The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-04
CAMPAIGN AGAINST
HOLLWEG AR0USES
ENTIRE EMPIRE
Peace Making Efforts Of Socialists
Pictured as Leading Ger
many to Ruin

| copenhagen, via LONDON, May 4, D ~
a. m.-Such German newspapers as
are now permitted to reach here, al
though evidently carefully selected for
the absence of military news or any
information in regard to the strike
movement, indicate that the campaign
against Chancellor Won Bathmann- HOll-
veg is again in full swing. The Con.
servatives, although insisting as usual
that the other parties observe a polite
al truce, III the interests of the father
land, have adopted and published q
set of resolutions sharply attacking
the chancellor and censuring the gov
eminent for weakness and vacillat!on
on the peace question and in dealing
with the strike agitation. ,:H~; nm"
GRIEF AND CONCERN ~.
The resolutions express grave grief
and concern at the steadily growing
influence of the Socialists whose peace
making efforts are declared to be lad
ing Germany to the brink OF ruin. AL)-
parently this attack was timed to CO.
incide with the opening Of the Reichs-
tag and it is significant that the resolll.
tions are endorsed by the free conseF-
vative wing under Baron Won Seyd-
litz. Baron Won Seydlitz has hither-
to been far less an extremist than
Count Westarp and Herr Won Heyde-
brand, leaders of the regular or junk
ers conservatives" .|&h' - g"
ENDANGERING MONARCHY
Among the papers which are direct
ing their fire against the chancellor
are the conservative organs, the Kreuz
Zeitung and the Deustche Tages Zeit-
ung. They accuse the premier Of en-.
dangering the monarchy and of fail
ing a course prescribed by the Social
lists.
The Berlin correspondent of the Ham.
burg Fremdenblatt, in a long survey
of the situation, declares that the
political life of Germany Is now pass.
ing through an era of strife and diff.
ferences of opinion on external and in
ternal questions which daily grow
more lively and Of broader dimensions.
The correspondent says that dissat.
isfaction with the governments policy
is growing in all directions and that
its reticence on peace terms is being
used to sharpen mutual suspicious and
the antagonism Of the party. The
Socialist leaders, he continues, do not
hesitate to explain and justify the lat.
est strike movement on the grounds OF
the delay in reforming the Prussian
franchise. T. 49,
The writer declares that the nation.
al liberals are coQuetting with the
Conservatives and that the opportunist
clerical centre is intent only OH a pre-
servation of its own influence. His
picture of the situation, at the open
ing of the Reichstag is, in other words
one of general strife in which each
mans hand is against every other
a condition promising an illuminating
parliamentary discussion on all the
questions in dispute. This condition
Of affairs probably explains the deci
sion of the Socialists, whom their op
pOnents accuse of having captured the
chancellor, to postpone the proposed
Interpolation on peace and perhaps
put the brakes on discussion of thu
problems of political reform.
ADVISES CAUTION
The Berlin VOrwaerts in an editor
ial signed by Herr Landsberg, Social
list deputy, attempts to convince thu
workmen of the necessity of goins
easy with reforms until peace is sc
cured.
The no-indemnity plank of the So
cialist peace platform has been select
ed by his opponents for their heavies
attack against Phillip Scheidemann
The workmen are told that ruin for tn
empire and penury for themselves arr
certain unless heavy indemnity il
a. executed. Otherwise they are inform
ed, the war will end with q German
debt Of ut least 10000. 100000 marks
requiring an annual taxation Of a hal
billion marks for interest and redemp
ton in addition to three billion TO
normal expenditure.