Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-09
GERMAN AFFAIRS.
Socialists Gain in Standing in
Their Own Country.
Governments Prosecution Of the
Organ Having Bad Effect.
Praisewor,hy Attitude Of The German Press
Toward the French.

| Berlin, Sept s. - The government 5
prosecution Of the VorwaeIts, the leading
Socialist organ of Berlin has had re-
dictionary effect.
The arrest of Editor Pfund, followed by
the clamor Of the journals popularity sup
pcsed to be il spr q by the government, tor
special rcpressive legisiat' ON, hes elected
from several Socialist leaders protests
against governmental interference with
the liberty of the press and a flat denial of
the official assumption that the Socialist
party ought to be accused of having failed
in patriotism.
THE Vorwaerts, in replying to de
claration by the Emperor that The Socialist
party was band of persons unworthy to
bear the name of Germans, declares that
the best patriots in Germany are those
aiming to give all Germans full political
liberty. genuine equality and sure pros
pcrity, by destroying the existing sy stem
of the exploitation of workingmen.
The Vorwaerts refra!ns from making
any defence of its supposed hostility, and
also of the assumed hostility of the Social
ist party Of Sedan.
The utterances of the Vorwaerts are up
held by the speeches delivered by Hcrren
ments of Il large section of the Socialist
party The speeches of these gentlemen
bad the effect to greatly lessen the popular
odium attaching TO the supposed Socialist
faith. and have checked the alienation of
great many lukewarm Socialists from the
teDets of the sect.
Herr Aver, in a speech delivered at the
reunion of the Socialists in Berlin, yester-
n lofo Id h., uft ~,
refraining from participation in the cele-
brations commemorative Of Sedan, taking
the ground that it would be impolitic to
| irritate the French democracy.
| This. he said did not imply that the
! German Socialists were enemies of the
principles of the unity of the Fatherland,
nor the unity of the empire, so long as 1t
was necessary to preserve unity.
He said also that the Socialists were
ready now as in 1870 to march against
France, or any other nation presuming to
assail the empire. Moreover, they were
ready and willing to fight in defence of or
| for the retention Of the Reishlad.
| These utterances vera received by the
meeting with prolonged cheers
| Herr Vollmar, in letter written to a
| friend, says: The truth Is that though
| ing themselves OF national feelings of
patriotism, the mass of the Socialists
| throughout the empire retain the senti.
ments which have been expressed SO ably
by Herr Aver
A distinguished American soiourning
in Berlin, who has been an unbiased OBJ
server of the series of celebrations, aud
who knows the German people said, to-
day:
"Some of the Socialist press gang mis-
represent the national sentiments of the
workingmcn, few of them perhaps I'M
Willingly, but most Of them willfuly.
Still the sentiment is In the patriots and
| continues to pervade them"
The Socialist committee of Berlin, which
sent the telegram tn the Paris Socialists
at Sedan, proclaiming the solidarity of ma
tions, has not, says The Vossche Zeitung
found sympathy oven among it's political
| friends.
| The Cologne Gazette reiterates It's as
sertions that no exceptional laws are con-
templaJed by the government The
Gazette contends that the Emperor S
speech to the guards at the banquet on he
| evening of Sedan day, cannot be so inter
preted
The generous tone adopted by most of
the German papers in their articles com
menting upon the anniversary of the third
| republic of France, ought to have helped
to compensate the French for the irritation
| they experience through the cbullitions
IF the t1ermans in their COMMUNICATIONS
Of the battle of Sedan.
The Vossche says that although founded
in TIE hour of Frances greatest trial,
the Upesen Flerch republio saved tho
! national honor and preserved the exist
ance Of France against the plots OF the
reactionists.
il has also advanced the economists and
military strength of France until she has
become greater and stronger power than
at any time since the first empire
Many other papers have treated this sub
| ject in n similar manner.