The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-28

''The Gremanization of America has gone ahead too far to be inter rupted. Whoever talks of the dan ger of the Americanzation of the Germans now here is not well in formed or cherishes a false concep- tion of our relations. In a hundred years the American people German spirit, so that it will pre- sent an enormous German empire Whoever does not believe this lacks confidence in the strength of the German spirit"
 CLetter of New York German, Robert Thiem, to the Alldeutsche 1 Blatter, Sept 20, 1902. The All deutsche Blatter thinks the author rather optimistic. Germans differ as to the outcome in America, says this pan-German organ. Some are very pessimistic. The Alldeutsche Blatter thinks that the great hope is for Germans in America to retain | their language.
 Immigration (to the United States is mainly German and Irish Since immigrating Germans quickly pick up the English-American lam guage, they make a good cement for the great American structure Whether it will always be so, wheth CT at last the American Germans will harken to the voice of the blood, and whether the arrogant Irish will ever melt into the Ameri- can nationality like the Germans is not yet demonstrated. The Mon roe doctrine lacks as yet a justifl- cation in the unified character of the people"
 (Fritz Bley, Die Weltstellung des Deutschtums, 1897, p. S)
 All to Speak German
 It is therefore the duty of every one who loves language to see that the future language spoken in America shall be German It is of the highest importance to keep up the German language in America, to establish German universities, inn prove the schools, introduce Ger man newspapers and to see that at American universities German pro fessors are more capable than their Englishspeaking colleagues, and make their influence felt unmistak- ably on thought, science, art and literature If Germans bear this in mind and help accordingly, the goal will eventually be reached.
 At the present moment lhe cen ter of German intellectual activity is in Germany; in the remote fu- ture it will be in America. The Germans there are the pioneers of a greater German culture, which we may regard as ours in the future, He advises the Germans to com pose themselves into an aristocra- cy of talent, which is the most eff fective way nowadays to obtain po- litical power Germans only need to grasp the situation and the fu ture is theirs Let them show that they mean to maintain Deutschtum and then emigration may be direct ed to America with impunity.
 (Hubbe-Schleiden, in the Pan German Control Organ, January, 1903. Summarized in P G. D., pp. 319-321.) Wilhelm Hubbe- Schleiden is a traveller, student and writer on German colonization.
 Useful Politically.
 "The isolated groups of Germans abroad greatly benefit our trade, since by preference they obtain their goods from Germany, but they may also be useful to us politically, as we discover in America. The Amer ican-Germans have formed a polit- icaI alliance with the Irish, and thus united constitute a power in the state with which the govern ment must reckon"
 (Bernhardi, German and the Next War G911), trans, 1914, p. 7S.)
 Prom all this it appears that the Monroe doctrine cannot be justified. So it remains only what we Europeans almost universally con- slider it, an impertinence. With a noisy cry they try to make an inn pression on the world and succeed, especially with the stupid. The in- volatility of the American soil is invoked without there being at hand the slightest means of ward ing off the attack of respectable Eu- ropean power"
 (Johannes Vollert. Alldeutsche Blatter, Jan. IT, 1903.)
 Eyes on South Brazil
 we must desire that at any cost a German country containing some 2O,O00,000 to 30,000. 900 Germans may grow up in the coming century in South Braz;l-and that, too, no matter whether it remains a DOT tion of Brazil, or becomes an inde- pendent state, or enters into close