175 10 1753 https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/files/original/87fca350a4092c98c20261a0bfc8ca2d.jpg 82943ab95101268815553231216ab92e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GERMAN-IOWAN NEWSPAPERS Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hitler Limits Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6-Jun-18 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sioux City Volksfreund Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Sioux City Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context sc-hitler.jpg Subject The topic of the resource Rise of the Nazi Party Description An account of the resource HITLER RESTRICTS THE PRESS AND CIVIL RIGHTS Strict Emergency Decree Enacted, Even Stricter Ones Expected Berlin. Chancellor Adolf Hitler has begun planning comprehensive restrictions, including restricting the press and limiting the right of assembly, in order to reduce the civil unrest that has been leading to continuous conflict in the Reich. A new emergency decree is expected. The edict that limits the freedom of the press, signed by Imperial President von Hindenburg, is titled "Act for the Protection of the German People." It allows the government to close any newspaper that incites insurrection or criticizes the administration for a period of six months. Strict penalties are promised for any publisher that violates the law. As justification for the new measures, the government has asserted that the actions of opposition parties have exceeded permissible limits, mandating a bold course of action. The Nazi publication Der Angriff ["The Assault," founded by Joseph Goebbels in 1927] blames the situation on the Jewish press. As stated by this Hitler newspaper: The unheard-of incitement of dissent against the political and economic regeneration of Germany by the Jewish press forced the government to take drastic measures. The right to assembly in Germany has also been curtailed. Two additional Social-Democratic newspapers and one Communist paper were closed and their press runs confiscated. The Interior Minister of Thüringen shut down two Social-Democratic papers for a period of ten days due to their publication of articles from the Berlin newspaper Vorwärts, which had been confiscated earlier. An underground Communist printing press was discovered in Arnstadt; flyers and posters encouraging a general strike by all workers were suppressed. https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/files/original/865db5d08036e12dc3a3c91282365389.jpg e93bf0f33c9433fe050c0d704247400c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GERMAN-IOWAN NEWSPAPERS Document Translation Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Verschoben. Sängerfest des Nordöstlichen Sängerbunds Durch Urabstimmung. Philadelphia, Pa., 5. Oktober. Das fünfundzwanzigste National-Sängerfest des Nordöstlichen Sängerbundes von Amerika, welches im nächsten Jahre in Baltimore, Md., stattfinden sollte, ist auf Grund einer Urabstimmung der Bundes-Vereine und ihrer Sänger verschoben worden. In der Bundes-Delegaten-Sitzung, die gelegentlich des in Brooklyn abgehaltenen 24. National-Sängerfestes stattfand, war Baltimore als nächste Feststadt gewählt worden. Die dortige Sänger-Vereinigung wandte sich jedoch nach Ausbruch des Krieges zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und Deutschland an das Bundes-Direktorium und ersuchte um Verschiebung des Festes, da es ihr unmöglich wäre, eine der Waffenhallen für die Sängerfest-Konzerte zu erhalten, und da die in Baltimore herrschende Stimmung ein Abhalten des Festes nicht ratsam erscheinen ließe. Das Bundes-Direktorium ordnete darauf gemäß den Satzungen eine Urabstimmung an. Es wurde den 159 Bundes-Vereinen eine Frist von vier Wochen zur Entscheidung der Frage gewährt, ob das National-Sängerfest verschoben werden sollte oder nicht. Die Antworten mit dem Resultat der Abstimmung waren bis zum 29. September einzusenden, und zwar an den korrespondierenden Sekretär des Bundes, Herrn F. W. Haußmann in Philadelphia. Es liefen bis zu genanntem Datum von 124 Vereinen Abstimmungsresultate ein. Sie lassen ersehen, daß im ganzen 3896 Sänger für Verschiebung des Festes waren und 144 dagegen. Die Festsetzung eines neuen Datums für das fünfundzwanzigste Sängerfest hängt natürlich von der Beendigung des Weltkriegs und dem Friedensschlusse ab. Sekretär Haußmann, der heute das Resultat der Urabstimmung bekannt gegeben hat, legt den Bundes-Vereinen und deren Sängern dringend ans Herz, die alte deutsche Sängertreue zu wahren, fest zum Bunde zu halten, sich während der Kriegszeit das deutsche Lied zu pflegen und den deutschen Männergesang hochzuhalten, damit, wenn wieder Friede ins Land gezogen ist, die großen National-Sängerfeste des Nordöstlichen Sängerbundes von Amerika im alten Glanze von neuem erstehen. [transcribed by Pearl Vick] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sioux City Volksfreund: Choir Festival Postponed Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11 October 1917 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sioux City Volksfreund Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Sioux City; Woodbury County; Baltimore; Philadelphia; Brooklyn Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa Subject The topic of the resource Anti-German Sentiment during WWI; postponement of the Choir Festival of the Northeast Singers' Union Description An account of the resource POSTPONED The Choral Festival of the Northeastern Sängerbund by a Vote of Members Philadelphia, PA. 5 October. The 25th National Choral Festival of the Northeastern Sängerbund (Singers' Federation) of America, which was planned for next year in Baltimore, MD, has been postponed based on a ballot vote by members. Baltimore had been chosen as the next festival location in a session of the organization's federal delegates, which took place on the occasion