The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
MANY GERMANS TO
QUIT THIS COUNTRY
THOUSANDS, INCLUDING AUSTRI-
ANS, WILL SEVER TIES HERE
AFTER WAR is OVER.
DROPPING THE ENGLISH TONGUE

IlIG hEONluS IOAChSG VI NAA1'AsSo All
Sentiment on Part of German
Americans Is Attributed to Various
Imagined Causes.
BUFFALO, n. Y.-Investigation
carried on among the German-Amer-
| leans of this city disclose the fact
that thousands of them since the be-
ginning of the war have become ut
terly estranged from ties formerly
enjoyed in this country, and that
many of them may return to Ger
many as soon as the war is over. 1t
is believed, judging from many in
terviews with citizens of German pa
rentage or extraction in Cleveland,
Buffalo and other cities, that the close
of the war will see a great many
thousands returning to Germany and
Austria.
1t appears that only very small
percentage of the German-Americans
in Buffalo and Cleveland give their
first allegiance to the United States.
More than half of them have begun
to refrain speaking the English Ian
guage and to use again the tongue
of the Fatherland. Even among many
of the leading business men of Ger
man blood in these two cities it is not
unusual to encounter outspoken bit
terness. against the United States.
Causes of Change.
The growing violence of this
change in sentiment on the part of
COMMUNICATIONS is variously at
tributed to the refusal of the United
States government to place an en-
barge on the expectation of German
war feeling by the German press OF
this country for the sake of increas-
ing their circulation, and to the pro-
ally basis which, they allege, has been
forced upon American English Ian
guage newspapers by England. The
racial pride and old country patriot
ism of second and third generation
Germans have also been intensified
by reports of German victories.
A prominent German-American
propagandist of this city explained
that the German-AmeTican Alliance
was Originally a personal liberty"
organization formed before the war
by eleven wealthy Commandment
cans who maintain great country
homes in the Fatherland. When the
war opened he said, this organiza-
ton was made a strong pro-German
body and able mOuthpieces were paid
70 OTOnaQ9tp its sentiments.
One German language newspaper
in Cleveland has jumped in circula-
ton from 5000 to 5000 since the
war began. 1t made capital Of let
tiers from Germany and Austria,
which complained of the use OF
American ammunition in Europe and
gave the names of kinfolks killed in
battles.
miserable Country"
The argument that it was the IN
compromising American patriotism of
the English, Irish and Scotch in this
country in 1875 and 1912 that made
the United States q place to which
Germans could emigrate does not di-
minish the present yearning Of the
German-Americans for the Father
land Some of the richest of them
declare that the United States is
miserable country
Lutheran ministers who preached
for years in English are now preach
ing in German. In one of these
churches recently a Frau Hanfstenn-
gel of Munich, a special pleader sent
from the other side, lectured on
War and Women" When she had
finished the congregation knelt and
the pastor prayed for the kaiser and
for the success of the German arms.
Alphone Karl, an able lawyer, is
the head of the pro-German group in
Buffalo. John T. Ryan, also law
yer. and an anti-English sympathizer,
assists him. In Cleveland State Sen
ator Herman Felinger heads a pro-
German circle, and Judge Martin A.
Foran and j. P. Mooney are COOP
Grating. In Buffalo there are $4,000
Germans and 5000 Austrians; in
Cleveland 120, 900 Germans and ~
600 Austrians