The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-09-02

of the Spanish socialists. Our brave
frieud, De SeutituOn, whom the editor
of the WORKINGNAN's ADVOCATE will
recollect from the Basic Congress, has |
been arrested in company with some
other members of the International
Workingmen's Association.
Of course we had no right 10 expect
that the rulers Of our German father
land would lie backward in this anti
socialist crusade, and it might b. con-
fessed they have set to work in right
earnest! The head spy Of modrrn
times, Mr.. Stieber, father Of numberlcs>
plots, cOnspiracies, false documents,
etc, has received orders to collect ma
terlA discriminating the German socialist
and be Is not the man to return empty
handed from such an errand. Ii he
does not find the material required, he
will produce it, as he did in the trial OF
the Communists in 1851, when he
fabricated the minutes of secret soci-
ETY.; or be will bring forward convenient
witnesses, like Lieutenant Heintz, who,
at the trial above mentioned, and at
several other ones, gave evidence on
which many men were convicted, and
which Is now known to have been
undoubtedly false = or else be will cause
compromising letters to be sent to
persons he wishes to catch, letters like
one lately addressed to Liebknecht and
published by him in the HoUsstaat, }
preaching high treason and put into
thin envelopes, so that the contents
may be read through-and such like
tricks, indispensable to the model
government of pious and chivalrous
William.
But Stiebers work proceeds rather
slowly, the natural result OF its compli-
cate nature, and the German government,
who could not afford tc wait, have, in
the meantime, taken a few strong
measures. Mort, a bookbinder, who
after bis expulsion from Austria, came
to Leipzig, has been forbidden 10 speak
in any public meetings, and then ex-
PEELED, first from Leipzig, and then
from SaxOny, with injunctiOns, that, If
he Is found on Saxonian soil, he will be
put in prison Mort is a Bavarian,
and as such a citizen of the New German
Empire You see from this what
precious rights German citizen (civis
Germans) has in bis own country, and
what an Impudent lie the Freizugigkict,
the right 60 to take ones abode where
one likes-your language has no word
for this right, which Is characteristic Of
my police-riddenlcountry what an i'm
pudent lie the Freizugigkict is, u which
the admirers of Mr.. Bismarck cant 80
much.
The same decree has been launched
against Mr.. Dittmar, a bootmaker, and
also a native of Bavaria, who last year,
after three months preventive prison,
was sentenced to three months more for
an innocent remark on a religious sub
ject, and who, for nearly three-quarters
Of year had been working quietly in
Saxonian towns. He, TOO, had been
sent out Of Saxony! Mr.. Utert,
weaver, a native Of Saxony, and who
for that reason could not be driven out
Of Saxony, has been forbidden to live
in Chemnitz, the industrial capital Of
middle Germany, and j, to be removed
tOrciblY into his birthplace, Wurzen,
small town, where he has no opportu-
nifty of earning farthing. If | add to
this, that the general amnesty, which
was already elaborated, has been re-
tracted ; that the ri ht OF meeting is
daily beng infringed upon by the local
authoritiaA that letters from and to
disagreeable, Will not say suspected
persons, are frequently lost on the road,
and more frequently still, are delivered
with evident marks of having beer
opened ; that all places Of public resort
are swarming with spies that at KOn-
igshutte a riot of workmen, brought
about by the clumsy and brutal beha-
vior Of the royal Prussian authorities,
has been quelled BY body OF Uhlans,
who, without any previous warning,
rode among the unarmed workmen,
and speared them with their lances,
killing twelve on the spot and wound
ing twenty more dangerously, not to
mention Fifty slightly wounded. Ifyou
combine those pretty traits, you have
faithful, though by no means complete,
picture of Bismarck's creation. The
work is worthy of its author.
+rhis Heintze was promoted 10 fat sine
cure at public savings bank, and he managed
i so wei that few weeks ago he died-prob-
IDLY BY his own hand-leaving a deficit 4
loo, 00O Thalers, which he had embeZzled from
he savings Of the poor. Those sre the "s4-
Tiors" OF modern society