Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-19
OUR EUROPEAN LETTER.
An I.tetestins letter from Germany
From Regular Correspondent.

| BERLIN, Germany, teDfu2fy4, 1907
The manifest Of the Emperor, which
will spoil what little respect some liberal
minded men had for the chancellor, has
been received with unmitigatsd disgust
by numerous Liberal newspapers all
over the Continent, and they had, of
course, the honors of con6scation. There
is little hope left now with native
lovers of progress and free institutions,
and strong and powerfully organized
reaction will probably throw off the
mask at once Whether the foolish
abettors of such an obsolete state Of
things among civilized nations wi
long enjoy their triumph is question
which the Providence Of nations will
settle in the negative as usual. Who
ever, in our time, can be both bold and
thoughtless enough to disregard the
political rights Of man must come TO
grief, and Prince Bisma rck's non-ad-
mirers could never have wished to see
him more fatally commit himself than
he did by countersigningh his kings de
claration. His name is doomed to the
execration of the German Democracy.
and this will be water on the mill for
others. The text Of the rescript shows
that the Emperor not only proposes to
check encroachments on the rOyaj and
imperial pre- roga.ive, but to make the
Crown more active than it has ever
been, since the granting Of the Consti-
tuition, in marking out its own policy Of
administration and securing the assent
of the electors to government m assures.
Government officials are distinctly mott
fed that they must support the royal
policy at elections as well a. in the
Chambers that their oaths require the
duty and that the Emperor Will thank
fully recognize its performance.
The several parties in the Reichstag
are now debating the question how to
trea the royal manifesto, which, as is
announced, is to be brought officially %
tn ir knowledge. The importance of
this death blow to Constitutionalism
is not moderated, but eOple are very
much in the dark as to its results.
s. nae imagine that the Reichstag will
be done away with, or that the next
stop may be the substitution of new
electoral system instead Of universal
suffrage. 1t would be easy enough to
accept this notion if one saw the posi-
bility of Bismarc khan majority result |
ing from a new electoral system, but |
the middle classes are all opposed to
Absolutesm, and now the laboring class
has abandoned the Chancellor. In a |
remarkable speech yesterday he made
allusion to cooperative associations which |
are to be found d, 4 nd from which good |
is to como to the people. What these
organizations are to be is yet a mystery; |
perhaps they are intended to form the |
electoral bodies for new kind of Par |
which the Prince may think
will give better reception to his State
Socialism than he can expect in the ex
isting or any similarly elected Reich
stag.
By brother correspondent of the
International Press Agency at Geneva
I am confirmed in my former predic-
ton that the European emigration to
the United States is taking more and
moro official character and organization.
Little Switzerland is takin: energetic
steps in that direction. A committee
of forty National and State Councillors
has been formed for the purpose of es-
tablishing q colonization society for
Swiss emisrants, with or without gov
eminent aid. "A 10000 franc subscrip-
ton is being called for to start with.
the capital to be made up in shares.
To this committee the following plan
has been submitted from the ancient
cantOns The Swiss Shareholders So
ciety for Emigration aims at the acqui-
sitisn of a convenient tract of land IN
the United States. 1t takes the prepar-
atory steps for making such land avail
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