The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-17
DEUTSCHER TAG
CELEBRATED BY
GERMANS HERE
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE
GERMAN-AMERIcAN ALLIANCE
MEET IN COMMUNICATION OF
FIRST GERMAN LANDING IN
AMERICA.

With a gathering which brought to-
gether nearly their entire member
ship and a number of friends, two
interesting addresses by the Rev. J.
F. w. Reinhardt and Hon. Kirke Mon
roe, music by thirteen members of the
Fort Barrancas band, a real Deut-
scher supper and spielfest, the local
membership of the German American
Alliance celebrated German Day or
Deutseher Tag, at K Of P. Hall last
night.
The celebration commentaries the
landing of the first German .emigrants
to this country in Philadelphia, Pa,
on October 10, 1888. The addresses
were both of patriotic nature and
took up a small measure of the part
Germany and It's kinder have taken
in the emancipation of the colonies
from the British yoke and in its
broadening az a republic.
The Rev. Mr.. Reinhardt, who is
pastor of the local Lutheran church
was introduced by President J. H
Friedrichsen and Mr.. Friedrichseu
was. at the opening, introduced in a
brief address by Matthew Kemen
Mr.. Reinhardt. speaking in German
from the fatherland whose landing
they were celebrating were the pio-
neers of an emigration which has to-
tailed. in the two and quarter CEN
turtles since, many millions.
GERMANS ALWAYS ACTIVE.
That the Germans in this country
have been active in peace and war
he also showed and that they have
4at iya40 IN he al
fare of the country ever since its be-
ginning as nation. They were the
first to protest against slavery, he
said, and the first to issue a mani
festo on religious liberty. The parts
of the national constitution dealing
with religious liberty, he said, are
literally the exact embodiment OF
those principles enunciated by the
first German document of that ma
ture.
They have also taken a leading
part in the development of agricul-
ture and the industrial upbuilding OF
the country, he said, and occupy seats
in the chief institutions of learning
and hold offices of every kind up to
that of the presidency, but not in
Guiding it because, at least, of the
erican- born.
He continued to say that the de-
scendants of Germans in the United
States should be proud of all theiI
ancestry has done and try to keep
up the German tongue. perpetuatior
of which in this country is the prime
object of the alliance.
AS soon as the applause which fol-
lowed the conclusion of his address
had subsidized the band played Watch
on the Rhine"
Mr.. MONROE SPEAKS.
Kirke Monroe was then introduced
and he opened by saying that he had
enjoyed greatly the address of the
preceding speaker.
Everybody burst out laughing
Not that I understood a word that
BE said" the speaker continued. but
because I trust that my good friends
in the audience would not let him
say anything about me-
The speaker then went into the in
fluence of Germany In this country
and abroad. He said that the Amer
lean people are indebted to Germany
for many thinSs and among them a
great degree OF the success of the
American revolution. He told how
Baron Won Stuben, in the same spirit
which urged Martin Luther in the
sixteenth century. and Ludwig. the