The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-25
HIS BEST WEAPON.
Germany Must Yield to the
Kaiser.
Won CAPRIvPS BOLD THREAT.
The Reichstag rIust Pass the Army
Bill or an Appeal Will Be Made
to the Country.
Special TO The MORNING CALL.

BERLIN, Dec. 24.-There is stagnation In
business here The wet, sloppy weather of
the season preceding Christmas, a season
usually characterized by bustle in business,
makes about the dullest time within the
memory of the oldest resident. According
to shOpkeepers holiday sales were never so
small The curse of hard times is upon the
town and the wealther classes appear to
be affected by the depression, and where
heretofore they have spent money freely
this year they have made only limited pur-
chases. The people of the middle classes,
who are usually the best of customers dur
Ing the festive period, have bought only
cheap trlfies, and workingmeD, with little
or no money, are obliged to do without
their small share of Christmas fare. Worse
than this, the outlook for i'm rovement in
any branch Of trade is exceedingly gloomy,
and the leaders In commercial and financial
circles take pess imistic view of the stua-
tion. The operators on the B0urse have
lost their usual daring. and now enter into
speculations with timidity foreign to their
natures. Buurse transactions are over
shadowed by fears Of political convulsion
in France and at the disturbed condition of
home affairs arising from the army bill.
The socialist papers have seized upon the
occasion TO comment upon the misery that is
prevailing among the working classes. Vor-
waerts publishes a Christmas article, in
which 1t expa,iates upon the frightful suf.
feriDgs of the poor throughout Germany
The paper says that while there is plenty of
carefully n0urished game in the forests and
In the domains Of arlstocrats, workiugmen
are allowed to die of hunger. Though the
article Is written in the customary style of
socialist exaggeration it has large basis of
fact.
The temperance of cholera at Hamburg
has caused the authorities to order re-
newai OF the precautions heretofore taken
to check the spread of the dis
ease. The Emperor has directed that
regular daily reports regarding the chol.
era be sent to him. The recent mild
weather and the extraordinary low stage of
water in the Eibe are claimed TO have
assisted in the present outbreak. The dis
eussion recently held by the German Hy-
gienic Society on the subject of cholera
elected concurrent opinion from experts
that there would be another outbreak in the
spring. News from St. Petersburg states
that the Russian Government has summoned
congress of 300 doctors, which will sit for
eight days aud Will prepare a report on the
meas lres TO be adopted to meet the ex-
peeted recurrence of the epidemic in the
Russian dOminions.
Freisinnige papers continue their attacks
upon the Jews. The statement is made
that in 1856 Schering's chemical factory
supplied the French Government with large
quantities CT picric acid, and when in
formed at this fact Prince Bismarck said:
Go on, take all the money you possibly
can out of the French" Despite this knowI.
edge, however. Conservative and Catholic
papers do not abate their melting of the
people against the Jews, owing to the fact
that Herr Loewe, who happens to be O.
Hebrew, admits that he offered, through
General Bonlanger. when he was the
French Minister of War, TO supply France
with the plant necessary to manufacture
Lebel rifles. The Staatsburger Zeituug.
recalling the saying of the KING of Prussia
IN regard 10 Meyerbeer's opera, "The Hu.
guenots.' when the King said, Catholics
and PrOtestaDts cut each others throats
while Jew supplies the music" adds that
war is near in which the people of Europe
will massacre each other, the jews supply
ing the arms. This stuff. to use an intelli-
gent expression, helps 10 keep the popular
prejudice infiamed.
Chancellor Won Caprivi's organs reiterate
that the army bill will be passed intact, or
the Reichstag will be dissolved. This
menace is the strongest weapon of the Gov.
ernment as many members of the Reichstag
are 9uaking at the prospect of general
election. through which the socialists and
members of the Freisinnige parties alone
are likely to benefit.
Members of the Government circles at.
tach little importance to the rumors of the
form fint,
OF the adherents Of Prince Bismarck.
The Strasser Post, n an article inspired
by the Foreign Office, deplores the ap-
preaching resignation of Hon. William
Walter Phelps, American Minister to Ger
MANY,