{"1": {"fulltext": "535\\nGERMAN DAY CELEBRATION\\nAddress by Chari,es W. Fairbanks.", "height": "3402", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Qass F 5 35\\nBook r?", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "ADDRKSS\\nCHARLES W. FAIRBANKS\\nu\\nAT THE\\nGERMAN DAY CELEBRATION\\nIndianapolis, September 3, 1899.\\nWASHINGTON, D. C.\\nGibson Bros., Printers and BooKBiNDERb.\\n1899.", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "535-\\nyr.\\n18 D 00", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen\\nI wish in the first place to thank Captain Bieler and those\\nassociated with him for the magnificent success of to-day.\\nI never have seen a celebration more perfect in all its\\nappointments. My profound congratulations are extended\\nto these gentlemen.\\nYou do well to celebrate German Day the day when the\\nfirst German emigrants landed on American soil. It was\\nan event of great historical significance of importance to\\nthe emigrants themselves and of no less importance to the\\ncountry and while gratitude (which is among the sweetest\\nof human virtues) presides in our hearts, we should not\\ncease to remember or fittingly to commemorate it.\\nBy celebrating it you do not thereby become less Ameri-\\ncans for as much as you love the German fatherland, you\\nnevertheless love the United States before and above all\\nelse, and cherish her beneficent institutions.\\nThis is indeed a fit occasion upon which to acknowledge\\nthe supremacy of American institutions and proclaim anew\\nour undying pride and glory in American citizenship.\\nGreat and splendid it is to be a German citizen, but greater\\nand still more splendid it is to be an American citizen.\\nNo matter whether you are from Germany or from Ireland\\nor from England or from France no matter from what\\ncountry you may come, your proudest boast is that you are\\nan American citizen, and that you are enamoured of the\\ninstitutions of the great republic.\\nThe celebration of this day serves to exalt our love for\\nAmerica rather than to diminish it.\\nAmerica The sublimest word in the human tongue\\nWhat limitless opportunities are here. The way to place\\nand power is alike open to the lowest and the highest to\\nLofC.", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "native and foreign-born alike. But one avenue of civic\\ndistinction is closed to those of alien birth, and that is the\\nchief magistracy of the United States.\\nWho can measure the beneficent influence of those of\\nGerman blood in American life? No power short of\\nOmnipotence can do this. There are in the United States\\neight million people who speak the German language.\\nMore citizens here trace their lineage to German parentage\\nthan the combined populations of the brave little republic\\nof Switzerland and the Netherlands, which had such\\ntremendous influence upon our institutions and political\\nideas or than the total populations of Norway and Sweden,\\nwhence have come some of our sturdiest and best citizens.\\nThere are in New York city, that great commercial\\nmetropolis of the Western continent, five hundred and\\neighty thousand Germans, or nearly one-third as many\\nGermans as there are in the great capital of the German\\nempire and almost as many as there are, all told, in the\\ncity of Hamburg.\\nThe principal German emigration to the port of New\\nYork occurred between 182 1 and July, 1899. During this\\nperiod of seventy-eight years, the number of arrivals was\\n5,010,880 souls. They came upon no temporary mission\\nthey came with no divided allegiance they came to become\\nhome builders they came to become republic builders.\\nThey brought here their attachment to country their de-\\nvotion to law their love of liberty, and their passion for\\nmusic. The historian cannot write the history of our\\nmatchless and marvelous development and leave out the\\nsturdy immigrants from all countries, and more especially\\nfrom the German, the British, and the Scandinavian coun-\\ntries. Here upon this Western continent, the best blood\\nof the nations of the earth has met and fused into the\\nAmerican citizen. The transmutation has challenged the\\nsurprise and excited the admiration of the world. There", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "has been no blood richer or more welcome than that which\\nflows in German veins.\\nWho takes more pride in our country than those of Ger-\\nman birth who have given to it their allegiance? The\\nGermans naturally loved independence and liberty, and\\ncame instinctively to love the flag. Thousands of the\\nflower of German youth came here after the revolution of\\n1848 in search of that liberty which was denied them in\\nthe fatherland. Brave, intelligent, loving liberty as the\\nvery air, they added to the great and honorable figures in\\nAmerican history.