The record-union., 1897-01-25
But, Beside His Public Ministerial
Council, He Has Private Advisers
The Kaiser Dined With General Won
Hahnke Alone Several Times, and
His Ascendancy neans the Active
Prosecution of the Plans for In
creased Armaments and a Return
to the Policy of Repression of Lib
eral Ideas, Especially Socialism.

BERLIN, Jan. 24.-(Copyright, 1897.
by the United Associated Presses.)-
The Emperor's allusion at a recent
court dinner to the reported existence
of the Camar-illa, or court cabal, and
his statement that he knew nothing of
any such clique as has been alleged to
exist, do not alter the fact that beside
his majesty's public ministerial coun-
Gil he has all his private advisers.
The influence of General Won Hahnke
appears now in the ascendant with the
Kaiser, who has on several occasions
dined his chief of the military cabinet
alone, a distinguishing mark of impe-
rial favor and confidence. General
Won Hahnke's ascendancy implies
much. 1t means the active prosecution
of the plans for increased armaments
and in the speeches of internal politics
for Hahnke is no mere professional
soldier) it also means a return to a
policy of repression of liberal ideas and
especially of socialism
1t is known that the Kaiser has for
some time past regretted the line he
took in 1889 in endeavoring to reconcile
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 go
ing back to the policy of restriction, of
which the UmSturz bill in the Reichstag
was an instance, the Kaiser will have
the heartieSt support from the Hahnke
circle. There is good reason for expect
ing Government measure in the Land
tag proposing such amendments to the
existing common laws as will supply the
Prussian authorities with ample means
to counteract the still growing Social
ist propaganda
The law touching political organiZa-
t1ons, rights of meeting and press crit
aclsm of public or private events is TO
be amended" and the severest re-
preston resorted to, as in the worst
period of the Bismarck regime. The
composition of the Landtag renders
these proposals more likely of accept
ance by the Landtag than was accorded
by the ReichStag to the Umsturz bill.
A proposition ON the spread of Social
ism, as reviewed IN die Neue Zeit'' OF
Stumgart, publishes a statistical table
on the influence exercised by religion on
the development of Socialism. The
figures as given show that In every case
where Catholicism is dominant Social
ism has the smallest relative number of
adherents. In Hamburg, for instance,
where the Ilumera1 majority is Protest
ant, the Socialists hold 59.3 per cent. of
the suffrage. In districts, as in Hesse,
where the Catholics form an important
minority, the Socialists voted second to
q per cent, and in districts such as Po-
sen, a Catholic province, there are only
= per cent of Socialist votes.
CentriSt papers draw the inference
that the Catholic religion is Of greater
resisting force TO the growth of anar-
chistic ideas than the Protestant, and,
ergo, that the Government in combat
ing Socialism ought to recognize its
best ally in the party of the Center
On Wednesday last Embassador Uhl
and his wife, Miss Alice Uhl, Mrs Guy
Thompson (nee UhD, J. b. Jackson.
First Secretary of the United States
Embassy, and Mrs. Jackson, H G.
Squires, Second Secretary of the En-
bassy, and Mrs. Squires, Lieutenant
Niblach, naval attache to the American
Embassy, and Miss Rutter, attended
a grand court given by the Emperor
and Empress at the Royal Schloss. The
Americans who We're presented to their
majeSties included Mr. Jones and wife
of Cincinnati Miss Ullmann of Grand
Rapids, Mich. Professor Guy Thomp-