The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-12
NO DEMONSTRATION
ORDER PREVAILS THROUGHOUT q CITY OF BERLIN.
The Police are lstin on Guard at Strategic Points of the City and Reserves are
 Held.

Berlin, Jan. li.-Order prevails throughout Berlin today and there has been no recprrance of the demonstra- tions of yesterday for manh ood suffrage in Prussia. The police. however, are still disposed in force at the Strategic points of the city--the neighborhood of the Palace and various public squares, or they are being held in reserve at the station houses. The police do not permit the people to form in groups and consequently 1t has been impos- sible to assemble and start a demon stration. Most of the men arrested yesterday were released today.
 Herr Rebel, Herr Singer and tn cir as- sociates, who compose the committee of seven which is managing the social democratic party, regard the terms in which Prince Won Buelow. the Imperial Chancellor, yesterday, rejected the de- mand for manhood suffrage and a secret ballot instead of the existing property qualification for voters as a declaration of war. The Vorwaerts, the official organ of the committee, says today:
 There will be no quiet in Prussia un- til universal, equal, secret and direct suffrage has been won. Prince Won Buelow's declaration is quite clear. The phantom of liberal era is ended.
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 The paper then asks:
 "Will the government dare ignore the demand of the people?" We await the casting of the responsibility upon the privileged and governing classes. Thirty out of the thirty-seven million people in Prussia are without property and without rights. Social Democracy will organize the thirty millions and
 
 government now has the word, but the people will have the final word"
 Newspapers of liberal tendencies, such as the Tageblatt. regard Prince Won Buelow's refusal as ''curt. harsh and imbued with the worst reactionary spirit"
 "In past times" the Tageblatt adds, other liberal reforms have overcome the opposition of greater statesmen than Prime Won Buelow.'
 The Vossichf Zeitung, recognizes that reform of the suffrage Is necessary and the question will not disappear from the order of the day until a soIu- tion has been found.
 The government is supported fully by the conservative politicians and the in- dications are that the stages of the controversy over the abolition of the property qualification for franchise are at hand. The cleavage between the supporters of the exchange order and the socialists is becoming more acute. Financial and industrial interests, es- peciafly in the Rhine and the west Phallian country. which naturally are liberal, support their crown in it's refus- al to modify the electorial system. be- cause their system has been the only barrier which has prevented the social ists from obtaining representation in the Prussian legislature. Independent observers are of the opinion that the so- cialists have been supplied with strong arguments for the liberalizIng of the suffrage by reason of the present finan- cial embarrassment of the kingdom through the efforts of the government to find new methods of taxation at a time when a period of great prosperity apparently is coming to an end.
 The leaders of the national liberal party are forced to silence in the pres ent controversy by fear of doing any. thing to help the socialists and by the hope that Chancellor Won Buelow's de- pendence on the so-called Bloc" com bination of liberal and conservative interests will ultimately strengthen the influence of the liberal party.