Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-07
By Nearly Everybody in Germany
for His Vicious Attacks
ON THE EMPEROR'S PET SCHEME.
The Princes own Speeches Quoted Against
His Present Stand.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS AND THEIR HOPES
rBY CABLE TO THE pIsPArcH,l

which, IN carefully calculated malice an0
irrelevant treschery to the dead, surpasses
anything in his past official utterances
While accomplishing much mischief, un-
doubtedly, among the people, and seriously
embarrassing the Government, however, il
Is undenisble that the ex-Chancellor has
again lowered himself officially in the esti.
NATION of the German people. Even among
the Liberals, whose cause he sought to aid,
he has caused a pretty general feeling OF
apprehension and disgust.
Everybody is anxious as to the event OF
his unveiled attack upon the whole person
mel and policy of the present Government.
VIII Emperor William repress his feelings
sufficiently to refrain from State trial2 All
nope that he will, but few of the influential
men of Prussia would blame him if he
should not.
Bismarck Blamed Everywhere.
Everywhere one hears references to Prin ce
Bismarck's course against Harry Won Ar
MIN, who, for less serious offenses. was
hunted from Office and bounded from Ger
many. The state of feeling in high civil
and military quarters certainly warrants
the most serious apprehensions. The 1eel-
1ng against the eN-Cnancellor is little less
than fury and hatred, and the suggestion is
made in all earnestness that should the
Emperor still abstain from legal action he
from the army and strip the Kings coat from
his back.
One OF the most singular features of the
Blum interview, with it's reckless revelations
of state secrets and its all-but-treasonab bile
sentiments, is that it was given soon after
the Lukunft interview, in which Prince
bismarck efuslvely protested his loyalty to
Nhe crown, and thereby excused himself, as
a wearer of the army Uniform, from oppos-
ing in Parliament the Emperor's policy.
The whole intent and purpose OF the Blum
n
to embarrass the Government, and
1t Is impossible to imagine that
bismarck expected any good to come of it.
wounded vanity " perhaps the only possi-
Die explanation, and even this explanation
requires further explaining. MANY think
that the slight attention paid TO the Zukumft
interview was such revelation to the
tIlhce OF ms waning prestige that he
Sbpusn Sbs nt IN the Blum interview to challenge
the attention OF the country at any cost.
The Criticisms All Contradictory.
1t is doubtful that Prince Bismarck's BIT
Ing criticisms of the military bill will have
much effect upon its prospects, for these
criticisms are at once two-edged and con.
tradictory. Every argument now advanced
by him against the bill can be answered at
length with quotations from his speeches
made when he was urging the passage of the
crease the military burdens of the
people. His objections to the two
year term are mere echoes of the
objections already made by the Conserva-
IlNes, who nevertheless now show signs of
FALLING into line behind the Government
The virtual establishment of the two-year
system Bismarck says, in order that the bill
may be more palatable to the deputies. is
risky plan. Emperor William L, as well as
Moltke and Room, who understood a few
tnlngs about military affairs, did not chase
phantoms, but adhered steadfastly to the
three-year system. A point not stated by
Prince Bismarck is that neither the old En-
peror nor Moltke nor Room thought much of
bls.harc6's knowledge of military affairs,
and always succeeded in keeping his hands
OF the army
just What the Prince Had to Say.
"For 30 years." continued Bismarck, ''the
soldiers in the third year had been the
flower of the army, but now the proposal
WAS to make the third year punishment
thereby attaching stigma to the men who
served through it. Hitherto the raw recruits
had looked up to the third-year men as the
most experienced soldiers in the regiments,
and they had often got their drill from them.
Snould the present bill pass, these recruits
would look upon the third-year men as the
Oregs OF the army.
The obvious answer to all this is that mil
itary conditions throughout Europe have
changed in the last 80 years, and that, as the
"a hole history of the Prussian army TOR IS
years shows, German sovereigns and gem
erals have rarely scrupled to change the
military system to suit the times, and es-
TIE armies of the Triple Alliance"
This argument, and several others which
confound the ex-Chancellor, are being set
forth in a series of articles in the Military
HecLdy. Bismarck spoke sarcastically of
tie impOssibility of Germany raising 60050,-
600 or 10000, 600 marks more ann ually to meet
the demands formulated in the bill. An at
tempt to raise any such sum, he said, would
cause universal discontent-possibly serious |
domestic conflict
Not Altogether Consistent.
This argument is somewhat weakened by |
3ts source, in view of the fact that the Gov
eminent has documents proving that Prince |
Bismarck himself, just before his fall,
planned to submit to the Reichstag q mill |
tary bill proposing changes which would |
have necessitated the additional annual |
expenditure upon the army OF 120, ,000, 600 |
marks. |
The most reprehensible utterances of |
Prince Bismarck in the Blum interview, |
however, are his gratuitous insults to the |
celebrat ted men now in the State service or |
from it in recent years by death |
Thus, he accused Herr Won Radowitz, I'M |
peIial Ambassador at the Court of Madrid, |
OF drin king too much wine and revealing |
state secrets while drunk. This accusation |
Herr Won Radowitz will answer with a |
libel suit, if the foreign office will grant him |
permission.
After going well out of his way to abuse |
Prince Gorschakof and quote from a pri- |
vate conversation with the Gar, Bismarck |
dead. Field Marshal Won Moltke, he said |
urged that Germany attack France in 1875. |
This statement is generally doubted, and /
Bismarck is criticised for waiting until Won /
Moltke was dead before making it.
Social Democrats and Their Congress.
The TIo7tOdeyts official organ of the Social. |
party, published yesterday, in |
special supplement, the full text of the re-
port to be submitted by the Executive Com
mittee at the national congress to be held |
here next week. The committee points with
satisfaction to the reform effected in the
party's organization, reform which allows
the exercise OF individual libe-ality while
keeping the party to the true lines of prog
ress. This record is joyfully spread before
the Social Democracy OF the provinces. Not
only have more distinct conferences been
held in the last year, but they have been
better attended.
Concurrently with this renewed activity
more intimate relations have been estab-
ished between the Executive Committee
ana the rank and file. As proof of this last
assertion, which will be disputed at the
congress by many persons believing that
5he committee has become an autocratic
)ody, the report gives some statistics Be-
,ween the Halle and Erfurt congress the
committee received from comrades through
)ut the empire 2,227 letters and postal /
cards. Between October l, 1891. when the
Srfurt congress met, and September l. 1892 |
lie number increased to 3,042 In the latter
,eriod, also, the number of replies sent out
o inquiries and requests for advice
vas 1904, against $3.50 in the former
period. Considering social Democratic
lains as to the growth of the party, these
igures certainly do not prove much in the
Committees favor.
Inner Life Full of Improvements.
The committee has also sent out and re-
eived thousands of circulars, pamphlets
nd tracts. The inner life Of the party is de-