The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-19

ScfiUS u j..lI ii Ht-.it.. VA,
slightly excited by wine,'
makes a thoughtlessly dispar-.
remark in her sovereign mas;
more serious reason for its
existence. In no country in
Europe is military desposlsm
so strong as in Germany to-day.
Even Russia should not be ex-|
cepted Hor the absolutisin OF
the civil law and Administered
ton are something diiterentI
rom and inAddition to military
authority.
The grow til of the Social
Democracs,".al under these conol-
ions in Germany, has .beel'
enormous. 1t could not be
otherwise. Nothing the gov:
.rnnlent might have done,
would have fostered it more CT
ectively. How and why this
is so is pointed out in a remark
able article written by Herr
,toffers, one of the leaders OF
he Social Democratic party in
Germany, and printed to-day III
London. 1t is an article it pub
lished in Germany would cause
che imprisonment of the writer
md yet it is a statement of the
internal situation in Germany
which carries intrinsic evidence
If it's truth in all essentials.
German home politics." Iierr
5toffers points out, are more
important even to foreigners,
chan our foreign politics, be-
cause the latter are only the
reflex of the former, because
:he unbearable tension in our
home politics-or in plain
words the coming revolution
entertained in our ruling Cir
cles--is the sole source OF oui
unspeokable foreign politics.
The 'Left1notif' in our foreign
in our for foreign policy, which,
YOU can trace in every move, is
the disire to withdraw FROM
those countries in which free
dom is reigning, and to become
connected AS closely as possible
with those countries in which
despotis1n, v4:ilcd or unveiled,
decides the the fate of the peo-
pie. Our military budget is
not raised to between two or
three millions per day against
the foreign, 1but against the do
nestle enemy. It has been said
in the most outspoken manner
in the reichstag that Russia as
our best safeguard against the
enemy in our midst which
, means four-fifts Of the people
of Germany. And from this
view our whole foreign policy,
especially with regard t" ENG
land, may be exclaimed. That
is the reason why Nicholas IL,
and Abdul are our bosom,
friends-the pillars on which
the German empire is now rest
ing. The home politics OF
Prussia Germany are how man.
aged ustl the same principle as;
he inferior administration of
darkest Russia, the only differ
ence being that we are not yet
at liberty to be sent to Siberia,
although proposals to this end
have been made more than
once. This being so, the simple
consequence is that, with re-
gard to car foreign politics,
i::russia--and with it Germany
It's a I'ur.-Nussia, a satrapy,
o. rice-kirrgdom Of the empire
Of the czar. With Bismarck
named Bancllrutse11en vor
husband Creeping on the belly
before Russia) is now the only
aim Of our diplomacy, the re-
suits of which you saw clearly
ut the e1,d OF the war between
China and Japan, and in the
latest development of the east
ern question. Away from Eng
land, the mother of freedom,
which SCALED disorder and
rebellion ia official German
and into the arms of Russia,
the stronghold of 'order'--thati
is the keynote of our part in
the European concert