Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
SOCIALISTS ARE ACTIVE.
They Rail Against the Condition of the
Agricultural Laborers Of
Germany.
The Peasant Proprietor and the Aris-
tocracy are Responsible for
the Patriarchal System.
The Medical Profession is Enraged
at Koch Because of His
Secrecy.

BERLIN, Dec. 27.-The socialist leaders
issued manifesto tonight affirm ing the
determination OF the socialist party tt
rally the peasants around the flag of social
istic reform. 1t says that the lite of agri
cultural 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 well as to the
toilers in the cities, and they shall Learn
that they have a right to the beautiful
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 agricultural laborers
The peasant. proprietor and the aristorracy
are becoming brandy distillers, and will
make the peasants the slave of machin
cry as the town workers already have
been made The - anifesto asks the mem
bers of the party to contribute money tC
assist in several rural propaganda Be
! ind the declarations in the rIanifesto
which the government might disregard
are practical arr ngement fol-
lecture tours. the formation of rura
branches, etc., which are already
having disquieting effect upon the of
fetal 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.
Imitation Lymph Manufactured.
It has been discovered that spurious
imitation for Koch lymph is being manu-
featured, and a number of cases are
reported in which foreign medical mer
have been deceived into purchasing it
The manufacturers are not yet discovered
The medical profession throughout the
empire is growing more and more iudig-
nant over the manner in which the lymph
is distributed and Koch's secrecy regal d
ing its production. Koch in an inter
view with an eminent English physician
who urged the professor to dis
close the whole process. got very
wroth at the proposal and de,
clarad that he had right to do as
he pleased with his discovery.
The TagebIatt assails this position as
scandalous, and says the rapacity of the
Koch clique will certainly be Sc
verely criticised Wien Minister Won
Goss)er moved In the landtag
q grant for Koch and his assistants OF
tire million marks with fifteen per cent.
on the annual sale of the lymph. The
treatment in the case of VIM. Degan, who
came here from New York has proved a
failure. He has had four injections and
the symptoms are the same as when he
arrived.
Communical Reform Bill.
The prospects of the conservative ma
h. @lon o.,I
reform bill has become remote. Bis
evidently inspired by the ex-chancellor,
yield. The government organs assert
that the government is resolved
to maintain the project in its integrity.
immediate dissolution Other MANAGING
causes of the political conflict are EN- neror
Williams educational projects and the
Austrian treaty of commerce.
Bismarck On His Pins
The Hamburger Nachrichten (Bismark' S
organ) leads an aggressive campaign. 1t
asserts that the Reichstag ought to be dis
solved and the sense of the county taken
or the projects, which never have been
submitted to the electorate, and which af-
feet the highest interests of the empire.
Bismarck's tactics in assuming the
defensive against the government are sup
posed % have been adopted for the pur-
pose of fomenting and exciting general
parliamentary disorder and embarrassing
the ministry in the hope he might prove
himself again an inevitable chief.
Won Gossler is known to
differ with the emperor in regard
to ideas on education. 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 to select
a successor who it is thought will be DR..
Hinzheter, Emperor Williams former
tutor.
Census of 6 Germany.
The official census of Germany. recently
completed, gives Berlin population of
1,574, 405, an increase of $4,000 in
five years. The next city is
Hamburg, with a population of
570.534 an increase of 1854 since
1855: Liepsic, which has 353, 272 inhab-
itants, had only $500 in 1880. This is
the greatest increase in any city, being s.
per cent.
Prof. Weiger of Strasburg is dead.
PARIS. Dec. 27.-Advices from Rome
state that the pope has finished the graft
of his encyclical upon the social question.
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