Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-28

whelnlingly defeated. This was true of a
resolution providing for a propaganda TO
be pursued among the recruits of the
army with the object of inducing these
men to refuse to fire or workmen In case
OF riots. While this proposition was re-
ceived with applause it was Violently
comba ted by Bebel and Fischer indicot
ing that the majority of the party does
not feel as Yet that the time is ripe for
such an imp Iar stand against tn, DOW
ers that be, and that there is fear ~ =,
reaction if -'ch proposal shout he
adopted Another fact which was charac-
teristic of he spirit of the meeting was
the post; Me-, 81 until next year of a
plan for >nan ..a; the organization of the
party ne question of the May festival
was a debated at length. many voices
peinS !. "a III opposition to a custom
which j.. many instances. it was claimed
does at deal of harm and very lit
We good me proposition for the celebra-
ton OF the first OF May was. however,
adopted. with the provision that the cei.-
Dratlon be conducted as quietly as pos
siole.
Germany has recently been giving
srtat deal OF attention to the American
PERM PERI; mne BAL was started rolling at
RAPID pace when Professor Drummer, Of
tne law faculty of the University Of Ber-
lin. proposed the formation Of a middle
european economic union with Germany
ana Austria as the core this union 10
form counterbalance against the expan-
SION of the United States Pro-, ssor
runners proposition has been re, wed
throughout the entire country viii the
greatest approval. The industrial q cles
of Germany are now insisting with the III
most vigor that the government adopt
States ard that a change be brought
about in what is claimed to be an intoi-
cradle condition. This frame Of mind Is
indicated by a recent resolution of the
Eupen chamber of commerce. widely COM
menttd upon and approved by the COM
merciai classes. This resolution Is in part
as follows: North America sends to
Germany much more than we send to the
former country. 1t is therefore necessary
to n '"" America more compliant to our
den .1 There IS no doubt that n
cha,t- the tariff of America would
sn'N Ike place if Germany treated
Ame III goods in the same manner as
G1rm goods are treated by the Ameri-
cha 20 is not likely to occur until Ger
manI inaugurateS strong action against
Amer lea. 1t is to be hoped that the
powerful means which have been put in
its hands by the new tariff"
The many threats which have been
made OF a change in the franchise relat-
ing to the election of members of the
reichstag seem TO be maturing in a plan
which ii is the intention of the govern
ment to put through at all hazards. The
plan was recently stated by the official
Dresdener Journal to be in the nature of
a radical change in the methods now in
vogue for choosing deputies Under this
change things will be arranged that
only those persons whose professions
are embraced within a certain short and
narrow list Of callings shall be qualified
to he deputies. Ever since the vast in
roads made by the Socialists in the ranks
q all parties. the question Of a change in
the right of suffrage and the right to hold
office has been prominent one. Es-
pecally is this the case in Saxony, where
practically all Of the seats in the reichs-
tag nave passed into the hands OF lie
Socialists