The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-28
German Peasants are to be Rallied
Around the Standards Of
the Socialists.
They Will Also Participate In
the joys of the Glad
New Era.
scandalous Selfshness Of Koch-Political
Complications in Germany-A Papal
Encyclical Promised.

BERLIN, Dec. 27.-Socialist leadsrs issued
manifesto tonight affirming the determi-
nation of the socialist party to rally peas
II says the life Of agricultural laborers is
scarcely human and that they are serfs in
all but name. The bright dawning of new
era shall bring rejoicing to the peasants as
we'll as to the toilers in cities, and they
shall learn that they have right to the
beautiful earth, the fruits whereof they
may not now stretch forth their hands and
enjoy. They must be taught that the
pstriarchal system is the mortal foe of the
agricultural laborer. The peasant proprie-
tor and the aristocracy are becoming brandy
distillers and will make peasants slaves of
machinery as town workers have already
been made. The manifesto asks the men,
bers of the party to contribute money to
assist in the rural propaganda. Behind the
declarations in the manifesto which the
government might disregard are arrange
ment for lecture tours, formation of rural
branches, etc., which are already having
disquieting effect upon the official mind.
The nature 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.
It has been discovered that spurious
imitation of Koch's lymph is being manu-
factured, and number of cases are report
ed 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 indignant over
the manner in which lymph is distributed
and Koch's secrecy regarding its production.
Koch. in an interview with an eminent
English physician, who urged the profess
sor to disclose the whole process, got very
wroth at the proposal and declared that he
had right to do as he pleased with his
discovery, The Tageblatt assails this posi-
tion as scandalous and says the cupidity of
the Koch clique will certainly be severely
criticised when Minister Won Gossler moves
in the landtag q grant for Koch and his
assistants Of three million marks with Is
per cent. Of the annual sales of lymph. The
treatment in the case of VIM. Degan, who
came here from New York, has proved
failure. He has had four injections and
his symptoms are the same as when he ar
rived.
The prospects of the submission of the
conserva tive majority in the landtag on the
commercial refor m bill has become remote.
Bismarck's organ, in a series of articles evil
IDENTIFY inspired by the ex-chance!lor, urges
conservatives not to yield. Government
organs assert that the government is re-
solved to maintain the project in its integ-
rity. The liberal press continues to clamor
for immediate dissolution.
Other menacinR causes OF political con-
flict are Emperor Williams educational
projects and the Austrian treaty of COM
merce. The Hamburger Nachrichten. Bis
marck's organ, leads an aggressive CAM
paign. It 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
Bismarck's tactics in assuming the
offensive against the government are sup
posed to have been adopted for the purpose
of fomenting and exciting general parlia-
mentary disorder and embarrassing 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 of education. It is
reported that he offered to resign, but ut
the request of the emperor consented to re-
main for the present to give the emperor
time to select q successor, who, ii is
thought. will be DR.. Hinzpeter, Emperor
Williams former tutor.
The official census of Germany, recently
completed. gives Berlin population of
1,574. 485. an increase Of 1853 900 in Eve years.
The next city is Hamburg, with popula-
1885. 1sipsic, which has 353,27 inhabit-
ants, had only LES, 500 in '86. This is the
greatest increase in any city, being 81 per
cent.