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Rh, as are also his comedies in which he disparages the German editors. .

A. KOEHLER — Have you read it?

Dr. BLUETHE — No, I have not, but it stands condemned in itself.

A. KOEHLER — You seem to be "in itself" both a logical thinker and a just critic.

DR. BLUETHE — I have thought so myself, and I am glad to have it acknowledged by others. Therefore let me continue. The American Woman's Suffrage agitation arouses the well-founded apprehension that it may lead to a resuscitation of the asphyxlated nativist party, to a new installment of knownothingism, which had seemed to be entirely vanquished.

The chief speakers show a bitter and hostile attitude toward the adopted element, especially that of the German tongue, perhaps ‘because they suspect or know that from this side their agitation will receive the least support, but to some extent even the most profound and systematic opposition from principle.

MRS. STIEGLER — But would they not be justified in that? If these "German tongues" can do nothing but gulp down beer, saturate themselves with tobacco smoke and bleat after the party bell-wether; if they are so coarse that they have not a word of sympathy for the rights of the weaker half of humanity; if they can only hoot and hiss with the rabble and even pass off such vulgarities as "most profound opposition," then I not only do not take