The San Francisco call., 1895-07-21
That Is What Germans Will Do
at Every Battlefield
of Note.
BAD BLOOD STARTED AT KEEL.
Socialists Preparing to Rally In the
Agrarian Districts of Dis
content.

anniversary of the declaration of war by
France against Prussia, on July 10, 1870,
the programme of the fetes in commemo-
ration of the Franco German war includes
the celebration of every great German VIC
tory and every other great event con-
nected with the war, beginning with the
celebration of the bloody battle at Wissem-
burg on August and ending with grand
iubilation upon the anniversary OF the
battle of Sedan on September l. Large
bodies of veterans will 60 to Wissemburg,
en- the Bavarian frontier of Alsace, to take
part in the anniversary ceremonies there,
and will then proceed to the different
battlefelds for the purpose of reviving old
memories. August IA and Is will be OBJ
served principally as decoration days on
the fields OF Gravelotte, st. Privat and
Mars-la-Tour, when the graves, tombs
and monuments of the Germans who fell
on these fields will be covered with flowers
and wreaths by their families and surviv-
ing comrades.
A congress of various veterans unions
will be held at Strasburg during the fetes
commemorating the fall of that city, when
bronze medals, struck from the French
given to the veterans on behalf of the War
Office. The railways have agreed to fix an
especially cheap rate of fare for the vet
Grams who attend these fetes, and the gen.
eral public will also get the benefit OF
occasional cheap trips.
The importance and significance of these
demonstrations lie in the fact that they
have been organized by the Government
and largely extended since the celebration
of the opening of the North Sea and Bal
tic canal at Kiel, when several unpleasant
incidents occurred in connection with the
French warships, and that the Govern
ment has decided that these celebrations
shall not be in the slightest degree re-
strained on account of any sensitiveness
on the part of the French.
The annual congress of the German So
cialists will meet on October 6 in Breslau,
where Ferdinand Lasalle, the great Ger
man democratic lea der, is buried. Lasalle
is the ideal of the Socialists of Germany.
His memory is still potent to stimulate
their oratory, and so long as they can hear
themselves talk they are as happy as So
cialists can be in this world. The execu-
tive committee of the Socialist party Sc
lected Breslsu as the place of meeting re-
ally en- account of the proximity of that
city to the agricultural districts, in which
the farm laborers are the worst paid and
most discontented of any people of that
class in the country.
Fer the first time the Socialist party s
programme gives the chief prominence to
the needs of the agrarian population.
1t proposes the abolition of financial
and political privileges now enjoyed by
the landlords; the extension of COM
munaI ownership and administration
of land by the State commune, the
naturalization of mortgages and the re-
duction of interest thereon; State insur-
ance against agricultural losses from
storms, cattle diseases, etc.; and the COM
pensation for damage sustained through
the incursions of privileged hunters in
search of game.
The difference between this programme
and the ones previously formulated by the
party lies in its subordination of their
usual theoretical declarations in favor of
Matchmaking everything to more practical
purposes. Their propaganda contains
meme of the old resolutions denouncing the
holding Of private property and conse-
quently many reformers outside the lines
of socialism will be able to give their ap-
proval to large part of the programme,
which was nodded by Herr Vollmar and
other moderates among the malcontents.
The more extreme section of the party
will be sure to raise a hurricane in the
congress unless the more feryid ones are
allowed to blow off their steam in series
of idealist declarations, but having done
this to their satisfaction they will subside
as before, into state of harmless discon-
tent.
The Vorwaerts, the Socialist organ, says
the meeting will give impetus to the pro-
paganda among the laboring classes and
will soon win them over by the wholesale
to socialism. The paper does not take
irto account, however, the universal dis
trust of Socialists among the peasantry.
The seat Of Baron Won Hammerstein, the
deposed and absconding editor-in-chief of
the Kreuz Zeitung, in the Reichstag, is
about to be declared vacant, but the Rhine
Gazette announces that the Conservative
electors of Minden are on the eve of hold
ing a meeting to demand his resignation.
A curious circumstance attending the fall
of Baron Won Hammerstein is the fact that
while he was strong anti-Semite and a
leader of the Jew-baiters his enormous
private expenditures were due to his re-
lations with a Jewess, upon whom he law
ished every luxury that wealth could pur-
chase.
The report that Berlin bankers are
largely buying the Russo-Chinese loan is
without foundation. OF the loan fnan-
ciered in London a million sterling was is
sned here and the National Bank repeat
edly covered it, but the Bourse almost ig-
nored the Chinese loan issued in Paris.
The statement made by Herr Brandt,
formerly Minister to China, in regard to
the bad financial future OF the Celestial
kingdom, lis doubtful as to the value of any
guarantees that the Government OF PelSing
can offer for future loans. Herr Brandt
expects certain increase in the Chinese
import duties, which will seriously affect
the foreign trade.
According to advices from ST. Petersburg,
the Gear, upon hearing of the assassination
of N. Stambouloff, summoned the Bull
garian mission which is now in ST. Peters
burg, and in few fiercely uttered words