Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
A DARK CHRISTMAS
For POverty-Pi Pinched Germans
Too Poor to Buy Gifts
for the Children.
DULL HOLIDAY TRAFFIC.
Emperor Williams Mother is Devot-
Ing Her Time to the Poor.
PRESENTS FOR HOSPITAL FOLK.
Precautions Taken Against the Cholera
Expected to Return.
PRESENTS FOR HOSPITAL FOLK.
Precautions Taken Against the Cholera
Expected to Return.
CLPRIVI is PLAYING A TRUMP CARD

business here and the wet and sloppy
weather have tended to make the week
preceding Christmas, usually characterized
bv hustle in business affairs, about the dull
est within the memory of the oldest resi-
dent To-day was the brightest day OF the
week and there was slight frost The
sunshine and bracing atmosphere brought
out crowds of sightseers, who thronged the
streets, gazing at the displays in the shop
windows, but buying little.
According to the shopkeepers their holi-
dav safes were never before SO small The
curse of hard times prevails everywhere.
The wealthier class appear to be affected by
the depression, and. where heretofore they
have spent money freely in Christmas gifts,
they this year have made only limited pur-
chases People of the middle classes, who
are usually the best of customers during
this generally festive period, have bought
only cheap trifles, and the workingmen
with little or no money are obliged to limit
their indulgence in Christmas fare.
The Tradespeople Complain Bitterly.
1t is often suspected that the complaints
OF shopkeepers about the bad condition of
trade are not genuine, but this year such
The outlook for improvement in any branch
of trade is exceedingly gloomy. CONNER
cial and financial circles alike take pessi-
lnistic view of the situation, and croakers,
who at one time would have received scant
attention, are now listened to as oracles-
Operators on the Bourse have lost their
usual daring and now enter into specula-
tions with a timidity foreign to their na-
lures Bourse transactions are overshad-
owed bv fears of political ccnvulsion in
France. and disturbed by the condition of
home affairs arising in the army. The
projects Tor taxation, especially the one re-
rarding banking and stock transactions,
form another element of suspense. Finan-
ciers hold the effect of these projects will be
ruinous, while others form a milder esti-
mate Of the result. Nobody, however, cal
cuIates that the projects will have an infau-
ence to prevent improvement in the busi-
ness situation.
The Socialists Making Capital.
The Socialist papers seize upon the occa-
sion to comment upon the misery among
the working classes. The VoroaeTtS pub
fishes a Christmas article, in which empha-
sis is laid on the frightful sufferings OF the
poor throughout Germany. The paper saws
that while there is plenty of carefully
nourished game in the forests and in the
domains
allowed to die of hunger Though the arti-
Gle is written in the customary style of So :
cialist exaggeration il has large basis of
fact While charity is abundant, it is badly
organized and relief does not reach tbs mass
OF sufferers ...---. ~ -
Prominent among those who are working
to alleviate the misery of the poor, is the
mother Of Emperor William. Every day
throughout the week she has been engaged
l., uho
spent several hours at the Friedrichsam
Hospital She presided at the distribu-
tion OF Christmas presents, OF which she
was a large contributor. In the children's
ward she went to every cot and gave to
each occupant some plsything and red
rIdinghood cloak, most of which were sent
through the legation to the children by
American ladies here.
To-day the splendid array of Christmas
trees have been lighted at the palace at
Polsdam, but the young prince will not be
all OF which will be sent to cheer the chill
dren in the different hospitals.
Reappearance of the Cholera Scare.
The reappearance of cholera at Ham,
burg has caused the authorities to order q
renewal o. the precautions heretofore taken
10 check the spread of the disease. The
En1peror has directed that regular daily re-
ports regarding the disease be sent to him.
The recent mild weather and the extraordi-
nary low water in the Eibe are claimed to
have assisted in the present outbreak. The
olinion Is held BY German hvgienic experts
on the subject of cholera that there will be
another outbreak of the disease in the
spring.
News from ST. Petersburg states that the
Russian Government has summoned a con-
gress Of 800 doctors, of whom 156 are from
cholera-inIected districts The congress
will sit for eight days and will prepare a
report on the measures to be adopted to
meet the expected reoccurrence of the epi-
1emic.
The Freisinnige papers continue to be
honorably distinguished by their efforts to
restrain the Judenhitze. Besides Krupp's
offer in 1868 to supply Napoleon with can
non il has been discovered that Sehering's
chemical factory in Berlin supplied the
French Government in 1856 with large
quantities of picric acid which was used in
the manufacture OF melinite.
Fiery Talk of the Anti-Semitics.
Herr Holz, a member of the Reichstag
and director of the works, told Prince Bis
msrck that France was ordering picric acid,
whereupon the Prince said: go on and
take all the money you possibly can out of
the French. p"
Despite this knowledge, however, the
Conservative and Catholic papers 90 not
cease inciting the people against Hebrews,
basing their articles almost entirely upon
the fact that Herr Loewe, who happens to
be Hebrew, admits that he offered through
General Boulanger to supply France with
the plant necessary to manufacture Lebel
rifles. The Reichsbote, in one of its articles
in favor of Hebrew batting, congratulstes
the nation upon the awakening sentiment
that Germany is for Germans adding that
the country will never again close its eyes
to the danger OF Hebrew influence.
The .StdGtSblTger ZeitarRg, recalling the
saving of the King of Prussia in regard to
Meverbeer's opera, "The Huguenots,
where Catholics and Protestants cut each
others throats while a Hebrew supplies
the music" adds that a war is near in
which the people OF Europe will massacre
each other, the Hebrews supplying the
arms. This stuff helps to keep popular
preiudice infamed.
The ChanceIIor's Trump Gard.
Chancellor Won Caprivi's organs reiterate
that the army bill must be passed intact or
tbe Reichstag will be dissolved. This
menace is the strongest weapon of the Gov
prnmeut. Many members of the Reichstag
are ouaking at the prospect of general
election. through which the Socialists and
of the Freisinnige party alone are
IikeIv TO benefit Herr Richter and other
leaders of the Freisinnige party will devote
the Parliamentary recess to celebrating
their anticipated triumph over the bill.
The VoyyOderts the Socialist organ, warns |
them that their jubilation is somewhat |
premature. Three of the Parliamentary |
groups composing the old Cartel party are