Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31
Mighty Political Struggle
In German Principally
Policeman,

insults flew through the hall, ana pas
sions ran so high that one politician
4 $challenged another to a duel The thrift
/ party won. The function of a gen
darrne, voted the commission by a
large majority, lis to gain the respect
i of the public, and not to degrade him
self into the position of a horse
! cleaner"
| While thus the landtag buzzed with
! ieloqGence. the press and public We're
i not mute. Industrious men, inspired
1 by DR.. Won Saalefeld, sought for literary
| and historical precedents for mounted
gendarmes, When q frivolous critic
1 laughed at the Whole controversy, he
got from DR. Bienne the dignitied re-
| ply: THE horse is. not unworthy OF a
| constitutional crisis. Horses have
played a great role in history Who
has not heard of Bucephalus, horse OF
| the great Alexander. Troy fell to q
horse of wood; and 1t was the phantom
| white steed of their hero Skobelefr
which led the thrice4baffled Russians
| over the redoubts OF Plevna The Fe-
ruHian 1ncas regarded the horses OF
| E'iZarro as gods. In religion, mythoto-
gy and literature, there are-1to mention
| only IL few-the White Horse of fRevc-3
lation. Pegasus and the Rosinante OF
Don QuiNote. ITO the horse" wrote
u schoolnlaster named Kneip, whose
name suggests beer and duelling stu
dents. "Phidias and Praxiteles reared
craven images" Both pro-horse aud
anti-horse party used much such i'm
ngsry, but the lssue hung. in doubt. and
after breathing time it was resumed
by the. landtagt with redoubled fury.
PRONOUNCED DEADLOCK.
AT the next session the anti-horse-
ties quoted Prince Buelow's encomium
cold Tr,1Sf IL, N &. !,
Yes" retorted the pro horseites
but. he has a deficit of SIZE. 900 GEO..
Then letsCoburg set example to i'm
perial Germany replied the anti.
hnrseites. and not make n deficit OF
$50 over Il useless horse
The extraordinary landtag waver-
ed. In a more progressive state the
anti-horsettes would have been bullied
or bought by their foes. But though
Coburg legislator will thankfully
drink your champagne eat your ter
rapin, and win your money at poker,
his voting conscience is inflexible The
deadlock seemed eternal 1t stayed
Cobufg army, officially known in Ber-
lin as the Second battalion OF the
Ninety-fifth tSixth of Thuringia) In
fantry regiment. threatened to be en-
broiled to the loss Of discipline. and
deadly peril of the state in case of for
gelSn INVASION. me army WAS involved
owing to the fact that Coburg raises
no cavalry. The anti-horseites, while
mainly arguing against extravag ance,
reasoned that n mounted gendarme
meant breaking this rule, and declared
that cavalry was a survival of feudal-
ism unworthy of modern state.
Modern military theorists, they argu-
ed, are very doubtful as to the value
of cavalry. in war, and in peace cav
airy is a menace to the industrious
people and no terror to eviI-doers If the
gencarme cannot run quicker on foot
than drink-soddon burglar he is not
physically fit to curb II high-spirited
horse
EXCITEMENT in TOWN.
This anti-horse syliogism seemed con-
elusive. Pro-horse deputies banged on !,
their desks and forsook the landtag |
BUILDING in bad humor. Excitement |
reigned in the town. 1t spread to the !
twin capital Gotila, where Herr Arnold ]
Thiele took a referendum as TO what !,
course Getha should pursue IL the CO.
burg factions came to blows. Minis |