The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-01

Of delegates. Thus 80 per cent of the
poor electors are doubly outnunnbered
by 10 per cent of the weather. classes
AT a large socialistic meeting just
held at Leipsic fifteen socialist dele
gates to the diet resolved to resign and
leave legislation entirely In the hands
OF the capitalist delegates. Fifteen
SOCIALIST MEETINGS
recently have protested against the
slow progress Of the city reform plan
pending there, and Dr.. Stoecker ana
his following have organized at Frank-
fort-on-Main a new socialist REFORM
party. Two hundred delegates from
places throughout Germany ATTENDED.
Resolutions in favor of economic re-
forms for the working classes ana
against the accumulation Of capital by
monopoIies were adopted. The party
boasts of q voting strength OF one mil
lion, mostly Conservatives and Nauon-
al Liberals.
1t has been favorably remarked IN
Catholic circles recently that the en-
peror has lately made a number OF
large gifts for the building or restora-
ton of Catholic churches in Germany.
He gave twenty thousand marks to Two
impoverished parishes Of Posen this
week.
The number Of convictions for lese
majestic has been especially large dur
ing the past week. A butcher or kleI
was sentenced to years lmprlSon-
ment. and a girl at Potsdam 1or speaA-
ing disrespectful of her empress Was
SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS
confinement in prison. :,
Emperor William has received IN
audience Colonel W. L. Ludlow tne
United States military attache at Eon-
don. and has questioned him mlnutely
as to his conclusions after the exam
nation which Colonel Ludlow mas just
made of the Baltic and North sea ca
nal, in addition to his examination OF
the route Of the proposed Nicaragua
canal and his inspection of the Suez
and Co-inth canals. Colonel LudloW
reports that the Baltic and North Sea
canal is the finest piece Of work ever
finished. The receipts are still 40 per
cent below expenses, but they are grow
ing steadily.
HONOR TO RUNYON.
The flags were lowered here on Mon
day last in honor of the late ambassa-
dor of the United States to Germany,
General Theodore Runyon, whose fun
eral took place on that day in Newark.
n. J.
The American ball. on Tuesday. was
a great success. 1t was held on that
day in honor of Washington's birthday,
as the German-AmericanS of Berlin
gave banquet in honor of the same
on the previous Saturday. There was
a large attendance.
Bishop Turner, of the American
Methodist church in Africa, has spent
a week here on his way to Liberia.
Prince Bismarck, in addressing some
visitors few days ago, spoke of colo
NAL matters and declared that the
trader must go ahead and that the
state should follow. He expressed
himself, however, as being opposed to
an extension of the Prussian bureau
cratic system in Africa and declared
himself against the unconditional abol-
ttion of slavery, saying he thought it
should be the natural outgrowth of cir
cumstances
The prince also said that he did not
believe in the equality of races. Provi-
dence, he added, had given the negro
another destiny than that given to the
whites. He opposed i'll treatment of
the negroes who said he, had some
thing Of the horse, or of the dog, but
even with them, the system of blows is
antiquated."
The Reichsanzeiger tonight publishes
g decree empowering the imperial
chancellor to take the necessary meas
ures to regulate Jurisdiction over the
natives of German-Africa