of the 24th National Choral Festival in Brooklyn. Following the outbreak of war between the United States and Germany, however, the Baltimore Singers' Union approached the national directorship of the Singers' Federation and requested a postponement of the festival, since it was now impossible for them to reserve one of the local armory halls for Choral Festival concerts, and because prevalent sentiments in Baltimore made holding the festival seem inadvisable. The federal directorship, in accordance with the organization's bylaws, ordered a ballot vote among members. The 159 choral societies that make up the Northeastern Singers' Federation were then given a four-week deadline to decide whether the National Choral Festival should be postponed or not. The responses along with the final outcome of the vote were to be sent by September 29th to the corresponding secretary of the Federation, Mr. F. W. Haussmann in Philadelphia. By that date, 124 member societies had sent in their results. All told, 3896 singers voted in favor of and 144 against postponing the festival. Determining a new date for the 25th Choral Festival naturally depends on ending the World War and on subsequent peace accords. Secretary Haussmann, who announced the result of the ballot vote today, vigorously encouraged all choral member societies and their singers to preserve the traditional Treue (faithfulness) of German choir members, to remain loyal to the Sängerbund, to maintain the German song repertoire during a time of war, and to hold high the banner of the German men's choir tradition, so that, when peace has returned, the great National Choral Festivals of the Northeastern Sängerbund of America may arise again in their former splendor. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Oscar A. Hoffmann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource State Historical Society of Iowa Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpg Language A language of the resource German Type The nature or genre of the resource newspaper article Anti-German Sentiment German-Language Newspapers Singing Societies Sioux City Volksfreund World War I https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/files/original/e520c7a485a730545271578065b98322.jpg e44522173a40ddb2003615bf1109a15c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GERMAN-IOWAN NEWSPAPERS Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Murder of the President! Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 20, 1865 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National-Demokrat Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dubuque Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context dubuque-murder.jpg Description An account of the resource Murderous Attack on Secretary of State Seward. The joyous excitement felt by the whole country upon receiving the news of Lee's surrender on Monday last has now given way to deep sorrow. This past Saturday morning, the telegraph brought news that made us tremble: the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, had been murdered the night before; in the same hour, a desperado forced his way into the home of Secretary of State Seward, who had been lying sick in bed, and injured him so severely that there is little hope of recovery. The news was so dreadful, so horrifying, that it was scarcely believed at first. [] https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/files/original/e585e9c609353603835e770231791858.jpg 6dd15063f617bb998f567f0a05206b69 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GERMAN-IOWAN NEWSPAPERS Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Peace Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 13, 1865 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National-Demokrat Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dubuque Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context dubuque-peace.jpg Subject The topic of the resource Civil War & Slavery Description An account of the resource PEACE ! PEACE ! and UNION ! Peace, peace--which we had always sought to maintain, and the establishment of which was our continuous goal for four years--blessed peace finally appears near, nearer than ever before. The vast bulk of the regular army of the South has been defeated. On Sunday, the 9th of April, towards 4 o'clock in the afternoon, General Lee accepted the conditions for surrender that General Grant had stipulated, declaring that he and his entire army were prepared to lay down their arms. The correspondence exchanged between the two generals is as follows [the wording below is based upon the original correspondence in English]: To Lieutenant-General Grant, Commander of the United States Army: April 9, 1865 General! I received your note of this morning on the picket-line, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposal of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now ask an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose. R. E. Lee, General To General R. E. Lee, Commander of the Confederate Army: Appomattox Court-House April 9 In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th instant, I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: <ul><li>Rolls of all officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.