The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-06
OUR BERLIN BUDGET.
THE TRIAL OF THE FIVE EDITORS
NOW ON.
Really Duel Between the Secret
Police and the Foreign Office
Whole Affair Is Leaving Very
Bad Impression Upon - Country.

Berlin, Dec. 5.-When the trial of the
five editors. Baron Won Luetzow and
Herren Ploetz. Foellman, Leckert and
Berger, for libeling Baron Marschall
Won Bieberstein. minister of foreign
| affairs, Prince Alexander Won Hohen-
lobe and Count August Gutenberg was
adjourned yesterday, the prevalent
opinion was that disclosures of even
more importance than those already
developed in the course of the proceed
ings were impending. The case is
really a duel between sthe secret police
and the foreign Office, in the progress
of which Baron Won Bieberstein OBJ
viously feels that he is on trial hlmSelf,
and needs eXculpation from the suS-
picion of having unduly Influenced the
| emDerorS decision and carried on IN
| trigues against other ministers. When
the minister of foreign affairs accused
Baron Won Tausch, the chief of the po-
iitical police, of having inspired articles
| in the press against him and at the
| same time admitted that the foreign
office employed or used newspaper men
/ to supply it with information in regard
to the writer's of articles and in other
ways he incurred the implication con-
! tanned in the response made by Baron
Won Tausch that the political police
did nothing different from what was
done by the foreign office. If it is hon
orable for the foreign Office to so
work." he said, the political police
claim that their method is equally hon
Orable.'
A BAD IMPRESSION.
The whole affair is leaving the very
worst impression upon the country, re-
garding the relations of the official bu-
reau and the so-called inspired news
papers. The mere mention, to say
nothing OF the act, as shown by the
confession of Baron Won Luetzow, that
a police agent on a beggarly salary of
$50 a month, could be employed to
force calumnies in behalf of the chiefs
of the political police attacking the
heads of the government, and even
endangering international relations,
has utterly shocked the public. Nor is
it surprising that Baron Won Luetzow
should have founded I'D on Chief
Tausch. Realizing that the game is up,
he naturally shifts the responsibility
upon the shoulders of his employer.
Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein, how
ever, seems very likely to come first
best out of the proceedings, though the
Vaccinations Of the defendants and
their allies are so complicated that it
is impossible TO predict the issues of
the case with any degree of certainty.
AS the public prosecutor intimated yes
terday il is probable that Baron Won
Tausch will be accused as accessory to
Luetzow's forgeries, vet Baron Mar
schall Won Bieberstein cannot escape
criticism.
THE HARD FACT.
The hard fact remains that actual
antagoniSm between certain ministers
in hn oI,so
the emperor's cabinet not only existed,
but still continues.-The- explanation of
the minister of foreign affairs that
articles appearing in the Cologne Ca
zette. the Hamburg Correspondent and
other so-called semi official journals,
were rarely inspired by the foreign
office, did not clarity the question why
these journals persistently attacked
the chiefs of the emperor's cabinet. The
NeueSte Nachrichten SAYS:
1t IS not without considerable as
constituent that the public watches the |
great machinery set in motion by the
foreign office over these two deSpicable |
lntrlguers, while the much more SER
ious accusations against Baron Mar
schall Won Bieberstein and others pub
liShed in the Klatteradatsch wears ago |
were deliberately ignored and their |
author, instead of being arraigned IN |
the courts, where they We're eager to |
appear, were challenged To fight duels. !
Another reDroach is levied against !
Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein. in |
the reason which he has given why |
Tausch and LuetZow are only now ex- |
posed Some of the intrigues long ago |
affected General Bronsart Won Schil- |
lindorf, late minister of war: Herr Won |
Koeller, formerly minister of the inter- !
ior. and Count Won Gutenberg, vet he
kept silent. But he says, when Tausch |
had the insolence to circulate Calumnies
about me and the foreign officials, l |
decided upon making the matter pub
lie. The people are asking what the
thinks about it ALL -
VICTORIA MELITA SOCIETY.
The grand duchess of Hesse presided
over a meeting in the palace at Darn
Stadt this week which was attended !
by the burgomasters of Mayence. Of
+enbach, Worms. Giessen and Darn
stadt. The purpose of the meeting was
he founding of the Victoria Melita So
,iety, (named after the grand duchess
IF Hesse), the object of which is to es
ablish homes for convalescents.
Hon. Edwin f. Uhl, United States
and Mrs. Uhl We're re-
,eived by Princess Frederick Charles
IN Monday last.
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