Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-02-21
P0LIT!CSINGERMANY
GRAVE DEVELOPMENTS ARE
EXPECTED SOON.
Won BueIow's Downfall lmminent-Re-
cent Scandals in High Officialdom
Has Been Cause of Lack of Peoples
Confdence-Poor Industrial Condi-
tions-4o,ooo Idle Workers in Berlin.

London, Feb. 17.-Germany is gradu- |
ally working itself into a political fer
ment which threatens grave develop
ments in the near future. Not that
there is any talk of an overturning of
the dynasty or of republicanism, or
even of any important modification of
the governmental system. The father
land is well enough satisfied with the
kaiser, but it does not altogether like
his advisers-all of them, at least.
1t has been predicted for some time
that Chancellor Prince Won Buelow's
downfall is near and recent develop
ments indicate the fulflment of these
prophecies is not far off. Buelow is
said to think so himself but to be so
welded to his present policies that he
is determined not to change them,
even though the penalty for his Obsti-
macy be retirement from public life.
The recent scandals concerning high
army officers and government officials
have had something to do with under
mining the country's confidence in
the chancellor. The people plainly feel
he SHOULD have kept the kaiser-whom
there seems little disposition to blame
better informed as to the character
of the men the latter was making his
close personal and political friends
And if the chancellor himself does not
know what kind of men they were, il
is plainly the general impression that
he ought to have known.
Then, too, there is no doubt mos
eople considered the government wen
too far toward withdrawing" al
legged offenders for whom nobod!
thinks any excuse ought to have beer
made. 1t is not asserted that there il
disposition to continue these persons
in their official position. No doubt
it is admitted, they will be gradual,
relegatetd to obscurity. But German
rather thinks examples should hav
been made of them-that the cour
did wrong, especially in sacrificing tn
individuals who brought so muc
wrongdoing to light.
Won Buelow's own record has r.
ceived a good many hard knocks
1 lllC NOui VI SOooAP ebbNA0Aho AC~CA
1 investigation. He himself eloped /
| his youth with a married woman ant
| though he welded her as soon as n
could and has since lived an eXemplaT
life, the circumstances have not bee
quite forgotten. limitations that Vo
Buelow can not say much concernin
others informalities because his Ow
past would not bear too close scrutir
| have not been the kind of hints
J help the chancellor.
Industrial conditions, however, hay
y done more than all court scanda
= put together to injure the adminsitr
4 ton with the public. Berlin's unel
4 ployed are now estimated to numb
/ 10000 and the depression is grown
1 steadily worse. Companies which
sure against loss of employment a
burdened and the suspension OF SIEVE
al is predicted. Small merchants a
suspending daily and the city is fl
of empty buildings
4 The governments revenues ha
I been curtailed, too and the people
/ not like measures the administrati'
is taking to replenish it's Golfers.
| feels that the burden falls on the pc
4 and the rich are suffering little. I
I German laborer who takes his drin
4 with his meals and considers them
necessity, cannot understand why
\ should be compelled to bear a hea
- tax on liquor, as proposed in
- reichstag. while direct taxation of
wealthy is not increased.