tailieunhanh - GERMANY AND THE GERMANS FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW

The first printed suggestion that America should be called America came from a German. Martin Waldseemüller, of Freiburg, in his Cosmographiae Introductio, published in 1507, wrote: “I do not see why any one may justly forbid it to be named after Americus, its discoverer, a man of sagacious mind, Amerige, that is the land of Americus or America, since both Europe and Asia derived their | GERMANY AND THE GERMANS FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW BY PRICE COLLIER CHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS NEW YORK 1913 Copyright 1913 by Charles Scribner s Sons Published May 1913 To MY WIFE KATHARINE whose deserving far outstrips my giving CONTENTS CHAPTER INTRODUCTION I. THE CRADLE OF MODERN GERMANY II. FREDERICK THE GREAT TO BISMARCK III. THE INDISCREET IV. GERMAN POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE PRESS V. BERLIN VI. A LAND OF DAMNED PROFESSORS VII. THE DISTAFF SIDE VIII. OHNE ARMEE KEIN DEUTSCHLAND IX. GERMAN PROBLEMS X. FROM ENVY HATRED AND MALICE XI. CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION The first printed suggestion that America should be called America came from a German. Martin Waldseemuller of Freiburg in his Cosmographiae Introductio published in 1507 wrote I do not see why any one may justly forbid it to be named after Americus its discoverer a man of sagacious mind Amerige that is the land of Americus or America since both Europe and Asia derived their names from women. The first complete ship-load of Germans left Gravesend July the 24th 1683 and arrived in Philadelphia October the 6th 1683. They settled in Germantown or as it was then called on account of the poverty of the settlers Armentown. Up to within the last few years the majority of our settlers have been Teutonic in blood and Protestant in religion. The English Dutch Swedes Germans Scotch-Irish who settled in America were all less than two thousand years ago one Germanic race from the country surrounding the North Sea. Since 1820 more than 5 200 000 Germans have settled in America. This immigration of Germans has practically ceased and it is a serious loss to America for it has been replaced by a much less desirable type of settler. In 1882 western Europe sent us 563 174 settlers or 87 per cent. while southern and eastern Europe and Asiatic Turkey sent 83 637 or 13 per cent. In 1905 western Europe sent 215 863 or per cent. and southern and eastern Europe and Asiatic Turkey 808 856 or per cent. of our new .