The sun., 1898-02-07


Ths peopis % Germany VIII tell the ruling cir.
cies--as EuEen Richter put Il In his grand
speech against his Majesty's Ministers n the
Prupaian Iandtag-'that they viii no lcnaer
endure 10 b governed In this way And this
vote OF osnsure WILL In foreign ~ well as In
homo politics, mean: Away from Russia, and
let rs have an understanding with our Anglo
Saxon cousinsr In homo politics the coming
vote viii Be an outery against the oppression
which has diseraoed our country in recent years.
oppression OF riEor unheard Of even IN Cor
many. whore we are accustomed 70 something
Of the kind.
"This Just indignation has been manifested
in Parliament and in popular associations and
In the press. And. Of course. II 10 tho press
which has had to bear the storm and stress Of
reautionary wrath Parliament is safe from
persecution; his Majesty's Ministers had to
work down their scorn and anger, and to alt
quietly like GOOD schoolboys when Richter or
Bebel bolabored them in their excellent style
when these priHonRhters OF liberty went with
them up the top OF mountain and showed them
to the whole people But the press, which is
entirely unprotected and worse of now than
in the times OF the Holy Alliance was at
liberty. The press was an excellent hunting
ground in which any official, judicial or ad.
ministrative, might recommend himself for
promotion as pillar OF society," and, when
the eiGn for the beginning Of tho chase was
given some i've years ago. the prisons were
filed with the martyrs OF the pen. But pcrse-
oution was not alike for each sinner. Selec-
lions were made ana one was allowed 70 write
what another was sent TO jail for. When
questioned upon this fact In the Reiohstag.
and asked whether all subjecto were equal
before the law or not, his Excellency tho Min
lister Of Justice. Herr Schonstedt, said without
blushing that the sentence Duo Qxum Jdcttint
tdep non est tdens Cwhen two people do the
same thing II IL not the same). was an old prin.
ciple OF Justice tefn alter Rechts1rundsatrDi
And in the eyes Of the ruling circles in Ger
many 10 did not harm him in the least degree
whom Q member Of the Opposition rose and
pointed out to him that this old principle Of
Justice was saying Of the old satirical poet
Terence in which he ridiculed, nearly 1000
years ago. the administration Of justice in tho
Roman Empire, then at the height OF its corrup-
tion. No, Il did not harm him in those circles;
but this famous principle Of justice had not
worked many months when the same Excellency
had to confess in the same place that the con-
hdence Of the German people in the integrity Of
the Judges was to o large extent shaken. This
phrase was recently translated by DR.. Jastrow.
o professor Of the University OF Berlin. into
honest language by saying that we had now
'class Justice In Prussia.
some interesting instances Will make 1t clear
how his Excellency's famous RechfsGrnndsdts
worked out. was sentenced to nine months
imprtsonment because mad pointed out IN IN
article that the legal position Of the Kaiser
let me say in order to avoid another term OF In
carceration-was not what 1t should be. He
came forward Into the arena OF the political
fight and was allowed to say Whatever came
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