The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-12-15

Berlin, December 1.-TWO of TIN. most
interesting personalities in German pol
itics. Chancellor Won Buelow and Herr
Bebel. the socialist leader. engaged "A
a lively debate in the Reichstag today.
The mOnarchist. who was dressed as
cheerful. his lucid sentences falling
easily on the understanding. The re-
publican with a quality of vote
strangely stirring the emotions. excited
his hearers to enthusiasm and his ppo-
rents to anger. one passionate sentence
following another to the climax.
Won BueIow bantered BebeI for az
hour. Your deals could only be re
allied in PIato's Republic" said NJ.
where every one was an angel. and.
turning 10 Bebel with u farcial intona-
ton. the chancellor added: What a
lovely angel you would make. 1 e
that We shall not reaGze such a para
dis"
You wouId not be in it any how"
retorted Bebel audibly.
Herr BebeI charged the government
with cooperating with Russia in sup
pressing political discomfort The Rus
sian police, he asserted acted in Prussia
as though at home. They received
every sort of service from the Prussian
authorities and dozens OF Russians Sc
cret police agents were busy in Be-
lin and other c~enters. spying on the
dOings of Russian students or Russian
residents This, Herr Bebel declared
WAS one exhibition of Czarism as prac-
tised in Germany. others were the re-
oeptiOns OF Cornelius Vanderbilt, I'M
ReceSsziry gifts to foreign nations and
Spectacular paradingS of army corps.
All the fuss and glory CT military life
an time OF peace was time wasted on
frivOlitieS, which could far better b.
spent in actual study.
AGufing again to the receptions OF
Mr.. Vanderbilt at Dantzic. Herr Be5el
said: What has he done to deserve
all this applause? These things give
the impression of weakness. not OF
strength"
In the course OF a furious attack Oh
Russia. which caused the supporters
of the ministry to shake their heads ia
dhsnay. because such language about
a ~neighbOring power had rarely been
heard in the German parliament. Herr
Bebel said: Russia is essentially q
baTbaTous state. against whose bestfal-
3ties all the European governments
have made no protests"
Replying to Herr Bebel. C~hanceliSr
Won BuelOw declared the government
was firmly determined to continue the
development OF social legislation in IA
VOr Of the masses. In this matter. the
government required the cooperation II
the country He wCu.d add hat moth
ing Kindred progress in this direction
more than the habit of the oc.aI DEM
ocrats OF connecting social questions
with antimOuarchiaI tendencies. His
tory. however. proved that mouarchiea
made more rapid progress socially han
republics. because = monarch occupied
81 position OF independence, above c-ass-
es and parties. In no republic had 80
much been done for the working men a
IN imperial Germany.
Herr Beb~I had asserted that servfIity
and CaeSariSm prevailed in Germ nv.
The chancellor. however. declared hat
there was CtesarISm. below rs Wei. AS
above Herr Eebel had demanded al
sorts of freedom but. asked the cham
ceIOr. how did freedom fare in the 60
cia1 democratic party? This question
WAS followed by socialist Interruptions.
Where was freedom of opinion at the
Dresden convention, asked the chan
ceIlor. Herr BebeI had rebukei Herr
Bernstein. a member OF the ReicAstaC.
IN a way the chancellor would not cor
rect the lowest official. The Roman
paPacy was never more lavish VITA
bulls and accommodations than tie
social democratic majority under Herr
BebSl