The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-09-30
CORRESPONDENCE.
FkUM LEIPZIG.
LEIPZIG. July 81. 1871

ust 18th. The reason for this step were
manifold, partly local, partly political.
In consequence OF the triumphsl entry
Of our victorious army, which took
place in the middle of last week, all the
hotels in Dresden were filed, and no
proper meeting room for the congress
TO be had; however, this alone would
perhaps not have been considered sufi
Gent to cause an alteration Of the orig
inal Plan-but the hostility suddenly
shown by the Saxonian government,
the scandalous measures of oppression
INDUCED in by our provincial authors
ties, the resumption of the accusation
against Rebel, Hepner and Liebknecht
by the Leipzig tribunal-all this made
a delay necessary, ~ i is utterly i'm
possible, to solve Inc practical questions
Of organization and administration, that
will form the principal occupation Of
the Congress, without being acquainted
with the designs Of the government,
to use a German facOn de porisr-
which way the hare runs.
OF course we are not able to foretell
what will happen in the next weeks,
but certain is most critical time for
our party, a time of trial in every sense
of the word is approaching. Since the
day the Commune rose in Paris, our
privileged classes are living in perma-
nent terror instead Of Incditating over
the causes of the social movement they
have, in the blindness Of their terror,
embraced the stupid idea of eradicating
socialism by brutal force. The circum
stance that after the tragic fall Of the
Commune, the socialist movement m
Germany, far from l01i~ FOuuds B ss
ON the contrary. q W fresh impulse,
y Strengthing them in this silly nation.
Mr.. Stieber, in one person the Pictri
and Haussmann of the German Empire,
has, as j told you already, received or
ders to collect material for crushing
US. And he will collect some, there are
plenty Of skilIful rogues who can frame
reasonable letter and initiate mans
handwriting. Mr.. Stiber is an old hand
at managing such things, and if the
trick is found OUTWEIGH it is sure to
be whep the victims come before the
jury, after they have been in preventive
confinement Tor year or eighteen
months-well, then the g t will be
thrown on some subaltera gent, and
Mr.. Stiber, secret councillor, to give
him bis official title. Mr.. Stiber, the
personal friend of King Emperor Will
liam, Mr.. Sliber, the chief Of the civil
administration of the occupied French
departments during the war, Mr.. Stiber,
head of the German police, great and
all powerful. Mr. Stiber will not loose
The confidence of his chivalrous master,
and be rewarded in some signal man.
ner, in order to console him tor the lit
tie disappointment
To facilitate Mr.. Srieber's game the
machinery of the Berlin press bureau
has been set in motion, aud for the last
gu rter of a year nearly q thousand
newspapers are daily vomiting forth
articles announcing socialism, and the
International Workingmen's Associs-
ton, and exhibiting a violence which
proved that the engine is worked with
the utmost steam power. If we add to
This the significant fact, that a decree
Of amnesty was already printed three
months ago, and has been revoked since
we cannot entertain the slightesl
doubt concerning the intentions Of our
antagonists, and we must again prepare
for rough weather. But, our Ameri
can friends need not be afraid on our
account, zoe shall soedther the stnrm.
Tue Austrian Government il now be-
ginning TO reap the harvest it had sown
by its prosecutions Of socialism the
workmen have been driven into an ALI
ance with the middle classes, the 70
called German Party whose professed
aim it il to promote the annexation of
German Austria to the German Empire.
Austrian friends know full well the ma
ture and reactionary character Of this
said German Empire, but they are con-
vinced, and rightly too, tina, if all OF
Germany is united the south with Aus
tria will have decided preponderance
ove' the Prussian element which now
predominates, and that so, by the en-
trance Of German Austria a great step
will be done in advance, and the re-
placement Of the Hohcnzollern Empire
by free commonwealth materially &C
celebrated; while on the o'her hand,
the idiotic policy OF the Austrian Gov
eminent has brought about a state OF
things excluding all hope for an i'm
procurement Thus owing to the folly
Of Giskra, Hohenlsart, and whatever
names The worthless may bear, the work
ingmen who were ready TO assist in
forming a democratic Austria, have
been forced to forsske the. ship which
they alone could have saved. In vain
the government papers are now appeal
ing to their Austrian hearts and prom
ising amends. The stern answer will
be: Too late You have been living too
often to be trusted any more. We have
proved our Austrian hearts by striving
honestly 70 render Austria happy and
free. But you have made Austria
prison for us, and this prison must be
broken. After tile decision Of the Aus
trian wOrkmen TO cooperate with the
middle class, we may safely pronounce
the fatal FiRis AHstrIae.
Up to the present day, the Prussan
Government could not be prevailed
upon TO publish complete lists of our
losses Gin human lifr) during the late
war. Lists of the killed and wounded
we're gwen, though not complies BY
any means, but about the numbers Of
the sick and those carried away by dis
Q ,ses, no Official information has been
souchsafrd us We could only guess
that according 10 the rules Of all former
campaigns, the loss by diseases must hav,
been much greater still than that OF the
battle field. By The Indiscrelion OF
the halfofficIal Board If INQUIRY
(which had undertaken to End out the