Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-17

BERLIN, Sept. l6--Ihe annual re- port of the social democratic party s executive committee, which has just been issued. shows that the socialists have increased their organized mem bers by l16,542 in the course of the year to a total of S36.562. This was the greatest gain they ever had in a single year. The financial position ol the party also is unusually strong. The treasurer reports receipts or s3S0 GOO. or a gain of Sl0O,000 over the previous year. and within the past four years an election fund of S2OV,- 900 has been collected.
 There are local organizations in all the reichstag districts except four teen. Besides the ordinary organiza- tions of voters the party has 454 young peoples organizations, there having been a gain of nearly a hun dred last year. Young peoples homes are maintained in l30 towns.
 There are now eighty-on socialist daily newspapers in Germany. The most extensively circulated is the Vorwaerts, of Berlin, which is the party organ: its circulation reaches 157 .000. A comic weekly paper, Der Wahre Jakob, whose weapon of party warfare is the political cartoon has BOT .00O subscribers.
 The drift toward socialism during the past few years, the report claims has been very strong; it points out that in the thirty-seven by-elecuons held since the present re!chstag was elected in January, 1907, the soclal- ists gained 24,000 votes, whereas their opponents of all parties lost the huge total of 135,SOO.
 It is unofncially stated that Baron von Rachenberg, the governor or tnt Cerman colony of East Africa has de cided to resign in the autumn. 1t is assumed that the governors decision is due to opposition that has arisen against him in the colony in respect to his treatment of the colOred races especially the HindoOs. The German ooionists object to his mild treatmtnt of these, and they have powerful sup porters among the colonial politicians in the reichstag.
 A business organization of the coi onists has recently adopted and sen to the home government series O resolutions embodyinsg their views as to the proper treatment of the Hin docs. They ask that more rigorous measures be adopted to prevent the immigration Of HindoOs, as well as to3 restricting their freedom of move lnent in the colony after settling there. Licenses to trade, the petl tioners further ask, must either bt rejected outright, or else made con ditional upon very rigorous require ments.
 The grievance Of the colOn!sts l. that the small HindOo tradesmen SCI tle everywhere in the colony and mo nopoIize the trade with the natives and that their standard of life is ss low that they can afford to conten themselves with profits that Germa. c0UId never meet; hence it is believed that the colony must inevitably be come a region in which Germans can not live at all.
 The vital statistics of the city O. Berlin for the year 1909, just publish. ed. show that out of a total of as54 4 births not less than 10,00S, or above 25 per cent, were illegitimate. Dur ing the same period there were 1870 Glh0IEEE III kaAf NapAAe+- A'e---- had 7O5 suicides and 45 murders II 1909.
 The statistics of divorce in the king dom of Prussia in the year 1910 shoN that there were 129 diyorces to eyer7 100000 marriages in Prussia, ther' having been an increase Of g since 1905 In the cities generally divorce' rose from 1S1 in 1905 to 2lG in 1910 and in the largest cities from POS t' a23 per 100000. Tn the country dis tricts the figures only rose from q to 4q. The figures show the remark able fact that divorce is seven time more frequent in the big cities thai in the country. In 1910 the divorce granted in Prussia amounted to sZi' there having been a gain of more tha one-third in five years.
 The effects of the grc-t drought O this summer. which has ended only ! limited sections of the country, hay already made themselves felt in
 serious way in the shape of price a' vances. Vegetables Of all kinds moi cost from two to four times as muc
 as in normal summers, while mil
 prices have been advanced in mos
 parts Of the country. The situauo