The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-28
They Are Declared to Be Re-
sponSible for the Pro-
gramme.
HERR BEBEL HAS THE LEAD.
Other Serious Matters In the Father
land Include Cholera and
War Clouds.

and fle OF the Socialists, now having Inor-
oughIy studied the programme to be dis
cussed by the Socialist congress, which
will be convened at Breslau on October 8,
are generally so displeased by its pro-
visions that they are demanding re-
vision of the Agenda with the greater part
of the agrarian proposals eliminated. An
idea Of the degree of displeasure felt
among Socialists in consequence OF the
moderation exhibited by the trainers OF
the programme, an outline of which was
given in these dispatches last week, may
be gathered from an expression of opinion
contained in an article on the subject in
the Social Demokrat, edited by Herr
Schippel. Socialist member of the
Reichstag.
The Demokrat denounces the agrarian
scheme violently and declares that it
originated with parasites upon the Social
1st organization, and the several other
Socialist organs, with the exception OF the
Vorwaerts, concur with Herr Schippel,
who, when the congress meets in October,
will, without doubt, find q majority behind
him when he opposes the present scheme.
Herr Bebel maintains that the pro-
gramme is the only logical one that can be
carried out in the present state of affairs.
and declares that the allegations that 1t
was inspired by Herr Vollmar or any 9TH
ers of the moderate wing OF the Socialist
party are utterly unfounded. Indeed,
Herr Bebel asserts, Vollmar was not
member of the committee that drew up
the programme, and, furthermore, he was
not even consulted in regard to it. Bebel
warmly defends the new departure from
the long cherished Socialist ideals on the
ground that the plans laid down in the
programme have already been partially
successful wherever they have been ap-
piled.
Helen Howard the Socialist writer, has
an article in the Vorwaerts entitled "The
Final Goal" in which she treats of the
whole matter in vein similar to that fol-
lowed by Bebel.
German socialism, which is now prac-
tical," she says, "has been too long ab-
sorbed in ideals and works of the present.
In order that certain objects may be real
lied, and knowing that if they are attained
they will relieve if they cannot cure the
existing evils, the party cannot possibly
leave out agrarian questions which affect
q vast number of the populace, who, once
learning the value of socialism, will become
the most potent force in securing final
victory"
The organs of the Freisinnige party are
fully in sympathy with Herr Bebel's section
of the Socialists, and express the hope that
discord will not be permitted to weaken
that party. The Conservative and National
Liberal newspapers, on the other hand,
welcome the prospect of schism in the
Socialist party, which will leave the
moderates greatly in the minority, while
at the same time committing the bulk of
the Socialists to the most extreme policy,
with which the State will be better able to
grapple than it is at present.
The bye-election held this week for mem
bers of the Reichstag to occupy the seats
for Meseritz and Waldeck. attracted un-
usual interest. The struggle in Meseritz,
in Prussian- Poland, was between German
and Polish candidates. The anti-Semites
held the balance of power, and most of
them seemed to incline toward the Pole.
Observing this tendency, the German can
didate issued a circular embodying the
text of Prince Bsmark's appeal to the
Germans to Withstand at all hazards the
encroachments of the Polish faction. This
turned the scale and the German was
elected. The election in Waldeck was
most notable in its result, which was the
defeat of DR.. Boetticher, the National Lib
eral candidate, who has held the seat since
1878. A re-ballot was necessary and re-
suited in the election of an Agrarian of
anti-Semitic views. The Radicals and
| Socialists assisted to great extent to GUS t
| Boetticher.
| The season of congresses is in full blast.
| The German philatelists held their meet
| ing at Mannheim this week and exchanged
stamps as we'll as ideas. 1t is estimated
that the value of the stamps bought and
sold on the occasion reached 100000
marks.
At Heidelberg the journalist congress
was in session this week. The CHIEF sub
| ject of discussion was the progress of the
press congress of the International Liter
airy Artist Association, which will meet
| in Dresden September Is to 20. The Ger
man Catholics will meet in Munich
| August %.
| A group of Catholics. headed by Count
Felix Won Loe, Count Floenbroeck and
| Barons Boelerger and Wallosk, have for
| warded memorial to the Vatican in re-
gard to the social reforms, intending that
the replies received thereto shall be pre-
| sented to the congress in Munich. The
memorial urged the necessity OF co-opera-
| tive organization among the peasants,
reform of the laws of succession so as to
| restrain the subdivision of rural proper
| ties, the creation OF compulsory industrial
corporations, the legal regulation OF trades,
| the protection of small industries against
the creation of great syndicates, the regu-
lation of salaries, the organization OF
workingwomen, the prohibition OF specu-
lation on the bourses and the defense OF
commerce against combinations. The
Pope has ordered that an investigationpe
made into these subjects by experts and a
report thereon submitted to him In order
| to enable him to prepare an exhaustive
deliverance upon the questions, which
document is awaited with great deal OF
interest, not to say curiosity.
The Italian AMBASSADOR has delayed his
departure from Berlin for his annual holl-
day, for which he obtained leave some
time ago, in order to confer with Chancel-
lor Hohenlohe upon the questions which
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