The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-25

workmen's dwellings have been under dis
cusson in castle and cottage throughout Ger
many during the past week. A private speech
reported to have been made by the Emperor
started the matter During visit TO the es-
tate at Cadinen. which WAS presented to him
by Herr Birkner. he l. reported to have said
that the piggeries wern workable palaces MS
compared with the laborors dwellings in the
eastern PROVINCES and to have added that such
q state of things cannot continue. The opinion
attributed to his Majesty is by no means
palatable to the Agrarians. who declare that
the Emperor cannot possibly have spoken as
reported. In the Reichstag. Herr Singer the
Socialist orator. quoted his MaIesty's utter
ances to the discontinue Of the Junkers.
who rctorted by describing tho town
norkmens dwellings, as even more dis
graceful than those provided by the landowners
FOR the rural lahorers. That the pro-aran
element in Germany. whether rural or urban
Is badly housed is undeniahc. Count Kiln
kowstr6m asserted in the Reichstag that IN
rural property belonging to the city OF Be-. n
eight married couples sleep in one room dur
Ing the harvesting season, and. though the city
fathers contest the statement. II Is borne out
by other witnesses. In tho villages Of tho east
ern provinces 1t 10 by no means uncommon for
three generations to occupy cottage com
pObeu Oh blIlkIt rODHl' ouNH IHcI as uNtol y
Wagner and Wittenberg say that the immoral
ity which Is admittedly so general in Germany
is in a large IN easure. distinctly traceable to
the shameful housing Of the poor. In what
horrible dens tho urban poor dwell is known
only to the police officers called in after
crime or suicide and to the medical
men summoned to the bedside Of the dyin &.
Not exceptionally 10 persons arc crowded
into iour-story house Ten persons are often
found sleeping In one room. The cellars and
attics of houses in German towns are always
inhabited by whole families. and such exorbi-
tant prices as 40 marks monthly are fire.
1uently demanded for a cellar dwelling The
sanitary police regulations theoretically pro-
hibit the use Of unhealthy rooms for human
dwellings hut the overcrowdinG Of these pest
holes and the high rent eXacted for them show
that the regulations remain dead letter.
The Cars Government Is in conflict with
| the free Hanseatic town Of Bremen. which re-
| fuses to pay compensation for tho arrest OF a
| Russian pope accused Of theft on an Atlantic
| liner some months ago. Diplomatic relations
| have been broken OF by the recall Of the Rus
| sian Minister mon resident and the withdrawal
| OF the Russian Consul's powers. There ia no
| danger OF an army being sent from Bremen to
| sack st Petersburg because the burghers. ac-
| cordlng 10 the constitution Oh the uerIhan
Empire. have no right to carry on a
| war. Russia. however. Is not bound by
| the German constitution. and could at any
| moment land forces at BremerhaVen to obtain
satisfaction and punish the Bremen people by
capturing the City Hall and emptying the IA.
nous wine cellars Of the Rathhaus. II the
| Russian Government has not been msrcpre'
sented there is no intention at II. Petersburg
| to proceed to such extremes, and the only prac'
tcal outcome OF this international rupture will
be to attract attention to the opera boufie char
aoter OF the diplomatic rights Of the smaller
German States. II. n O.