The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-02
ut LITTLE REST
flor. POLITICIANS
3embers of Reichstag Have No
Time to Enjoy Summer
Vacations.
ETTING READY FOR BATTLE
a.,
hl Situation Is Unprece-
denied in German
History.
ETTING READY FOR BATTLE
BY FREDERICK WERNER.

r. 8oial Gable TO The Times Dispatch)
Rim July 1.-Supposedly the mem
OF the ReichstaS are enjoying
S& annual summer vacation, which
until the beginning of October.
eality there is very little rest for
ticians this summer, as the men,
~ OF all parties are grinding their
818,s and getting ready for the great
OF the general elections early
~ year The political situation is
ecedented In the annals of Ger
&8 political history. The recent Sos
of the Reichstag closed with dis
It signs of a serious breach between
85 conservative party and the head
* the government Chancellor won
thmann Hollweg, who is accused of
$a& undiGnifed Irritation with the So
Fhlists. whom the conservatives con-
2Hcer the worst foes of the empire In
T. .aiity, there is. of course. no compaC-
~ any kind between the government
Hlnd the Socialists who simply support
"A tn eAlsace-Lorrain constitution bill
cause II granted the inhabitants OF
t#ese provinces what the masses of
= ussians are struggling for. universal
MIRAGE, and also because the bill. al
HH5ugh n government measure. weak
AZ ed Prussia's position in the Federal
: buncil.
~ august Bebel. the leader of the So
alist party. anticipates great social
pc gains at the coming elections, pre-
f8ctinS that practically all the votes
~ the small dealers and farmers of
8he peasant class. who have hitherto
81pported tho conservatives. Will this
= me BIO cast for Socialist candidate s
what this may mean to the old parties
Is understood, when 1t is remembered
fhat even now the Socialists contro1
more than 100000 votes. The so
cialists promise that as far as they
are concerned there will be no dis
Prders during the election campaign.
and that the conservative majority
Bill be allowed to die in peace
i There is no doubt that Germany is
70 be congratulated on the return of
the former colonial secretary. Herr
Bernard Dernburg, to active partici-
cation In affairs of finance, for he ia
lne of tho country's most talented and
Experienced men.
y Since he was forced to resign. Herr
frnburs has been bding his time In
= .irement, but he is too salient a per-
sonality to be easily obscured, and he
has been by no means lost to view.
II Is realized that In associating HIM
self actively with the management OF
4he Deutsh -Asiatische Bank. he is
9ctnated by the conviction that there
rs an opportunity to achieve important
brings.
!, The capital of the Deutsh- Asiatische
Us not large, but some of the greatest
Parks of the empire ares Interested in
81. and practically the entire world
8f German finance can be reckoned on
p stand behind it where enterprises
Az political nature We're at stake lis
Immediate aim is the extension of
81 :rman trade and shipping in Chinese
shters. and In general the establish
gent OF economic bases Of support for
|the develop ment Of German commerce
Va the Far East.
81 Herr Dernburg has always shown a
Sredilection for this form of financial
pioneering, and during his recent trip
Through the Orient. he had chance to
ftudy economic institutions and posi-
Mites itsSi hat part OF the world lie
ideas and energy in abundance.
n the training of banker and the
ID grasp of a constructive states
&3h he seems destined to fill the role
- 6ermany's strong man in the East
= Count Posadowsky, formerly Minis
~ of the Interior. in speech the
~ err day, drew very gloomy picture
Sthe condition of the poorer classes
~ he larger German cities. and at the
4 he. time he deplored that the Ger
IN country population was rapidR
1tsins the virile strength which had
therto made II the very marrow and
8yiength of the empire.
1Although." he said, agricultural
lsrn pioymcnt supposedly provides bet
Ger conditions for physical fitness in