The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-09
HOW GERMANS TAKE A JOKE.
EVEN IF PERPETRATED by THE
KAISER AT THEIR EXPENSE.

at Full Headway, Throwing Up
Wave After Wave That prenched
and BOVvIed over the People Who
We're CrOwding There to See and
Cheer Him and Were Packed So
Close They Could Not Get Away
From the Wettfng-They Were
wet as Drowned Rats, hut very
Good Natured'' About 1t.
Berlin, Sept. S.-The governments prose-
cution of the Voarwerts. the leading So
cialst organ of Berlin. has had reac-
tlonary effect. The arrest of Editor
Pfund followed by the clamor of journals
popularity supposed to be inspired by the
government for special repressive legisla-
ton, has ELECTED from several socialist
leaders not only protest against govern
mental interference with the liberty of the
press, but fiat denial of the official as
sumption that the socialist party ought
10 be accused of having failed in patriot
ism.
The Voarwerts in an article replying to
the Characterization by the Emperor that
the socialist party were a band of persons
who we're unwilling to bear the name of
Germans, declares that the best patriots
in Germany are those who are aiming to
give to all Germans the fullest measure
Of political liberty, genuine equality and
sure prosperity by destroying the exist
ing system of exploitation of working
men. The Voarwerts refrains from max
ing any defense Of its supposed hostility
and also of the presumed hostility of the
.f..f. to- Es.,.l4.
day.
This. of course is to be expected Of a
newspaper which has been put under the
ban Of imperial displeasure, but the ut
terances of the Norwaerts are upheld by
speeches delivered by Herrenauer and
Vollmar, who voice the sentiments of a
large section of the socialist party. The
speeches of these gentlemen have had the
effect TO greatly lessen the popular Odium
attaching to In supposed socialist faith,
and have also checked the alienation OF
a great many lukeWarm socialists from
the tenets of the sect.
Herr Auer, in a speech delivered at a
reunion of socialists in Berlin yesterday
defended the action of the party IN re-
framing from participation in the cele-
bration commemorative Of Sedan day. He
takes the ground that it would be impol-
itic to lrtate the French democracy.
Pursuing his subject he said that this
did not imply that the German socialists
were enemies Of the principles of unity
Of the fatherland, nor Of the unity OF
the empire. SO long 1t was necessary
10 preserve unity, he said, all socialists
were ready now, as they were in 1870, TO
march against France, or any other ma
tion presuming to assail the empire. More
over, they were ready and willing TO hght
in defense of or for the retention of the
Reichsland. These utterances were re-
ceived by the meeting with prolonged
cheers
Herr Vollmar in a letter written to a
friend, in regard to the abstention of So
Cialsts from the celebrations of Sedan,
says: Like all Bavarian veterans of the
war of 1870 hoisted the flag of the en-
pire upon my villa the Wachtensee,
and l am grateful to be able stiIl to
call the victories of Germany during that
period. The truth is, that though some
extremists have succeeded in diVesting
themselves of national feelings Of patriot
ism, the mass of the socialists through
out the empire retain the sentiments which
have been expressed so ably by Herr
Auer"
A distinguished American sojurning in
Berlin, who has been an unbiased observer
Of the celebrations, and knowing the Ger
man people Intimately, said: Some of
the socialists press gang misrepresent the
national sentiments of the workingmen
few of them, perhaps, unwittingly, but
most of them wilfully. Still, the senti-
Aitul IN u pdLIlOLC sense, CONTINUES 10
pervade them. No matter how many So
cialists may be elected to the Reichstag
there is no fear whatever that their pa
triotism would lessen or that revolution
similar to that which occurred in France
viii ever occur"
The socialist committee of Berlin. which
sent telegram to the Paris socialists on
Sedan day, proclaiming the soliditary of
nations has not, says the Vossische Zei-
tung, found sympathy even among their
own political friends.
The Cologne Gazette, in an article on
the same subject, reiterates assertions OF
last week that no exceptional laws are
contemplated by the government, the
democratic press to the contrary notwith-
standing.
The Gazette contends that the emper-
ors speech to the Guards on the occa-
sion of the banquet in the white hall
OF the palace on the evening of Sedan
DAY cannot be so interpreted. Pursuing
the same subject, the Gazette declares
mat II the kaiser had desired the passage
OF such laws, he would have said so
clearly and distinctly. Moreover, he woulG
nave appealed not to the people, but di-
rectly to the legislature.
The generous tone adopted by most of
the German newspapers in their articles
commenting upon the anniversary Of the
third republic of France ought to have
helped to compensate the French for the
irritation which they experienced through
the ebullitions of the Germans in their
eommemorations of the battle of Sedan.
The Vossische Zeitung says that al
though founded in the hour of Frances
greatest trial, the present republic has
saved the national honor and preserved
the existence Of France against the plots
OF the reactionists It has also advanced
Lhe economic and military strength of
france until she has become richer and
stronger power than she has been at
any time since the first empire. Many
other German papers have treated this
subject in a similar manner.
a strong force of Berlin detectives has
oeen sent to Stettin to assist the police
u mat town in preserving order and pro-
lectlng life and property during the mill
lary maneuvers, which take place there
lhIs week. Additional to many other pre-
cautions, an edict has been issued order
ing that any person arriving in Stettin
letWeen Sept l and Sept 13 shall report
LiIasen TO the police within six hours.
azure TO comply with this order will
subject the delinquent to the penalties
which would be imposed upon a criminal