The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-21
SOCIALISM AND A SCANDAL.
TWO TOPICS NOW UPPERMosT IN
THE REALM OF THE KAISER.

The Murder of "A Wealthy Mine
owner at MuIhOuse TO BE Made the
Basis of Repressfve Legislation on
the Ground That the Crime Was an
Outcome of the Socialist Teach
fnEs-The Press Unusually Out
spoken Concerning the Alleged FL
nanciaI Irregularities of DR.. Won
BOetticher.
Berlin, Oct. 20.-Semi-offcial reports
agree in fixing the time of the opening
of the next session of the Reichstag at
Nov p. All of the best Informed sources
of political opinion credit the government
with the intention of adhering closely to
the decision arrived at some time ago not
10 again introduce an anti-revolution
bill in any form, the chances of such
measure passing the Reichstag being ap-
parently no better, if as good, as they
were upon the last occasion of the intro
duction of a bill of that character. New
ertheless there are evidences of an in
crease in public sentiment in favor of
repressive legislation of some kind. The
dispatch wired by the emperor a week
ago to Prince Hohenlohe-Langenbu
governor of Alsace-Lorraine in regard to
the murder of the wealthy Alsatian mine
owner, Heinrich Schwartz, at NIulhouse
by a socialist named Andreas Mayer,
coupled with the recent developments of
crime throughout the empire, have re-
vived the question of repression in an
acute form, and the resultant clamor for
exceptional legislation is coming from
divers quarters the demands emanating
from the conservative. the national lib
eral and even the centerist sections. Still,
there is no reason to believe that the
Reichstag as at present constituted could
be depended upon to pass a measure suf-
fciently repressive to meet the demands
of the agitators and anything less sweep
ing would satisfy nobody, nor could it
reach the element sought to be sup
pressed.
Concerning the murder of Schwartz, the
Vorwaerts, the leading socialist organ,
denies that there is any conclusive proof
that Mayer, the assassin of Schwartz, was
either a socialist or an anarchist, and
protests against the disposition to hold
the socialist party or its teachings re-
spOnsible for the crime. The police at
Mulhouse have arrested six men who
We're known to be associates of Mayer
All Of them are socialist extremists and
are charged with having had knowledge
that 1t was the intention of MAYER 10
strike at some industrial chief, with the
object of making his taking off an ex-
ample to other industrial magnates who
were unmindful of the rights of working
mep-~Since the murder of Schwartz sew
eral other heads of great manufacturing
industries in Mulhouse have received an
onymous letters containing the warning:
'One of you has been stiffened out; pre-
pare to join him."
The police have not as yet been able
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are now confident of their ability to GO
so. In the meantime the socialist party
resents the general disposition to blame
them for the commission of such ex-
cesses by their extremist comrades, but
those who contend that the crimes were
committed by order of the socialist par
~ are determined to make these acts of
violence the occasion for a demand for
urgency in the passage of repressiVe leg
islatlon as the first question to be con-
sidered by the Reischstag after that
body re-aSSembles.
The revival of the scandals connect
ing DR.. Won Boetticher, the vice presi-
dent of the council of ministers, minis
ter of state and imperial secretary of
state for the interior, with financial ir-
fund, and in borrowing large sums from
bankers on the eve of important imam
cial reforms with no intention of repay
Ing except through such benefits as bis
creditors might obtain through such re-
forms is absorbing general attention, de-
spite the recent official declaration of the
AnzeiSSr has revived the matter by pub
fishing what purports to be a report of
an interview with Dr. Won ,Boetticher, in
which that minister disclaims any
share whatever in the down.
fall of Prince Bismarck from
the chancellerie. The interview further
makes DR.. Won Boetticher say that Prince
Bismarck alienated himself from the en-
peror by his authoritative manner and
ms utter want OF respect 1or the sover-
eign. In these circumstances, he says,
the emperor dismissed him, acting upon
the belief that he had been placed by God
in position to conduct the government
of Germany in accordance with his own
views and his own powers. DR.. Won
Boettcher now asserts that he never gave
such an interview to the Lokal AnzeigeT
and declares that the entire article IS a
mixture of truth and fiction which might
have been cOncocted by some well mean
ing friend of his not conversant with
the affair." and who therefore failed in
his intention to serve him. DIR. Won Boet-
ucher is at least right in regard to the
failure Of his friend to help him, If such
was his intention. His enemies, and he
has many, have returned to the attack
by asserting that DR.. Won Boetticher was
responsible for the disappearance OF not
$4,000 marks, as has been charged, but of
very nearly 100000 marks from the Guelph
fund.
Taking part in the controversy, the
hamburger Nachrichten. the mouthpiece
OF Prince Bismarck, insnuates that
proper explanations have never been OBJ
famed showing how DR.. Won Boetticher
MS father-in-law, DR.. Berg, who was at
one time the head of the Stralsund branch
or the Reichsbank.
The Vorwaerts is not so guarded in its
expression, however, and boldly declares
that the matter ought to have had conse-
quences not only bringing DR.. Won Boet-
ucher within the cognizance of the civil
code, but within the scrutiny of the Grim
lnal code.
The Vossiche Zeitung expresses the opin-
Ion that it would be extremely dangerous
10 the government if it should be unable
70 give the public an exhaustive explana-
ton of the affair.
In the face of all this public discussion
OF the scandal, DR.. Won Boetticher remains
calm, and has informed representative
OF the United Press that he has no in
lenuon whatever of abandoning the atti-
tude of reserve he has maintained
throughout the controversy. The current
reports of his intention to resign, he says,
are absolutely inventions for which there
is not even a suspicion of foundation.
Acting under legal advice, the persons
lh whose custody the letters and memo
Ianda obtained from among Baron Ham
metstein's s papers are held have decided
not to publish them, but the papers will
o- used in the Reichstag and read under
sile parliamentary rule permitting sucn
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