Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-28
IN THE FATHERLAND
A Remarkable Socialist Man
ifestO Issued.
Emperor William Would Not
Suppress 1t.
Koch Refuses to Give Away His
Secret Discovery.
Bismarck Trying to Rattle the Ministry
Remarkable Growth of German
Cities.
Associated resssDispatches.

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BERLIN, Dec. 27.-[Copyright, 1890,
by the New York Associated Press. !
The Socialist leaders issued manifesto
tonight, affirming the determination OF
the Socialist party to rally the peasants
around the flag of socialistic reform. 1t
says the life of .the agricultural laborer
is scarcely human, and that they are
serfs in all but name. The bright dawn
ing of the new era shall bring rejoicing
to the peasants, as well as to the toilers
in the cities, and they shall learn that
they have right to the beautiful on
earth, the fruits whereof they may not
now stretch forth their hands and enjoy.
They must be taught that the patri-
archial system is the mortal foe of the
agricultural laborer. The peasant pro-
! prietor and aristocracy are becom-
ing brandy distillers, and will
make the peasants the slaves of
machinery, as the town workers have
already become. The manifesto asks
the members of the party to contribute
money to assist in organizing the rural
population.
Behind the declarations in the mani
festo, which the government might dis
regard, are practical arrangements for
lecture tours, the formation of rural
branches, ETC., which ar already hav-
ing disquieting effect upon the peoples
mind. The nature of the manifesto was
known to the government, and the mat
ter vas referred to the emperor, who in
structed that nothing should be done to
suppress it.
KoCH'S LYMPH CoUNTERFETrED.
1t has been discovered that spurious
imitation of the Koch lymph is being
manufactured, and a number of cases
are reported in which foreign medical
men have been deceived into purchas-
ing it. The manufacturers have not yet
been discovered.
The medical profession is growing
more and more indignant over the man
ner in which the lymph is distributed,
and Koch's secresy regarding its produc-
ton. Koch, in an interview with an
eminent English physician, who urged
the professor to disclose the whole
process, got very wroth at the
proposal, and declared that he
had a right to do as he pleased with his
discovery The Tageblatt assails this
position, as scandalous, and says the
rapacity OF Koch's clique will certainly
be severely criticized when Minister Won
Gessler moves in the landtag a grant for
Koch and his assistants of three million
marks, with fifteen per cent on the an
nual sales.
The treatment OF the case of William
Alegan, who came here from New York,
has proved failure. He has had four
injections and his symptoms are the
same as when he arrived
POLITICAL CONFLICTS.
The prospect of the submission of the
conservative majority in the landtag, of
a commercial reform bill, has become re-
mote. Bismarck's organ, in series OF
articles evidently inspired by the ex-
chancellor, urges the conservatives not
to yield. The government organs assert
that the governments is resolved to main
tain is project in its entirety. The Lib
eral press continues to clamor for imme-
diate dissolution.
Other menacing causes OF political con-
fict are Emperor Williams educational
projects, and the Austrian treaty
OF commerce. The Hamburger Mach
richten (Bismarck's organ) is leading
the aggressive campaign. 1t asserts
that the Reichstag ought to be dissolved
and the sense of the country taken on
the projects, which have never been
submitted to the electorate, and which
effect the highest interests of the en-
pire.
BIsMARCK's TACTICS.
Bismarck's tactics in assuming the
offensive against the government are
supposed to have been adopted for the
pupose of fomenting and exciting'gen-
eral parliamentary disorder, and embar-
rassing the ministry, in the hope that
he might prove himself again the inevit-
able chief.
Won Gessler is known to differ with
the emperor in regard to his ideas on
education. 1t is reported that he offered
to resign, but at the request of the en-
peror consented to remain for the pres
ent to g,ve the emperor time to select
his succe o.Nr, who, it is thought, will be
DIR. Hinzh, 7r, Emperor Williams for
mer tutor.
GROWTH OF GERMAN CITIES.
The official census of Germany, re-
Gently completed, gives Berlin popu-
lation of l,574, ,435, an increase of 259,-
600 in five years. The nextcity is Ham
burg, with population of 57O,534, an
increase of 99,534 since 1885, Leipsic,
which has 353,272 inhabitants, had only
159.500 in 1885. This is the greatest in
crease in any city, being 80 per cent.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
Professor Weiger of Strasburg is dead,
There is a serious outbreak of small
pox at the seaport town of Hadersleben.
LONDON CABLINGS.