The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-28
COMMON HERD IN CONTEMPT.
ALL THE SOFT SNAPS IN GERMANY
GO TO THE ARISTOCRATs.

AristOcracy-A Series of swell
Functions to BE Given at berlin ia
the Hope of Reviving Trade.
Copyright, 1895, by the United Associated
Presses.
Berlin, Dec. 27.-The pretensions Of the
German aristocrats, especially the army
officer, recruited as he always is, from the
junker families to be treated as of di-
vlnely constituted caste, are undergoing
the severest exposure and criticism from
the progressist and independent press. The
question is being discussed whether the
army is national, except in the same sense
that the people contribute the rank and
file, pay the money to support it and allow
the aristocrats to monopolize every post
above that of non-commissoned officer.
The notion that a career of advancement is
open to any man OF ability applies
least of all to the Prussian
regiment. Progressist papers analyzing
the condition of the army, show that in
forty-six Prussian regiments, there are
only two officers not drawn from the no
bility, that in the cavalry with 173 officers,
only one can be regarded as taken from
the bourgeoisie, and that in the artillery
also. there is a single isolated and prob
ably most uncomfortably situated officer
who does not belong to what is called a
noble family" This grasp of caste upon
Office extends beyond the army into the
lower regions of administrations, where
it might be supposed that the junker
would not seek employment. Since the
Won Tausch prosecution opened to the
public view some of the secrets of the
secret police service, it has been ascer-
tained that the greater number of the
political police officers are, like Barons
Won Tausch and Won Luvetzow, scions of
arstocratic families The same prefer
ence extends throughout all branches of
the administration. The dead-beat arls-
tocrat, the ruined spendthrift and other
wreckage of the upper class, find refuge
in some government post.
The Kaiser Wilhelm 1 centenary fetes
will begin on March q, which day will
be officially declared and everywhere OBJ
served as national holiday. The Berlin
! celebration programme opens at 10 O'Clock
in the morning with service for the Prot
estants in the Reichstag and Landtag in
the Cathedral and for the Catholic Reich
stagers in the Hedwig church The inn
| perial family will attend special serv-
ice in the royal court chapel. At 11:3O
! o'clock a grand military function is to be
field, near the schloss, in front of the
national monument. Combined battalions,
squadrons and batteries of all the guards
regiments, and of the. body regiment of
| William 1, will form square and line from
| the castle through the Lustgarten to and
around the monument. salvo OF 1O1 guns
will be fired and the bells of all the Ber-
lin churches will be rung The veterans
of 1866 and 1870 forming in the Thiergar-
ten, will head a procession wherein will
| be represented academic stlls1ts IN his
toric costumes and trades and guilds, also
in historic array. The pr lcession win
march through the Brandenburg gate and
| Unter Den Linden to the monument, whe'c
they will salute the kaiser kaiserin and
| princes, who will be there to receive them
At o'clock in the afternoon a grand
! banquet is to be held in the castle, to
which representatives of all slasse 5, Reich
stag members, excepting SoeilliSTS, MOBILES
| and trading citizens are beng invited.
| 'Commers' VIII be general -Erous hout
| Berlin and other centers.
AT 8 O'Clock at night gala performances
| of the historic play "1S72 will be given at
| the Royal opera, the royal play house, and
| KrolFs theater. To all three houses the
| kaiser invites the soldiers of the Berlin
| garrison and the officers will feast them
| The kaiser will deliver a political pronun-
| ciamento at the Castle banquet.
The coming general elections for the
| Austrian Reichsrath are most seriously
| interesting all parties in Germany. The
| dissolution appears likely to take place
| without the prime minister, Count Badni
! having decided upon issuing programme
| upon which the election can be contest
| ed. He is practically sitting on the fence
| and watching whether clericals, anti-Sem-
| mites or German liberals may gain
| strength enough to be worth cutiVating
| as ministerial supporters. Pledged when
| he entered office to oppose the anti-Semi-
mites and to give at least liberal ten
dency to the ministerial poAcy, Count Ba-
| deni now awaits upon the results of the
| elections, and frankly causes it to be
| known that the government will build its
| programme on the character of the new
| icy according to the majority,
and as every informed forecast shows the
| coming Reichstag to be clerical and anti
| Semitic the next Badeni policy must
| be reactionary. The new progressist Ger
man party, whose platform can be sum-
married. in few words as German solid
forms, is conducting an active propagan-
da, which bids fair to create a political
group so formidable as to make IL an inn
! portant factor in the new house.
Der Confektionaer asserts that 800 Ger
| man factories have resumed work since
| Mckinley was elected President Of the
| United States, and that about 300 factories
have increased their hands. The factories
resumng include twenty-eight wooden
goods mills, fifteen cotton goods works
! twenty-three gentlemen's Quitting works
| and eighteen carpet factories. All OF these
| had been closed for several years.
The social functions for the winter sea-
| son have, to a certain extent commenced
| although they are not yet as lively as
| they will be after the emperor's birthday
| which occurs on Jan. q. The imperial
| family and the court are fully aware OF
| the prevailing hard times among the
| tradesmen, and the general distress
| among the poorer classes, and Il is now
| evident that 4. is their intention TO give
| impetus to trade by holding a rapid sue
| cession Of brilliant fates The SERIES Of
| official and diplomatic dinners began on
| Monday last with a banquet given bv ,he
| Austrian ambassador. NJ. de Szogyenv-
| Marich, IN honor Of the new French am
| bassador, the Marquis dc Noalles and on
| Tuesday Sir Frank Bascelles, the British
/ ambassador, gave grand dinner TO Prince
| Max OF Baden Baden, Prince and Prlncess
| Aribert Of Anhali, Prince and Princess
| Victoria of Schleswig- -H0late.n and several
| foreign ambassadors and ministers or
| Thursday, the Italian ambassador, Count
| LAMA a Buaca, gave dinner In honor
| of the Marquis de Noailles, az which A
large and brilliant company Of guests
The city b fast filling up with notablli-
Ties from al parts Of the empire The
| last few days before Christmas brought
| "A number Of afistocfatic families among
/ Them Prince t4IUa Itnlnlrsr hnlff. flrah-