The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-03
How Foreign Lands
Have Met Their Crises.

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converge toward common ground OF
experience, understanding aud sym
| pathy may be observed In the span of
| q single year.
/ ENGLAND.--In the hands of the
/ Liberal crew. with Premier Campbell
| Zimmerman at the wheel, King Ed
wards ship of state has CROPPED its
! way forward through gathering clouds
of social unrest and Industrial depres-
sion, getting some pretty hard bumps.
Fear OF the rising tide OF Socialism
brought Conservatives and Liberals
cisiye moves made by the Banner
man government were the passage of
church dlsestabllshment In principle
by the commons in February the al
lance with Spain In March, the ap-
preparation of ST500,000 forNold age
pensions next year. the proposal of an
Irish home rule Dili providing an cleo
tive national council subject to veto of
| lord lieutenant. but which was with
drawn after being rejected by the Irish
party. in May, the proposal to abol-
| ish the veto power of the house of
lords passed by the commons JUNE 26
by vote Of 40, to- 37 and the refer
ence of the Newfoundland fishery dis
pute with America to The Hague tri-
bunal The government resisted with
much difficulty the growing movement
| for woman suffrage.
JAMAICa.-The affront to the Unit
| ed States In the election of Admiral
| Davis from Kingston when his men
| had volunteered help TO the earthquake
sufferers was appeased by the retire
ment of Governor .SwettenhaHl j.
CANADA.-The influx of orientals
eliminated In serious riots at Vancou-
yer SEPT. 5. for which due apologies
were made to Japan. The, new Lords
| day law went into effect, making the
Canadian Sunday as blue as whet-
stone t.tg
RUSSIA. = The revolution of force
has taken a year off. comparatively
| speaking. While the organization of
terrorists has made itself felt in. the
| assassination of O number OF army and
lprevincial officials. beginning In jan
nary with General PayIoR.: known as
! the "Hangman," and including several
plots against the life of the car him
self. the forward movement iii Russia
has contented itself with the progress
| i've propaganda of the press and educa-
ton. The second douma. Which was
| opened MARCH IS. elashed with the
| government from the start oyer the
question of martial law throughout the
| country. After the douma had repeal
ed q portion of the court martial code
| and the premier had demanded the
expulsion Of members suspected of
| treason, suddenly the douma was. dis
solved by virtual military coup d'etat
| JUNE 10. Under q new electoral pro-
/ gramme intended to exclude the So
/ cialist and radical elements. third
| douma was chosen and began its ses-
sions NOV. {, q combination OF Con-
| stitutional Democrats and Octobrists
| In control.
| GERMANY.-The government of EN-
| peror William had the satisfaction of
decreasing the numerical strength OF
the Socialists In the reichstag as the
result of the February elections, and
Chancellor Won Bulow took this to be
vote of confidence Notwithstanding
that the Socialists were able to point
to the fact that their popular vote had
greatly increased. the reduction In
their representation being due to the
anomalous electoral laws The gov
eminent was greatly embarrassed over
+, the exposure OF immoral life among
high court and army officials by Ed
itor Harden OF Zukunft, who was ac
quilted in October of the charge of
defamation preferred By Count lyon
Moltke.
FRANCE.-The Clemenceau ministry
Bteered the republic through period
OF internal disturbances closely resem-
bling civil war. past the dangerous
waters OF church and state separation.
and has begun a costly war of. discl-
pline and repression In Morocco. The
serious revolt of the wine. growers
came to a head IN May under the lead
ership Of III. Albert, with the resigna-
tion of many city mayors and councils
In affected districts and the sympa-
thetic mutiny of some of the troops
sent 10 restore order. Gradually the
government got the situation In hand
after promising legislative measures
to restrict the operations of the sugar
using wine. growers.
MoRoCCo-0n AUG. O the French
and Spanish ,warships at Casablanca
Joined In bofnbardment of the town
on the pretext that native tribesmen
had oyeraws.d the local government so
as to endauger Christian lives. Later
the Spaniards withdrew. and the
: French forces took entire control of
the city and engaged In a series OF bait
ties with the attacking trIbesnaen-
i. AuSTRIA.--The universal sutfrage bill
was accepted in January by the upper
house of the feichsrath: thus the fran
chise was conferred on eSery male
Austrian twenty-fonr years old The
ensuing elections In May were won by
the Socialist and Radical parties. BEL
GIUM.-The parliament In May took
over the control of the Kongo, King
Leopold having withdrawn his onooai.