The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-05
SOCIALISTS AS SOLDIERS.
PTuSSia'S War Minister Casts a SluT
on Them.

Copyright 1894, by the United Press)
Berlin, March 4.-Gen. Brousart Won
Schellendortf, the Prussian war minister,
made a notew orthy speech on Friday
against the social democrats. The cause
was given by August Bebel, leader of the
social democratic PARTY. Herr Bebel,
after denying that socialists were always
bad soldiers, said that in the next war
many men without commissions would
necessarily be called to fill places of OIL
GERS. Among the men who would be thus
summoned to responsible positions were
many socialists. The government may
well be glad. therefore, to be able to
reckon the support of a party like the So
cial democracy, which was powerful not
only in the Reichstag, but in the army.
Amid conservative cheers aud laughter,
the war minister responded sardonically
that he reJoiced in the assurance that the
country might depend upon its social
democratic citizens in the army. Consid-
cradle anxiety had been felt by misln-
formed men concerning the loyalty of
socialist soldiers, but it must now be
allayed, as a conspicuous social democratic
leader had given the assurance that the
prevalent mistruSt was grouudless. To-
ward the close of his speech, however, the
war minister became exceedingly earnest
and declared with spirit that the govern
meut could not allow men whose loyalty
had been tainted with social democratic
doctrine to hold any positions Of command
in the army.
GEN. KIRCHHoF's DECORATION.
Duridg the debate on the army credits
yesterday a social democratic deputy
commented adversely on the emperor s
decorating Gen. Won KirchhOf after that
officer had been condemned to imprisOn-
ment by court of justice. Gen. Kirch-
hof's otfense was the shooting of Editor
Harich, of the Tageblatt, who published a
paragraph to the effect thai Frauline Won
Kirchhof had eloped with man ser
want. Shortly after his conviction for
this crime Gen. kirChhOf was gazetted
fer the order of the Red Eagle Gen.
Brousart Won Schellendorf made an
elaborate defense of Gen. Kirchhof and
indirectly Of the emperor. What man
of honor he asked, would not act as
| did Gen. Won Kirchhof. when the law
would not help him avenge the ISLANDERS on
his daughters reputation?n The conser-
vatives answered the question with ap-
| plause; the radicals with interruptions
and protests the social democrats with
| Kisses.
The war minister's speech has angered
| the liberal editors, and their Journals at
tack him tiercely. All deplore that a man
in his official position should justify and
even purify Gen. kirchhof for the shoot
ing of Herr Harich. AS Gen. Kirchhof
failed TO obtain redress from the law
courts of the country, which are
the fittest judges in such matters,
| the liberal dailies declare the
war minister's defence to be
subversive of respect for the laws and
judiciary of Prussia. They also rdicule
the war minister's assertion that Gen.
Won Kirchhof had acted in self-defence
when he shot Herr Harich The dis
cussion of the war minister's declaration
has only begun. Tomorrow, undoubt-
edly, the whole radical. liberal and social
democratic press viii unite in the attack,
THE NEW TREATY WITH RUSSIA.
The hotels in St. Petersburg are
crowded with German traders and com
mercial agents, who are preparing to take
advantage of the new treaty the mo-
ment it shall have passed the Reichstag
They report that the treaty is the only
subject in foreign politics which now in
terests the Russians. Although it is al
most certain that the treaty will be
passed, the finance ministry in st.
Petersburg has made ready for
lruIllDG
measures for further reprisals.
Their propositions have long been
suspected if not actually known, in
Berlin, and have done much to enhance
official anxiety in the Wilhelm strasse
One of the contemplated reprisals is said
to be an order fOrbidding Russian peas
ants and workmen to cross the East
Prussian frontier. The execution of this
order would deprive East Prussia of the
advantages OF Russian cheap labor, and
would be especially detrimental to the
land owners, who already suffer from the
scarcity of agricultural laborers.
MosCow's HOWL
The Moscow manufacturers and traders
continue 10 denounce the treaty, but
their objection is more apparent than
real, being calculated to wiring from the
government some new privileges as com
pensation for the reduction of customs
duties on German goods. Several classes
of E"ssian manufacturers are now call
ing for measures which will give them
mOnopolies, but their demands will have
little influence upon Finance Minister
Witte, who shares the opinions of the
more enlightened residents of the cap
ital.
The attitude of the clerical party
toward the treaty is still doubtful. The
states rights influences are causing dis
cord between the North German and
South German groups The Bavarian
cleriCals, among whom are several rabid
Prussian -ha:ers, threaten to form a sep
arate Bayarian clerical party, with a
democratic platform in case the Prussian
clericals support their government.
ITALY's FINANCES.
In Official circles and among fnanciers
with official relations, Baron Sounino' s
financial proposals to the Italian chamber
have been mentioned with ostentatious
approval. Inc greater part of the specu-
lalive public, however, regard the pro-
posals with distrust. and consequently
the market is unsettled and Italian loans
ttuctuate rapidly. One powerful cause of
this unsteadiness is the uncertainty
whether Italy will reduce her military
and naval expenditures.
Rector Ahlwardt. who has been in the
Ploetzenze prison paying the penalty Cor
libelling the Loewes, Jewish gun max
ers, will be released on Tuesday. The
anti-Semites of his group will meet him
at the prison door and escort him in
triumph to the reichstag, where he
will take his seat forthwith.
Letters left by Felix Lipschuetz, the
theater manager who killed himself on a
train uear Jueterbog on Friday night,
confirm the first report that embarrass-
ment in business was the cause of his
suicide He was unable to obtain the
money required by the police president as