Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-07-18

law of the land.
The purpose of this article, there
fore, is not to assail Edward A. Rune
ly but rather to explain him, and in
explaining him to explain the thing
that America Is fighting, German kul-
tur, its principles, its conceptions, its
purposes, it's programme and it's plans
DIR. Rumely, whatever the explana-
tion, biological or otherwise, for his
complete acceptance of kultur as op.
posed to Americanism. was, and is, |
am convinced, entirely sincere in the
belief that in working in the interest
of the German ideal he was working
in the interest of humanity.
This is the story, then, or a symbol
and manifestation rather than of
an individual. 1t is what DR.. Rumely
stands for and the powers and pur-
poses of which he was merely an in
strument that are the matters of real
moment.
When Men of '4S Emigrated.
Seventy wears ago, in 1S4S, a group
of young Germans organized revo-
luton against the Prussian king. They
believed the time was ripe for the es-
tablishment of democracy in Ger
many The revolution was crushed,
its leaders fled the country and, with
| to America in search of the liberty
which they had failed to win in the
| fatherland.
These revolutionists of 1S4S--mer
like Carl Schurz, Franz Sigel and hun
dreds of others whose names hold hon
ored places in the pages of American
history--were the vanguard of the
German immigration that was to bring
| America in the course of half a cen
tury several million new citizens.
! One of these young revolutionists
of AS was Meinrad Rumely, black
smith. With a group of others he
started west. Most of these forty
Fighters went into what was then the
west. Some of them went to the cit
ies-Cincinnati, Milwaukee, st. Louis
in such numbers that they and their
descendants succeeded in dominating
eventually, the politics and policies o.
| those communities. Others went into
| smaller communities of the country
districts and Meinrad Rumely, with {
few others, settled upon the little vii
lage of la Porte, in the rich farming
| country of northern Indiana, as theil
stopping place.
Father Sets Up His Forge.
Here Meinrad Rumely, the black.
smith, set up his forge. The farmers
brought their tools to him to be re
| paired and sharpened, their plough
and harrows, their wagons to be re
paired, their horses to be shod. I'm
der the tickling of the immigrants
ploughs the prairie soil laughed into
.bountiful harvests.
The farmers prospered; soon tn,
young German blacksmith had to hirt
a helper before long he had several
lie understood the farmers and spok,
their language; they brought thei
troubles to him. Agricultural imple
ments in that day were crude and tri
fling affairs compared with the tools
with which the modern farmer works
The same rich prairie soil that grew
the wheat and corn and barley so lux
urantly also produced weeds il
abundance. To separate the weet
seeds from the grain, after threshing
was a difficult problem.
| Winter nights, as he smoked hi
long-stemmed, china bowled pipe
Meinrad Rumely was planning way
to solve this yexing problem of hi
farming neighbors.A Finally he built
crude machine. Next harvest he triet
It, and it worked. The farmers sav
and liked it and asked him to built
more of them. In another two o.
three Years the village blacksmith
shop developed into a manufacturin,
plant where the Rumely grain separa
tors were being turned out.
Business Grows and PrOspers.
The business grew and .prospered
So did Meinrad Rumely's family, TO
he had taken unto himself a wife, o
the blood and the soil of his nativ
land. BY and by the sign reading
IN. Rumely" came down and a ney
one went up. 1T read, an. Rumely {
Sons" The village Of Laporte grew