Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-08-05
MendeISSohn & Co, Accused of
Treason to Race in Warding
Off Slump in Russian Secur-
tiles Abroad,
CZAR'S CREDIT REMAINS
GOOD IN SPITE OF REVOLT
Berlin Money Kings Believe
Tales of Revolution Are Fic-
tiCious and Contemplate
Lending Country S5OO,00O
(By Malcolm CIarke.O


Berlin, Aug. 4.--Not without reason
the Jews of Russia and Poland are
furious at the great Jewish banking
firm of Mendelssohn g. Co, who has
once more prevented the big drop in
Russian securities which they had
hoped would follow the dissolution OF
the douma, but IL the Jews are angry
at the treason against their race. the
Russian revolutionists are even more
so and have made all kinds of threats
against the firm.
AS result of this the office of the
bankers is now carefully guarded not
only by the Berlin police, but by
more than a score of Russian detec-
tives paid by the czar
A member of the firm said. today
that although he personally felt great
sympathy with the people of his race
IN Russia, he thought that they were
not entirely without blame as they
mad repeatedly refused the assistance
of the Russian government to emf
CRATE to other countris.
We lend money to Russia" he
said, because we have reliable infor-
nation that conditions there are not
nearly as bad as newspaper reports
lead you to believe.
Most of the kilograms you see in
the daily papers dated st. Petersburg
are fictitious on their face. as the gov
ernment would never allow them to
'be sent They may come from corre-
Spondents who are really at st. Pters-
burg but in that case they have GER
tainly been sent by mail or. what Is
more likely. they are written right
mere by journalists, who know what
their readers want to see.
we consider ii absolutely safe to
lend money to the czar, and although
It is not true that we are now about
to negotiate a new five hundred mill
non loan, 1t is very likely that we will
do so in the near future"
IN sharp contrast to this optimistic
view. stands the opinion of a Copen-
hagen paper, which is usually well
Informed on Russian affairs.
In leading article it said the other
day: 1T is greatly worrying the rela-
tions of the czar at court. here, that
IL has proven impossible to stop the
smuggling of arms into Finland. 1t
is we'll known here that immense
quantities of rifles and ammunition
have been landed on the Finnish coast
during the last four months and from
the secret depots I'm that Russian pro-
vince, whole shiDloads of them have
been sent down the Voga even as far
as the Caucasus. And all this goes on
so quietly and peaceably as If it were
a perfectly legitimate affair
The Russian government knows
about 1t but 1t is powerless to inter-
fere. small squadron is cruising
along the Finnish coast and the ports
are guarded, but the influx of arms
does not diminish.
The present. quiet in Russia Is only
the calm before the outbreak, and
many people here, who have learned
to love the czar for his many really
good qualities are exceedingly anxious
Tor the nephew Of King Frederick.
The kaiser evidently thinks that the
backbone of socialism in Germany IA
so completely broken that 1t is no
longer necessary to use diplomacy in
dealing with the party.
sign of this Is a remarkable or
der, just issued by DR.. Studt, the
minister of education, directing all To-
cal authorities in Prussia to refuse
permission to any social democrats to
teach gymnastics. either privately or
professionally on the ground that
the fact that a man is social demo-
crat proves him to be morally insult
ed to teach anything to the young.
There is no doubt that the minis
ter Is acting as the mouthpiece Of the
kaiser In these instances Of reaction
ary administration.
sks
The shopkeepers of Vienna are up
in arms against the new Industrial
bill, which has already been adopted
by the lower house of the reichsrath
and is now before the upper house
The bill is a political move on the
part OF the Christian socialists and
was introduced by them with the OBJ
1ect Of catching the votes of the small
tradesmen at the next election. The
principal clauses of the bill prohibit
shopkeepers from making costumes,
clothes. or boots. to order, and even
from making any requisite alterations
In ready-made clothing, and from un-
dertaking repairs Of boots unless In
all cases the owner of the business rs
member of one of the various
trade organizations, which somewhat
resemble the ancient guilds. The
shopkeepers in a large way of busl-
ness declare that the bill will mean
ruin, while the small tradesmen as
sert that 1t is impossible for them to
make a living In the face of the COM
petition by the big firms. The meet
ing was broken up by a crowd of
small tradesmen who created such a
disturbance that the police had to
clear the hall.
sAs
A peasant named Francis ogrodov-
ski has been sentenced to seven years
penal servltude at Rohem, in the
province Of Posen, for a particularly
atrocious form of grave desecratlng.
Ogrodovsld opened n number OF
graves in the Jewish. Roman Catho-
lie and Protestant cemeteries, and re-