The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-09
GERMANS TN BRAZIL

daughter of Dom Pedro, the first Empe. TOT of Brazil, and the city of Joinville German to the marrow, is a monument ts
 his royal higness' efforts to form nus cleus for German immigration.
 .'The lands to which the Germans have taken title in south Brazil now gives them an area of holdings of 11,534 square miles, an extent equal that of Lorraine and saxony together. The aim of the Metropolitan and Hanseatic Colonization companies at home has been to deflecs the current of German emigration from the United States to Brazil and to have the Brazilian colonists retain their GsE- man allegiance. The success of the plan is attested by Konigsburg, who in lSh
 work on Rio Grande do Sul says: These colonists have built a state within .
 state. Of German customs very little NN-s been lost; also, the German dialect. with it's native idiom, is handed down from generation to generation. Portuguese is little spoken, and even then the Germans
 use it with great difficulty The school teachers of the colonies are subsidized German pastors.
 Through their possession of land, the Germans in Brazil control one-half of the worlds supply of coffee, and the German- ization of the people is further carried out through the compulsion laid upon the army of employees and servants to learn 1 the German language rather than to 1 oblige the alien to gain the native tongue l The ideals and ties of the immigrants, says Frederick William Vile in the Ec- 1 lectic Magazine, are essentially and in- eradicably German It is Vile also who declares that the Germanization of Bra
 gil is no twentieth century project. It has been in progress Tor more than 70 years, although aggressively prosecuted only during the past decade (writing in l 1906), coincdent with the rise of the ram
 pant expansion movement known as Pan-
 Germansm'
 | 'To that movement, more than to any other fostered by the present Kaiser, Is
 due the rapid development of the Ger
 man fleet. which looked forward not
 alone to "der tag" but also to further usefulness in defending the empires com
 mercial outposts in "the land of the fu- ture," as almost every German writer
 has styled South America; and it is sig
 nificant that Professor Won Schulze- Gas vernitz, writing in Die Nation as long
 ago as March, 1898. said
 "'The more Germany Is condemned to
 an attitude of passive resistance toward the United States, the more emphati- cally must she defend her interests in Central and South America, where she
 today occupies an authoritative position.
 Now, in matters of equity and respect for
 the law, the Romanic peoples in America lcannot be Judged according to European
 standards. and in certain circumstances Germany will be constrained all the more to employ coercive measure in proportion
 as the amount of German capital invested
 Gin state loans, railways, plantation) in those parts increases. For this purpose
 we need a fleet capable not only of cop ing with the miserable forces of South
 American States, but powerful enough. If the need should arise. to cause Americans
 to think twice before making any attempt
 to apply the Monroe doctrine in South
 America. The defense of South America