syndicates offer settlers
practical inducements in the shape OF
cheap land.
Farms of Sixty-five acres can be had
for from G30 to $50, and building lots
in towns for G12 to SIS. Property
may be bought on seven years time
and 10 per cent rebate is granted to
cash purchasers.