• Tags: Babel Defiance
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City Marshal writes of Germans disregarding Babel and threatens potential violence
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Foreign languages are being used more since Babel than before, "if that were possible." The Marshal of Manning was using German in town and at an election hall. Marshall even paraded down streets with other citizens singing German songs. What should…
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Clock on his recent work, as well as recent electoral defeat, which he clocks up to a bloc of anti-prohibitionists contesting his dry politics. "I was gloriously defeated."
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Is Babel still in place? If they can still speak German, "why did we enter the war?"
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Waging losing battle, Rev. Blaufuss implores Koeberle to "protest most emphatically" to Harding over Babel. Koeberle adds at end of letter than Blaufuss has sowed dissent repeatedly.
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Thorough denunciation of Babel, listing a number of counterpoints. Included is a newspaper clipping speaking about Korab's letter to the governor.
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Luana citizen notes the town's large numbers of Germans and their intransigence in speaking the language, especially during church services.
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Potential mob violence against local German, which the author doesn't disagree with in principle, but moreover "believe[s] in letting the Law take its course."
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Local lawyer notes Germans ubiquity, even following Babel.
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