The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1895, Page 3

THE SAN FEBANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1895. 3 NGT READY FOR WiR, Englishmen Very Willing to Change the Unpleas- ant Subject. THE PEACEFUL FEELING. British Subjects Glad to Think That the Trouble Has Blown Over. QUITE ANXIOUS TO REASON. Americans in London Will Meet and Express a Desire for a Harmoni- ous Settlement. Copyright, 1895, by the New York Times. LONDON, Exg., Dec. 28.—There could be no better commentary on the situation than the fact that the Times to-day gives the first place on its telegraphic page to two columas from Johannesburg and Berlin abont threatened trouble in the Transvaal and relegates its New York dis- patches to a secondary rank. This quite typifies the feeling here that the Anglo- American difficulty has practically blown over. 1t also helps to explain why the English are so glad to think that it has blown over, illustrating as it does the enormous range of their fac:lities for getting into hot water with everybody 1n every quarter of the globe. a fortnight ago; it is the Tr it will be the Mekong row, the Niger next time, and so on in an circle of frontier friction and im- perial risk. That was why I said a week ago that on no account shert of being boldly pushed into it would En nd consent to view a conflict with America as in any ‘Wway possib) It is too conscious of being aiready overloaded with responsibilities to willingly take burden. No doubt a good deal of pathos is mixed up in the professions of friendly emotion toward America with which England has been teeming this week, but it would be unfair to suspect in them any large element of insincer The Englisa have been an imperial race so long that it is ingrained in their blood to like people who can be of use to them and automati- cally to reserve their dislike for others. There is no conscious deceit in it, but only imperial instinct. They have fastened in their minds the dim but resplendent ideal of a time when English-speaking people shall rule the world and as urally assumes the larger part in this vision they think that they like Ameri- cans more. Of course, such a manifestation as the so-called appeal from the English author- ities may be treated as a wail of people terrified about their copyrights and there have not been lacking other interested con- tributions to the less dignified side of the discussion, but the ain Spirit of the week’s expressions has been, if not disin- terested, still honest encugh. The message of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York was, of course, officially sanctioned by the Foreign Office. Consti- tutional princes are trained from child- hood to walk a political chalklhine with painful solicitude, and they could not have dreamed of sending such a telegram with- out the consent of the Prime Minister. he fact that such a step is unprecedented in English annals shows the very impor- tance which official England, on second thought, attaches to p: with America. Nobody here caviled at its being sent, which is, perhaps, even more eloquent a sign ot the popular will- inguess to let it be understood that a mis- take haa been made and that they were ready to meet the American views on the matter in any reasonable way. The whole controversy mightindeed have been robbed of most of its bitterness and Englishmen might be frankly saying to-day that no harm bas been done in waking them up | b¢Ch frightened by the Panama threats, | rather sharply to the fact of their 2P¢ whether they will now get courage | negligent remissness in dealing wigh | [Fom despair remains to be seen. Venezuela if concerted outrageous | Hungary, which by ethnological rules | abuse of President Cleveland bhad not been jmported from America into the affair at the very outset. The mails will be bring- ing this back to you,and you will tind that from the beginning Englishmen were told that the President of the Republic | had deliberately prostituted his office ana conjured up the specter of war to secure a | thira term for himself; that only hood- Jums supported him, and thatevery decent element in American citizenship stood aghast and revolted at this criminal be- bavior. When Congress revealed itself unanimogsly at his back we were told that | they were corrupt, cowardly politicians, | who were striving to outstrip the President | in a race for the votes of the ignorant jngo mob. X | Now that a deadlock on the tariff and | revenue measures has arisen between the | Capitol and the White House, we are in- formed that Congress discovered that the | country was solid against President