The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-24
SOCIALISTS.
INCREASING
IN GERMANY
THERE ARE NOW EIGHTY-oNE
SOCIALIST PAPERS THERE,
WHILE MEMBERS OF THE PAR
TY INCREASE TO OVER 100000.
BY Associated Press.

Berlin, Sept. 23.-The annual report
Of the Social Democratic Party's execu-
tive committee, which has just been is
sued, shows that the Socialists have
increased their organized members by
1854 in the course Of the year to
total of sS6, SCI. This was the greatest
gain they ever had in a single year.
The financial position Of the party also
is unusually strong. The treasurer re-
ports receipts Of $330.o00. or a gain of
100000 over the previous year, and
within the past four years an election
fund Of s260,oe0 has been collected.
There are local organizations in all
the Reichstag districts, except IL. Be-
sides the ordinary organizations OF vot-
ers the party has 454 young peoples
organizations, there having been a gain
Of nearly a hundred last year. Young
peoples homes are maintained in $50
towns.
There are now 81 Socialist daily
newspapers in Germany. The most ex-
tensively circulated is the Vorwaerts,
of Berlin, which is the party organ; its
circulation reaches $4,000. A comic
weekly paper, Der Wahre Jakob whose
weapon of party warfare is the politi-
cal cartoon. has 307, 900 subscribers.
The drift toward Socialism during
the past few years, the report claims,
has been very strong; it points out
that in the 81 by-elections held since
the present Reichstag was elected in
January, 1907, the Socialists gained "a
900 votes, whereas their opponents OF
all parties lost the huge total of 1885,
S00
It is unoficially stated that Baron
Won Rechenberg, the governor of the
German colony of East Africa, has de-
cided to resign in the autumn. It is
assumed that the governors decision
Is 6rrA % AHu& 1,-se
against him in the colony in respect to
his treatment of the colored races, es-
pecially the Hindoos. The German
colonists object to his mild treatment
Of these, and they have powerful sup
porters among the colonial politicians
in the Reichstag.
A business organization of the colon
lists has recently adopted and sent to
the home government series of reso-
buttons embodying their views as to
the proper treatment of the Hindoos.
They ask that more rigorous measures
be adopted to prevent the immigration
Of Hindoos, as well as for restricting
their freedom OF movement in the col
ony after settling there. Licenses to
trade. the petitioners further ask, must
either be rejected outright, or else made
conditional upon very rigorous require
ments.
The grievance of the colonists is that
the small Hindoo tradesmen settle
everywhere in the colony and monopo-
lie the trade with the natives; and
that their standard of life is so low
that they can afford to content them
selves with profits that a German could
never meet; hence it is believed that
the colony must inevitably become a
region in which Germans cannot live
at all.
IIIesitimate Births.
The vital statistics Of the city Of
Al H. g. 4. IL -.
show that out OF a total Of 39,474 births
not less than 10.0os, or above % per
cent, were illegitimate. During the
same period there were 1910 divorces
in the capital. Berlin also had los sui
cides and As murders in 1909.
The statistics of divorce IN the king
dom of Prussia in the year 1910 show
that there were 12s divorces to every
100000 marriages in Prussia, there
having been an increase of 20 since
1905. In the cities generally divorces
rose from 1S1 in 1905 to 216 in 1910,
and in the largest cities from 25S to
323 per 100000. In the country dis
tricts the figures only rose from A to
40. The figures show the remarkable
fact that divorce is seven times more
frequent in the big cities than in the
country. In 1910 the divorces granted
in Prussia amounted to 9,277, there
having been gain of more than one
The Great Drouths.
The effects Of the great drought Of
this summer, which has ended only in
limited sections of the country, have
already made themselves felt in a Sc
rious way nthe shape of price ad-
vances. Vegetables of all kinds now
cost from two to four times as much
as in normal summers, while milk
prices have been advanced in most
parts of the country. The situation
confronting the working people of the
cities during the winter is a most Sc
| rious one; and movem ents for an in
crease of wages have become much
more frequent than usual. A consider
| able advance has already occurred in
the prices OF all sorts Of food -stuffs
for live stock. To make matters still
worse the hoof and mouth disease is
still spreading rapidly
In order to relieve the situation the
state railways have reduced frefghts to
| one-half on bran, hay and straw; but
no reduction was made on barley and
Indian corn. The Chamber of Com
merce Of Frankfort has petitioned for
a temporary repeal of the duty on corn.
which amounts to $3.50 per ton. as a
measure Of relief for the animal in
! dustrys