The New York Times/1898/6/26/Carl Schurz Writes to Berlin

CARL SCHURZ WRITES TO BERLIN.

Die Nation Publishes a Letter on Germany's Attitude in the War.

BERLIN, June 25. &mdash; Herr Theodore Barth's paper, Die Nation, publishes a letter from Carl Schurz of New York, who was Secretary of the Interior under President Hayes, on the subject of Germany's attitude in the war between Spain and the United States, in which the distinguished German-American says:

“While the utterances of the Emperor's Government leave nothing to desire, there is danger of them being wiped out by the eruption of malevolent antipathy of the German press, which to Americans of German birth is not only painful but inexplicable. The German citizens of the United States have retained warm sympathy for the old fatherland, but if our consanguineous friends across the ocean intend to eradicate this sympathy they could not find better means than such groundless abuse of the American people. German-Americans are proud of their new fatherland and know how to appreciate its advantages and great qualities. Now that war is going on, they stand with their new country. Its friends are their friends and its enemies are their enemies.”


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