Cleve- | Jand and so hastened to retrace its steps. | For ten days the British mind, has been fed exclusively on this sort of thing, with | hardly a correcting note of any kind, and, | though I dare say it has contributed to | year could haraly have recognized itself | apprehensions and evoke | in England. More people stayed in town | allay Britisk British amiability, these ends seem to me } to have been bought at a larger price than | any self-respceting community ought to | be asked to pay. | The American Society in London is to ! hold a meeting Monday to consider a reso- [ Iution expressing the earnest hope and | confident expectation that all existing | differences will be harmoniously and ami- | cably settied. The secretary and moving | spirit of this society is a' second cousin of | 1 , who was born here, | Joreph Chamberlain ! but lived for many years i the United | States. Everyth ing has ite funny side, ax_!d the Prince of Wales suddenly finds himself being used by the Liberal press o( Ger- man:\' and Austria as a club wi_lh whxgh to belabor bis nephew, the Kaiser. These editors point out that Emperor William has always spoken contemptuously of the press, publicly called newspaper men can- didates for starvation and otberwise vented his spleen on journalism, whereas his broad-minded uncie actnally answers ‘reply paid”’ telegrams from newspapers of foreign eountries and uses the press as a means of peace and good will. Therc ought to be grounds for lese majesu prose- cution in some of these Berlin compari- gons, which would give the Prince of Wales « place in history that he could never have expected for himself. There is 1 such a portentous added | America nat- | eventing a rupture | no possibility of knowing anything about Russia’s official view of the Anglo-Ameri- can dispute, and the rumors afloat about it are entirely valueiess. Tt is more certain than ever that Eng- land bas pulled out of the Levantine im- broglio bag and baggage, which lessens the chances of Russia’s desiring to make a combination against her in other quarters. Itis understood among politicians here in touch with the Foreign Office that Russia is guaranteeing a fairly large Rothschild | loan to Turkey, part of which Russia is to lt' ke on the old war indemnity account, ! and the rest of which is to be used by the Sultan to pay salaries and working ex- | penses, which are terribly inarrears. Tken | e is to have time till spring to pacify his { dominions as roughly as he likes, and if !the job is incomplete when the snow | melts, Russia is to consider whether she | has not a moral mandate to finish it. Ap- | parently there will be fewer Armenians | then than there are now. | Gladstone’s departure for Biarritz,where | he will spend his eighty-sixth birthday to- | morrow, has operated further to depress | the Armenian sympathizers here. Al- | though he bas done ratber more for them than would have seemed decorousin an | opposition leader occupying a less unique | position, they have been clinging to the } hope that he somehow would be induced [to do a great deal more and actively Lead a popular agitation which should force Salisbury’s hand. He is reported to | have said that if he were Premier he would run the risk of coercing the Sultan, as he did in 1880 on the Greek and Motenegrin auestion, but that, being in private life, he | had no right to insist that another should assume what was undoubtedly a great again. He has taken with him huge boxes of books, but one of his young men says that they are tais time chiefly novels, and nothing has been heard of any special literary work that the Grand Old Man has laid out for his holiday. In hislifetime nobody could have seemed | less likely to affect the politics of a nation | than the poor feather-headed litile Max Lebaudy, whose pranks as the millionaire *‘petit sucrier”” diverted Paris for years, | but his death has stirred up a deep popu- lar feeling, which may easily influence a considerable section of the electorate, and | in turn produce results in the Chamber of | Deputies. It is clearly enough proved that he was treated with exceptional rigor while undergoing m v service, and, tinally, when it was demonstrated that he v vas deliberately refused the care which any peasant conscript might have had and put in a hospital ward with fever patients from Madagascar, contact with whose malady killed him offhand. Itis shown, moreover, that Mme. Severine and | other journalists pursued his superior officers and other authorities with threats, if any favoritism or mercy were shown to him, that a press campaign would be begun, aileging corrupt truckling to the