The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-17
DEFEAT EXPECTED
By GOVERNMENT
Anxiety Increases as Time for
General Elections
Approaches.
MASSES SEEK REVENGE
Angered by Burden OF Taxation
They Are Compelled to
Bear.
BY rnEpEnIcK WERNER.

BY FREDERICK WERNER.
Especial Cable to The Times ispatch.l
Berlin, September G.-Berore the end
Of the year, or ut the very latest in
January, 1912, the general elections for
The Reichstag are TO take place. and az
he time approaches the anxiety OF the
government. which expects L great de.
ieat, Is becoming more und more evil
dtnt- While the patriotic Germans
nave little or no fault to find with tie
foreign policy Of the present admin
istration the great masses of the vot-
ers arc thirsting for revenge over the
ultra-conservative landowners Dunk
ers) who in conspiracy with the Catho-
lie Centre In 1903 placed enormous new
! burdens OF taxation upon the middle
classes and the poor. while they abso-
!s'ciy' refused to tax the great for
'ilats The supposed representatives
Of the people favored the m~illionaires.
but taxed all TIE necessaries o: life
even down to matches. The budget
which the allied groups of conserve
tives succeeded in passing, was so ut
terly unjust that even Prince Won
Buelow, as launch n "Junker" as any,
refused to accept it. a refusal which
ultimately led to his downfall.
During the two years which have
passed since then the new Chancellor
of Empire, Herr Won Bethmann Holl-
veg, has everywhere in his domestic
policies revealed himself as so ultra.
conservatives and ultra-Prussian that
he has made himself the most hated
man In all Germany. The only thing
which might have saved him would
have been Il great victory in his for
eign policy. but his victory has failed to
come. No matter how Franco-German
relations. in regard to Morocco. are ar
! ranged In dnfpiI tina rn ~ N will
never approach anything like a Ger
man victory. and many are those who
will continue calling it q disgraceful
German retreat.
There is now nothing for the chan
cellor to do but calmly await the COM
ing of the end. He knows as we'll as
anybody that next spring - will no
longer be his hand that steers the
German ship of State,
To the German who takes any inter-
est IN foreign politics Great Britain Is
the power. which in every direction.
blocks Germany's way to her place in
the SUM-" to use the phrase hrst en-
ployed by Prince Buelow in connec.
ton with the seizure of Kiao-Chau and
recently borrowed from him by the
Emperor.
Kaiser Wilhelm's Hamburg speech in
which he used this expression was all
over Germany taken to mean that he
Intends to exert all his personal innu-
ence and restlessly continue his pro-
paganda in favor of q stronger navy
until Germany's fleet is the equal, II
not the superior. of that of England
on the worlds seas. The fact sur
prises nobody in spite of the many off,
cial and semi-oficial declarations that
Germany had no thought of ever dis
putting England's naval supremacy.
The existence of sue an intention
does not, however. mean that an ini-
mediate attempt will be made TO carry
1t into execution. The Reichstag Is
rapidly approaching the term of its
natural life. Its successor will be very
differently constituted. and in all
probability. for the momen little dis
posed to lay upon the nation the bur-
den of increased ornaments. No doubt
strenuous efforts will be made TO use
the Morocco difficulty for the purpose
of obtaining a docile Chamber.
From the commencement of the ne
gotiations it has been precisely those
parties which have most to fear at the
polls which have been most evacting in
their demands and most noisy In their
professions of patriotism. They recog-
nized that an excellent opportunity
had come for diverting public displeas-
ure from themselves to the foreigner.
Undoubtedly q manoeuvre of the same
kind will be tried by the government
at the elections. and 1t may count on a
certain measure of success. At the
some time. It is more than doubtful
whether the new Parliament will, in
the opening years of its life. be pre-
pared to vote fresh navy bills.
Tho Nati0na1jaf nraDro, v1,--
Turkey cannot fail to be affected by
the Prussianization of It's army off,
cials. who form a great proportion OF
the trained and educated men of the
nation. 1t Is estimated that not less
than one hundred and fifty officials
have learned military business in the
Germany army. while about five or
SIX thousand have been either trained
by German officers in Turkey or by
Turkish officers who have been raine
in Germany.
hes-o,j,7.xticv'K shrdlu etaoin indartd
When 1t is remembered that the
methods of Standardization practiced
by Prussia. as applied to her Polish
provinces are far more rigorous than
anything attempted hitherto by the
Turks in Albania-only the Poles
Caught by long experience) hght
silently and the Albanians fly Into re-
volt-it a be appreciated. that Ger
man influence on Young Turkey will
hardly be on the side Of racial toler-
ance. But the people with h Tur-
key has to do in Albania are the most
~unconquerable in Europe-perhaps in
the world. The M~onteneSrins and their
immediate neighbors in their mountain
Businesses resisted the successive waves
of %conquerors which poured over Eu-
rope. n what the Turkish Empire
could be accomplished ~in~,the heyday
of her power she cannot expect to do
now.
The expectation het constitutional