The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-30

tufEe fOssS afaeces nose N1c Possess
either educational or property qssaisfsca-
tion. bat not both OF them. have two
Yates apiece. while the worksngmen who
have neither educational nor property
Qualifications have only one vote apiece.
The. socialists now declare that IL the
single system Of voting prevailed. and
each man was entitled to but q single
vote. 10 matter whether he was rich or
poor. learned or ignorant. the socialists
would be in . majority. In Brussels
alone the socialists cast more thar Geo
votes.
The socialists feel inclined TO throw up
their caps over the way their movement
Is going In Germany. They declare that
II has reached position OF such power
that the emperor. who started In by
claiming to be half sociaiiss himself
has become frightened aud looks on it
as q menace. The socialist labor party
was started In Germany by Ferdinand
IasSaile In 1859 The result OF his teach
ings and agitation for years later was the
garnering Of a mere couple OF hundred
votes. But the seed was sturdy, and it
throve. The vote increased so fast that
In ISIS Il had become party Of size, and
Bismarck began to get trifie apprehen-
sIye. He seized the opportunity furn-
ished by the attempts In that year upon
the old emperor's life to frame and push
through the reichstag anti-socialisf laws.
and the entire socialist press. some fifty
papers strong. was suppressed by the
iron chancellor without 50 much as CO.
Ing through the pretense of legal pro-
ceedings. Socialists everywhere were
banished from their native places or tha
towns In which they happened TO be lv-
Ing. and everything shor. of actual han
ishment from rhe country was done to
force the movement TO an untimely des tn.
But movements do not die that way.
Socialism lived and thrIved In spite OF
the relentless war waged on 1t by the
prime minister. In spite of ALL the So
cialist vote increased. In spite of all.
their representatives, In the reichstag
refused TO be muzgled. There was, 1t is
true. a slight falling OF in the vote In
ISIS, when Bismarck first placed his off,
ctal veto on the movement, but at the
next election there was a gain over all
preceding counts. while In 1890. after the
death Of the old emperor. and on the
accession to the throne Of the present
emperor. the socialists cast nearly a mir
lion and half votes. and the semperor
took that occasion to dismiss Bismarck.
who found that his fight against sacsal-
lists had antagonized instead OF pleased
the young emperor.
The latter tried TO become the working
mans king. issuing proclamations and de-
csees favorable TO thenH and seeking
through the German congress to solve the
old. old problems. Nothing came OF it,
however. and at the last election, in 1885.
William found that the Socialist vote had
increased to more than 1,s00, 0e0 out of a
possible 1000. 600 votes. Since then 1t has
been shown by a number Of minor events
that a large part OF the army Is saturated
with Socialism Many Of the soldiers are
not old enough to vote, the legal age in
Germany being "a the age when many OF
them so out OF the army. but they are
fully imbued with the spirit and doctrines
OF the party. and It is believed that an
even greater proportion OF them are So
cialists for the reason that the ranks arc
chiefly recruited from the working
classes. The ao-called Liberal bourgeois
classes and the emperor declare that they
are satisfied that, no matter how large
the Socialist vote may become, the army
Is sufficient to crush out everything. The
Socialists. ON the other hand, say that
this Is not the case. and declare that
the powers that be have put arms into
the hands OF their w1gst enemies by
the hundreds OF thousands and that
they are now so afraid and so desperate
that they are attempting. as shown by
the last bin introduced into the reicnstag
10 frame e. new anti ociaIIstic exception
al law and begin the contest anew. That
viii give the clue to all new legislation
that Is to come. and that, tile Socialists
believe. Is the reason Why he Emperor
on New Years day said to his officers. in
substance, that whereas the army was
the protection of Germany against exter-
nal fees, notably against France IN $50.
so DOW II must be the safeguard for the
monarchy and the bourgeolsie from a far
more dangerous internal foe.
Meantime. at every election which has
taken place in 1894 either by the eIec.ios,
or a SocaaIistic candidate or by an In
creased majority Of Socialist votes, ii has
been shown that the movement Is extend
ing and broadening, and the vote steadily
increasing. Almost all OF the Socialistsc
strength In Germany Is confined to the
northern states. In the south the prac-
tfcally feudai system prevails, and moth
ing can be done with those who TIL the
SOIL for others
In France, however, where there are
countless small farmers, most of whom
are growing poorer under the high taxes
and against the rivalry OF the larger land
owners. WHO hire their labor, there IL said
70 be growing feeling OF unrest end dis
satisfaction. and consequently a growing
willingness TO listen to the arguments of
the 'coiiectivlsts'' who purpose doing
away with hard times for evef7nore aud
making everybody happy. while up in
Paris the deputies OF that party have been
making the air blue with their votes and
speeches In behalf of the proletariat and
against the men OF capital and the former
nobility These urge that the sharehoId-
crs In the railroads and the factories are
"collectivists' themselves. and that the
principle ought TO be applied to the rest OF
the people and not limited 70 a class. and
thsy declare that the machine should
make popular happiness possible instead
OF being used for the avzrandszernens and
enrichment Of a few so-calied owners pro-
tectef by a patent and for the lasting In
Jury OF che many.
In England socialism has not yet crys-
talized into distinct movement. but
there is a spirit abrnat which the So
cAiiSis say means = big party there in
the near future. The elements OF So
cisalizs1. they say. are 70 be found in the
Fabian society tulach lik@ the BeIia-ny-
ISIS Of Aneriea). tire Social Democratic
Federation and the independent labor
party. For years attempts have been