The Washington times., 1917-03-09
South American Colony Is New
"FatherIand," Embracing
1854 Square Miles.
RESISTS MONROE DOCTRINE
Community Of Expatriates Aids
Sea Raiders and Otherwise
Helps Teutons.

A war geography bulletin issued by
the National Geographic Society says:
THE recent naval engagement be
tween the British ship Amethyst and
two German raiders in the South At
lsntic took place near the island OF
Fernando de Noronha, off the south
coast of Brazil, and fairly contiguous
to the largest segregation of German
population in that republic. where. Il
has been suspected. there have been
maintained bases of supplies for the
German ships which have operated so
extensively against shipping in those
waters.
THE Germanic element in Brazil is
numerous enough and energetic
enough to carry out such a policy IL
they choose to do so. They number at
least a million souls, and they are
practically limited in residence to the
four southernmost of the Brazilian
maritime states, Rio Grande do Sui.
Santa Catarina. Parane and Soa Paulo.
where they have thrust their national
roots far into foreign soil without
losing any of their Unborn character
istics.
"Theodcre Roosevelt, writing in 1914
OF Sac Faulo, says:
II this province l met for the
FIRST, time Germans born in the coun-
tryfwho could speak only German
CoIonIEed o. Years Ago.
German colonization in. Brazil has
been going on since 1925, when the
settlement of San Leopoldo. in Rio
Grande do Sui, was established. For
ten years the stream of immigration
continued, when il was interrupted by
the sansculotte revolt in southern
Brazil. This interruption lasted for
nine years. In 1S4S the flood of set
tiers was perceptibly swollen by the
families from Schleswig- -Holstein and
the other parts of Germany which
were affected by the revolt OF the
duchies against Denmark.
mo less than thirteen important
German colonies were established in
southern Brazil between 1S4S and lS60.
the earliest settlers being greatly
aided by generous grants of land from
the Brazilian government, which al
lotted no less than ia acres to each
immigrant. Owing to speculative
abuses this privilege was largely re-
duced, but without noticeable effect
upon the movement, which was
checked only by the imperial edict of
1859 forbidding the further migra-
tions OF Germans to Brazil.
This edict remained in vigor until
1896, when, as Austin Harrison terms
him in. the Pan-Germanic Doctrine.
'the great sea Emperor, William IL.
saw early and clearly into the future.
and taught his subjects to see, too
Germans Flood Country.
"Under this teaching the Germanic
flood swept in larger volume into Bra
I'll, and now has spread over a terri !
tory approximately as large as that |
of the American States of Florida, !
Georgia, Alabama. South Carolina,
North Carolina. Virginia, West Vir-
Einia, and Tennessee. Fully a quar-
ter OF a million Germans are to be |
found in the state of Rio Grsnde do 1
Sui, where, in the cities, they have /
taken a strong hold upon the activi- |
ties of the country and have prac-
tically absorbed commercial and in /
dustrial enterprise. In Port Allegro, |
the capital of the state. three German |
publications indicate and eXpound the /
Germanic doctrine.
I'm Santa Catarina, the next state |
north, conditions are analogous. Ger |
man customs and the German idiom |
prevail, and in many towns one may |
almost imagine himself in the Father !
land. The Germanic element here |
was strong enough some years ago to |
elect German governor, and, with !
the exception OF the officers Of the |
Federal court, the officeholders are |
almost entirely German. The anomaly /
OF Brazilian governmental reports I
written by Germans is by no means /
unusual
IN saI1a
owes no little Of its strength to the I
fact that here, for some time. was |
the residence Of the Prince de Join 4
willie. Of SaXe-Coburg- -Gotha. who +.
married a daughter of Dom Pedro /
the first Emperor Of Brazil; and the Z.
city of JOinville, German to the mar
row. is a monument to his royal high |
ness's efforts to form a nucleus for
German immigration.
Hold 1854 square Miles.
''The land TO which the Germans !
have taken title in South Brazil now /
gives them an afea of holdings Of IL. (
534 square miles, an extent equal To /
that Of Alssce-Lorraine and SaXonv .
together. The aim Of the MetropoIi- !
tan and Hanseatic Colonization com
psnies al home has been To defect tb. 1
current Of German emigration from
the United States to Brazil. and to I
have the Brazilian colonists retain
their German allegiance. The sue
cess of the plan is attested by Konigs-
burg who in his work on Rio Grande
do Sui says:
These colonies have built a sia.a
within = state. or German customs
very little has been lost; also. Ia.
German dialect. with its native idrout-
Is handed down from generation 10
generation. Portuguese is little
spoken. and even then the Germa IS /
use II with great difficulty The |
school teachers OF the colonies are
subsidized German pastors.
Through their possession Of land
tho Germans in BraGiI control one-haIf |
"f the worlds supply OF coffee. and 4
the Communication Of the people is
iuIther carried out through the com
pnlsion laid upon the army OF en-
rloyes and servants TO learn the Ger
man language rather chan to obIige