</li> <li>[]</li> </ul>U.S. Grant, Lieutenant-General https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/files/original/5ce62c09b9705342084897e65718c8a9.jpg 7fa67847c5a707725f644eb6947e3e81 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GERMAN-IOWAN NEWSPAPERS Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Glorious Day Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 6, 1865 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National-Demokrat Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dubuque Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context dubuque-glorious.jpg Subject The topic of the resource Civil War & Slavery Description An account of the resource A GLORIOUS DAY! Democracy is not yet dead! Dubuque is healthy through and through! Northern and Southern Rebellion conquered in a single day! Last Monday was a truly glorious day for Dubuque. The southern rebels received their coup-de-grace with the falling of Richmond, and in Dubuque the enemies of the glorious old Union, the Abolitionists, were so thoroughly decimated that they will scarcely have the courage to raise their head ever again. Secession in Richmond and Abolition in Dubuque, these two enemies of the Union were defeated on a single day. The entire Democratic ticket for city offices was elected by a wide margin. Every ward produced majorities for the Democrats, something that hasn't occurred in Dubuque for the past ten years. Such a glorious result must certainly please each true friend of the Union, each Democrat. Last Saturday we wrote in a short extra: Let us erect a bulwark against the prevailing corruption and crooked dealings in Dubuque at least, let us exclaim to the northern and southern enemies of the Union a thundering "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further." And behold, we succeeded beyond all expectations. Much credit is due to our fellow German citizens for this glowing result; they declared themselves against the old party humbug in great numbers, and have proven by their actions that they know how to distinguish semblance from truth. https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/files/original/cf0ebbf639518baf010282523a444b46.jpg 88edcbdba541410d4062daebcd74bcb0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GERMAN-IOWAN NEWSPAPERS Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Our Position Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 18, 1861 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National-Demokrat Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dubuque Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context dubuque-position.jpg Subject The topic of the resource Civil War & Slavery Description An account of the resource Civil War is upon us. People's passions are kindled, all party distinctions fall away, and everyone must adopt a firm stance. Whatever our differences of opinion before, we are all in agreement that this Union, which took us in under its protective banner, must be preserved at all cost, if at all possible. In this, we believe all who have sworn loyalty to the Constitution are united. The question now is whether the Union can best be preserved by war or by peace. We say that this can only happen through peace, through concession, and a conciliatory spirit. Many injustices and unneeded provocations would have best been omitted on both sides; indeed, we are not beyond stating that the Republican party conjured up the storm due to its hostile attitude toward the South. Yet the question of who is to blame is for the moment of secondary importance. The one and only issue at hand is whether we should withhold support from the government, which was elected in accordance with the Constitution to which we have sworn loyalty. We believe not. Although we may criticize the administration, although we may believe that it did not do everything that could have been done to preserve peace, the government was elected in accordance with the Constitution, and so long as it does not act against the same, we are obligated by oath to support it, albeit with a heavy heart. We protest against the war, and we will exercise our modest influence in favor of peace as well as in favor of unequivocally guaranteeing the South its constitutional rights, so that in the future there can be no doubt that, if the majority of the population in the Southern states approves secession, they will receive diplomatic recognition. Beyond that, however, we can and will not go. If the intent is to topple the federal government itself, as now seems to be the case, then we shall remind ourselves that we swore loyalty to the constitution and conduct ourselves accordingly. https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/files/original/b7a3d04b8a9bc444ca65b65706b15c3c.jpg f2e0def69bd0a8f01654c49ead90a8b8 https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/files/original/f2f9f74ca3ca7e5bd66163f5caa6d08a.jpg fdc28c94ec3ce8bd53881c3f0c331b64 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GERMAN-IOWAN NEWSPAPERS Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lincoln Nomination Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 5, 1860 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wöchentliche Iowa Post Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Des Moines Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context dm-lincoln.jpg Subject The topic of the resource Civil War & Slavery Description An account of the resource <h2>The Weekly Iowa Post</h2> E.J Pleyel, Publisher and Editor For President: Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. For Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. <h3>Presidential Electors</h3> Jos. A. Chapline of Dubuque Co. Fitz Henry Warren of Des Moines Co. 1st District. M.L. McPherson of Madison 2nd District. Charles Pomeroy of Boone Co. <h3>State Nominations</h3> For Secretary of State Elijah Sells For Auditor J.W. Cattell For Treasuer J.W. Jones For Attorney General C.C. Nurse For Registrar of the Land Office A.B. Miller = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Today's issue of our newspaper contains the platform that was ratified by the Republican national convention in Chicago, which can be considered one of the most successful national documents of its kind. Upon careful reading and study of this document, anyone who until now has been torn between the two principal parties of the country will know how to choose. This platform provides reliable guarantees