Foreign Language Press Service

Again for some time we have heard nothing of the planned swimming establishment. The short-sightedness of the city authorities is truly lamentable. In St. Louis, too, there is much agitation in this cause, a proposition is in the City Council, and it is the German press, too, which agitates f

Carl Schurz is going to discuss current political questions tonight, in the German language, in Farwell Hall. One knows that he opposes the reelection of Grant. However, since the curious "Liberal" movement in Missouri that had the effect of making the Democrat Frank B. Blair, Mr. Schurz' col

At a meeting of the Volksbund (People's Association) that took place the day before yesterday, the following officials were elected: Major Wm. J. Wallis, president; L. B. Warren (Warren, Friesleben and Co.) vice-president; Jacob Funck (Laparle, Funck and Co.) treasurer; Theodor Felsch, Carl G

If the next president of the United States - or the next presidential candidate of the Republican Party is named Schulze or Muller, Grant, or Trumbull, Piefke, or Purzpichler - that is not so important as that the program of the Republican Party be a progressive one. Under a progressive progr

Senator Carl Schurz will be glad to know that at least in the First Federal Revenue District of Illinois the reforms of the service has been inaugurated in quite an effective way by the removal of his brother-in-law Jussen from his office. Some seaks age we published a chart, showin

A motion introduced into Congress by Representative Hoar (Mass.) recognizes the national scope of the relations between Capital and Labor. The motion aims at the nomination of a permanent commission of three members whose function it shall be: "To investigate the questions of wages

The commission, which was charged last spring with working out practical propositions for a reform of the Civil Service (and to which Mayor Medill belongs) has submitted to the President the results of its labor in the form of a set of thirteen rules. The President immediately adopted the Com

Carl Schurz has taken occasion in the first session of the Senate after the Christmas holidays to defend himself against a long series of mostly very absurd accusations that were published in an article in the New York Times. Some of these accusations, (as that he had extorted his g

The bill for the creation of mortgage banks, in the English papers usually referred to as "Greenebaum's Bill", has been definitely killed in Springfield. That is an infamy against Chicago that can hardly be explained otherwise, than by the boorish hatred of the American yokels against everyth

The meeting was opened by Dr. Schmidt. Schmidt declined the chairmanship; Franz Lackner was elected to preside. On taking over his office Mr. Lackner made a speech: "We who are not actuated by any personal interest, whom the well-being of the country and a feeling of duty alone driv

That officials shall not be appointed out of consideration for the interests of the party, is the highest doctrine and principal of the Civil Service Reform......Therefore, the Messrs. Trumbull, Seburg and others have been very indignant when they were accused of having demanded offices for f

Three industrious shop girls asked Skandinaven to please help them defend the Norwegian girls' reputation in Chicago. We may perhaps be mistaken, for that K. L. may be referring to other nationalities in the Amerika of recent date. However, we feel that the Amerika's name should be

Gentlemen: The aim of our organization was to diminish the number of crimes in our city, and to assure the quick and certain punishment of criminals. To this end we already have agreed on the following measures: 1. The improvement of our police and its numerical increase.<

Only continuous vigilance brings victory. This word we address, today, to our German Aldermen. Your German fellow citizens look up to you. They hope that you will persevere in the fight to gain recognition of the principle, that in a Republic each one should have the privilege to celebrate Su

....In regard to prison labor, he advocates that convicts should be attached to small industries, so that no competition with free labor may arise.... (Translator's note) Recalling his pre-election promises: "Convict-contract labor is unconstitutional," it seems utterly in

The poor boys and girls who have suddenly been transplanted from their sunny homeland "far down South" into our rough climate, and have to secure through begging and singing a sum sufficient to save them from punishment on their return home, have become recently an object of public attention.

We are happy to be enabled to state that the contributors to our fund, though themselves affected by the general stagnation of business, appreciated the gravity of the situation and were more liberal in their donations than ever before - so much so, that there would now be a surplus in the tr

Tax inspector and mailman Francis Rodmann convoked yesterday a meeting in the restaurant of Fritz Frillmann, in order to organize the Republican Party of the North side. Mr. Barker, candidate for the legislature, described the sufferings of the negro in the south. Rodman a

In an editorial appearing in yesterday's issue of the Tribune, under the heading, "An Ugly Chapter in the City's Finances," Mr. Joseph Medill rebukes the city council of Chicago because the City Fathers, when they established the tax rate, failed to take into consideration the fact that betwe

In Germany to be radical meant, and still means, to apply all one's strength and resources in opposing and trying to overthrow the existing form of government [(Monarchy)]. Most of the so-called "Forty-eighters" were radicals in this sense of the word. [Translator's note: The author refers to