Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1877 — The Germans. [ARTICLE]

The Germans.

German merchants at Montevideo have addressed a memorandum to the Imperial Chancery at Berlin, wherein they point out the general defects of German manufactures and the German mode of doing business. Dishonesty, unpunctuality and want of taste are, according to them, distinguishing features in German doings, and hence the French and English supplant them. It is said that the finer branches of manufacture in Germany suffer very much on account of the protracted military service required of the people. Young artisans are thus taken away when their hands are becoming skilled in difficult and delicate manipulation, and when they return to work they find that the hand has lost its cunning. A nation which makes man-killing the first end and aim of existence must not be expected to come up to the highest standard in other respects.