Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-24
AN INT0LERANT ACT.
Herr Miguel Stands Alone in the
Berlin Cabinet in Opposing
THE KAISER'S EDUCATION BILL.
Wilhelms Crusade Against City Wicked
ness in Full Blast.
NO MORE EXECUTIONS BY BEHEADISG

rcoPYRIGHT. 1892 BY THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATED
PREss.l
BERLIN, Jan. 24-The dissensions be
tween Herr Miguel, Imperial Minister o.
Finance, and Chancellor Won Caprivi in re-
lation to the sectarian education bill, have
reached such an acute stage that the resigna
tion of the Finance Minister is looked for al
any time
Herr MIGUEL is not quite alone in the
Ministry in urging such notifications in the
measure as will enable the children of pa.
rents who are neither Catholic nor orthodox
Lutherans to escape being subjected to com.
pulsory religious teaching Ministers Herr.
furth and Shelling, on grounds of policy,
partly side with him, but if the crisis leads
to Cabinet rupture Herr MIGUEL is certain
to find himself alone in retiring.
The more the bill gets to be known the
fercer grows the opposition from the Ma
tional Liberal and Freisinnige parties.
Their opposition is so absolute that no CON-
/ promise is possible. The Conservatives,
also, regard the proposals with increasing
disfavor.
! The Intolerance of the Measure.
The popular sense of justice revolts
| against the measure which will enforce
Methodists, Old Catholics, Unitarians,
| Deists and Free Thinkers generally to have
their children educated in some State
recognized creed. The sects which the bill
admits as duly qualified religious societies
are Moravians, Quakers. Greeks, Angli-
cans, Hebrews and Old Lutherans.
Parents who are neither Catholics nor
Lutherans can profess to be adhe.ents of
any of these sects and can have their chill
dren educated in accordance Herewith; but
the Emperor, whose pet ideas are embodied
in the proposal, means to stamp out religi-
GUS communities having liberal bias, and
will not surrender on single point of the
measure.
Teachers in the primary schools, between
whom and the Clericals profound antipa-
thy often exists, are dismayed at the pros
pect of being placed under the thumb Of the
priests. Many of them who are suspected
of having broad views have cleared out as
soon as the act was put in operation.
It is doubtful whether Chancellor Won
speeches in its defense lack their usual
zest, but having accepted the position of
voice of the imperial will, he must carry
the matter through.
The War Against immortality.
The Bundesrath has finally approved the
suppression of the immortality bill with all its
sweeping clauses. Guilty parties are liable ]
to a. months Imprisonment and to fines
ranging from $50 to 5000 marks. Those
found guilty of aggravated offenses are sub
ject to terms of Imprisonment of from one
year to five years. All offenders embraced
by the act shall be placed in solitary con-
fnement, and shall be supplied with only a
plank bed and bread and water.
Already the police are taking the law
from the Emperor to enforce the provisions
of the act, and Berlin, Hamburg and other
cities are being cleared of the social evil
Many hundreds of immoral women and men
have already been imprisoned. These
drastic measures, applied under the ignorant
dictation of a reforming despot, are held as
cure of the evils attacked.
In number of cases gross injustice has
been done. Several hundred suspected
persons are now confined in prison awaiting
trial under the act on charges made by the |
police and other informers
The Coming Imperial Fetes.
The thirty-third anniversary of the birth |
of Emperor William occurs Wednesday |
The occasion will be celebrated by the court |
fetes, at which the King and Queen of
W Wurtemburg the King of Saxony and |
number of princes will be present
The reflections regarding the Emperor's
lack of a due observance of the period of |
for the late Duke of Clarence and
Avondale is explained in the court circle by
the necessity for ending the mourning be-
fore the fetes shall begin.
Special significance is attached to the re-
ception at Berlin of the King and Queen of
Wurtemburg. During the lifetime of the
late King the relations of the Wurtemburg
court with the imperial house were those Of
latent hostility. The King never visited
Berlin. The new King. having accorded
open friendship to the imperial house, the
Emperor has determined to make his recep-
ion the occasion of special pomp.
More ChoppIns Blocks for Germany.
A woman named Badmewski was be-
headed yesterday by the Berlin executioner
or poisoning her husband. She will prob
IDLY be the last criminal dispatched in this
manner, as the Emperor is turning his at
ention to methods of capital punishment
His Majesty has decided against the present
oarbarous system.
As executions are now-conducted in Ger
many, the condemned criminal is placed on
stool. An assistant holds the head while
he executioner himself, using sword
round to razor-like sharpness, sewers the
lead from the body One blow is supposed
o be sufficient to effect this purpose, but it
ometimes happens that several strokes
ave to be made before the head and body
re separated.
The Emperor hesitates between death by I
angling and electrocution. 1t is understood
e prefers the former method. The use of
he guillotine, as practiced in France, he
elects entirely
Pleased With SaIisbury's Action,
The retention at st. Petersburg of Sir !
sobert B. D. Morier as British Ambassador '
, Russia, is a subject of intense interest in I
iplomatic circles, and is especially crafty s
lg to the Foreign Office. Sir Robert is q
5eady supporter of Emperor William and
hancellor Won Caprivi in their efforts to
isengage the Gar from his alliance with
ne French Government. I
The main reason for Lord Salisburv's ac- )
on is believed to be desire to keep at the =,
'ussian capital an Ambassador versed in !
lie affairs of the country, in view of the in !
,rnal troubles confronting the Russian :
vnasty. Reports that the Driebund is CO. r
perating with England in some great /
Iplomatic movement are in circulation :
ere, but nothing tangible can be learned. a
La Normandie Sinks Her Own Tug.
HAvRE, Jan. 23.-The steamer La Nor.
andie, which sailed from this port this
ternoon for New York, collided with and !,
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