The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-28
SOCIALISTS APT TO SPLIT.
GREAT DISSATISFACTION WITH
THE BREsLAU PROGRAMME.

THE BRESLAU PROGRAMME.
The Rank and File of the Party so
DispIeased With the Propaganda
That "A Loud Demand for Revision
Is Henrd-The Social Democrat
Characterizes the Proposed Policy
as One Worked I'D by Parasites on
the Party.
Berlin, July 27.-The rank and file Of the
socialists having now thoroughly studied
tho programme to be discussed by the So
cialist congress. which viii be convened at
Breslau on oct. s, are generally so dis
pleased by its provisions that they are de-
manding a revision Of the propaganda,
with the greater part of the agrarian pro-
posals eliminated. An idea of the dis
pleasure felt among the socialists, owing
to the moderation exhibited by the franz
ers Of the programme may be gathered
from an expression of opinion contained
in an article on the subject in the Social
Democrat, edited by Herr schippel, a So
cialist member of the Reichstag. The
Democrat denounces the agrarian scheme
violently and declares it originated with
parasites upon the socialist organism, and
the several other socialist organs. with
] the exception of the Norwaerts, concur
with Herr Schippel, who, when the con-
gress meets in October WILL without doubt,
find q majority behind him when he op-
/ poses the present scheme.
/ Herr Bebel maintains that the pro-
gramme is the only logical one that can
/ be carried out in the present state of af-
fairs, and declares that the allegations
| that it was inspired by Herr Vollmar
/ or any other of the moderate wing of the
socialist party are utterly unfounded In
| deed Herr Bebel asserts that Herr Noll-
mar was not a member of the committee
/ that drew UP the programme, and fur
/ thermore he was not even consulted in re-
/ gard to it. Herr Bebel warmly defends the
new departure from the long cherished
/ socialist ideals upon the ground that the
/ principles laid down in the programme
I have already been partially successful
| wherever they have been applied.
Helen Howard, the socialist writer, has
/ an article in the NorWaerts entitled, The
/ Final Goal" in which she treats of the
] whole matter in n vein similar to that
followed by Herr Bebel. German social
/ ism, which is now practical" she says,
has too long been absorbed in ideals
/ and works of the present. In order that
/ certain objects may be realized, and
| knowing that If they are attained they
f
isting evils, the party cannot possibly
/ leave out agrarian questions. which affect
a vast number of the pOpulace, who, once
/ learning the value of socialism, viii be-
come the most 4astants eance. .sineaeq eqrEiag
the final victory
The organs of the Freisinnge party are
fully in sympathy with Herr Bebel's sec
tion Of the socialists, and express hope
that discord Will not be permitted to weak
en- that party, The conservatives and
national-liberal newspapers on the other
hand welcome the prospect of a schism
/ in the socialist party, which will leave the
moderates greatly in the minority, while
/ at the same time committing the bulk of
/ the socialists to the most extreme policy,
with which the state will be better able
to grapple than it is at present.
/ The bye-election held this week for
members of the Reichstag to occupy the
| seats for Mezeritz and Waldeck attracted
unusual attention. The struggle in Mere
sitz, in Prussian Poland, was between
German and Polish candidates. The
anti-Semites held the balance of power
and the most of them seemed to incline to-
ward the Pole. Observing to this ten
dency, the German candidate issued a cir
cular embodying the text of Prince Bis
marck's appeal to the Germans to with
stand, at all hazards, the encroachments
of the Polish faction. This turned the
scale and the German was elected.
Ine election IN w alQeck was most not
able in its result for the defeat Of Dr.
Boetticher, the national-lberal candidate
who had held the seat since 1878. A re-
ballot was necessary. and resulted in the
election of an agrarian of anti-Semitic
views The radicals and socialists assist
ed to a great extent to oust Herr Boet-
ticher.
The German Catholics will meet in Mu-
mich on Aug. 25. A group of Catholics,
headed by Count Felix Won Loe, Count
Floenbroeck and Barons Boenlerger and
Wallos1 have forwarded a memorial to
the vatican in regard to the social reforms
intending that the replies received thereto
shall be presented to the congress in Mu-
mich. The memorial urged the necessity
of cooperative organization among the
peasants, a reform of the laws of sue
cession, so as to restrain the subdivision
of rural properties, the creation of COM
pulsory Industrial corporations. the legal
regulation of trades, the protection OF
small industries against the creation of
great syndicates, the regulation of sal
aries, the organization Of workingwomen,
and the prohibition Of speculation on the
bourses, and the defense of commerce
against comers and commons. The pope
has ordered that an inquiry be made into
these subjects by experts and a report
thereon submitted to him in order to en-
able him to prepare an exhaustive deliv-
erance upon the questions, which docu-
ment is awaited with a great deal of in
terest.
MRS. CORBETTs DIVORCE.