The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

Il has been replaced by much less de-
sirable type OF settler. In 1Ss2 western
Europe sent up $50, ia seSriers, or 81 per
cent. while Southern and Eastern Europe
ana Asiatic Turkey sent $751; or u PEI
cent. In 1906 Western Europe sent no.
s6s, or nj per cent OF our new popia-
ton. In 1910 there were SHzSB white
persons Of German origin IN the United
States; 2,5o1, Isl were born in Germany;
as11. sH were born In the United States,
both of whose parents were born In Ger
many; ], s6e,590 were born In the United
States, one parent born in the United
States and one in Germany.
Not only have we been enriched by
this mass Of sober and industrious people
| in the past. but Peter Muhlenberg.
Christopher Ludwig, Stuben. John kalb,
George Herkimer, and later Francis
Lieber, Carl Schurz, Sigel. Osternaus.
Abraham Jocobi, Herman Ridder, Os-
wald ottendorfer, Adolphus Busch. Isl
dor. Nathan and Oscar Stratus Jacob
| Schiff, Otto Kahn. Frederick Weyer-
heuser, Charles Steinmetz, Claus spreck-
els, Hugo Munsterberg. and . catalogue
OF others, have been leaders In finance.
in industry. in war, In politics. In educa-
! tional. and phiianthropic enterprise, and
In patriotism
The framework of our republican in
situations, as the author has tried to out
line In this volume. came from the
Woods Of Germany" European repub-
licanism, which ever since the French
Revolution has been in the main a
phenomenon of the Latin races. was q
creature of Teutonic civilization in the
age OF the Roundheads. The half Latin
city OF Genoa was the source of that
stream OF democratic opinion in church
and state, which. flowing to England
under Queen Elizabeth. was repealed by
persecution to Holland. and thence d.
rected to the continent OF North Amer
lea.
In these latter days Goethe. in a let
ter to Eckermann. prophesied the build
ing of the Panama Canal by the Amer
leans. and also the prodigious growth OF
the United States toward the West.
In a private collection in New York
is an autograph letter Of George WASH
ington to Frederick the Great asking
that Frederick should use his influence
to protect the French friend OF Amer
lea, Lafayette
In Schiller's house in weimar, there
still hangs an engraving OF the battle
Of Bunker Hill, by Muller. a German.
and a friend of the poet.
Bismarck's intimate friend as a STU
dent at Gottingen, and the man OF whom
he SPOKE Win warm aueCuOn all MS
life, was the American historian. Motley.
The German soldiers in our civil war
were numbered by the thousands. We
have many ties with Germany, quite
enough. indeed, TO make a bare enumer-
alton OF them sufficient to interest the
reader IN this volume.
THE UNREST OF WOMEN: BY Edward Sanford
Martin. New You'd. Appleton & Co Price. s.
In THE Unrest OF Women" Edward
Sanford Martin does not deal with any
detailed history of the woman question.
but boldly comes out with the cause
and the cure, which is refreshing after
the long and oft-repeated arguments for
and against equal suffrage.
The author isn't really in favor OF
equal suffrage. but neither is he abso-
lutely set against II. He takes the
stand that IF the Creator intended that
man should be boss and equipped him
with the facilities proper to that ONCE.
boss he will be and nothing can stop
him; not even votes for women"
On the other hand, he has the same
truly Christian idea for the other side
OF the case when he says that petty
tyrannies over women, dogmatic denial
to women of anything on earth or in
life that they want and can attain and
handle, will avail not jot to keep man
in power"
Freedom for women, with a capital
F, is emphasized in every page of the