Foreign Language Press Service

We would fight the Workers International if a Karl Marx had never existed, because we regard communism as barbarism, and all class division as nefarious. The whole movement that is maintained in the interest of a few demagogues we think capable only of working into the hands of the reaction b

The most important step toward the reconstruction of Chicago has been done. With a much larger majority than one could hope for, on Monday morning the fire-proof ticket, selected by the Central Committees of both parties, has been victorious. Mr. Hesing has received through this vic

We have frequently pointed with praise to the speed with which the German North Side is being re-transformed from a desert of ruins and rubbish to a dwelling place for human beings...However, also a different point of view is possible...Will not the thousands of huts and little houses, hastil

In July 1870 when the trans-oceanic telegraph brought the news of the declaration of war from Germany something like an electric vibration went through the hearts of all German-born citizens of the United States....before even the first German regiment had crossed the boundaries of the heredi

Otto Lob has been chosen director of the Germania-Concordia Singing Society, and as he is already director of the "Orpheus" and of the Swiss Male Singing Choir, all "Chicago Singing Societies, in a way, have been united. Added to this many members of the Liederkrantz now want to join the Germ

The German clergy, we regret to say, is only weakly represented in the labors of aid and reconstruction that need so many helpers. In the German Aid Society, according to our information, only two clergymen are active, all the others so far have kept away. This is all the more to be regretted

"The German clergy has been frequently criticized in your paper for its lack of interest in charity work, and its lack of an organization such as its English-speaking colleagues formed. "As a German Clergyman I wish to give you a declaration regarding my own and others' activity...D

In the "N. Stettiner Zeitung" we find the following letter of a former Chicagoan: "I have read your invitation to send contributions for aid to the fire victims in Chicago, but, even though I have been for over five years an inhabitant of that unfortunate city, I will not heed it. A

The mouthpieces of the Third or Reform Party find cause to gloat over quite a number of victories in the October and November elections of this year. The election in New York - a victory of the Liberal Reform Party; the election of the Democrat Parker as Governor of New Jersey - a Liberal vic

A cablegram yesterday said that the notables of London want to give Chicago a valuable library. Disraeli, Foster, Argyle, Carlyle and others have promised to cooperate. A gift of that type would be today more welcome to Chicago than ever before. From Germany one has not heard, that anybody is

Today, for the first time since the great fire, the Illinois Staats-Zeitung appears again in the old size of thirty-six columns. Since the somewhat smaller script permits us to put somewhat more type into the same column length, the reappearance of the paper in the old size, actually amounts

The various relief committees are working in improved directions, but on the same general plan as of old. It is said that there is much less cause for complaint in the matter of discourtesy and neglact on the part of subordinate officials than formerly. The German donations, amounti

Yesterday's notice in the Illinois Staats-Zeitung regarding the urgent necessity of a public free library for Chicago has caused several Chicago Germans to give this question the attention it deserves. Dr. Chronik offers to work out with others an appeal to the German publishers - which he, w

In German-American papers many a severe, yes, many a bitter word has been said about the lack of generosity of Germany... All that was said in this respect was true at the time when it was said. But it seems the time is coming when it can no longer be said with truth. Chicago's pain

We see, to our joy, that steps are being taken in St. Louis, to help Mr. Caspar Butz, whose exquisite library was burnt, replace his loss. The German papers in St. Louis publish the following appeal: Caspar Butz in Chicago has lost everything in the Chicago fire. For him, our countr

That Chicago will get a free public library is now assured. Now it is up to us Germans to take care that a German department be contained in it. Almost a third of the book-reading public is German; because the numerous Irish read none but periodical religious literature, and the masses of Boh

How deep an impression the catastrophe of the 8th and 9th of October has made on our brothers in Germany, one cannot only see from thousands of letters, but primarily from the rich results of the collections that are taking place in all parts of Germany. That these collections are particularl

Chicago, December 9 (?), 1871 Editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung: In yesterday's copy you observe that the German Aid Committee publishes no reports and you single me out in your demand for information. I am no "paid official" of the German Aid Society and it is, theref

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