Tae April issue of the North American Review contains a paper which cannot be read without very serious thought, and which contains grounds for anxious if nob gloomy apprehension. It is worthy of notice that the article is the only anonymous one in the number, 6 fact which indicates the extreme unpopularity of the views brought forward, and the personal risk that the writer feels attends the publication of opinions on a subject which is marked in the popular mind withthe word "dangerous" writ large. The topic is as delicate as it is difficult, forthe action of no lessia personage than Prince Bismarck is, freely commented on, and the' hostility of e large and well disciplined organiza. tion is fearlessly provoked. A danger to the Republic is pointed at which it requires @ brave mon to face, for the writer's theme is the spread of German Socialism in America. A saying of Mr. Seward, whose fault as a public man was certainly not lack of courage, is quoted, That far sighted statesman is reported to have declared that of all the elements which entered into the national com. position of the United. States, the German was the element which he most feared. This remark is commented on by our essayist in terms which we place in juxtaposition with the opinion on the Germans as Australian colonists, which appears in the Zimes of the same date as the Review American Reviewo, The Times, April, 1879. April, 1879, "The discontented "Germans make spirit which characterizes the German mind, coupled with the little learning which every citizen of the Fatherland brings with him, and the clannishnets of his race, seemed to Mr. Seward danger menacing to the existing order of things. excellent colonists, for they take with them from home energy and persevere and a sound educetion, and a practical Imowledge which is almost an instinct, though begotten. of education, of the way in which the world is going."
If we consider the quotation from the American writer to represent pub: lic opinion in the States: with any fiirness, we need not be surprised that Prince Bismatck's recent legislation, which resulted in sending thousands, not only of Germans but of German Socialists to America, excites very considerable uneasiness,-sind in'some minds positive alarm, Of the two million Germans who are deprived of their constitutional rights, a vast number have emigrated to America, aid-many of these emigrants sre impregnated with the doctrines of Lassalle and Karl Marx. The Socialists have beld two national Conventions, one at Philaadelphia in 1876, "the year preceding the great railway strikes," and one at Newark, Now Jersey, in 1877," "the year of the great labour strip the former of these assemblies fourths of the delegates present bore German names. In the second gathering one-half of the representatives were German, and the elected Chairman as well as two-thirds of the committees chosen could boast a German origin. The Jaws formulated by the labour
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