rich man. The question was raised in the Chamber yesterday, and, though the ques- tion was passed over without action, War Minister aignac’s answer pleased no- body, nor is the position of the socialist papers, that such a worthless youngster could do nothing better than die, likely to commend itself to the Bourgeoisie on sec- | ond thought. New Panama disclosures are understood | to be due next week, and will be putin | such form that action of some sort will be imperative. Already a partial list of the | | incriminated Deputies is published in a radical paper which has friends.in the present Ministry, and within a few days the air will be thick with denunciations. This prospect revives the talk of making a last desperate effort to get the majority nerved up to the point of throwing this | minority Ministry out before a great ca- tastrophe comes, and Meline is being put forward to make a fight about Madagascar with that hope in view. He is the spokes- man of those who resent the consideration shown to the foreign residents of the istand and to the treaty engagement with other powers. They demand immediate denun- ciation of these latter and the establish- ment of an ungualitied French r:le at Antanarivo. If M. Bourgeois cannot be beaten on this no one sees how he is to be defeated at all. The attack will appeal to | | all who wish domestic policies to be left | alone and who find profit in keeping the public excited about foreign and colonial | affairs. M. Bourgeois has undoubtedly | drawn in the Foreign Office lhorns, estab- lished much friendlier relations with other | countries than his predecessors dared to maintain and concentrated attention on | the internal affairs. A conflict between the two policies was inevitable from the | beginning, but his opponents thus far have | ought to be in the rear guard of human | progress, continually sets the rest of the | | Continent examples in civilization. Its | | Liberal Ministry has now aadressed a de- | | eree to the universities of Buda-Pesth and Klausenburg, ordaini that hereafter | women shall be aduutted to academic studies and be allowed to fit themselves | for the profession of teachers in secondary | female schools, physicians for women and | children, and dispensing druggists. i The circumstances of Stepniak’s death have raised an immediate suggestion of | suicide in the minds of the general public which the inquest can hardly be said to have dispelled. His earnestly repudiate the idea, and very likely they are right, but the susvicion will cling nevertheiess. His latter books have been commercial failures and he had faten -into bad odor with one section of the Rus- | sian revolutionary party, which would furnish reasons for his supposed suicidal | act. Owing partially to the ridicnlously warm weather and still more to the perturbed state of the public mind, Christmas this than I have ever seen before, and, except for the fact that everybody whose duties refer to the ordinary necessities and com- forts of life quit working for most of the week, the holiday atmosphere was almost wholly wanting. Never, too, have corre- spondents on the Continent had so little 10 say about Christmas observances there. From their meager notes one gleams a stray picture of Emperor Williams’ three- year-old daughter receiving the present of a washtub, flatirons and the general laun: dry outfit of a good hausfrau, but doubt- | less more will remember another picture | of Sarah Bernhardt presiding over a large | Christmas tree lighted by electricity and | radiant with trinkets for ner granddaugh- | ter’s school friends. Mrs. Oliphant’s outspoken attack in the January Blackwood’s on Hardy’s latest | novel, Grant Allen, latter-day books and | the whole school ot imitators, whom she | tion. immediate friends | describes as the anti-marriage league, is distinctly the literary event of the season. She is the oldest of the British novelists, with perhapsa larger record of honorable, painstaking good’ work ‘behind her than any other writer in our language, and she has never been given to scolding nor to saying unpleasant things. This frank, scathing onslaught, therefore, comes with a-novel force, and everybody is talking about it. HaroLp FREDERIC, DESERVED A TRIBUTE. But Editor Hofrichter Was Imprisoned for Exposing Barbarities. AROUSED A COMMOTION. Indignation in Germany Over the Prosecution of a Socialist. THE JUDGMENT CONDEMNED. All Parties Menaced by Enforcement of the Law to Suppress Political Associations. BERLIN, GerMANY, Dec. 28,—The re- cent sentence of imprisonment announced against Herr Hofrichter, editor of the Rhine Gazette, a Socialist