The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
SOCIALISM is BELOW PAR.
THE GERMAN PRESS ON THE LATE
CONGRESS.

Leaders-Funds EIhbezzIed-BOmb
senders-COurt News-A Blow at
American Exports About to De
Made by Germany.
Berlin. Aug. 2.-The Cologne Gazette,
and other semi-ofhcial organs. have. dur
ing the past week devoted more than the
usual amount of space to the proceedings
OF the international socialist trades con-
gress which closed it's sessions in London
yesterday.
The fact that more attention than US
ual was paid to the congress was not due
to a recognition of the special Importance
OF the meeting, but to the delight felt in
being able TO expose the crazy idiosycra
cies of the delegates and the general in
aptitude of the socialists to combine as a
political factor. Following on the Lille
France) congress Of socialists, where the
French members Of that party scoffed at
the sentiments of the German delegates
regarding the war hatchet being forever
buried, the London meeting, where Herr
Bebel and Singer, Madame Clara Zetkin
and other German delegates we're feeble
and ineffective figures amid the general
riot, greatly helps to make socialism more
The Vorwaerts. the principal organ Of
the German socialists, admits that the
congress in London was a humiliating
spectacle. While inferring that the fight
ing and other disorder was due to the abb
sence Of competent management in the
proceedings, the consensus Of opinion, as
expressed by the press, is that the London
and Lille congresses ought to prove per-
manent check to the growth of German
socialism. Hitherto, the socialist leaders.
When taunted with being unpatriotic, vim
dlcated themselves and their party by de-
claring they were ready at any time TO
nght to maintain the integrity Of the
tatherland. The language of the German
delegates at the Lille congress ignored
nationalism and proclaimed the solidarity
OF international interests
commenting upon the scOrn with which
the French treated these declarations the
hamburger Nachrichten says that the in
ternatonal solidarity of the socialists
does not stand the test 1t adds that the
German summons for the proletarians to
unite does not find a response among the
socialists of France
The Munich Nueste Nachrichten saws
that the turning of their backs upon
their fatherland by Herren Liebknecht
Singer and other German delegates, was
received with condign contempt by the
Frenchmen. Liebknecht's anti-national
protest against the acquisition Of Alsace-
Lorraine by Germany only stirred up a
war feeling. The protest practically de-
clared that the French desire to secure
revenge for the sequestration of the
trench provinces by Germany was per-
fectly legitimate.
The Frankfort Zeitung, which is known
for its intimate relations with Herr Singer
and Liebknecht advises the German So
cialists not to talk about fraternity where
no fraternal feeling exists. Such salk it
says, is thrown away upon the French
r.~1,,
caused an outbreak of Chauvinism that
had been dormant for many years
The Cologne Gazette says that the So
cialst leaders denial of having anv ma
tional feeling estrange many of Their pa
triotic comrades, and finally, the North
German Gazette calls upon the German
people not to allow the socialists to fur
ther poison public life. The latter paper
is a semi-offical organ, and its language
appears to be a threat of renewed gov
eminent action against the socialists but
nothing Official can be learned as to
whether such action is contemplated
If the delegates to the socialist con-
crosses continue to expose themselves to
such universal contempt as has been
showered upon them at the Lille and Lon
don gatherings the German government
will readily permit the holding of the pro-
posed international congress in this coun-
try in 1899, which the delegates to the Lon
don congress feared would not be allowed.
They therefore arranged that in the event
of the German government refusing its
sanction to the holding of a congress here
to hold it in Paris in 1900
According to the socialist press the funds
of the party are running very low. These
papers abound in complaints that the
comrades do not pay their dues etc For
instance, in Dortmund, where the party
mas many thousands of members the col
lectiOns were not enough to pay the ex-
penses of their delegates to the interna-
tional congress The Rhenish, Saxon and
BaVarian district committees have issued
an appeal for money.
The failure of the exchequers is partIv
ascribed to suspicion or the part of the
workngmen that the money is not put to
the use for which they intended ii as
hardly a week passes without a case of
embezzlement of party funds becoming
known. Last week it was discovered thai
Landers, the leader of the masons at
IeipSic was using the strike money for
his own purpose. All these cases tend to
make the workingmen chary of the dnan-
cial support they give the party
An electric explosive machine was sent
a few days ago to Col. krause of the Be--
lin police. Fortunately its character wa s.
suspected and the machine was openef.
and its contents rendered harmless before
any damage was done. The police tracer
the machine and found that It had been
sent by an anarchist named Paul Koscha-
mann, who was arrested and jailed. Max
Westphal and his wife and Wilhelm,
Weber, all anarchists, We're found 10 he
implicated in the affair and they are
also under arrest. Machines similar ia
that sent to Col Krause and a auantifN,
of explosives, were found in Koschc
mann's lodging.
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe will come To
Berlin from the country on THURSDAY
next, when he viii meet Emperor Will
lam. Afterward ne will proceed to hi.
wife's estates in Russia on personal bust
ness.
The emperor is now with his family a
Wilhelmshohe. An incident of the life Of
the empress there was a military spef.-
tacle that she ordered on Monday near
Cassel. The Hessian infantry and the
Hessian Hussars held field maneuvers
the empress and her three eldest sons az.
tending on horseback. The maneuvers
were held on the old battlefield. THE
general in command described the var,-
Gus movements to the princes, who dis
played marked interest. The empress af-
terward ordered that every man who half
taken part in the maneuvers should he
given an extra litre Of beer at her ex-
pense.
Instigated by the Prussian agrarians.
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe recently order,
ed that an inquiry be held to ascertain
whether a special measure was needed |
against The alleged increasing importa
ton of American horsefesh into Ger |
many by way Of Belgium and Holland.
The report which has been submitted