, 1890-12-28
IN FOREIGN LANDS.
German Socialists at Work
Among the Peasants.
Bismarck Actively Opposing
the Government.
The POpe's Encyclical on the
Social Question.

Copyrighted, 1890. by N. Y. Associated Press
BERLIN, Dec. 27.-The Socialist lead
ers issued a 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 lsborers is scarcely human and
that they are serfs in all but name. The
bright dawning of the new era hal
bring rejoicing to the peasants as well as
to the toilers in the cities, and they shall
learn that they have a right to the beauti-
full earth, the fruits whereof they may
not stretch forth their hands and enjoy.
They must be taught that the patriarchal
system is the mortal foe of the %agricul
tural laborer. The peasant proprietor
and the arlstocracy 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 con-
tribute monev. Behind the declarations
in the manifesto, which the government
might disregard, are practical arrange
ments for lecture tours, formation of rural
branches, etc, which are already having a
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 en-
peror, who instructed that nothing should
be done to suppress it.
Ii has been discovered that a spurious
limitation OF Koch's lymph is being manu-
featured, and a number of cases are re-
ported in which foreign medical men have
been deceived into purchasing 1t. The
manufacturers have not yet been discov
cred. The medical profession throughout
the empire is growing more and more in
diguant over the manner in which the
lymph is being distributed and Koch's
secrecy regarding its production. Koch,
in an interview with an eminent English
physician who urged the professor to dis
close the whole process. got very wroth at
the proposal and declared that he had a
right to do as he pleased with his oiscov-
ery. The Td0eJldtt a~ssails this position
as scandalous and says the capacity Of the
Koch clique will certainly be severely
criticised when Minister Won Gossler
moves 10 the lardtag a granite o. Koch and
his assistants of 3.000,000 marks, with
Is per cent on the annual sales of the
lymph.
The treatment in the case of VIM. De
gan, who came here from New York, has
proved a failure. He has had four iniec-
tons and the symptoms are the same as
when he arrived.
The prospects of submission by the
Conservative majority in the iandtag on
the commercial reform hill has reconse re-
mote. Bismarcks organ, IN a serbs OF
--.s -,isvuuy inspired by tn} ex-
chancellor. urges the Conservatives not to
yield. The government organs assert that
the government is resolved TO maintain the
project in its integrity. The Liberal press
continues to clsmor for immediate dissolu-
ton Other menacinR causes of a political
conflict are Emperor William 8 educational
projects and the Austrian treaty of com
merce.
The Hamburger NdchricAten (Bis-
marck's orgab) leads an aggressive cam
paign. 1t asserts that the reiehstag
ought to be dissolved and the sense OF
the country taken on the projects, which
have never been submitted to the
electorate. aud which affect the highest
interests OF the empire. Bismarck
tactics in assuming the offensive against
the government are supposed to have
been adopted for the purpose of foment-
ing and exciting general parliamentary
disorder and embarrassing the ministry
III VIC uOpc tuat ub might pTOfe himself
again an inevitable chief.
Won Gossler is known to differ with the
emperor in regard to his ideas on edu-
cation. 1t is reported that he offered to
resign, but, at the request OF the emperor.
consented to remain for the present, to
give the emperor time 20 select a successor
who, it rs thought, viii be DIR. Hinzpeter,
the Emperor Williams former tutor,
The official census ofGermany, recently
completed, gives Berlin a population OF
l,57s, 4S5, an increase of 259, 600 in five
years The next city is Hamburg. with a
population of $40. 534, an increase Of
90. 534 since 1885. Leipsic. which has
1853 272 Inhabitants, had only I5e. 900 in
1885 This is the greatest increase IN any
CITY, being 80 per cent.
Prof. Weiger of Strausburg. is dead.
CASTLE soap 5 cents. stew pan 10 cents,
soup pitcher 10 cents, sheet iron bread