The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-04

Another Hun, Bubble


feet adversely the future commerce of Germany
with these countries. Friendship is the basis of
trade, but where protestation Of friendship turns
out to be pure CUFF, camouAage, and sycophantic
uble-dealingA-when as in the case of Germany
dealings with Argentina and Brazil, the baseness
end falsity of these alleged friendships are laid
bare the revulsiou at discovery will negate all Of
Germany's well laid plans to make the trade OF
South America her own.
Let once the German manufacturers and
traders, who are providing the finances without
which the Kaiser cannot continue the war, realize
the hate which German diplomats have aroused
against all things Teutonic in the minds Of loyal
South Americans, and especially let them once
fully understand that the loot Of South American
trade has been forever taken from them by the
bungling of Potsdam diplomacy, there will be
revolution in Germany. " ..a a.%-
/ The Kaiser and his fighting men having con
Quoted the German people to the mountain top
Rad promised his faithful subjects to divide among
| them the markets OF the world For as many
years as the Kaiser had planned the conquest of
I the earth, German bankers, traders and manufac-
iurers had sought to build broad and wide the
foundations on, which their sovereign was later,
10 erect his Temple Of the Sword "r i -
For example, when Brazil opened her doors to
European immigration giving to all corners mill
ions Of acres Of the richest coffee lands, asking in
return that these aliens become citizens Of Brazil
as other hundreds Of thousands of European sett-
lers had already taken up lands and become citi-
zens Of the United States, German duplicity, or
i diplomacy, the words are synonymous, started
Ito build up in the three richest States of southern
Brazil Little Germany, =. ", h..
| Four hundred thousand Germans, who remain
| ed Germans during all the years while they were
nominaly fnaturalized" citizens Of Brazil, were
held to their allegiance tothe German Raiser and
4 his partner, the German Cod by salaries paid
them Individually. direct from the imperial treas
Jury. Proof of this fact is in the hands of our
state department at Washington and enough evil
dence has been made public to demonstrate to all
South America the peril in which they now stand
through Hun intrigue. G.a44 "A
I The 100000 hyphenated Brazilians. on the pay
\ roll of the Kaiser developed The commercial re-
sources of the three southern provinces so sue
cessfuly that they and the great industries they
there created became controlling factor in the
financial life OF Brazil. Not only did these TED
tons expand and modernize the coffee industry
but they persuaded the Brazilian government to
become their banker. 1t now appears that the
Brazilian government bought up the surplus
coffee crops, keeping them out of the market to
/ arti6cially stabilize prices, simply adroit
German plot to so compromise the credit of Brazil
that she must be bound for all time in financial
vassalage to Germany. ...,
| Since these facts have become known Brazil
has discontinued all purchases of coffee There
are some twenty million bags Of "valorized" cof-
fee at Santos, Rio and other Brazilian ports much
OF it the property Of camouAage Germans of that
Republic ~
| Other "valorized" coffees of German origin and
Ownership are probably held in warehouses in the
/ United States, or may, even now, be taking the
Iplace Of Porto Rican and Hawaiian cotfees and
other coffees Of indisputably friendly ownership
in filling government Army and Navy contracts.
4 Bret Harte immortalized "The heather Chinee''
for ways that dark and tricks that vain, but
| Bret had never met Zimmerman. Won Holweg
& Company, or Solf, of German colonial fame
In Brazil martial law has been declared in Sac
Paulo and other German cities, the army has been
modified, and the nation is guard. As Am
bassador Gerard says in his book my Four Years
| in Germany the Germans lack imagination and
always underrate the intelligence Of other nations
with whom they come in contact. As "supermen"
they admit their own marvellous perspicacty and
intelligence, but no one else can see it. ~,
| Assuming that the whole world is venai they
have lavshed their gold among spies, plotters and
criminals little rocking that there is honor
that cannot be Thought, that the vast majority
Of all men among all peoples ncorruptble, 6r
hat when the test comes the honest men will sub
merge those who have sold themselves 81 4
Men who can be bought once can be sold twice
The Germans OF Minas Geras and Sac Paulo sold
themselves to nebulous Pan-Germanc Empire
when they took the Kaiser's wages but they cans
not deliver South Americas trade into the honds