Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-25
GERMANY'S ARMY.
Five Million Dollars Asked for to
Provide New Men and Guns.
Gladstone Tells the Workingmen How
They Can Have the Rule of the
Nation at Their Feet.
Tendency OF English Legislation to Copy the
United states-OppOsitIOn to Pro-
posed Liquor Legislation.
German Army Bill.

LONDON, May A.-Ihe German government
has asked the reichstag for further vote OF
nearly s. ZOO, coo for military purposes, to meet
the increased expenditures which will be occa-
stoned by the passage OF the new army bill now
pending in the reichstag. The uses to which
this money is to be applied. explain the import
ance and magnitude of the army bill, which does
not appear at first glance. In the first place,
money is to be applied to the creation of seventy
five new field batteries, that is addition o
40 guns to the field army; secondly the increase
of the establishment of the infantry and cavalry.
regiments, especially those OF the army corps
CHARTERED on the Russian and French
new Bavarian division. The increase of
artillery is intillegible enough. The German
$50 and the Russian 424. The present addition
will give the Germans 434. which is more on
level with the figures of their neighbors: The
exact distribution Of the new batteries is not
known. The old organization gave each infantry
division ield artillery regiment composed OF
tyo~ brigade divisions OF four batteries each.
Two years ago this system was replaced by one
in which the regiment, consists of three brigade
divisions Of three batteries each. This would
have given each division an extra battery OF six
guns, but 1t was carried out only for alternate
regiments. 1t will now doubtless be extended
to all regiments. According to rough esti-
mate q division Of the German army corps will
in future go into action with something like 100
guns instead OF ninety-six, SO long the normal
number. The artillery Will be one-third more
and the effect expected is that each gun
is at least double what it used to do. The new
Bavarian addition means roughly an addition OF
200 infantry to the fighting force. The in
crease OF the frontier corps seems to mean that
these corps are to be permanently enlarged.
As to the cavalry the statement is not quite in
telligible, seeing that for long time past both
Germany and France have kept large part of
their cavalry at war strength, and have been
ready to push it up to or across the frontier
within given number of hours from the time Of
the order to mobilize.
GLADSTONE ON LABOR.
The National Liberalist has ordered reprint
of several million copies Of Mr.. Gladstone's
article which recently appeared in Loyd's Lon
don newspaper on 1.-THE Rights and RESPONSE
bilities of Labor, " SO that it can be placed in
the hands of every workingman before
the next general election. Mr.. Glad
ton, nor on any individual strike or dispute.
He prefers to look back upon the changes which
have converted strikes from offenses against the
criminal law into perfect recognized and repu-
table exercises Of right to withdraw one's
commodities from bad market.
Since 1925 the handspring OF the laborer has,
as Mr.. Gladstone says, gradually shifted from
point outside himHelf to point fairly within his
base and almost within reach of his very center.
When the great reform bill was passed the work
man was already almost fully privileged by law
to live as he chose, and the work has yet to be
amended and com pleted by thorough reform of
registration, by which the voting power of the
British nation VIII be raised to some 4 OOn 600
Midway between the baffled past repression and
the triumphant future combinations OF labor
Mr. Gladstone pauses to consider the causes
of the curious fact that the workingmen of the
country already have the rule Of it at their feet
if they will only care to all put their hands
down simultaneously and pick it up. The
feasibility of this simple act Of cooperation
must soon be recognized, and Mr.. Gladstone
looks forward 70 it with no more apprehension
than any other clear sighted and sympathetic
man. Labor has already learned some magma
nin1ity from success, and its judgments, justice
and generosity have naturally thrived with in
creased room for their exercises. To the adj
vance of labor Mr.. Gladstone sets but one limit,
and that is at the threshold of socialism. Labor
will soon be capital equal, but she cannot dis
pense with it, nor is 1t essential to her Strength
that she should do so. Mr.. Gladstone intends
If he should be called to resume the chief posi-
ton in the executive government to place the
legislation to which he refers, dealing with
the franchise and the registration OF voters, in
Guiding dodgers beyond all risk of fRilure by de-
lay, SO that in any case the next election may be
the last taken under the existing laws. While
no measures could be more just or needful than
those which would in this way raise the number
of voters to 600. 00o and make their votes more
responaible and effective by the abolition of
plural voting, none would be more beneficial to
the Liberal party, who would gain most of all in
London.
THEY LooK UP TO AMERICA.
remarkable feature of English legislation
Just now is the tendency to copy after the United
States. Not many years ago the suggestion that
anything was American was sufficient to insure
its rejection: but now all is changed, and the
American example is quoted with force and au-
American method is the intended abolition of
the gorgeous feudal high sheriff appointed
by the crown who cuts such wonderful figure
In royal receptions and judicial circuits and the
substitution in his place of paid sheriff devot-
ing all his time to his duties. and without the
lord mayors snowy surroundings Of Office at
.present constituted. The subject will probably
receive attention at the presentsession OF parlia
ment. The sherit's Office in England is much
aa-afn kA1V1
of the county, gentry and the representative of
the queen s. authority. AS in case Of the
county magistrate no compensation is given,
the honor being deemed sufficient recompense.
The American principle Of local option for Ii
quor trafic is embodied in Lord Randolph
Churchill's measure.
The London county council also recently
instituted body formed upon the American
plan Of a board Of county supervisors
ment principle which compels adjoining owners
to pay q share OF the cost of public improve
ment such as highway or bridge. A member
of the council seemed very mnch surprised when
informed that this had been the rule in America
for many years
HOUSE DIVIDED.
Lord Salisbury is said to be dazed by the on
position which the governments proposal to
compensate publicans has aroused, and on this
subject too the example Of the United States is
quoted with telling force against the admins
tration. sin the United states.'' said Mr.
B ryce in parliament, where local option had
been adopted SO largely, there never had been,
he believed. single case of compensation
either to brewers or liquor sellers for the sup
preston Of their trade. The opponents of the
me asrre even claim that it would throw
upon the country q burden OF not
less than one thousand millions Of dollars.
This, added to the $3.50, 0O0stg9 which the Irish
land purchase bill. according the claims OF its
antagonists, will exact from Great Britain, Is
making the taxpayer very uneasy, and no gov
eminent can long hold place ia England which
arouses the anxiety Of the taxpayers. The mem
bers Of the house OF commons are nearly all of
the property holding class, and they feel at once
in their incomes any addition to the burden Of
taxation.
In one respect only is 61itish parliament al
ways liberal, and that is in granting money for
Rarlike purposes or to support the royal family.
In addition to this powerful feeling, which
mainly affects the pocketbook, the temperance
sentiment Of the country is aroused as It never
was aroused before. From all parts OF Great
Britain protests are pouring in from temperance
organizations, and even the Church Of England
temperance society, the most conservative Of /
those bodies, il demanding that such men
as ArchHescoa Fsrrsr, Canon wilberforce
and Canon Barker make themselves heard in an |
assault upon the COMPENSATION clause OF the |