Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-07

tements In the states of Santa Catha :
rin;l and Rio Grandc do Sui was not
really political move of the German
Hovernmcn, These immigrants were
placed there by the Brazilian govern
meht because these regions possess Il
more temperate climate. more, suitable
10 the European "coloniStS.'
Germany has not interviewed ut all
III this plan of colonization. She has
, even placed serious obstacles IN the
, way or the departure of her subjects to
brilHil. conscious that they would adopt
there the nationality of tile new home.
4. wherc they live freely and FAR away
! from the German military rule y
great number may not even go back
, 10 Germany. as they have not fulfilled
th"ir military duties. If there had en-
, 'S'cd on the part of the German GOV
eminent premeditCtcd conquest. Ger
many would have encouraged the emf
grafton of her subjects to- Brazil.
Besides towns and localities bearing
herman names, such rs Biumcnau. New
hamburg. we have also others. bearing
SWISS. KuSSian ana French names. such
as New Frihourr, New Odessa and Join
vile; the Inhabitants of the last named
arc In great quantity BraziliaEs, al
though OF German origin. That has no
poii,ical Significance. being only hon
age made to the old nationalities Of the
colonists there established.
Owing to the scarcity OF native pop
ulatlon these settlements remained for
some years isolated from the other
more populated districts. but with the
increase of other European Immigrants;
ana the development of lines of COM
munication the German section of the
population Is methodically assimilatcd
by the larger native population, from
which they acquire not only their
mode OF thought but their ways and
habits. Three-fourths OF these 10000
Inhabitants of Teutonic origin are
thorough Brazilian patriots, who re-
tain. for the "Vatcrland" OF their an
cestorS purely ethnic sympathy
The colonization policy of Brazil is
wisely applied SO as to safeguard the
national and philoloEic unity. The
government tries to intcrcalatc beside
the German. Dutch and Polish nyglom-
crations settlements Of Italians. Por-
tugueSe aud Spaniarus, SO AS to prepare
for the future formation of a new type
of entirely Caucasian origin which
would always be Latin in mind and
thought. and owing to the extreme diff
hculty the BRAZILIAN government has
experienced i'll spreading instructions
over such thlnly sown population cX-
tending over such n vast area IL con-
sented to the establishment of foreign
schools supported by foreign societies
and for the purpose OF spreading the
knowledge of their respective lam
guagcs.
There are to be found some schools
supported by IAlliancc Franchise and
by the Dante Alighicr" that enjoy
the same advantages as their similar
German societies.
The Brazilian government requires
nevertheless. rs principal condition
that, besides these foreign languages
the Portuguese language shall be
Taught and used as the principal Ian
sunse as well as their own and that
III Brazil English, French. Italian and
German schools should use it, as well
as that important newspape should
he printed in all these languages. In
spite OF which tho philogic unity OF
the country has not been shaken The
authorities nttentively watch over the
and especially OF the
new generation, by means OF a meth
odical civic education, notably in the
State OF Sac Paulo