The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-12-25
Weighing Heavily Upon the People
Of Prussia's Capital at This
Time.
Outlook for Improvement In Any
Line Is Not at All En-
couraging.
Still Inoiting the People Against tho jews
Won Caprivi VIII Force the
Army Bill.

ouo'nosu AsEc. Inc W0C, sloppy Weatn0r
preceding Christmas 10 usually character
lied by hustle III business. but this il about
the dullest within tho memory Of the old
sst resident, According to shopkespers,
holiday sales never before were 80 small
The curse Of hard times prevails. Tho
wsalthier classes appear to be affected BY
the depression, and where heretofore they
have spent money freely, this year they
have made only limited purchases. People
OF the middle classes, who are usually the
best of customers during the festive period,
have bought only cheap triaes. and work
ingmen, with little or no money, are
obliged to do without their small share Of
Christmas fare. The outlook for improve
ment in any branch OF trade ia axceedin gly
gloomy. Commercial and financial cir
cles take a psssimistio view OF the situa-
tion. Operators on the bourss have
lost their usual daring and now enter into
speculations with timidity foreign to
their NATURES. Bourse transactions are
ovorshadowed by fears Of political convul-
sion in France and disturbed BY the condi-
ton of home affairs arising from the army
bill.
Socialist papers have seized upon the oc-
casion to comment upon the misery that is
prevailing among the working classes. The
Vorwaerts publishes n Christmas article, in
which it expatiates upon the friRhtful suf-
ferinQ of the poor throughout Germany.
The paper says that while there is plenty of
carefully nourished game in tho forests and
in the domains OF aristocrats, workingmen
are allowed to die of hunger. Though the
article is written in the customary style of
socialist exaggeration it, has large basis on
fact.
The temperance of cholera at Hamburg
has caused the authorities to order re-
newal of precautions heretofore taken to
check the spread of the disease. The en-
peror has directed that regular daily re-
ports regarding cholera be sent to HIM. The
recent mild weather and extraordinary low
water in the Elba are claimed to have as
sisted in the ,ecent outbreak. A discussion
held by the German Hygsnic society on the
subj of cholera ELECTED concurrent opin-
ion from experts that there will be another
outbrenk in the spring. News from Ss.
Petersbu & states that the Russian govern
ment has summoned congress OF 300 doc
pare report on the measures to be adopted
to meet the expected recurrence of the epi-
demic in Russian dominions.
Freissinnige papers continue attacks upon
the Jews. The statement is made that in
1886 ScherinR's chemical factory supplied
the French governments with large quaint.
ties of picric acid. and when informed of
the fact Prinoo Bismarck said: 60 on,
take all the money you possibly can out of
the French" Despite this knowledge
however, conservative and Catholic papers
do not abate their inciting of the people
against the Jews, owing to the facs that
Herr Loewe. who happens to be Hebrew,
admits that he offered, Through Gen. Bou--
langer, when French minister of war, to
supply France with the plant necessary to
hurgef Z4itunR, recalling the saying of the
opera, 1.-The Huguenots." where Catholics
and protestants cut each others thronss.
while Jew supplies music. adds that war
is near. in which the people of Europe will
massacre each other, the Jews supplying
the arms. 1 his stuff, to use an intelligant
expression, helps to keep popular prejudice
inflamed
Chancellor Won Caprivi's organs reiterate
that tie army bill will be passed intact or
the reichsta2 dissolved. This menace
is the strongest weapon Of the govern nment.
Many members of the reichstag are QuRk-
inc at the prospect of the general election.
through which socialists and members of
the frlessinnige parties alone are likely to
benefit. Members of the governments cir
cles attach little Importance to rumors Of
the formation of q new party to be COM
Losed of adherents of Prince Bismarck,
The Strasser Post in an article ins pired by
the foreign Office. deplores the approaching
resignation of Hon. VIM. Walter Phelps,
American minister to Germany.