\\nWe have needed their plain, practical and conservative\\nhabits. In business they have been laborious and indus-\\ntrious they have succeeded in the face of great obstacles\\nand serious discouragements. They have educated their\\nchildren it has been a part of the German creed to edu-\\ncate herein lies the secret of their power. The German\\npolicy has been to lay up something against the rainy day\\nto provide against old age and its inevitable infirmities.\\nThe helpfulness of the Germans toward each other has\\nbeen one of the splendid lessons they have taught. Fidelity\\nis always an admirable trait. The fidelity of Germans\\ntoward each other has been to me always one of their strik-\\ning and admirable characteristics.\\nThe Germans are found in every avenue of usefulness\\ndoing their full duty as loyal American citizens. They\\nhave taken a conspicuous place at the bar they preside in\\nour courts of justice they participate in politics they\\nhave contributed some of the foremost statesmen in the\\nhistory of the Government they fill chairs in our great\\nuniversities they occupy the pulpit they have increased\\nthe power of the press they have added to our literature\\nthey have helped to fell the forest and reclaim the waste\\nplaces they have been upon the frontier line of civiliza-\\ntion, and. in brief, they are found in every branch of in-", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "tellectual and commercial activity. Whenever the call to\\narms has come, they have marched down to the battlefields\\nof the republic, and shown the world how patriots can do\\nand die.\\nWe have been engaged in no war in which those of Ger-\\nman ancestry have not borne their full share of the burden.\\nThey have never failed to respond to the first call to arms.\\nThey won the gratitude of Washington and the country in\\nthe war of the Revolution. Their spirit was personified by\\nthe intrepid patriot, the young German minister, Peter G.\\nMuhlenberg, who exchanged the dress of his high and holy\\ncalling for a colonel s uniform, and for his bravery became\\na major-general in the Continental army. You have well\\nrecalled his services to his country to-day. No monument\\ncan be too imposing for him no tribute too lofty. And\\nthere were Baron de Kalb and Baron von Steuben whose\\nnames will ever be gratefully remembered as among the\\nmost illustrious of our Revolutionary heroes.\\nThe war of 1812 witnessed the heroic allegiance of those\\nof German parentage. In 1846 they marched with our vic-\\ntorious armies into Mexico.\\nThe muster rolls of the civil war contain the names of a\\nmighty army of German extraction. About one hundred\\nand eighty-seven thousand offered their services to their\\ncountry in the field, and many of them gave the last full\\nmeasure of their devotion in support of the cause of the\\nUnion in every heroic charge from Bull Run to Appomattox.\\nWhen the war with Spain came, there were no more\\nstalwart supporters of the Government than our German\\nfellovz-citizens. They knew that the issues of the war were\\nnot party issues. They knew that the President had sought,\\nby every means consistent with the national honor, to effect\\na peaceful settlement of the troubles in Cuba, and when noth-\\ning was left but war, they offered their services. All of their\\nhopes, all of their prayers were for the triumph of our arms.", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "As one of the results of the war, our flag was carried into\\nthe Philippines. It went upon no mission of vengeance\\nagainst the Filipinos. It v/ent to overthrow Spanish au-\\nthority, which had been maintained for upward of three\\nhundred years. Our flag went as the symbol of the power\\nand authority of the Government. It is there lawfully in\\npursuance of the cession of the treaty of peace. The treaty\\nof peace was ratified by the Senate of the United States, after\\nfull debate, after deliberate consideration, and by virtue of\\nits ratification and exchange the possession of the islands\\npassed to the jurisdiction of the United States.\\nWhile the treaty of peace was under consideration, and\\nbefore its ratification, Aguinaldo and his deluded followers\\nfired upon our soldiers, and undertook to drive them from\\nthe islands. They fired upon the flag, which meant to them\\ndeliverance from Spanish tyranny, all of which was in direct\\nand positive rebellion against the authority of the Govern-\\nment. No course, therefore, was left open to the President\\nbut to subdue the rebellion and compel recognition of the\\nauthority and jurisdiction of the United States. This pre-\\nsents no party question. It is a question that is far above and\\nbeyond party. It is purely and simply a question as to\\nwhether or not the United States shall maintain its right and\\nsupremacy in the territory which has been lawfully com-\\nmitted to its authority and keeping.\\nNo one need have fear that the Government will not deal\\njustly and honorably with the Filipinos or that it will not\\ngive to them the fullest and amplest measure of self-govern-\\nment, consistent with their ability to enjoy it, and with\\nhonor and the utmost good faith.