The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
CLERGY MEN
AND POLITICS
The Mixing of Them Causes
Some Trouble in
Germany.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS ACTION
Berlin Clergy Thoroughly Arous-
ed Over Ii.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS ACTION

The Peace Jubflee-Emperor's Yacht
Will Not PIovv American Waters
Great Railway Frauds-German
Provincial Expositions-DueIsF For
hidden at the Technical High
school at Cnrlsruhe--Per
Notes.
BERLIN. May 16.-[Copyright, 1885,
by the Associated Press 1.-The Berlin
clergy, Protestant and Catholic, are
thoroughly aroused in consequence Of
Emperor Williams telegram to &C.
! heimratn Hinzpur. regarding Dr..
Stoecker, the ex-court chaplain and
/ Christian Socialist leader, which was
published with his majesty's consent.
This message was almost brutally
brusque and read:
THE clergy must not NEEDLE with
politics. because it is no concern of
theirs"
This angered the clergymen. and the
whole clerical press has been express
/ sing indignation. DR.. Stoecker has
made an outspoken protest in his
organ, the Evangelical Church Gazette,
! in which he says the emperor, when
still Prince William, himself character
/ lied the Christian social activity of the
= clergy as means Of
vANQUISHING SOCIALISM
DR.. Stoecker said:
Since Christian-social thought was
! tabooed in Berlin, Socialism reigns
politically there. AS l have begun. so
shall l continue. 1 leave the end to
God"
i Two of the leading clerical organs.
! the Reichsbote, and the Volk, severely
condemn and deplore the publication
Of the telegram, CHASING it as ''incon-
siderate'' and unjust" and pointing
out that clergymen, by the constitu-
! ton, are granted the same rights as
other citizens.
The Roman Catholic organs. Germania
and the Cologne Volks Zeitung, pub
/ lish articles of a similar tone. The
Socialist press denounced the telegram
! as
IMPERIAL INTERFERING
with constitutional rights, ard in vari-
| Gus parts of Germany clerical SynodS
have taken pains to express confidence
/ in DR.. Sto9cker and his methods and
| severely criticise his majesty's tele-
gram.
Early in the week the peace jubilee
was celebrated throughout Germany.
Besides the fetes at Frankfort, there
were elaborate fetes of a semi military
/ character at Dresden, Darmstadt and
Hanover, and a vast festival in this
city, organized by the veterans of the
wars, of whom 1000 marched in pro-
cession. The jubilee was kept generally
! in Bavaria especially atMunich, Nurem-
! berg and Augsburg. Twenty thous
! and school children paraded at Munich
and were reviewed by Prince Regent
Luitpold. 1t was remarked, however,
that the fetes in Bavaria were strictly
of a Bavarian character, that
ONLY BAvARIAN FLAGS WERE
DISPLAYED,
that neither the emperor nor Prince
Bismarck were referred to in the ora
tory, and that no reference to Germany
or the German army was permitted, the
official censorship eXpunging every
thing from the submitted speeches re-
ferring to the nation generally.
Several of the persons arrested at
Frankfort on the charge of lese ma
jeste, made discriminating remarks in
close proximity to and even within
hearing of the emperor during the I'M
! monument erected to the memory of
Emperor William !.
The report that Emperor William in
tended to challenge for the Americas
cup if his new yacht, Meteor, turned
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 Primkenau, Silesia, where the
emperor and empress were visiting
Prince Guenther, of Schleswig- Hol-
stein, his majestys brother-in-law
The dispatch read:
ITO His Imperial Majesty, the EN-
peror of Germany:-As European man
ager Of the Associated Press, represent
ing the leading papers throughout the
United States and Canada, I venture
to ask if the published report that your
majesty would challenge for the
Americas cup with the Meteor is true?
the rumor causes great interest in
America"
The following reply was sent to Lon
don:
Walter Meet, European manager of
the Associated Press, London-The
report that his majesty would chal-
lenge for the Americas cup is erron-
eous, as the Meteor will only sail in
European water.
won KESSEL FLUEGET,
"Adiutant Won Dienst."
EColonel Won Kessel, aide de camp
adjutant on duty.]
RAILWAY FRAUDS.
The trial of the band of fifteen
fraudulent railroad employees and
ticket swindlers of Frankfort is ex-
pected to conclude the day. The gang,
it was shown during the testimony
taken, has been operating for several
years on a number of Prussian, AL
satan and Hessian roads The frauds
are estimated to reach 100000 marks,
and it is said the prisoners dead-head-
ed thousands of passengers for a con-
sideration given them, with tickets
which had previously been used.
Herr Wissel, an ex-member of the
reiohstag and diet, and an intimate
friend of Eugene Richter, has been ar
rested on the charge of perjury.
Two German provincial expositionS
were opened this week, the Bavarian
state exposition at luxembourg and