Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . CHAPTER III. CHARITIES AND HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS. TTHERE was nothing that redounded more to the honor^^ of the Pennsylvania Germans than their unstintedliberality toward those in need or distress. When the callfor help arose, all denominations and classes forgot theirtrivial jealousies and vied with each other in alleviating thesufferings of the unfortunate. They not only gave of theirown possessions, but also tried to remedy the causes of thedistress. Al
Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . CHAPTER III. CHARITIES AND HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS. TTHERE was nothing that redounded more to the honor^^ of the Pennsylvania Germans than their unstintedliberality toward those in need or distress. When the callfor help arose, all denominations and classes forgot theirtrivial jealousies and vied with each other in alleviating thesufferings of the unfortunate. They not only gave of theirown possessions, but also tried to remedy the causes of thedistress. Almost from the beginning of German immigration tothe New World the sufferings of the poorer class wereapparent. The second number of Franklins Philadel-phische Zeitung of 1732 printed an account of the trial ofa ship captain charged with the murder of two Germanemigrants from the Palatinate. Although he was ac-quitted, there must have been some cause for complaintabout the treatment which the Germans received at thehands of the captains, even at the time when the number ofimmigrants was still comparatively small. When it was disco
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