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^°-t. ^0 V-' 4 0, 0*0 -^ « ^>t^ i^' * A, C^ 0^. v. C.) Repuhlican, October 20ih, 1885. ITS CAUSES, COST, AND CONSEQUENCES. Government temporized, and 21 after repeated calls at the Foreign Office our Minister was able to obtain nothing more satisfactory than vague assurances that an inquiry was being made concerning the Meanwhile affair. indescribable. In in America the excitement wa£ places Bismarck was many burned in effigy, the naturalized German element being foremost in the demonstrations. Mass-meetings were held everywhere. At one in St. Louis, where over fifty thousand attended, such transpar- " Germany Must Apologize or Fight" and '' Reparation or War" were freely displayed. Cablegrams by the score and from every quarter of the land daily poured in upon the American Minister at Berlin, urging him to stand firm at every cost. The newspapers teemed with instances of the arroencies as gance of German authorities toward Americans naturalized was discovered that thousands of similar complaints, under the title of " military cases," had been pigeon-holed revisiting their native land ; it at the Berlin Leo'ation throuo^h the indifference or sycophancy of former ministers ; ^ it came to light * EXPELLING AMERICANS. AFTKB HIS POLISH IMMOLATION, BISMARCK TURNS TO UNITED STATES CITIZENS. (Bp Beelin, Cable to the Neco November 11th, 1885. York Herald.) — The German-Americans who were recently expelled from the island of Foelir, Schleswig, have been ordered to leave Prussia before November 15th. Two naturalized Americans, natives of Tarp and Schottenburg, have also been ordered to leave, one by the end of November and the other by the end of the year. Beelin, December 11th, 1885. The Vossiche Zeitung publishes a letter from Schleswig in reference to President Cleve- — — ^^BIETIGHEIM." 22 that previous administrations liad been vainly ap- pealed to to right outrageous wrongs of this char- and that several well-known members of Congress, now among the loudest for war, had been acter ; requested to bring similar acts of arrogance to the notice of the House of Representatives, jet, for some reason, had neglected to do long smouldering man fire But now the so. of indignation against Ger- arrogance blazed up into a fierce flame the ; return of the Lasker resolutions, and the unciWl treatment received by a former Minister at the German court, Mr. Sargent, were revived in the public mind and translations of Bismarck's speech in the Reichstag on the former question were printed on tissue paper and circulated by hundreds of thousands among the ; and to fan the flame, cojDies