New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-09
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THE NEWS OF EUROPE.
KAISER WILHELM,S SPEECH.
SOCIALIST ACTIVITIES AT TWO cAPIrALA
THE ARMENIAN AGEs-MADAGAsCAR-M
ZoLA-THE HOUSE OF LoRDs-PARIsH CoUN.
CILS-THE SCHOOL LBOARD-sABBATARIANIsH
THE DRAMA-MR JOHN BURNS
by TRIBUNE
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Copyright: 1891; By The Tribune AssociaAsnJ
London. Dec. S.-The German Emperor has
opened both the Reichstag and the new Reichs-
haus. His speech was foreshadowed but does
not explain the measures against Socialism.
He contrives however 70 refer to them in terms
Of absolutism well calculated to offend public
opinion. This great potentate seems not yet to
have learned that public opinion is a force. or
that all Germany is greater than single Ger
man, Emperor though he be. What he says Of
peace is we'll said. The prospects Of peace have
been, in his judgment, strengthened. He does
not forget that great friend Of peace the late
Emperor OF Russia. IS dead. He does him justice
a friend Of peace II, Notwithstanding his
loss, peace is more probable than ever the new
Car may well have gwen private assurances Of
which the public knows nothing. No doubt. also,
the mutual approaches Russia and England have
made are guarantees Of peace Some Of the diff
iculties of last week are believed TO have been
smoothed away
The return Of the Prince Of Wales is hailed by
the courtiers Of the English press as II he had
been the real instrument of the better under
standing between the two countries. He has
done what his position permitted or required OF
him, and done it WELL but serious diplomacy Is
now conducted between foreign officers.
The Socialists in the German Reichstag and
the Socialists in the Belgian Chamber nave
raised their voices at the same time. There nave
been violent scenes in both houses. The German
Socialists refused to cheer the Emperor; the Be-
gan Socialists refused TO cheer the King. The
President of the Reichstag read his recalcitrant
colleagues a neat little lecture, reminding them
that the cheers called for included not only the
Emperor the head Of the S.ate but the Ger
man Empire and the German nation. They re-
mained impenitent, and one Of them justified their
silence the ground that the Emperor had tod
the soldiers that they must shoot their fellow
citizens If he commanded. AL soldiers have to
do that may have to.
The Belgian Socialists showed what they were
.ibsking of by crying, Down with the capital
lstsw In Belgium. however, it is the Socialists
who are down, and who have put, not the capt.
talists but the c.ericals on top. In Germany
they are keenly anxious TO know what the new
proposals against Socialism are The Emperor
has sanctioned something Till they know what
1t is they regard him as no better than capt.
talist
There are atrocities elsewhere than In Ar
menia. Hitherto not mucr has been said about
the Japanese and Chinese barbarites. The
pathies of western Europe were with them: the
Chinese partly because they were losing, partly
because nothing better was expected of them.
But now The Times's" correspondent at Hro-
shjma sends most explicit account Of the torture
OF Chinese prisoners, both soldiers and civilians,
by the japanese at Port Arthur. He was an
eyewitness OF these crueltes He narrated them
to the Japarese Foreign Minister who declared
himself shocked and desrous to repress them.
II true. they will have to be reprcssed, or Japan
will find Europe against. her
The Madagascar bill passed the French Senate
on Thursday by vote of 267 to 3. NJ. Hanotaux
has considerably changed his tone He now says
that an expedition is necessary in order to es-
tablish In Madagascar a French protectorate
similar to that in Tunis which latter is, says NJ.
Hanotaux. with a grave face. the admiration
of the English themselves" 1t is not many
weeks since the same NJ Hanoraux proclaimed
10 the world that Madagascar was to become
fourishng French Colony. He was then ana Is
now Minister for Foreign Affairs. NJ de Frey
cnet. president OF the Senate Committee. so rar
forgot himself to say that with the Madagas-
car pr6tecorate the period of French colonial
expansion would come 10 an end. Perhaps after
all there is not much difference between protect
ing the colonizing Madagascar The only real
object saiG NJ Hanotaux, again with grave
face. is to civilize the island. Once more France
goes to war for idea. and the idea. which was
once Savoy. is now Madagascar.
While France is engaged in civilizing that
island. the scandals about the French press in
crease daily in number and magnitude till one
wonders how many Paris papers will ultimately
ESCAPE the accusation of Systematically accepting
bribes.
NJ Henry Houssaye's election to the French
Academy simply that the Academy pre-
fers decent medocrity to Nj. Zo.a and indecency.
NJ Houssaye is not a writer of much distinctioh'
though not without pretensions TO dHettante
scholarship. He is called an art critic ana
historian Everybody in France is an art critic
and to he dubbed historian IL Is sufficient to put
together a Bonapartist monograph When you
have done the two the doors OF the Palais Maza-
rim fly open. Nj. Zola has now been candidate
fourteen times. He did not on this occasion get
a single vote His reception in Italy may console
him II Is true that the Pope refused to see him,
but the King received him and so did Signor
Crispl. That was part of the calculation from
the beginning. II you are celebrity or even
notoriety you are sure to have an audience OF the
pone or the King. II the Pope excludes you.
that is reason enough for the King to admit you'
and vice versa Such is the secret of NJ Zo!as
interview with King Humbert 1t is not very
creditabe to either,
Al last there is a chance that something may
be done to stop the Turkish crueltes IN Armenia.
They have long been practised They nave lohs
been chronicled in sundry English papers. chieny
The Daily News" The difficulty has been. or
one difficulty that the public do not take tnat
journal seriously It's intelligence. like its opin-
k,t htr uynQH
rimes'' has declared itself convinced. 1t Is no
ouestion of occasional or unauthorized outrages.
hut OF deliberate ferocity whole district, ofh-
cial.y given over to plunder and murder and tor
ture. Zekki P.schs. who carried out these orders
with inconcevable savagery, has been COM