Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1883 — German-Americans. [ARTICLE]

German-Americans.

The German element has, from the first, been a powerful factor iD ,the national development of this country. To it we undoubtedly owe a very large share of our industrial, commercial and agricultural prosperity. We have used no artificial stimulants to draw the emigrant to our shores. He had come dependant upon his own industry, intelligence and enterprise. He has brought with him a strong physiqne, thrifty habits, and a stolidity of character that has proved an invaluable introduction into our national life. The Germans, moreover, have proved themselves singularly loyal and devoted to their adopted country; the active and decisive part they took in our civil war is sufficient evidence of this. Wherever they have settled jn whatever occupation they have taken up, they have shown themselves to be law-abiding, God-fear-ing and peace-loving citizens. —Boston Herald. ■ Poor people in New York pay fth« corner grocers for coal by the pailful at the rate of S2O a ton.