The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-21
EMPEROR WILLIAM SAYS CLER-
GYMEN MUST NOT NEEDLE
WITH POLITICS.
ARRESTS MADE FOR LESE MAJESTE
Persons at Frankfort Made Incriminat-
ing Remarks Within Hearing of His
Majesty-Dr. Below Resumes His
Agitation Against America.

oughly aroused in consequence of EN-
peror Williams telegram to Gheimrath
Hinspeter regarding DIR. Stoecker the
eX-court chaplain and Christian Socialist
leader, which was published with his
maJesty's consent. This message was al
most brutally brusque and read. "The
clergy must not NEEDLE with politics, be-
cause it is no concern of theirs"
This angered the clergy and the whole
clerical press has been expressing indig-
nation.
DR.. Stoecker has made an outspoken re-
ply in his organ, the Evangelical Church
Gazette, in which he says that the en-
peror, when still Prince William, him
self characterized the Christian Socialist
activity of the clergy as means of van
gushing socialism.
DR.. Stoecker added: "Since Christian
social thought was tabooed in Berlin,
Socialism reigns politically there. As /
have begun so | shall continue leave
the end to God"
Rechsboet and the Volk, severely con-
denim and deplore the publication of the
kilograms, CHASING it as "inconsiderate,"
unjust" and pointing out that clergy
men, by the constitution, are granted the
same rights as other citizens
The ROman-Catholics' organ, Germa-
mia, and the Cologne Volks Zeitung pub
fish articles of similar tone. The So
cialists press denounces the telegram as
interference with constitutional rights,
and in some parts of Germany synods
have taken pains to express confidence
in DR.. Stoecker and his methods, and
severely criticise his majesty's telegram
Early in the week the peace jubilee was
sides the fetes at Frankfort there were
elaborate fetes of semi-military char
acter at Dresden. D'Armstadt and
Hanover and a vast festival in this city,
organized by the veterans of the wars,
of whom 1000 marched in procession.
The jubilee was kept generally in Bava-
ria, and probably at Munich, Nuremburg
and Augsburg.
Twenty thousand school children pa
raded at Munich and were reviewed by
Prince Regent LuitpOld. 1t was re-
marked, however, that the fetes in Ba-
varia were strictly of Bavarian char
acter; that only Bavarian flags were dis
played; that neither the emperor or
the orations, and that no reference to
Germany or the German army was per-
mitted, the official censorship excluding
everything from the submitted speeches
referring to the nation generally.
Several of the persons arrested at
Frankfort for lese majestic made incrimi-
mating remarks in close proximity, and
even within hearing of the emperor dur
ing the unwilling there Sunday last of
the monument erected to the memory of
Emperor William |.
The report that Emperor intends to
challenge for the Americas cup if his
new yacht Meteor turns out to be faster
than Valkyrie III, was investigated by
the European manager of the Associated
Press. A dispatch was sent direct to his
ma jesty at Priminkau, Silesia, where the
emperor and empress were visiting
Prince Guenther of Schlesweig Holstein,
his majesty's brOther-in-law.
The dispatch read: "To his imperial
majesty, the emperor of Germany: AS
European manager of the Associated /
Press, representing the leading papers
the United States and Can
ada, l venture to ask if the published
report that your majesty would chal
Meteor is true. The rumor causes the
greatest interest in America"
The following reply was sent to the
London agency:
"Walter Neef, European manager the
Associated Press: The report that his
majesty would challenge for the Amer
cas- cup is erroneous, as the Meteor will
only sail in European waters"
The reply was signed by Col. Won Kes
sci, aide-de-camp, adjutant on duty.
In Connection with the bill to reorgan-
tI,n tptI hnt tnli e 60 AZ.
ments the Conservatives and military
military parties have begun an agita-
ion for the abolition of the biennial mil
tary services for revival of the trien-
nal.
The Kreuz Zeitung, the military week
v. is leading the agitation in the press. |
According to the present law, the BIZ |
,nnial service is only an experiment and |
,nds April 1, 1899, unless specifically |
,ermanated by new law.
AS counter-check to this new move
'esolved to add paragraph to the
fourth battalion bill, making the bien-
lial service permanent.
An interesting and sensational debate
will be the consequence, as the Centrists
mainly side with the Radicals in this
natter.
The agitation for larger navy has
zen renewed. Lectures are being de-
ivered in different parts of the country
nder the auspices of the Alledutsche
yerbad to promote the movement.
The trial of the band of fifteen fraudu-
INT railway employees and ticket swim
lers of Frankfort is expected to con-
lude today. The gang, it was shown,
uring the testimony taking, has been
peratng for several years on number
Prussan, Alsatian and Hessian roads.
he frauds are estimated to amount to
100000 marks and it is said that the
risoners deadheaded thousands of pas
,ngers for a consideration given them
18th previously used tickets. The chief
~ in the case is understood to be a S
abitual criminal who has spent years i
prison.
Owing to the objection by the diet of t
lie assessor paragraph, by which the S
russian government sought to exclude t
| Liberal elements, the judgeshps will t
duce the government to withdraw the c
hole of the court reform law, they i
.clining to accept the bill in its present
beral shape. t
Theo. Wissel. an ex-member of the b
ichstag and diet and an intimate friend o
Eugene Richter, has been arrested on s
G charge of perjury.
Two German. provincial expositions $
ere opened this week, the Bavarian 4
ate exposition at Npremburg and the t,
arine exposition at Kiel. The exhibit p
ms are large and attractive. n