The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-28
The Farmers Alliance Move
ment in the Fatherland.
BISMARCK FIGHTS THE KAISER.
lmpostors Put an Imitation of Koch's
Lymph on the Market.
The Doctor Not Actuated by Love OF
Humanity, But by Avarice-Eyery
Sufferer Who Uses the Remedy Must
Pay Him a Royalty.

BERLIN, Dec. 2T.-f Associated Press,
Copyrighted, 1890. THE socialist leaders
issued manifesto tonight affirming the
determination of the socialist party to
rally peasants around the tiag of socialistic
reform. 1t says that the life of an agri-
cultural laborer is scarcely human, and
that they are serfs in all but the name.
The bright dawning of a new era shall
bring rejoicing to the peasants, as well as
to the toilers in cities, and they shall learn
that they have a right 10 the beautiful
earth. the fruits whereof they may not
stretch forth their hands and enjoy. They
must be taught that the patriarchal sys-
tenn is the mortal foe of the agricultural
laborer The peasant proprietor and the
aristocracy are becoming brandy distillers,
and will make the peasants the slaves of
machinery, as the town workers have
already been made.
The manifesto asks the members Of the
party TO contribute money to assist in the
rural propaganda. Behind the declara-
tions in the manifesto which the govern
ment might disregard are arrangements
for lecture tours, the formation of rural
branches, etc., which are already having
disquieting effect on official minds. The
value of the manifesto was known to the
government before its publication, and the
matter was referred to the emperor, who
instructed that nothing should be done to
suppress it.
1t has been discovered that a spurious
imitation of Koch's lymph is being made.
and number of cases have been reported
in which foreign medical men have been
deceived into purchasing it. The manu-
facturers have not yet been discovered.
The medical profession throughout the
empire is growing more and more indig-
nant over the manner in which the lymph
is distributed and koch's secrecy regard
ing its production. Koch, in an interview
with an eminent English physician who
urged the professor to disclose the whole
process, got very wroth at tho proposal,
and declared that he had right to do as
he pleased with his discovery. The Tdge-
blatt assails this position as scandalous,
and says the rapacity of the Koch clique
will certainly be severely criticised when
Minister Won Gossler moves in the land
tag grant for Koch and his assistants of
5000, 900 marks, with Is per cent. on the
annual sales of the lymph.
The treatment in the case of William
Degan, who came here from New York, has
proved failure. He has had four inject
ions, and his symptoms are the same as
when he arrived.
The prospects of the submission of the
conservative majority in the landtag on
the commercial reform bill has become re-
mote. Bismarck's S organ in series of ar
ticles evidently inspired by the ex-chan-
celior, urges the conservatives not to yield.
Government organs assert that the gov
ernment is resolved to maintain the pro-
ject in its integrity. The liberal press con-
tinues to clamor for immediate dis
solution. The other menacing causes
of the political conflict are En-
peror Williams educational projects and
the Austrian treaty of commerce. The
Hamburger Nachrichtea, Bismarck's organ,
leads the aggressive campaign. 1t asserts
that the richstag ought to be dissolved and
the sense of the country taken on projects
which have never been submitted to the
electorate, and which affect the highest in
terest of the empire. Bismarck's tactics
in assuming the offensive against the gov
ernment are supposed to have been adopted
for the purpose of fomenting and exciting
general parliamentary disorder and EN-
barrassing the ministry in the hope that
he might prove himself again an inevitable
chief
Won Gossler is known to differ with the
emperor in regard to his ideas on educa-
ton. 1t is reported that he has offered TO
resign, but at the request of the emperor
consented to remain for the present to give
the emperor time to select his successor,
who, it is thought, will be DIR. Hinzpeter,
the emperor's former tutor.
The official census of Germany complete
gives Berlin population of 1,574, 4s5, an
increase of 759, GOO in five years. The next
city is Hamburg, with a population of
570545, an increase of 1854 since 1885.
Leipsic has S53,272 people. The city had
only 159,5o0 ins 1885. This. is the greatest
increase of any city, being 81 per cent.
Professor Wieger, of Strasburg, is dead.
There is serious outbreak of smallpox
at the seaport town of Hadersleben, with
several deaths.