The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-15

The Berlin monthly, Irische Blatter, the first number of which appeared in April, is published under the auspices of the "Deutsch- -Irisohe Gesellschaft.' The leading spirits in the organization include the Bavarian Centrist, Herr Erzberger; the Conservative leader, Count Westarp; Prof. Theodor Schie- mann, the eminent student of Russian affairs; and Prof. Eduard Meyer, the well-known historian of antiquity.
 In the May number of the Irische Blatter there are printed long extracts from an article on. the German-Irish Alliance in the United States. Those extracts are taken from an article by an unnamed German-American in the German publication Daheim.
 The author discusses the German Irish Alliance, which to German mind merits consideration on more than one ground. The war; the author points out, has reached it's climax; the or ganization, he says. is interesting to Germans as the counterpart of the German-Irish Society in the father 1 land
 The founder of the German-Irish League in the United States is the ed;- tor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, Hor- ace L. Brand. Brand (according to the Standardization author) has ever since the outbreak of the world war displayed amazing activity in be- half of the German cause. To the German-Irish Alliance, founded in Chicago were soon Nadded branch or ganizations in all parts of the country.
 '"Thei alliance advertised through out all America the first pro-German gathering held after the outbreak of the war in August, 1914. That gath ering was as far back as October of that year. The Germans greeted the resumption of the activities of the alli- ance with exultation They streamed through the streets in throngs. They poured into tile German theatre of the neighborhood, occupying the main hall and overflowing into all the smaller rooms, Others thronged the streets. The crowds established them selves at all the nearby. crossings and waited till the speakers had finished their addresses indoors. and came out side to repeat. them from automobiles and wagons to the thousands in the streets. Some of the speakers had to make their addresses three and four times on the same evening. They were finally altogether exhausted, bathed in precipitation, despite the cold night; and yet the enthusiastic audience had no pity for the orators, but made them go on. The whole thing was a demonstration the like of which ever Chicago (where such events are by no mean rare) had never known.
 Irish and Germans sat together ir the aisles and on the platform; we'll known officials, members of Congress and of state legislatures, professors and clergymen, merchants and judges Members of the alliance were present from all parts of the country-fron New York to. San Francisco-sum- moned to struggle against Anglo Sax. onism, to fight for the new alliance and to receive the message of Ger.
 manism. The orchestra played nov German, now Irish national songs, ant many thousands of voices sang the fWacht am Rhine or The Wearing o. the Green And after this unforget- table hour Germans and Irish claspet hands, and burying their ancient rival
 ry forever, they left the hall to joir in the common struggle against hy
 pocrisy and political baseness.''
 The author goes on to describe how the union of Germans and Irish hal