| Show nationality vs LAN GUAGE the know nothings who a few decades adolth ago avith arious folly and incan mean malice endeavored to drive from front the american shores foreign era of other languages than the english which they themselves owed to another country than that of their own birtle might have looked around in the then only sister ia republic in europe the little alpine com commonwealth moll weal th who eliose re freedom has lina been sealed scaled by the blood of and aud insured by the patriotism an and d wl wisdom Z donl of nearly six six 05 Ten centuries 4 of gallant galla nf warfare and arill frugal r peace in switzerland the t chico birco principal languages of civilized con continent tinen ital europe ar are i e spoken us as idioms of fractional nationality yet tile swiss swi s who speaks the teutonic is and feels a fellow citizen to him tho uses the language of voltaire 1 I Y it as s well as to the ono who utters the musical sounds of sunny italy As there is a grave and important les this national harmony of di different languages especially for tho the united states the population of which u is the most polyglot and cosmopolitan of any one country we will give a few estr extracts acts from a letter written by fritz Hassau reck a lead V ing german berman american I 1 jour r i antt to a cincinnati paper although the genevese speak french they do not want to be french no swiss tho tile french speaking vaudois also feels himself a swiss and not a french it ther remarkable appreciation eliat patriotism with them is worth more than I 1 language an guage whether the swiss speak german french or italian lie always considers himself by no means ft it german Fren climan or italian but as a swiss who wants to bo be and remain a swiss nothings in america who wish to extirpate foreign languages in this country might learn a lesson from switzerland patriotism love 04 of and loyalty to ones country doe snot no t depend oil language people I 1 e can bitgood boT good America neven even though the they speak lift little le or no im english Eng lidi t 1 hundreds I eis of officers and soldiers who did not know english floro iroquois fought for tho liberties of this country while thousands of f english dac cut and dialed dialect ought against A american independence the three national languages in switzerland coexist peacefully one alongside 7 1 the oilier other all official r T publications arc are iss issued aled in abe three ton jonmes mes in all colleges of switzerland the three tin eo are taught tho president odthe of the federal As assembly congress conducts the debates in 13 ith the german and french the members speak german or french as beat best suits their convenience and if a Ti cinese from the italian cantou canton of switzerland should reply v in italian to a german or F french rench argument lio lie ia is listened to and understood as if using A cit alther I 1 ter I 1 of the other languages in this very toleration and linguistic liberality consists the firm comis teney tenc yand and the vigor odthe of the Coti coated fed cration if one language had tried to crowd out or kuppr suppress atlie the other the state would long since have fallen to pieces A similar experience haa has secured to a measurable degree the great greatness nesa 4 of the british nation n the english E n aask of chaucer the bielic of casian the scotch of burns the irish poetry all these hil individual idioms by being preserved have preserved the valor and excellency of the difre different reut races and their rou mu toleration of shrill or broad vowels sibilants lin lants ts or hannh hut murals has blended them into the invincible great britain over whose dominions tho the sun not only never seta sets but rises twice this justified a thomas campbell to king bell oia the later charms of en In glanda lands glory and arms arins the roman lire tire in bosom awell S i and fae faie and fic edoin in in the shaf tf TV ovll V 1 CE BISMARCK let rayfl all 1 ft th signs of entering jn hia his dotage with puerile petulance he lie seeks to avenge on oil every one who darts dares express eif P j ess opinions coakra contrary ry to liia ilia own prejudices prejudice one of the latest victims of the chancellors chagrin is the vienna Allgen tebie zel zei lung fling universal gazette which he haa prohibited pi from buterin entering g the empire at the came burne time tinte ordering its private wire to berlin cut and its passage through germany for foreign countries n stopped it ap al 11 pears more and more that in popes words heaven has lifts bestowed upon the 11 man of blood and iron this kind this due degree of blindness weakness which will bozi mit his memory to posterity with regret and execration instead of the national gratitude and all universal admiration which some of hio his achievements in merit eril oldest man in the ills his last on the ath dinst it was jordan blizzard of centreville Cen treville 0 a negro who waa was believed to be the oldest man in the country and who recently died at the aa age ge of he ile was born in a ebsch sex county virginia in 1758 lie ile went west in 1800 and settled before ohio had beco tu a a state puruis the latter latt Eryea icare rl of his hi life lie was both blind and deaf |