for adoptive citizens like us, especially as regards Paragraph 14, which was adopted solely for the benefit of immigrants and was energetically defended at the convention by our upstanding countryman Mr. Schurz. It frees us from the hitherto disgraceful and despotic tutelage of the Nativists. The Republican party has as candidates men whom one can trust. Abe Lincoln has worked his way up from a farmer to the rank of a legislator and is universally honored and respected. He is the true man for the Northwest; his origins are among the people, thus he is a man of the people; he understands the shortcomings and neglect by the government in regard to the Northwest, and next March, having ascended the Capitol steps, he will know where aid and reforms are necessary. He is the man we have long needed. Up until now the presidential office has been occupied for the most part by puppets and cold-fish aristocrats who puffed themselves up and behaved like absolute monarchs; those who fawned before the thrones of Europe as well as before the money and n***** barons at home, and in the process forgot the interests of the people! Many of these men had previously resided at foreign courts and learned there what they had perhaps not yet known: systematic diplomatic humbug and the fleecing of the people. The honorable judge Mr. Douglas himself has given Democratic guest lectures at various European courts, preaching the blessings of slavery in the United States for the amusement of those who rule by Gods grace and their consorts. Yet he was not received, as he is here, as the Little Giant, but rather laughed off as a political-diplomatic buffoon. The grand duke Alexander, now Czar of Russia, took Douglas's Human Flesh Trade story to heart such that soon after his ascension to the throne he began to end the institution of serfdom so as to eliminate any suspicion of having endorsed an American N***** Baron System. Newspapers affiliated with the Democratic Party accuse Lincoln of having split fence rails in his younger years; all the more respect for Mr. Lincoln for having earned his bread honorably. Better to eat one's bread by the sweat of one's brow than, as an idler and parasite, to play the great man at the cost of the nation. Germans of America! Read the Republican platform with care, consider and discuss it with knowledgeable men. Then you will most certainly discover that foreigners have been considered in this platform and are regarded as free citizens. Don't listen to these Democratic hucksters und political capitalizers: they make all sorts of promises to you now because they plan to use you as electoral cattle. Once they've reached their goal, then they'll give you a swift kick, just as they have always done. Germans! Consider carefully that when you vote the Democratic ticket, you're also helping to spread slavery, and what German can be so conscienceless and behave so senselessly as to damn a fellow human, even one of another skin color, to slavery? "Eternal infamy!" will one day be the cry of posterity: Germans, too, supported the accursed institution of slavery in the nineteenth century. Children and grandchildren will speak with indignation of their forebears and curse those who helped to open the free soil of the territories for slavery, thereby closing them off for free labor. Your descendants will go hungry, for wherever slavery takes root, there remains no refuge for the poor free worker. Wise up, then, and provide for the well-being of your descendants and do your share to preserve a piece of free soil for them. Future generations--indeed, history itself--will rejoice and preserve your memory with gratitude. Let "Down with the spread of slavery" be every Germans watchword and "Freedom for All" his rallying cry. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = <h3>Republican Platform</h3> [...] Be it resolved that we, the delegated representatives of the Republican voters of the U.S., gathered in convention, discharging the duties that are due our constituents and our country, agree to the following declaration. [...] 14) That the national Republican party is and will be against any alteration of the naturalization laws and against any and all legislation by which the rights of citizenship that have until now been extended to immigrants of foreign lands might be limited or altered. We are for the complete and effective protection of the rights of all classes of citizens, regardless of whether they are native or naturalized, or at home or abroad. https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/files/original/0eba9f8fbfb6c6c0ad4a37c130f4152b.jpg 6e8963da467b0d334acd1eb6ea201084 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GERMAN-IOWAN NEWSPAPERS Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Iowa Laws in German Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 21, 1860 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wöchentliche Iowa Post Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Des Moines Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context dm-law.jpg Description An account of the resource Local News Next week we will begin publishing the laws passed during the most recent legislative session. Every German should make an effort to collect these laws and make use of them as needed. By virtue of an accurate translation of the text of newly passed legislation, any German with little or no knowledge of English will be aided in understanding the legal system of our state, and will in the same way be able to avoid being swindled by lawyers etc. Everyone has to deal with the courts in some manner. If a German comes before the court, then he can almost certainly be expected to lose his case. However, it would be something else entirely if a German standing trial, when he sees that hes being unjustly treated, could cite this or that paragraph of the legal code. In order to