, 1870-12-24

In the debate: The WIZ now carried on l. not
aaa!nst Ffanee, but nRstnN the republic The
would be the beat guarantee Of peaee for III. We
should rot have such besgatly GemAn Unioo
"Fsesiaent. You exceed the limit OF deoate.
You anat express rout thought3 10 form Thai Ii
oeS ss9sS pass ,ss8s ss linz tAsE;ssa & e
degradation of the empire there VA nogn liberty
Of speech than here, The opposition vas fse.
qnaaty tnisrsuped but not tse1ted ass sst 9.
cttnlt5 Of this ssaemh1J 10 the lertl Of clAsa
= President l call you to order.
1icetnecht Public opinion 1,n BE- On ~
fss & e9s H. ,1a 1ego;s !a Tas xeseh
she Rstcs aas slipped to the Iear o. Fs1ss: r 70
nsfe no defensive var. Nspo!eml Z calea ototn.
e. n1 tae k!ng q Prussia and is & fsasssd Wa!e
gate the French p.opie-ltumulsuoas uprsta.l-
who asr our brothers. It is more honorable to be
nc oFotner e French Workman than Tue
te1.l The m.n VINO, ~ 1t were, bv coB-
mano, Va. denounced as mnns:er bJ $500 news'
psSsts; u % oe resto1et. Ar Joa Eo!nE 80 mas.
fuse to rccoanize tie iepu6iic. Bus ihe Fsencn
viii have nothing hut the republic, md 3 French
republic without = a:ardiog sIm{ would he the
&c nef e.
war OF e1ktm1psaoE--then new Ioap 10 required
TIE Annexation Ut Alsa:e and Lorraine will be
constant sourca Of quarrel Instead Of insu r
,sf ss5 peace It vii ''9s VA md military DICTATOR
An out-.nd-out great rslicsl, Lasker.
waited to know il it were not posaihla to
turn disagIeeAble and refractory membeta
out OF the House; and falt-bred Atisl ocsat.
herr Won blAnkehbnEg. An intimate 1nenu OF
BlstoAikt eAid that the mover aud seconder OF
tho treacherous amendment might hlese their
stsrn II they were allowed to leave the House
without getting bones broken. Debel and
Liebkpecht were continually intertupted
while speaking, and the President, DR.. Sim
soD, bade Liebknecht clothe his thoughts in
assembly rs that which be addressed; but he
tolerated the cries Of "turn EN- out," and
1pproyiDgly smiled At B1ankenburg's s remarks.
Tho other labor Representatives took no part
in the debate, but when this amendment wRs
put to The vote Dt. SchwaitzaE and his man
Friday, Hasenclever, voted for it.
In committee, When the government propo-
aition was discussed. paragraph by paragraph,
come made IN onslaught on the French that
they had always con=pired to divide Germany,
This was too much for Liebnecht. He etoutlJ
6suied that French people in general, or the
republicans in particular, bad ever troubled
themselves about German divisions, but I'd.
vited the gentlemen present to consult history
there they would find that it was the intn9uet
Of German Princes, and notably the houHe Of
1Iobenzolle1n. general uproar prevented
h,m flnishiug the Sentence. and DF. simsou,
with bis Etentorian voice, declared that
hs should not csll the Hohenzollarul
trlitorA In that house Everyone
except Liehnecht's immediate neighbors
would have 1t that be had eaid the tre8cherJ
Of the German princos. Lfebknecht dcniet
having mBde use OF the word treacherT, but
wonld not shrrnk from applying It to tht
Hobcnzo1lerrs il be tnought proper. uo en-
deavored to show how Strasbourg and oths
places had been plsyad into the hands Of tn
French Kings, when, With the consent Of tn
grest majority Of the House, he wss ordere.
| 10 e,t down, for which he ironically thlnke
tbs President Of that highly cultivated asseru
bly, When the final vote wAs taken, Bebel
EG11d, Ftitzsche, HaHenclever, Lebknech
Meude, schraps, and Schweitzer voted agains
| the losp.
| Tho importance of the vote does not co,
sistin tbs number, but in the fact that all til
members Who owe their seats to wo1Iingme
electors voted against the loan.