The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-25

Something else was noted by careful
observers.
These walter spies had . habit Of
lowering tremendously round the host.
hostess and chief guests. and q distin-
guished New Yorker vows that there
have been few important dinners dur
ing the war at which German walters,
attentive In other han the usual sanse,
have not passed the soup for the Faith
erland. That is the system in opera
ton. Undoubtedly It Is the primary
task OF German walters in the United
States just now TO listen, but some Of
them are not above a bit Of terroriza-
ton too.
"A Fifth ven hostess who hired
four extra serving men was waited
upon at the end Of the dinner and in
formed that II her next party was
marked by such violently 'anti-Qer-
man conversation at table they would
create a scene by deserving the dinner
in the middle; they would, indeed, not
come TO the house again unless guar
anteed in advance immunity from such
anronts to their patriotic sepsibilities.
st. Louis. Mo-. is q great German
community. A year or W ago a hith-
erto prosperous dry goods establish
ment. one Of the Oldest and largest In
the city, failed for some mysterious
reason. II came out that the Germans.
who are n very Influential element OF
the retail purchasing power of st.
Louis. heard that the firm had given
s2OO TO a temperance party's campaign
FUND a boycott was forthwith de-
creed against a house which was OBJ
viously IL foe to personal liberty Ger
man synonym m the United States for
freedom from laws restricting beer
drinking. The boycott proved so
deadly that the SHINING firm was
eventually forced TO- the wall. II was
a victim OF the system
"If the great Teutonic ideal Of q
German state within the United States
were ever to be realized. tACago
would be It's capital city. At The last
Federal census $500 Chicago's popu-
lation of fore.gn birth or percentage
was l,693,9lS Out OF Il total population
Of 2,lS3,2S3. The German element in
this vast alien leavening numbered
5Ol,S52 inhabitants, or 29.6 per cent.
Of the aggregates. the Austrians to-
tailed 22I,35s (l3.5 per cent?, and the
H%ungarians 81 $3.50 t2.2 per cent?.
max ne altogether 767.7S0 Germans
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. or 45.3 or
the tota! foreign element in the second
largest and altogether most Cosmopoi.-
tan city in the United States.
In no community in the countrr
with the solitary exception of Nil
waukee. which has only $4,000 In
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overwhelming evidence as in the
%throbbing pulyg,ot Western metrop-
oils. Chicago has three German daily
newspapers and five weekly per.odi-
ais,
The Germans watch the Chicaeo
papers like hawks. Let me cite a case
in point. II one Of them has the
tsmerity 10 give space to one or two
p:V-AAy communications in tho col
umn OF Letters 20 the Editor the
latter Is forthwith dciuged with pro-
German .ctters-at the ration OF about
seVeuty-!ive to one. | am told-must If
them Couched IN terms more abusive
and d!ctatorial than pleading.
In many respects the newspapers
~ Chicago are the best in the United
States. Yet an impression is abroad
in ChiCaE1-uuless the statements Of
men Of affairs who ought to know are
wronF-that there Is hardly a journal
in that vas community which darcs,
openly, frankly and fearlessly-as UNI
afraid. for example. as great dailies in
New Yprk-tp preach in It's editorial
columns what IT fe Is In its heart,
when an American politician ia
perchcd uuErncofu,ly on the horns OF