Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
GERMAN TION.

That an ambition for colonization has
been strongly developed in Germany is
attested by several circumstances, at
least one of which is of particular in
terest to this country. This is the prog
ress which the Germans are making in
the colonization of southern Brazil. Ac-
coIding to an evidently well informed
writer OH the subject there are now
100000 Germans, emlgrants and their
offspring resident in Brazil. and although
the gre at majority of them have EN-
brncc1 brazilian citizenship their ideals
and ties are essentially and inviolably
German 1t Is stated. that in the south
ern PORTION Of the country, where they
are tlicIest. they have become the rul-
ing 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German has superseded Portuguese, the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 \ hundred million dollars
OF vested Understanding, street rail-
plantations and great variety of bust
ness undertakings-claim the protection
Of the kaiser's flag. A cross-country rail-
way and a still more extensive pro-
jected system are in the hands Of Ger
man capitalists. The country's vast
ocean traffic, the Amazon river shipping
and much of the coasting trade are DOM
mated hy Germans.
There is thus being created a nation
of Germans In the largest of the South
American countries and that is the
avowed purpose of these German colo
nizing concerns, which have become
lords and masters over 5000 square
miles of BRAZILIAN territory. 1t Is the
object OF these territorial syndlcates to
people their lands with immigrants
willing to be kept German. 1t Is stated
that the various colonizing concerns
conduct sleepless ganda through
out German-speaking Europe emitting
whole libraries of literature which
paint Brazil as picture of glorious
future, always providing that Germans
In goodly number go there to develop IT.
rhe efforts of these concerns are sup
ported vigorously by an influential or
ganization known rs the German Brazil
ian society, with headquarters In Berlin
and branches throughout the country.
Apart from the colonizing enterprises
which are the tangible attempts of Ger
mans to secure a foothold in the coun-
try. German influence everywhere in
Brazil is actively at work. 1t does not
appear that the German government is
directly aiding or encouraging this
movement, the chief incentive to which
is commercial expansion, but the gov
eminent is not doing anything to dis
courage IT,
The interest of the American people
in the matter relates TO the application
of the Monroe doctrine to the develop
ment by European immigrants Of the
southern part of this hemisphere. 1t is
suggested that the German program In
Brazil contemplates among other things
abandonment or modification of the
Monroe doctrine by the United States
which shall eventually permit economic
predominance TO be turned to political
account without war. There seems to be
no doubt that the German colonial party
has no respect for the Monroe doctrine,
hut that doctrine will certainly have to
be reckoned with If in the future Ger
man colonization in Brazil should result
in erecting a colony there as an integral
part OF the German empire, This would
appear TO be the aim Of those who are
engaged in the eoloniEing movement and
they are deluding themselves II they
think, as some Of them seem to do, that
they can establish in this hemisphere a
German colony in political alliance with
the empire and avoid the application Of
the Monroe doctrine. That doctrine does
not stand in the way OF emigration from