Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-09-23
THERE WILL BIC no GERMAN
BRITISH ALLIANCE.

this weeks issue Of the Irish World
says:
Some weeks ago Mr.. Bernard
Ridder, editor OF the New Yorker
Staats-zeitung, in leading article in
English declared for an Anglo-Ger-
man alliance. Moreover he offered
the help Of his friends and followers
toward making the United States a
party to this alliance to control the
world and divide its trade. The
Entente, according to Mr.. Ridder, is
unnatural, while England and Ger
many are united by kinship, nature
and similarity of sentiment. When
Mr.. Riders plans are carried out
there will be not only a grand Teu-
tonic hegemony Of the world, but this
Teutonic alliance, in which, for
reasons not given, the United States
is to be included, will virtually own
the world All the fine ideas, like
the freedom Of the seas, for which
Germany has professed to be con-
tending, and over which German
Americans have shouted themselves
hoarse, are. according to the Ridder
program, to be thrown on the scrap
heap, and Germany is to take a share
Of the plunder of the world and in
return to guarantee England's.
"On September IA Mr.. Ridder
again returned to this subject in an
English article. To give point to his
declaration he picks out the late
Joseph Chamberlain as his ideally
good Englishman In a statement,
which makes one wonder whether
effrontery or ignorance is dominant,
Mr. Ridder declares Judas" Cham
berlain to have been a consistent
friend of Ireland. He holds out hope
to us that, when the Teutonic al
lance is perfected the Chamberlain
plans for Ireland will be carried into
effect.
'Mr Riders paper is advertised
as the leading German daily in the
United States. In spite OF this, we
knowing the man would not be in
clined to attach over much impor-
tance to his outpourings did they
stand alone But Professor Muen-
sterberg OF Harvard. a German sub
ject and by many looked upon as q
semi-ofIicial representative OF Ger
many, is talking the same way. And
worst Of ALL although the war has
lasted for over two years Germany
has not uttered a word as to her in
tentions regarding Irish indepen-
dence. England Is professedly in the
war for the benefit of small nations.
Germany could expose the hollowness
of England's professions, and win
neutral sympathy, especially in this
country, by declaring for the inde-
Dendcnce Of Ireland and Poland. At
one stroke she would destroy the
popular English propaganda. Why
then does she not make this simple
declaration? Is she merely playing
the Napoleonic game over again and
treating Ireland and Poland as
pawns? Does she solicit Irish aid
here and in Ireland only to sacrifice
Ireland hereafter to the Teutonic al
lance? It is time we knew.
Ireland is necessarily England's
enemy. England will not have it
otherwise. AS England's enemy she
inevitably sympathizes with all other
enemies OF England. While the
Irish generally believe that Germany
was wantonly attacked by England,
still their sympathy with Germany is
in the main determined by the simple
fact that she appears as the enemy
of Ireland's enemy. But If this war
be in fact, what Ridder and Muen-
sterberg make Of it, namely, merely
o Teutonic family row preliminary to
a closer union, it behooyes the Irish
everywhere to stand aside. and con-
serve their resources for their own
use. If this indeed be the case, their
aid to Germany would ultimately be
as prejudicial to the cause Of Ireland
as direct aid to England would be.
Indeed we should be more helpless
as thralls to a Teutonic alliance than
in the control of England alone.
DO the Riders and Muenster-
bergs represent the German people?
Where is ireland going TO stand
when the peace conference comes?
What are Germany's intentions to-
wards Ireland? 1t is time for Ger
many to speak, and to speak officially
and clearly"
The editor Of the Irish World"
need not take serious what Mr. b.
H. Ridder and Professor Hugo
Muensterberg say. He may rest
assured that these Gentlemen voice
nothing else but their own opinion.
They are not "ofiicial spokesmen" Of
Germany. If the editor of the Irish
World" knew the German people. he
would smile at the suggestion OF an
alliance between Germany and Eng
land. No government OF the Ger
man Empire would dare even suggest
an alliance with Great Britain, at
least not for the next fifty years. The
German people would not stand for
such a thing. We only need to re-
mind the editor of the "Irish World
Of how some ten years ago the Ger
man people made their Kaiser quit
talking too much, to show him what
they are capable OF doing If anything
isl attempted by their government
which does not suit them. And one
of the things that viii not suit them
is an alliance with Great Britain, the
nation which is trying to wipe them
off of the face of the earth and which
is calling them Baibarians and Huns.