newspaper, for having denounced barbarities practiced upon the inmates of the House of Cor-| rection at Brauweiler, has aroused a vio- lent.public commotion, which is certain to redound in favor of the Socialists. Out- side of ultra-Conservative circles there is absolute unanimity in condemning the sentence. The Tageblatt declares that Herr Hofrichter deserves a public tribute mstead of imprisonment for exposing cruelties upon the helpless which were varalleled only in the middle ages. If his conviction was the resuit of the existing law, the paper says, then the law must be altered. *‘Itis no wonder,” the Tageblatt continues, “that the German people are turning Socialists in masses, when the horrors of the Brauweler institution are defended by law.” The Vossische Zeitung condemns the finding and judgment of the court in much the same language as thatemployed by the Tageblatt. The National Zeitung, which has now become a pronounced reactionist organ, attempts to mitigate the popular effect of the sentence by maintaining that it was not altogether for disclosing the horrors of the treatment meted out to the inmates by the authorities of the institution that Herr Hofrichter was convicted and sen- tenced, but for other offenses as well, Besides revealing the deplorable abuses practiced in the Brauweiler House of Correction, the Zeitung says IHerr Hof- ade an assault upon the Director ns personally. But asthe judg- ment of the court is notoriously based upon editorial criticisms of a public insti tution the contention of the National | Zeitung has not any weight. The fact is that it 1s not the Socialists alone that dread the new forms of apply- ing the law. The suppression of political associations by the authorities and the continuous- prosecutions of the press for free expression of opinion alarm the Cen- | NORTHER. terists and the Freisinnigesalso. The fact is now recognized that all parties are equally menaced, as against all party organiza- tions can article VIIL of the ordinance of 1850 be used, this article being the one which Herr von Koeller, late Prussian Minister of the Interior, applied in dissolv- ing the Socialist electoral committees. The temper of the Conservatives is car- rying them to the length of provosing the expulsion of the Socialists from the Reichs- tag. Die Grenzboten, a high-class jour- nal which was notably influential during the period of Prince Bismarck’s power, urges the Reichstag to adopt a provisional act, or Nothgesetz, empowering the Presi- {dent of the Reichstag to question every deputy suspected of Socialism as to whether he has renounced all revolutionary agita- If the deputy shdll refuse to answer or to pledge himseif that he has renounced Socialism, his mandate as a member of the Reichstag shall be declared void. The Conservative newspapers favorably | eriticise the proposition as a desiravle one, but express doubt of its efficacy upon the | ground, as they declafre, that as the Social- ists would not hesitate to commit perjury in the interests of their party before courts of law they equally would not hesitate to verbally make false renunciation of their vrinciples if they were forced to do so be- fore the Reichstag. The sensation of the week has been the absconding of the great Berlin lawyer, Fritz Friedmann, for whom a warrant of arrest has been issued for bribing a police oflicer to allow a woman client whom the officer was taking to prison to escape. Fried- mann has the reputation of being the ablest lawyer in Germany and he certainly has the greatest practice and receives the highest fees. As an instance of the latter, it may be mentioned that he received 60,000 marks for defending Banker Polke some timeago. It issaid that his income averaged 500,- 000 marks a year. He was last seen while attending a Masonic dinner with his wife. In some way he ¢ot wind of the fact that a warrant bad heen issued for his arrest and he vanished after realizing al the cash he | could. He took with him, besides all available money, the documents in the case of Leberecht von Kotze, formerly court chamberlain, and other secret papers which had been entrusted to his care by high personages. The Von Kotze vapers included many of the letters which the chamberizin was alleged to have written to high personages, and for which he was for a time in deep disgrace. Herr Fried- mann left a wife and five children in pov- erty, bis creditors having seized all of his effects immediately after his disappear- ance. It is now learned that he led a doublelife for many years. The recent sharp changes in the weather, involving rain, sleet, snow and chilling winds laden