The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-25
STAGNA7ION IN BUSINESS.
Berlin is Unusually Dull for This
Time of the Year.
A PESSIMISTIC VIEW TAKEN
The Outlook for Improvement is Ex-
ceedingly Gloomy.
Operators on the Bourse Have Lost Their
Usual Daring and Enter Spec
ulation With Timidity-
Foreign Notes.
A PEssIMIsTIC VIEW TAKEN

BERLIN, Dec. 24.-There is stagnation
IN business here with wet sloppy weather.
Preceding Christmas is usually characters
lied by bustling business, but this is
about the dullest in the memory of the
Oldest inhabitants. According to shop
keepers, holiday sales were never before
so small. a course of hard times pre-
walls. The Weather classes appear to be
effected by the depression and where here
tofore they have spent money with great
freedom they have this year made only
limited purchases. People OF the middle
classes who are usually the best of Gus
toners during the festive periods, have
bought only cheap trif1es, and working
men with little or no money are obliged
to do without their small share of Christ
mas fare. The outlook for improvement
in any branch of trade is exceedingly
gloomy.
Commercial and financial circles take
the pessimistic view OF the situation. OPP
orators on the BOurse have lost their usual
daring and now enter into speculations
with timidity foreign to their natures.
Bourse transactions are overshadowed by
fears of the political CONFUSION in France
and disturbed by condition of home af-
fairs arising from the Army bill. Social
istic papers have seized upon the occasion
to comment upon the misery that is pre-
vailing among the working classes.
Voerwarts publishes Christmas article
in which it expatiates upon the frightfuI
sufferlngs OF the poor throughout Ger
many. The paper says that while there is
plenty of carefully nourished game in the
forest and in the domains of the aristo-
Gratis, workingmen are allowed to hunger,
Though the article is written in the Gus
tomary style of socialistic exaggeration,
it has large basis on facts.
The temperance of cholera at Ham
burg has caused the authorities to order a
renewal of the precautions heretofore
taken to check the spread OF the disease.
The emperor has directed that daily re-
ports regarding cholera be sent to him.
Recent mild weather and extraordinary
low water In the Elbe are claimed to have
assisted in the recent outbreak. A dis
cussion held by the German Hygenic So
ciety on the subject of cholera elected a
concurrent opinion from experts that
there may be another outbreak in the
spring. News from st. Petersburg states
that the Russian government has sum-
mOned a congress of 800 doctors, which
will sit for eight days and VIII prepare re-
ports on the measures to be adopted to
meet the expected recurrence of the eDi-
demic in Russian dominions.
Friessenning papers continue their at
tacks upon the Jews. The stateme Mt is
made that in 1886 Schering's chemical
factory supplied the French government
large quantities OF picric acid, and when
informed OF the fact Prince Bismarck
said: $50 on, take all the money YOU
possibly can out of the French. )" De
spite this knowledge, however, Conser-
vative and Catholic papers do not abate
their melting of people against the Jews
owing to the fact that Herr LoeWe, who
happens to be Hebrew, admits that he
offered through General Boulanger, then
French minister of war, to supply France
with plant necessary to manufacture
Lebit rifles.
staatsburger Zettung, recalling the
matter, says of the King OF Prussia, in
regard to Meyerbers opera, 1.-THE Huge
nots," where Catholics and Professionals
cut each others Threats while the Jew
supplies the music, adds that q war is
near in which the people of Europe will
massacre each other, the Jew supplying
the arms. This stuff, to use an intel
ligent expression, helps to keep popular
prejudices inhamed.
Chancellor Won Caprivi's organ reiter-
ates that the army bill will be passed in
tact or the reichstag dissolved. These
menaces are the strongest weapon of the
government, and many members of the
reichstag are quaking at the prospect of
general election through which the So
cialistS and members of the Freisinning
parties are alone likely to benefit. Mem
bers of government circles attach little
importance to the rumors of the lorna
ton OF new party to be composed Of ad-
herents OF Prince Bismarck.
The Strasser Post, in an article inspired
by the foreign Office, deplores the ap-
preaching resignation of Honorable Will
liam Walter Phelps, American minister to
Germany.