At the German Colonial Congress, which commenced its sittings on
Friday week in Berlin, several speakers addressed the assemblage in favour of concentrating emigration upon Brazil. There were already two hundred thousand colonists in that Republic who preserved their national character and their language, and this number should be increased, both to enable their separateness to continue and to provide an excellent market. Dr. Jannasch, the geographer, strongly supported this view, and indicated South Brazil as the region towards which emigrants should especially direct themselves. It is believed that this advice is acceptable to the Government, which watches the disappearance of armies of Germans into America and Australia, where they are gradually absorbed, with unconcealed mortification. The idea is that if concentrated in Brazil the emigrants might in the end be numerous enough to set up a separate State, which would either declare itself a German colony or a Republic in strict alliance with the mother- country. The latter course is the more probable, first, because it would not be in conflict with the Monroe doctrine, and secondly, because Germans who have for a few years been en- franchised are seldom willing to replace themselves under the terrors of the conscription, the police regime, and the law of lese-majestg.
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