gain this independence, we have resolved to publish in our paper German translations of all laws which have up to this point been passed in the State of Iowa. Let no one who respects law and order, and who also wishes to save himself the useless waste of money for lawyers, miss this opportunity to gain possession of the laws of Iowa so inexpensively. $1.50 per year is surely a small sum for a weekly newspaper; certainly no paper can be delivered cheaper! https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/files/original/24de4f1f6ecf104d465800be3e8df08f.jpg 65afbf79971f780fc389cdd96d0a6eba Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GERMAN-IOWAN NEWSPAPERS Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource German Newspaper Act Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 14 April 1860 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wöchentliche Iowa Post Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Des Moines Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context dm-germanpaper.jpg Description An account of the resource n/a https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/files/original/6b3b8577ec2bc698d4a8fa3ef4d17db1.jpg beb232ccbe0e961ac946b8d9b44b16be Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GERMAN-IOWAN NEWSPAPERS Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Prohibition Riots Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 22, 1884 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Carroll Demokrat Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Carroll Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context carroll-riots.jpg Subject The topic of the resource 1884 Prohibition Act Description An account of the resource Iowa City Beer Riots Beer riots similar to those on the West Side [of Carroll] occurred in Iowa City, and if the Gentlemen Prohibitionists had their sights set on blood, then blood may indeed flow on account of this shameful Prohibition Act. The Anti-Prohibitionists will not tolerate the restriction of their personal liberty and show their defiance whenever the Prohibitionists give them the opportunity. On this point, the Illinois Staats-Zeitung (Illinois State Newspaper) writes the following: If acts of violence against the lackeys of the Prohibitionists occur here and there in Iowa, then the Prohibitionists are themselves to blame, for it was precisely they who first broke the law in their blind rage by vastly exceeding the provisions of the Prohibition Act. The Law and Order League presumes the right to circumvent district attorneys by means of venal lawyers and twisters of the law, whom they pay to target saloon owners and brewers and to drag them before rural justices of the peace who are eager to do their will, even when the circuit court has denied the justices of the peace any jurisdiction over matters of Prohibition. Indeed, the lawyers of the Law and Order League, by extorting funds from the businessmen they persecute, deprive the state treasury of money that should by law belong to it. And if one attempts to prosecute such a law-breaker, then he knows how to make the charges disappear, as one recently experienced with the honest law firm Blake & Newman in Burlington. Can one be surprised if in the end this sort of mischief on the part of Prohibitionists calls forth violent resistance? These same circumstances have now led to outbursts of violence in Johnson County, about which the Prohibitionists and their panderers are now raising a ruckus. Two respected brewers of Iowa City, the county seat, were dragged in front of a justice of the peace out in the country, namely in Scott Township, not at the instigation of the district attorney, but rather by the private lawyer of the local Law and Order society. At this, the blood of the opponents of Prohibition tyranny began to boil. More than a hundred of them grabbed the paid lawyer and informant for the Law and Order League, stripped him naked in the street, coated him with tar and chased him away. He has since returned safe and sound to his home in Iowa City, where two of his co-informants, the Swafford brothers, had received a proper, but not life-threatening thrashing from outraged citizens. No other disturbance of the peace occurred, and not a hair was harmed on anyones head except for those of the aforementioned informants. Neither the city police nor the sheriff seem to have shown much interest in coming to the informants' aid. We would be abhorrent hypocrites, much like the Prohibitionists, if we were to express the slightest moral outrage about these acts of violence. They would be regrettable only if they were to have nasty consequences for their perpetrators. The young people who chastised Bailey, the attorney, and his two co-informants have simply reciprocated one unlawful deed through another. But even if those chastised had conducted themselves lawfully, no freedom-loving man would have the right to regard their chastisers as common criminals. The term criminal applies to them as little as to those citizens who opposed the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, and who tanned the hides of the bounty hunters and bloodhounds of slave owners. Many of the old men in the North who now scream themselves hoarse for Prohibition once approved of violent resistance against the Fugitive Slave Act, even though the law was passed not by a paltry state legislature, but rather by Congress, with the approval of the President and the Supreme Court. Indeed they deemed resistance against this law a duty in accordance with higher law, a higher law of ethics and freedom that supersedes the despotic law of humankind, even if the latter has been passed and approved ten times by majority. Prohibition is however in its own way equally mean-spirited and contrary to reason, a violation of one part of the people by the other, just like the Fugitive Slave Act.