The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-14

for the hist time Germans born in |
the country who could speak only Ger |
man.
German colonization in Brazil has
been going on since 1925. when the
settlement OF San Leopoldo in Rio
Grandc do Sui was established. For
ten years the stream OF immigration
continued, when it was interrupted bv
the sans-culotte revolt in Southern Bra
I'll. This interruption lasted for nine
years. In lS4S the flood Of settlers
was perceptibly swollen, bv the fami-
lies from Schleswig- Holstein and the
other arts Of Germany which were af
fected b. the revolt of the duchies
against Denmark. No less, than thir-
teen important German colonies were
established In Southern Brazil between
lS4S and 1860, the earliest settlers be
ing greatly aided by generous grants
OF land from the Brazilian government
which allotted no less than III acres to
each immigrant. Owing to speculative
abuses this privilege was largely re-
duced-but without noticeable effect
upon the movemeIt-which was checked
by the imperial edict of 1869 forbid
ding all further migration of Germans
to Brazil. This ediet remained in vicor
until 1896, when, as Austin Harrison
terms him IN the Pam ermanic Doe
trine, the great sea emperor, William
II, saw early and clearly into the fu-
ture, and taught his subjects to see.
too
Under this teaching, the Germanic
food swept in larger volume into Bra
I'll and now has spread over a territory
approximately as large as that Of the
American States Of Florida, Georgia,
Alabama, South Carolina, North Caro-,
lima, Virginia, West Virginia and Ten
nessee Fully a quarter CT a million
Germans are TO be found in the state
| of Rio Grande do Sui, where, in the
cities, they have taken strong hold
upon the activities of the country and
have practically absorbed commercial
and industrial enterprise. In Port
Allegro, the capital Of the State, three
German publications indicate and ex-
pound the Germanic doctrine.
''In Santa Catarina, the next State
north, conditions are analogous. Ger
man customs and the German idiom
prevail and in many towns one NAV
almost imagine himself in the father
land. The Germanic element here was
strong enough some years ago 10 elect
2 German governor; and, with the ex-
ceptlOn Of the officers Of the federal
court, the office-ho.ders are almost en-
tirely German. The anomaly Of BAIL
ian governmental reports written by
Germans is By no means unusual. The
German colony in this State owes nc
d little Of It's strength to the fact that
here, for some time. was the residence
Of the Prince De Joinvile. of SAKE
: Coburp- Gotha, who married dauaht
er of Dom Pedro, the first emperor Of
: Brazil; and the city Of Ioinvillc. Ger
man to the marrow, IS q monument K
his ROYAL hiehness Efforts Ia form {
{ nucleus for German immigration
"The lands TO which the German,
have taken title in South Brazil nov
/, gives them an area az holdings OF
1854 square miles, an extent equa
!. to that OF Alsaee Lorraine and SAXON
, together Tfa arm OF the metropolitan
and Hanseatic colonization companie
at home has been to defect the ctrren
of German enneTati0n from the Unite,
States 10 Brazil and to have the Bra
, ziiian eoloniSts retain their German al
le2ianee. The success OF the plan !
attested by konigshurg. who in hi
work on Rio Granda do Sui says
These coloHies have built stat,
within a state o. German custom
! very little hiss been lost; also, tn
German dialect. With rs native idiom
- handed down from generation t
: generation. Portuguese IS little spoken
and even then the Germans use il Wit
crca. difficulty The school teacher
Of the colonies are subsidized Gcrmal
pastors.
Through their possession of lane
0 the Germans in Brazil control one hal
c OF the world S supply Of coffee, and III
Communication Of the people is turtle
: carried out through the lompulsion lai
upon the army of employees and ser
wants to learn the German languag
+ rather than 70 cblige the alien TO gal
3 the native tongue The ideals an
l. ties o. the immigrants, says Frederi
:. William Vile IN the Electric Magazine
are essentially and inefadical.y Gen
nan 1t is Vile also who declare
c That the Germanizati0n Of Brazil
: no twentieth century project. II Ia
J. been in progress for more than sevent
: years, although aggresivelv prosecute
only during the past decade (writin
in l906) coincident with the rise 0
; the rampant expansion movenel
Ii known as Pan -Germanism.
Y ITO that movement, more than t
/ any other fostered ~ the presen
i Kaiser, is due the rapid development
Of the German fleet, which looked fol
c ward not alone to der tag but ais
to further usefulness III defending tn
9 empire S commercial outposts IN 9TH
land Of the future, as almost ever
y German writer has styled South Anne,
J. lea; and il is significant that Professo
0 Won Schulze Gasvernitz, writing in hi