with moisture, have led to a resurgence of the inflnenza throughout Berlin and vicinity. The Kaiser has suf- fered from a cold, but it was promptly ¢hecked and he was enabled to take part in the Christmas fetes of the imperial family. Dr. Miquel, the Prussian Minister of Finance, has a severe attack of influ- enza, and a number of other Government cflicials are also suffering from the malady, Among the numerous presents which Christmas brought to the Emperor the best was from the Empress, consisting of a set of porcelain plates with paintings on them of naval subjects, six drinking cups with a golden spoon attached to each, and two great landscapes painted by a German artist. The Empress received a costly antique necklace with pendants, and the Crown Prince a complete uniform of the Gardes du Corps. The other princes got guns and drums, and Prince Eitel Frederick got also a pony. The little princess, Victoria Louise, recelved a washing tub,a set of flatirons and an ironing board. United States Embassador Runyon will give a dinner on January 2, at which Chancellor von Hohenlohe, Baron Mars- chal von Bieberstein, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and all of the foreign Embassadors will be guests. Baron von Hammerstein, the abscond- ing ex-editor of the Kreuz Zeitung, was arrested yesterday in Athens by a Berlin police commissary. He was taken at once to Brindisi, and is now on his way back to Germany by railway train, GLADSTONI'S BIRTHDATY. It Will Re Duly Celebratea To-Day by the Grand Old Man. LONDON. Dec. 28.—To-morrow Right Hon. William E. Gladstone enters his 86th year. He has the vigor and vital- ity of a man twenty years younger. His recent release from the burdens and per- | plexities of public life, giving him leisure to return to his beloved books, has won- derfully restored him. Mrs. Gladstone, bis life partner, is 83, and bears her vears as easily as does her distinguished hus- band. They had seven children, and sur- rounded by them and their grandchildren, will hear “the birds of joy and love sing once more jn the leafless branches of the trees of age.” ' —_— - Progress of Japan. YOKOHAMA, Jarax, Dec. 238. — The Japanese Parliament opened to-day with the reading of the speech by the Emperor. His Mejesty expressed joy at the glorious ending of the war with China. The Em- eror announced that the relations of apan with foreizn countr more intimate. The empire has already made striking progress, he said. Measures would be introduced to increase the em- vire’s defenses. L Killed by His Wife. NEWCASTLE, Nesr., Dec. 28 —Lewis Bokoskie, who owned a farm four miles from here, was shot and killed by his wife to-day. The cause is not known. had become | REVOLUTION THREATENED, Struggle of the Foreigners in the Transvaal to Secure Civil Rights. | Unless the Boers Act Prudently There Will Be a Popular Rising. LONDON, Exc., Dec. 28.—The struggle of the Uitlanders, who are Englishmen. and other foreigners in the Transvaal to secure from the Boer Government the con- cession to them of the civil rights enjoyed by the Boers has not even an approximate reference to the absorption of the Dutch republic into England’s regimen. On the contrary, the malcontents, who are threatening a revolution unless their demands are granted, include many Ameri- cans and Germans, who aim to consolidate the republic by a liberal franchise. The Boers, who now form a minority of the populaion of the Transvaal, wish to retain their rule over the Uitlanders, and continue to levy taxes and regulate the mining industsy through Boer cliques. The foreigners claim that mining opera- tions are worse than hampered by the re- strictions placed upon them by the Boers. The Government refuses to allow the teaching of English in the schools, with the result that English-speaking children, of whom there are now 10,000 in the repub- lic, are debarred from obtaining an educa- tion in their mother tongue. The outlook is threatening, as the Uit- landers are determined to obtain what they hold are their rights, and a popular rising is within sight unless the Boers act | prudently in the matter. | " The foreign residents have formed a national union, which will meet in conven- tion on January 6 to decide what course they shall take to secure rights equal to those enjoyed by the Boers. e e Ty DISREGARD ALL TLAWS. Peculiar Practices Among the Amish People in Indiana. DECATUR, Ixp., Dec. 28.