The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15
SoCIALISM'S FIERY SPEAKERS.
THE GERMAN MINISTERIAL BENCH
UNABLE To COPE WITH THEM.

BebePs Bitter Attack on Prince
bismarck Allowed to Go Absolutely
Unanswered.
Berlin, Dec. 1.-THE chamber of the
Reichstag was almost empty to-day dur
ing the debate on the bill defining and
prohibiting Illegal competition in trans
actions on the bourse. the members seats
being almost deserted and the spectators
galleries about as meagerly filed. The
bill was finally referred to a commission
of the chamber, consisting of twenty-one
members.
To-day's proceedings were in marked
contrast to the perturbed attempts here
tofore pervading the house while the rad
icals and socialists attacked the ministers
in regard to the governments measures
OF repression against the socialists. The
dicussion of these measures, which lasted
-FOUR days, showed how lamentably de-
Iective is the debating power of the oc-
| eupants of the ministerial benches, COM
| pared with that of the members of the
| opposition. The conservative deputies re-
mained almost mute throughout the dis
cussion, leaving the ministers to respond
as best they could to the brilliant and i'm
/ passloned oratory of Herren Richter
Bebel, Haussmann and other leaders of
| the socialist and radical parties. The re-
MARKS made by Gen. Won Schellendorf,
the imperial minister of war, warning
the socialists that the army had not for
gotten the insults heaped upon the heads
OF lts venerable leader in 1870, and de-
caring II the police failed to suppress the
socialists, the latter would find the action
OF the army to be no childs play, was felt
| even IN government circles to be an ex-
hipltlon OF coarse invectiVe.
The character OF the generals remarks
| however, enabled Herr Haussmann to
characterize his speech as a TRADE only
suited 10 excite applause in regimental
/. mess rooms and admiration in barrack
! yards. 1t was pitiable, too, to see how the
ministers and their adherents sat stolidly
| IN tnelr seats listening to Herr Bebel as
| without remonstrance he soled the mem
| ory OF Prince Bismarck in connection with
the governments adoption of the former
chancellor policy against socialism.
Among the many newspaper comments
upon this incident the Boerzen Zeitung
| says, and just too: Not one of the long
| row or ministers rose to refute Herr Be
| beIs slanders and his widest violations
! OF the truths of German history. Even
wnen l,.a ne assails the Germans who have
| written mat history with their blood IL is
/ sorroWful to think that nobody on the gov
| ernment benches possesses the courage or
ability to cope with Herr Bebel in politi-
Baron Marschau Won Biebersten, the
minister of foreign affairs, from whom
some response was expected, complete
! ~ ignored Herr Bebels references to
! Prince Bismarck, but promptly sprang to
| his feet to defend Assessor Wehlan a
minor official in the foreign department
! when that gentleman's name was casual
| " mentioned in connection with the in
famous Herr Liest, formerly chancellor
| outrages which caused Liests prosecu-
| tion and dismissal The foreign minister
| boiled over with rage at the attack upon
| his subordinate, but he allowed his old
chief Prince Bismarck, to be stigmatized
| in the open house as a forger of dis
| patches without raising a word of pro-
| test
Except in the case of the conservative
| press, the consensus of newspaper opin-
/ ion becomes more and more opposed to
| the continuance of the repress!Ve meas
| ures against the socialists. The Vor-
/ waerts, the leading socialist paper, pub
| fishes a list of fifty-six convictions 70;
/ Ihe oHehse OF iese InaJesle Wllnlh the
! last three months, the persons so con-
/ victed including members of the Reich
| stag, journalists and even comic singers,
/ who have introduced illusions to tho
/ kaiser in their songs. A number of these
/ convictions and a still greater number
I OF charges, the paper says, arose from
| ments upon the kaiser in the streets in
| the hearing of the police, and in many
/ cases informers in private life, actuated
/ by personal spite, have caused arrests
| upon real or spurious charges
The Vossische Zeitung says that under
/ such q system, some degree of public
! sympathy is extended to the socialists
! under the conviction that they ought to
/ have fair play. IF harsh measures are
| dealt out to them for actions which are
| permitted to other partisans," the Zei-
| tung says, "the right will soon seem to be
/ on their side. The agrarians and the anti
| Semites have aims not jot less subver-
sive than socialism and one law ought to
/ be applied to all.
In the meantime, the socialists are
| tremendously energetic under the stimu-
! lus of prosecution and their frequent
/ mass meetings are greatly crowded and
| immensely enthusiastic. In Difference 10
the law they have adopted a very notice
l oh aV,1 felcra
| at such meetings cheers were proposed
| for international revolution and social
/ ism" Now they cheer for international
| liberation" which is rather a distinction
/ without a difference.
! The socialist members of the Reichstag
| have deposited in the chamber proposals
/ for the abolishment of the penal code
/ furnishing the offepse of lese majestic, af-
4 firming the liberty of meeting, abrogat-
! halter (governor) Of the reichsiand, and
/ universal suffrage in elections for all To-
/ cal parliaments in Germany, and in con-
| sonance with the latter proposal the So
/ cialist members of the parliament OF
| Saxony have introduced bill demand
| ing universal suffrage. The conservatives
/ nounced that they would promote a bill
/ for a similar class of suffrage as that in
| vogue in Prussia.
celebrated his Goth birthday on Wednes-
1 day, when he was the recipient of ova-
/ tions at two great public meetings. At a
u y
I told his admirers that If certain circles
/ in authority had not been blind his party
/ would have long ago vapquished the So
| cal democrats of Berlin. He re-
| minded them that the party once
| counted more votes than the
/ socialist did When they first started the
movement they got 1000 in Berlin alone
/ If Christian socialism ever should pre-
/ vail he said 1t would be the destruction
/ OF socialism and anarchism
Prince Bismarck has informed the en-
| peror that II his health permits he will at
| tend the state banquet at the Schloss on
Jan. p.
The financial situation on the eve of the
| Christmas holidays, which will extend
from Dec p TO Jan. 2. is more hopeful
than could possibly have been anticipated
a month ago. Confidence Is returning, and
Il is generally expected that there Will be
a rise OF prices at the beginning OF the new
year, especially IN sound Investments. At
present even first class stocks are cOnsid-
erably below dividend paying.
DR. Lclpzeig, editor OF the Kleine Jour
nal, has been sentenced 20 three months
confinement IN a fortress for challenging
Dr. LoWenstein 20 fight a duel, and Rich
ara skOWronnek. the playwright, has
been condemned 10 fourteen days lmprla-