Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25
CONGRATULATIONS
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nnder the caption, Nemesis: The
vote against the Levetzow motion was
the peoples Judgment on refractory
BODY of a politically dead man. 1t was
an act of justice. The people thereby pro-
nounced guilty before the world man
who brought more misery upon the ma
lions than anybody since Napoleon |. II
Prince Bismarck friends venture to APP
peal to the nation, they will get con-
firmation of the Reichstag's verdict. The
Emperor had no right to speak as he did
in his dispatch to Friedrichsruhe, in the
name of the German people.
The Post, Conservative, says: "The
Emperor's dispatch to Prince Bismarck
expresses the feelings of the nation. Every
German must blush at the Reichstag' S
discraceful action. The Parliamentary
fruit brought forth by the universal secret
suffrage is still unripe. The Reichstag is
rapidly filing up its measure"
DISPATCHES received, this afternoon,
| from Leipsic. Dresden, Munich, Essen,
Mannheim, Cologne and Dusseldorf, show
that the people are intensely excited by
the Reichstag's action. Denunciation OF
the deputies is almos. universal and there
| i, demand for some national demonstra-
| tlUn which SDall serve DIS % OoiupiOiS
/ popular disavowal of the vote.
TO show plainly the government view
of the Bismarck birthday festival, Herr
Won Wedcl, chief of the Emperor's house
hold, DIR. Won Stephan, DIR. MIGUEL, Herr
Won Boettichcr and some 30 other high
| officials will attend the Bismarck COM
mers, at the Philharmonic on March 80.
Students and citizens in, sJene are organic
ing meetings to protest against the Reich
stag's objection to the motion to con-
graduate Bismarck. Similar meetings
will be held in Augsburg, near Munich,
and throughout Swabia and Thuringia.
| After the Emperor attended the service
with the Empress in the garrison chapel,
today, he had long consultation with
the Grand Duke of Baden and Chancellor
Prince Hohenlohc. The wires were kept
busy all day between Berlin and the South
| German capital. The messages concerned
che Reichstag's action and the course to
| be adopted by the government.
To ascertain the hopes which the Bis
marckians are building on the birthday
| festival, United Press correspondent
sought an interview with Ludwig Won
| Fischer, the prince's old and intimate
friend. Herr Won Fischer thought the
celebration would lead to revival OF
national feeling. which, as the deeds of
1870 had sunk away in the past. had be-
| come callous and unresponsive. The
Emperor might retrieve the mistakes of
his past attitude toward Bimarch,
Fischer said, and cement afresh the old
bonds, giving Germany harmonious and
steadfast national policy.
Fischer is loyal Agrarian. He holds
that is the council of state finds no prac-
tical means of remedying the agricultural
distress, the discomfort of the rural popu-
lation will increase until it brings its own
remedy.
"We may live" he said, 'to see scenes
similar to those in the Suabian rebellion,
known as the Peasants war. The times
of the Bundeschuss may return to plague
us. I can give you an illustration of dis
tress from my own city, Augsburg.
This city Is getting no rents from
the tenants on civic farms, but is obliged
to remit them. Other farmers declare
they cannot get 2 per cent out of the
estates they work"
| Herr Won Fischer maintained that the
governments initial mis-stcp was the
reciprocity treaty with Austria Hungary.
This treaty, with the reduction of grain
tariff by about 30 per cent and the 'most
favored nation" clause, he claimed, threw
open the gates to the American farmers,
who now inundate both the Austrian and
German markets with their grain.