Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-02
GERMANS IN BRAZIL
They Dominate Its -Four Southern
Maritime Provinces.
A STATE WITHIN A STATE.
Wonderful Colonizine Process That Has
Placed a Million Subject of the Faith
erland In Control of 1850 Square
Miles of Territory.

Miles of Terrtory.
The GermRuic element In Bra2ll is
numerous and energetic" says Mulle.
tin Of the National Geographic society.
They number at least million souls.
and they are practically limited in resi-
dence to the four southermmost Of the
Brazilian maritime states Rio Graude
do Sui, Santa Catarina, Parana and
Sac Paulo-where they have thrust
their national roots far into foreign
soil without losing any of their Unborn
character stics. Theodore Roosevelt,
writing ii. 1914 Of Sac Paulo. says In
/ this ijrGFn,e | met for the first time
Germans born in the country who could
speak only German
German colonization In Brazil has
been going on since lN2j, when the set
Element Of San l.eopoldO I'm Rio Graude
/ do Sui was established For ten years
/ the stream Of immigration continued,
when 1t was interrupted hy the sans
culotte revolt In southern Brazil. This
( interruption lasted for nine years In
1913 the food Of settlers was percepti-
/ bly, swollen by the families from Schles-
wig Tloistein and the other parts Of
Germany which were affected hy the
revolt Of the duchics against Denmark.
NO less than thirteen important
German colonies were established In
southern Brazil between Isis and 1850.
the earliest settlers being greatly aided
by generous grants of land from the
Brazilian government. which allotted
no less than IA acres to each immi-
grant. Owing to speculative abuses
this privilege was largely reduced
but without noticeable effect upon the
movement which was only che ked by
the imperial edlct Of 1859 forbidding
the further migratious Of Germans 20
Brazil This edlct remained in 1igor
I until 1896 when, as Austin Harrison
terms him in the pan-Germauic doe
true, the great sea emperor William
II, saw early ana clearly into tie fu-
ture and taught his subjects to see
too
Under this teaching the Germanic
food swept IN larger volume into
Brazil and now has spread over ter
ritory approximately IA large as TINT
Of the American states Of Florida,
Georgia. Alabama, South Carolina.
North Carolina, Virginia, West Viz
einia and Tennessee. Fully 10000
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
ana industrial enterprise. In Port
Allegro. the capital Of the state, three
German publications Indicate and cN
pound the Geimanic doctrine.
In Santa Catarina, the next state
north conditions are analogous Ger
man customs and the German idium
prevail, and I'm many towns one may
almost imagine himself IN the father
land The Germauic element here was
strong enough some years ago to elect
II lGerman governor, and with the eN-
ce3tion Of the officers of the federal
court the oiticeholdcrs are almost en-
tirely German an anomaly of Bra
ziliaa governmental reports written by
Germans is 10y no means unusual
The German oony in this state
owes no little Of It's strength to the
fact that here for some time was the
residence Of the Prince de Jolnyitle of
Saxe-C oburg Gotba. who married
daughter Of Dom Pedro. the first em.
peror Of Brazil aud the city of Join
vile, German to the marrow, is 1t
! monument to his royal highness Of.
forts to form a nucleus for German
immigration.
The lands to which tile German have
taken title IN south Brazil now gives
them an area Of holdings ol t.,534
square miles. an extent equal that Of
Alsuce- Lorraine and SaXony together
The aim Of the Metropolitan aud Han
seattle colonization companies Mt home
has been 10 defect the current OF Ger
man emigration from the United states
to Brazil aud to have the Bre1dian
cOlonists retain their German allie
glance
The success Of the plan Is atte9ted
by Konigsburg who, in his work OH
. NM RtdbRlt wv a2Ais Oh 2 tt'F'
colonies have built a state within a
state. or German customs very little
has been lost; also, the German dialect,
with its native idiom, is handed down
from generation to generation Portu-
guese il little spoken, aud even then
the Germans USE 1t with great DIM
Guilty The schoolteachers VI the colo
+ MES are German pastors.
Through their possession Of land
the Germans in Brazil control oue-half
Of the worlds supply Of coffee, aud the
Germanizatiou Of the people IS further
carried out through the compuIsiou laid
upon the army or employees and serv-
ants 10 learn the German language
rather than to o5lige the alien TO gain
the native tongue.
1.-THE ideals and ties Of the iTnmi-
grants says Frederic William VILE in
the Eclectic Magazine are essentially
and ineradicahly German Il Is Vile
also who declares that the Germauiza-
ton Of Brazil is no twentieth century
project. 1t has been in progress for
more than seventy years although az