The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-30
CONGRESS is A F|zzLE
Germany Pokes Fun at the Peace
Conference.
THE RESULTS EQUAL ZERO
Friends Disappointed That So Little Was
ccomplished-The American
Delegates Played
Happy Role.
Copyrighted 1929 by Associated Press

Copyrighted 1899 by Associated Press.
Berlin, July 29.-The papers this week
have been giving their verdict of the
outcome of the peace conference at
The Hague. The tone of the comment
of the papers friendly to the confer
ence generally is one of disappoint-
ment that SO little has been accomplish
ed. while those opposing indulge in
gleeful Fluctuations that no more was
accomplished. The Tageblatt considers
that the form of the arbitration adopt
ed marks an important step toward
securing the peace of the world and
adds: Whoever knows the toilsome
way in which progress of international
law is made will be satisfied with this
result"
The Post says: 1.-THE result shows
that those who had been neither too op-
timistic nor too pessimistic in expecta-
tions were in the right
The most important result the Post
sees Is that a method is now open to
nations for settling difficulties, saying.
While the conference has not ushered
in the millennium, still it shows that the
powers are earnestly striving to pre-
serve for the peoples the blessings Of
peace"
The National Liberal Boersen Zeitung
calls the final protocol a funeral grafton
and says the results equal zero.
The Kreuz Deitung, referring to the
United States and England, says: THE
nations that boosted loudest of their
humanity made the stoutest resistance
to really practical humanitarian prop
ositions.'
The Kreuz Zeftung further points out
that while England and the United
States stood together in opposing the
prohibition of bombs filled with nox-
ious gases, the United States backed up
Englands refusal to abandon the dunn
dun bullet. THE platonic declaration
of the conference for the principles of
the cars proclamation the Kreuz
Zeitung continues, introduces abso-
lutely no change in existing condi-
tions."
The Agrarian Deutsche Tages Zeitung
makes merry over the friends of peace,
whose cherished hopes are far from be-
ing realized.
The Socialist Vorwaerts gives the con-
ference parting shot, calling it a
comedy.
THE hardest work of the members"
this journal says, was to refrain from
laughing in each others faces at their
own insincerity"
The Hague correspondent of the
Frankfurter Zeitung says:
THE American delegates are quite
satisfied with the achievements of the
conference. They played very hap
Ply role, which they were able to do
through their conciliatory position. 1t
was chiefly due to this position of the
Americans that Germany was finally
won over to the plan of a permanent
r n
Others told the correspondent that af-
ter Professor Zorn's speech, in which
Germany's opposition to the perman-
ency of the arbitration court was en-
phasized, the situation had grown crit
ical and 1t seemed probable that the
conference would dissolve prematurely
and nothing be accomplished, which
would have brought the odium of the
fiasco upon Germany and have the eff
feet of fsolating her in her relations
with other powers
The press of Berlin devotes much
attention to the Arons case. Dr. Arons
is a professor who lectured on physics
in Berlin university and is a social
democrat, whose presence in the uni
versity had given great offense to
those who favored DIR. Justices meas
ures for opposing socialism. The diet
passed a law year ago called by the
press the Arons law, making it posi-
against and dismiss socialist profess
sors. Under this the philosophic facul-
ty week ago tried Professor Arons
and unanimously declared that they
saw no occasion to take action. The
states attorney appealed the case to
the ministry, who, it is regarded GER
tain, will dismiss Professor Arons.
The papers of all parties discuss the
case at great length. The pan-Ger-
manic Deutsche Zeftung SAYS the fac
ulty of Berlin university have shown
the same incapacity for consideration
of state affairs that was shown by
SOME professors in treating the DAN
ish question last year.
The Kreuz Zeitung reproaches the
faculty with holding that social demo-
Gratis should be treated upon an equal
footing with other parties, and formu-
lates the attitude of the conservatives
as follows: 1T is impossible to treat
a party that declares war upon the
state and the existing social order as
having the same political rights as
other parties"
The Dresdener Nachrichten re-echoes
this sentiment, adding political equal
ity for socialists is against public well
fare and hence it is the duty of judges
everywhere to take into account this
fact in the administration of justice.
The liberal papers side with the fac
ulty, holding that their decision was
the only one consistent with the free
dom of university instruction. The
centrist press defends the faculty on
the ground that Professor Arons, as
professor of physics, does not handle
the question of socialism in his lee
lures. 1t Is observed that since the
president of the reichstag has permit
ted discussion of the emperor's utter