The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-10
BEBEL SAYS GERMANS
SYMPATHIZE WITH JAPAN.

Berlin, May 9.-During the discus
budget bill in the Reichstag to-day,
Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, refer
red to Emperor Williams speeches at
Calsruhe and Mayence, remarking that
the pointed illusions to France had
caused great surprise, coming so soon
after the Emperor's return from Italy,
where President Loubet had been re-
ceived with heaty oTations. The En-
peror's words, the speaker added, were
enhanced in Importance through the
fact that he telegraphed Emperor
Nicholas from Sicily on the occasion
of the sinking of the Russian battle
ship Petropavlovsk as follows:
"Russia's mourning is Germany's
mourning"
Herr Bebel, continuing, said:
Il deny most emphatically the EN-
peror's telegram reflects the sentiments
of the German people. In my opinion,
German sympathies are far more on
the side of Japan than on that OF
Russia"
Herr Bebel claimed that Western Eu-
rope has special reasons to rejoice if
Russia loses the war, for, the more
Russia is weakened by the struggle,
the less likely it becomes that Rus
STA will mix in the affairs of Western
Europe"
The speaker referred to the far
reaching antipathy of all civilized ma
tions against Germany"
The chief cause, however, said Herr
Bebel, of the dislike of Germany was
her growing military equipment on sea
and land.
Chancellor Won Buelow, in his re-
ply, pointed out that the quotation If
the Emperor's words in his dispatch
to the Gar by Herr Bebel was in
correct. The Emperor's telegram, he
said, expressed warm sympathy on
account of the great calamity by which
so many brave men had met death in
the discharge of their duty. The Chan
cellor added:
81 am convinced that this expression
of human sympathy corresponded with
the sentiments of the majority of this
high house, and also with those of the
majority of the people of Germany"
The Chancellor pointed out Herr Be
bePs Inconsistency in demanding strict
neutrality in the Far Eastern war, and
then openly expressing the hope that
Russia would be defeated.
Abiding to Herr Bebel'S statement
in regard to the violence of the Ger
mans toward the native Hereros wom-
en-, the Chancellor said: Our country
men are men of flesh and blood and
like other colonizing peoples we have
had sad experiences, discovering
that men sent out were without
the necessary self-control when
under the influence of the climate.
Greater power and greater freedom Of
action resulted in excuses. Neverthe-
less, such cases are only exceptional"
Won BuelOw expressed his regret at
the fact that the missionaries had used
the present occasion, when so many
Germans had become the victims of
rude barbarism, to make attacks upon
their fellow countrymen.
The Chancellor denied that the antip-
athies of the world were against Ger
many. They existed in a measure as
Herr Bebel had described, but, he
added, if so. that would only be a
reason for maintaining our military
equipment. so as to calmly anticipate
any eventualities of the future,
for no other means have peen
discovered to disarm unjustif1able
hate and envy-for hate and
envey against us is unjustifiable, since
our policy has been for thirty-three
years eminently peaceful-than to keep
the swords sharp"