The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-07


veaIed, are the executive committee OF
the Socialist party, who are working
not SO much in the interests OF the
laborers. as in the interests OF the
social. democratic party. The executive
committee of the Socialist party are
now established in headquarters at
Hamburg. and they nave managed to
get the trades unions throughout Ger
many to supply funds for the support
of strikers at all the Baltic ports. what
is called. a Iaborers' common resistance
fund has been formed, TO when the
socialist associations in every grea.
center are contributing. The opJect OF
this movement is less TO conquer the
EMPLOYERS than to foster the Socialist
propa ganda. IF the dock laborers at
Hamburg had been left to themselves
they would have speedily settled their
dispute with the masters, who
proffered 10 their old employees con-
cessions equal to what the strikers
originally demanded.
THE SCENE CHANGES.
Since the socialist leaders have in
tervened, however, the demands or the
strikers have increased until now the
employers find themselves face to face
with the real issue, which is that the
entire shipping industry Of Germany
social organization, or fight out
supreme battle TO the end. The re-
lection by the employers of the pro-
pasal to submit the dispute TO board
of arbitration, was due to the knowl-
edge of the employers OF the fact that
the men behind the strikers would
eventually accept the decision of the
arbitration tribunal, which, as pro-
posed, conceded only one member to
represent the employers. 1t was not
the absence of adequate representation
on the tribunal that caused the en-
ployers to reject the proposal, but It
was their conviction of the futility of
the whole proceeding.
The movement is now said TO be
combined socialist attack upon German
commerce and German capital, in
which the government will soon be
bound to interfere. The emperor sent
an agent 70 see personally Senator
Hachmann OF Hamburg, Herr Hin
richsen, the president Of the Ham
burger Burgherschaft, and Herr Noack,
the president of the Hamburg cham
the formation of an arbitration tribunal
to which the dispute between the en-
pIoyers and the strikers should be sub
mitted for settlement. The kaiser him
self strongly favored the earliest pos
sibie settlement of the difficulty until
ticians were managing the strike,
when, IL is understood, his majesty
advised the home office TO await the
developments of the situation, but not
to interfere. In the meantime General
Won Schlewitz, commanding the troops
at Hamburg, has been instructed TO
take full measures TO maintain order.
THE FIVE EDITORS.
The best Journalists of Germany,
those whose probity cannot be i'm
peached, are hopeful that the grand
est result from the revelations OF the
trial Of the five editors, Baron Won
LuetZow and Herren Ploetz Foellmar,
Leckert and Berger, for libelling Baron
Marschail Won Bieberstein, Prince
Alexander Won Hohenlohe and Count
August Gutenberg, will be the eXtinc-
ton of the gang of members of the
German press who are feeding upon
doubtful official information. If larger
latitude were allowed TO press criticism,
less corruption would be practiced, the
independence of the press would be
greater, and the position of earnest and
self-respecting journalists would be en-
HANGED While the foreign Office or
any others OF the governments depart
ments continue 10 influence the news
papers in melting them to publish this,
that or the other, bribing newspaper
is sometimes true and often false ac-
cording to the interests of the depart
ment furnishing il, there is little hope
OF reform of the existing abuses The
leading public men who are getting
their names smirched by the revela-
tions of the present trial. may be led
to recognize the fact that their sup
port of the representative of the press
hurts themselves more than il hurts
anybody else. A protracted conference
was held last evening at the chancel-
lor's between the imperial chancellor
Prince Won HOhenlohe, Baron Mar
schall Won Bieberstein, minister of
foreign affairs, DR.. Schonstadt, minister
OF justice, and Frieherr Won Der Recke
Won Der Horst, minister of the in
terror. The conference was held at the
command of the kaiser for the pur-
pose of arranging a limit to the de-
velopments Of the trial of Baron Won
Luetzaw and his associate defendants,
as for reasons of state it is regarded by
the emperor as desirable that the
revelations shall not be pursued much
if any further Il is whispered that
Baron Won Tausch, the chief of the
political police, who will probably be
accused of being accessory TO the
forgeries and frauds committed by
Baron Won Luetzow, had hackers of
the highest influence in connection with
and il is rumored that this fact fur
nishes one of the strongest reasons for
a desire to suppress further revela-
lions.
KAISER HEINRICH AND SUNK
EN- BELL"
Apart from the trial of the five edi
tors and the scandals attached thereto.
the chief topic of discussion in Berlin
social circles grows out of the circum-
stances of the production of Widen
bruch's Kaiser Heinrich at the
Beriiner theatre on Tuesday last and
Gerhardt Hauptmann's .Sunken BeII''
at the Deutsch theatre on Wednesday.
Since the emperor awarded the two
Schiller prizes to Wildenbruch, over
ruling the decision of the committee in
favor OF Hauptmann, the feud which
two authors has become most acute.
The emperor favored Wildenbruch and
aesthetic Berlin, especially of the young
German school, were fanatically in
favor of Hauptmann. In consequence,
seats for the first nights at both
theatres were selling at a premium for
weeks in advance, as high as 20 marks
being paid merely for standing room in
the Berliner theatre by the cream of
Tserlin- The emperor and empress gave
the signal for the applause which at
the same time was as spontaneous as
it was strong.
seKaiser Heinrich" is powerful work,
though possibly it is not Widen
l,rl1cf1,se best The emperor oer-Sora llv