That the thraldom of Germans all the world over is as great in the United States as in other places is, so cording to Mr. Charles Johnston in the ourrent number of the XIXth Century, & complete fallacy. The greatest and most complete surprise in connexion with the war has been, he says, speaking as an American, the extraordinary unanimity with which those of German descent bora in U.S.A. have come out openly, determinedly, and very passionately on the side of the Al-Ties, and this, not from any quiescence in' the general feeling of the people among whom they jive, but from their sense of truth, Honour and justice which they, like all good Americans, feel that Germany hae flagrantly and disgracefully violated. The hardest, and most biting criticism that he has heard, he says, comes from people of Gernian descent. That aX Germans who have emigrated to the States have not done so from the philanthropic motive of carrying kultur to an ignorant people, we are quite prepared to believe. It is more probable, as is remarked in the article, that Germans go to America because they have found life in the Fatherland intolerable; not s0 much the financial and personal burdens of militarism as that the insolence and tyranny of the commissioned and, perhaps, even more,
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