The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-04-15


these numbers, it must be borne in
mind that The average number for the
whole OF northern Germany; with Sax
ony. D. (25) twenty-five years. So that
Saxonian weaEer'sL child enters life
with but half lease of the common
average lite Or in other words, en-
ters life with the certainty that its life
thread Will be out before the middle is
reached Killed half way on the road
70 natural death Natural, Of course,
in relative sense, corresponding to
our present state Of civilization. For
the other branches of industry the av-
erage length of life is larger by about
one year-between thirteen and four
teen-so that here the killing process
= not finished but just beyond half
way!
This will be sufficient for to-day. |
shall have occasion TO recur to Dr.
Mithaelis' Treatise and shall then trans
late Some Of the most striking passa-
ges, which will show the American
wOrkingmen how their German breth-
rem live-and die
And in Silesia things are much worse
still w Saxony is the best governed
PatT:--st. classqy. Let US turn to some
different 80
A very funny spectacle is now given
US by the hirehngs ofthe Prussian press
bureau. The fact of foreign interior
ence in the peace negotiations contrasts
50 cruelty with their big talk during
the last five or six months, that, a. n
matter Of course, the ugly truth cannot
be admitted. On the other hand the
fact has been proclaimed, as PLAN as l.
possible in official language, by the
English government and so the poor
pressburean scribes are squeezed in be-
tween this official lntimation and their
own Dragging as between two mill
stones, and they wriggie about in dis
pair hurting out the most dicrepant
and incoherent COMMUNICATES: Allru-
mours concerning Neutral meditation
are totally unfounded. Ii is true Eng
land has sttempted some sort Of medta-
ton, of course in vain. II is said that
rumours concerning etc. ARE not wholly
without dfoundation And 50 on. II
il good thing for these press hirelings
that the new Austrian ministry offers
such an excellent opportunity Of divert
ing public attention, and Of raising a
thick cloud of dust, behind which they
can hide their discontinue. Unfortu-
nately for them, or rather their pay
masters, this new ministry stands in
close relationship to the question Of
foreign interference, and I even think
It has been called into life BY the Aus
TRAN Chancellor Count Beust, has,
during his whole hfe been hostile to
Prussia, and since Count Bismarck ia
ut the head of Prussia, the m.n of
iron and blood,i has amongst the state
men opposing him had but one antag-
onist, who proved match for him, and
that one Count Beust Before the war
of 1866 Beust was the only official per-
son in Germany who understood Bis
marck's game and did all in tits powei
to spoil him. But as Saxonian minister
which he was then, with the resources
Of a tiny, ffth-rate state (Saxony has
less than two and q half min ons of in
habitants) at his disposal-what could
he do ? The other German ministers
laughed at his suspicious, and the En-
peror of Austria, whom be in vain tried
to shake ont Of his dreamed security
was so completely blinded and spell
bound that he said to o member OF biz
cabinet al the end Of April 90" There j,
no real danger; I know BismarcE would
ike to nnske war upon ~ he wanted to
turn us out Of Germany, but the King
" Prussia ia an honest man, and will
never consent to an attack upon his
German Allies. And Of the folly OF
this confidence he was not to be con
WINGED A few weeks later the darkest
warnings were fulfilled, and Austria.
taken by surprise, attacked inthe south
by Italy-at the instigatlon Of Prussia
menaced in the east by revolution in
Romania-the JOINT work Of Prussia
and Russia Hungary and Bohemia,
that is more than half the Empire
deeply furrowed by Prussian emissaries
and the people on the brink Of insurec
ton. So Austria was helpless az the
mercy of her scheming, crafty antag
onist, and had to submit The Emper-
or in his remark, quoted above, had
forgotten that il would be possible for
Bismarck to persuade King William.
that he was the party attacked, instead
Of the party attacking. But al Vienna
they bethought themselves, now the little
Saxonian dlplOmatlst, who had fbrseen
and toretold the catastrophe, ana, I'll,
King Of Saxony having been forced BY
Bismarck to dismiss his too sharpsioht-
ed minister, Herr Won Buest, mot Vet
count was invited to Austria and Of
fered the chancellorship with carte
blanche, an offer, which he accepted.
His programme was, and | doubt not
is still Revenge for Sadow0-moral
or physical, never mind, but revenge.
For the last four years ne has lsbored
hard, successful in many things, unsuc.
cessful in more. He has done clever
things, and he has committed great
blunders, the two greatest bluuders be-
ing his silly attempt at gaining the
friendship of Russia in 1867 and his
acquiescence in the shameful prosecu-
tions Of the Austrian social democrats.
Bitter experience must have shown him,
what Russia friendship means insur.
rectiOn in Dalinatia, uninterrupted sub
terraneous miningwork III all Sclavon-
ian prqylnces, fermentation Of discord
and discomfort everywhere. And a.
for that crusade against the work. ~
class movement hv must, IN his isola-
ton and weakness during the Prus,o-
French war, have found ont that il was
one of those blnnders for which Tallev-
rand's celebrated word was intended A.:
a btsG'sder is soorse than crims-though