El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-22
SOCIALISM AND ITS
EFFECT ON GER
MAN EMPIRE
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tb. Americans were Englishmen in all
| but allegiance to the crown. ana the
| narties of Hamilton and jefferson would
| have been formed if neither of those
! men had been in Washington's cablnet'
and after more than century the same
| two PARTIES. after more or less check
| cred career continue to exist.
! Rut on account of the limitations OF
| the constitution, the American govern
| ment is not government OF parties IL
! if had been, last winter when the Cdh-
| non organization was voted down III
the house, Mr.. Taft and all of his caDl-
| net would have resigned imm ediately.
| of course the president paid no atten-
| tion 70 the defeat of the administrative
| Marty in the house of representatives.,
| and if he elections in November shoulo
| discover the fact that the adverse con-
| gressional majority has the support OF a
\ majority of the electors, still the aorllh-
/ istration will not resign In this re-
| spect the German institution Of an Tres
! sponsible ministry now the target for
| the bolts of every political aGitator In
! the Empire is exactly a similar lnStl-
| tuition to that of the American republic
| Difference Between Germany apd u =.
| The difference between Germany and
| the United States is not in the relation
of the legislative and executive 1unc-
| lions; but in the constitution OF the
| executive In Germany the executive
head of the government is appointed by
| and responsible TO the emperor, Gho
holds his office by vTtue of his feyal
| birth and who is not at any time or IN
any way responsible 10 the public Will,
| whether expressed directly in a general
| election. as in the United States, or IN
| directly by a parliamentary vote, as in
| Great Britain. The utter lack of popu-
! lar control over the executive Is re-
1 sponsible for the German agitation for
parliamentary domination in all at
| fairs of government
| Although the German imperial chan
| cellor is not bound to resign when he is
| defeated in the Reichstag, yet he can
not succeed in carrying forward his du-
ties unless he has majority willing to
pass his budget and vote him supplies
True, Bismarck ruled Prussia for four
years without a budget, but both Bis
marck and the days of the conflict
| time" are dead. Thus it is necessary for
| the chancellor to court a majority when
he can. and to defy it when he must.
Opposition Ineffective.
The general elections Of 1907 resulted
| ih heavy majority against the policies
| of the government. Although the elec77
/ ton had been ordered by the emperor
| for the express purpose of obtaining the
| popular sense, there was no disposition
| to submit to the electoral veto Chan
cellor Van Buelow, by a series of dex-
| ferrous compromises and generous prom
| ises. built up for himself a majority
| composed of an homogeneous coalition OF
| the Conservatives the National-Liber-
ais and the Radicals This threw into
| opposition the Socialists, the CentriSts,
| or Roman Catholic Clericals, the Poles
and other minor political divisions. The
parties comprising the bloc" had
/ clear majority of the seats in the Reich
| stag although they polled in the aggre-
! gate more than a million fewer votes
| than the. combined parties in opposition
The Alliance of the Conservatives and
/ the Radicals in support of the govern
| ment was as ludicrous as was the union
| of the clerical Center and the Socialists
| in opposition This artificial and incOn-
| gruouS coalition was maintained, how
| ever. with considerable success, until
| late in 1908. when the government sub
mitted 10 the Reichstag a bill provid-
| ing for an increase in taxation estimat-
/ ed to yield an additional annual revenue
| of SIPS, 100000 When the essential sub
| ject of taxation came up for considera-
| ton it was impossible 70 hold together
/ the diverse interests of the bloc. The
! new taxes as proposed fell heavily on
| the landlords. and the Prussian agra
rians. forming the Tory core of the Con-
| sentative party, deserted the govern
ment. After several months spent in
| wranglingS the National-Liberal the
Radicals and the Socialists withdrew
from the committee. the chairman re-
signing. and all refusing to take any
| further pe.re IN the proceedings.
Won BueIow's Resignation
| This threw together the Conservatives
and the Clericals. who proceeded to form
4 a budget on entirely new lines. Needless
! to say the landlords had their way and
| step by step the government yielded be-
! fore the Conservatives Clerical MAORI
| ~ and the new budget was passed.
! During the pendancy of the debates
| chancellor Won BuelOw offered his res
! ignation to the emperor, but it was re-
| fused. The emperor was determined not
1 to give his assent to any proceedings
which gave color to the pretensons of
! the Reichstag to control the personnel
| OF the imperial ministry.
Immediately after the finance bill was
passed the Reichstag session was closed,
and DR.. Won Bethmann- Hollweg was ap-
\ pointed imperial chancellor to succeed
| Won Buelow- The reichstag met again
| last November. and was organized by
| the Conservatives and Clericals the Ma
| tional Liberals and Radicals declining
| to vote in the organization. Not daring
\ to repeat the experiment of the bloc
| and not possessing an actual majority
4 In cOrdlaI sympathy WIN the govern 1
ment the new chancellor decided upon
! a program which at once absolutely de-
MED the principle of ministerial respon-
! sibility and refused to recognize polit-
! ical parties factors in government
He said that the government would
stand allof from parties and
grouds of parties; that the gov
eminent of Germany was not
| a government by party: that gov
or the courage necessary TO make
/ ernmental measures would be submitted !
| TO the reichstag but that he was not
| disposed TO define the constellation of
parties which would support those
| measures. He said that the political
crisis over the taxation bill had made
no change in German institutions He
declared that RadiCalism strove to di-
| vide Germany into two political carnDs
| but the existence of such a dualism
/ was only fiction devised for political
! party purposes
Ministerial Responsibility.
Tho attitude of the +ou-or1