—Thirteen Amish ministers and prominent members of that church have been charged with committing various crimes, the worst being immorality and the rude manner in which they bury their dead. The Amish are a very pecuiiar class of people and are known for their odd modes of worship and religious beliefs. They believe only the Bible, and they hold that all laws made by men are contrary to the Bible. They also believe the earth is flat, and recently dis- missed a schoolteacher for trying to teach their children that the earth was round. Another of their beliefs is that the dead should be buried in wheatfields and that wheat should grow over their graves. These people live in colonies, never sep- arating or moving from a place unless the entire colony moves. There is a colony of 500 in the southern part of this county and the arrests have caused great excite- ment, as they have resided here several years unmolested. They marry and inter- marry without procuring marriage licenses. In several instances they have married cousins and half-sisters. Christian Schwartz and Joseph Schwartz, their leading ministers, are charged with solemnizing marriages without a license. Jacob J. Eicher, Peter Mazelin and Peter Schwartz were charged with marrying first cousins. They buried a corpse near a farmhouse. A hole two feet square and three deep was made and the corpse thrown into it with- out coffin or box.- They refuse to come to court and aver that if they are molested they will move their colony elsewhere. They own much land and are quite wealthy. All those arrested were released on $5000 bonds. MARCH OF THE CUBANS, Gomez Asks All Sympathizers to Leave Havana Next Month. Government Forces Claim to Have Defeated the Insurgents in Sev- eral Battles. KEY WEST, Fra., Dec. 28.—Cuban ad- vices by the steamship Olivette to-night state that Quintin Bandera is at La Moca. All the railroad stations between Jevel- lanos and Matanzas bave béen destroyed } by insurgents. Maximo Gomez has issued a manifesto | asking ali sympathizers with the Cuban | cause to leave the city of Havana by the 15th of next month. Gomez and his forces have entered Los Palos and Aguante, and are steadily approaching Havana. No battles of any importance are re- ported in Havana the past two days. HAVANA, Cusa, Dec. 28.—A Spanish column has dispersed two parties of rebels at Rivial. Advices from Sagua are to the effect that Government troops have had an engage- ment with and defeated a force of 1000 rebels commanded by Gortina at Viana Calabazar. The insurgent loss was eleven killed and many wounded. Two rebels were captured. A Government force operating from sev- eral points in the Oriental provinces has had three days’ fighting with revels. Sev- eral insurgent camps were captured. The Sgamish loss wasone killed and six wound- ed. A prisoner states that fifty rebels were killed. During the fighting the rebels con- | sumed all their ammunition. = NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. WAS \if{h_ll\“_; ] W " N\ 4 Nz N/ 2 It was one of those cold north winds that sends its piercing cold shafts right through one. It was one of those days, Saturday, that make an Overcoat a double comfort. Had we double the force Satur- day, in our Overcoat Department, we would not have been able to cope with the crowds that kept filing in and out of that big Overcoat Department of ours; espe- cially since we put in those fine Blue and Black English Kersey Overcoats of ours, that were selling at $18, NOW H0.00. New Year'sday isa great day for call. ing, and one is very particular about his dress especially on that day, and as we're going to be open Monday and Tuesday nights till 11 o’clock, we want to give you the full advantace of getting the oppor- tunities which we're now offering in our Men’s Suit and Overcoat Departments, Our big Kearny-street window is just chock-a-block with the prettiest kind of Dress Suits, Business Suits, such suits that cannot be bought in other stores for double the money, or else why would the big store be crowded and the other fellows looking on ? The mighty lever that turns all the people in our directions is our high-class tailor-like clothes and the very small prices attached to 'em. Again on Monday we offer you the pick and choice from some of the very hand- somest Suits, Overcoats and Ulsters that were ever shown in thistown. We started the sale last Monday and will continue it again this Monday, and such an opportun- ity of getting the very highest graae of clothing, garments that were made by first- class tailors, trimmed and tailored in an excellent manner, at —$10.00—- Isn't one of those things that is. offered every day. A single glance into our big Kearny- street window will tell the tale with better effect that we can attempt totell it in'print. RAPHAEL'S 911,13 AND 16 KEARNY STREET. KING-PINS FOR OVERCOAjr_s