The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-25

) distinguished mark of imperial favo
and confidence. General Won Hahnke'!
ascendancy implies much. 1t mean:
the active prosecution of the plans FOL
increased ornaments and in the sphere
= of internal politics (fOr Hahnke is NJ
mere professional soldier) it also mean:
a return to a policy of repression OF
liberal IDEAS and especially of social
ism. II is known that the kaiser has
for some time past regretted the line
he took in 1889 in endeavoring to rec
oncile the radical workingmen. He
finds that they will not be placated on
any terms but their own, and that
his efforts at reconciliation have been
taken as a proof of a weakness on his
part. In going back to a policy of re-
StrictiOn, of which the UmSturZe bill in
the reichstag was an instance. the
kaiser will have the heartiest support
from the Hahnke circle. There is good
reason for expecting a government
measure in the landtag, proposing
such amendments to the existing COM
mon laws as will supply the PrusSian
authorities with ample means to cOun-
teract the still growing socialist propa-
ganda. The law touching political or
CARNATIONS, rights of meeting and
press criticisms of public or private
| events, is to be amended and the
severeSt repression resorted to, as in
the worst period of the Bismarck re-
gime. The composition of the land
| tag renders these proposals more likely
of acceptance by the landtag than was
accorded by the reichStag to the I'M
sturz bill. Apropos of the scale of
socialism, a socialist review, Die
Neue Zeitung of Stuttgart, publishes a
statistical table on the influence eX-
/ erciSed by religion on the development
of socialism. The figures as given show
! that in every case where Catholicism
is dominant socialism has the smallest
relative number of adherentS. In
Hamburg. for instance. Wnere the nu-
merical majority is Protestant, the so
cialists hold 1913 per cent of the suf-
frage. In such districts as Hesse,
where the Catholics form an import
ant minority, the socialist vote de-
sends to "a per cent and in dictricts
such as Posen. a Catholic province.
there are only 2 per cent of socialist
votes.
Centrist papers draw the inference
that the Catholic religion offers a
greater resisting force to the growth of
anarchistic ideas than the Protestant
and, ergo, that the government in COM
batting socialism, ought to recognize its
best ally in the party of the centre
On Wednesday last Ambassador Uhl
and his wife, Miss Alice Una Mrs Guy
Thompson (nee UhD, Mr.. ]. B. Jack
son, first secretary of the United States
embassy, and Mrs. Jackson; Mr. H G..
Squieres, second secretary of the en-
bassy, and Mrs. Squieres; Lieutenant
Nlblach, naval attache TO the Ameri-
can embassy, and Miss Rutter, at
tended grand reception given by the
emperor and empress at the Royal
Scloss. The Americans who were pre-
Sented to their maiesties included Mr.
Jones and wife Of Cincinnati, Mrs Ull-
man of Grand RAPIDS, Mich, and Pro-
lessor Guy Thompson of Yale UNIVERSE
ty, who recently became the husband
of Miss Lucy Uhl. The ladies of the
ambassador party wore court dresses
of unusual splendOr Mrs. Squiers was
attired in white satin gown en-
broidered with gold and silver ara
besques. Her corsage was embroidered
with gold flowers each glittering with
diamond dew drops.
The movement for common German
national fete day. which was started |
in 1893, by some well meaning folks /
and was considerably discussed at the /
time, but without practical issue, has /
been revived. An executive committee /
has come to the front with a proposal /
that the first celebration be fixed for !
1900, that being the earliest year when
the gigantic arrangements contem- [
plated can be carried out. There are
opponents to any national fete of the
kind, who say that 1900 will find par
ticularism in Germany stronger than in
1897.
The economic differences between
north and south. west and northeast,
the old jealousies between Sudbraus,
Bavarians and Prussians, continues
wide and deep.
The kaiser is understood to have
Minister MIGUEL on the ques-
ton Of the Turkish finances, especially
in the light of the recent report of Sir
Edgar Vincent, president of the I'm
perial Ottoman bank. The result has
confirmed the kaiser in his determine
lion to support the sultan in his prof.
act of a council of finance composed
If Turks and Europeans appointed by
he sultan himself and not as desired
by Lord Salisbury, under European
control. The conclusion of the Vincent
'eport that Turkey will soon be
financially sound and prosperous under
wen moderately good administration ]
s now the official German conclusion :
The kaiser appears still to rely on the ;
sultan as being DESTROYS to obtain an
lonest and effective administration.
immediate developments in the east !
viii tend TO disprove the generally ac-
epted notion that German Interest in
nd influence upon Turkish matters '
re only of a minor character. Upon |
his all important and initial question t
f financial reforms the sultan, with 5
he support of Germany, will have his [
7ay. |
German policy, adroitly passive re- $
arding Armenia has been equally
droit on the leading question before '
he ambassadorial conferences. One q
esult of this agreement between the S
aiser and the sultan, will be seen in 7
lcreased concessions to German sub I
ects, who now hold the concessions l
or the leading Atolinian railway '
1pplies. the officials that work them, Q
nd get the principal contracts for 7
rms and ammunitions. !
The under secretary to the Turkish |
nance ministry, Bertram Effendi, L
no recently resigned rather than
0untenance the bogus budget, is likely a
} withdraw his resignation. Bertram .
as sent from the Berlin treasury 5
early is years ago to reorganize the d
urkiSh customs. Nominally he is 1
ill a Prussian official. holding the Z
INK of sturretath councillor of the Z
lXes) and he has been told to remain +
Constantinople.
Dr. Leipsiger, OK the Kleine Journal,
as the credit of instituting a novelty {
nong Berlin institutions in the form y
mart and exchange for the I'M y
nployed." The exchange has been W
)ened in the palatial building of the y
ew York Equitable Life Insurance
'mpany, AMI bids fair to accomplish O.,
a short time more for the unem- f.
OUad than fba cooio1ict tio,, hoe | =,