\\nI think I correctly interpret the sentiments of our breth-\\nren of German blood when I say that they are willing to sup-\\nport and uphold the Government of the United States in its\\nduty and determination to compel every one in revolt against\\nits authority to lay down his arms, and acknowledge the", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8\\nsovereignty, the power and the justice of the great re-\\npublic.\\nSince the occurrence of the great events of the last few\\nmonths we have come to be recognized as one of the great\\npowers of the earth. We have international responsibilities\\nof vast moment. We have been moving forward in the\\nextension of our commerce with foreign countries in a\\nmanner and to a degree unexcelled in all our past history.\\nIt is, therefore, the part of wisdom, it is a part of good\\nbusiness policy, to put it upon no higher ground, to culti-\\nvate cordial relations with all countries with which we are\\nengaged in commerce. Trade and traffic will be stimulated\\nbetween friendly powers much more readily and more to\\nthe advantage of both, than is possible where friction and\\nenmity exist between them.\\nWe have a large commerce with Germany, which good\\nrelations will tend to promote but beyond this, and above\\nthis, we are bound together by thousands of ties of kinship\\nand association which should stimulate relations of endur-\\ning cordiality.\\nI have no sort of sympathy with those who for some\\noccult reason are attempting to foment discord between the\\nUnited States and the German empire. There is no reason\\nwhy these two great nations should not continue to exist\\nupon terms of amity. We should cultivate friendly rela-\\ntions not only with Germany, but with all the other great\\npowers of the earth. We can never forget at least we\\nnever should forget that Frederick the Great was the first\\nto recognize the birth of the republic out of the throes of\\nthe Revolution and that during the great civil war we\\nhad little to encourage us among many of the European\\npowers, but Germany never ceased to manifest her belief\\nin the eternal justice, and her faith in the ultimate triumph\\nof our cause.\\nThe Germans are usually found on the side of good gov-", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "ernment. They carry into the service of the state the\\nsame wholesome, practical ideas of economy and loyalty to\\ntrust which they practice in their domestic affairs. They\\nhold public officials to a high accountability, and this is\\nwell. Official place is a trust of the highest moment, and\\nshould be executed not for the exploitation of personal\\nselfish ends, or for personal aggrandizement, but for the\\nadvancement and promotion of the interests of the entire\\nbody politic, and for the glory of the state. Breach of\\npublic trust should rank among the unpardonable sins.\\nAn official who will win the public confidence and basely\\nbetray it, is unworthy to enjoy the priceless boon of Amer-\\nican citizenship, and should be whipped out of place and\\npower.\\nWe hear much in these latter days of the tendency toward\\nmaterialism. There is no doubt much foundation for this.\\nThe Germans have taught us, perhaps, as much, or more,\\nthan any one else, that there is much beyond that which\\nis essentially materialistic.\\nThough two hundred and sixteen years have passed since\\nthe landing of the first German immigrants, our country is\\nbut yet in its infancy its possibilities are yet unexplored\\na sublime destiny lies before us. Let us inculcate prin-\\nciples of justice and charity for each other, and an un-\\nquenchable love of liberty, if we would attain to the\\nhighest possible progress.\\nI trust that we shall retire from the interesting and im-\\npressive events of this holy day with a greater respect for\\nall our countrymen, a greater love for the republic, and\\nwith a determination to preserve, unimpaired, its honor\\nand glory.\\nAn incident of the day was a serenade by Director\\nEhrgott and the singing societies. Responding to the\\ncompliment, Mr. Fairbanks said", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "lO\\nGentlemen of the singing societies, I thank you from the\\ndepths of a grateful heart for this splendid serenade was\\nthere ever sweeter music I have wondered often why the\\nAlmighty, in His infinite and beneficent providence, dow-\\nered the Germans above all others with musical gifts\\nwith the passion of music. If I have no voice such as\\nyours, still I have an ear to hear and a heart to understand\\nyour inspiring music. Again I thank you.", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3277", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "TaRABvoFCO^iS\\n^r\\noiATSsassl,\\nA_", "height": "3329", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "addressofcharles00fair_0020.jp2"}}