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Show THE IRON CHANCELLOR. i i Bismarck's Policj and Statesmanship Eulogized By the American Consul-General. One Hundred Patients Injured at the Christmas Celebration in a Chicago Hospital. Silrer Coinage Caif Count Upon 196 Friends in the House of Representatives. German Colonies a. Great Success. Washington, December 25. The success of Bismarck's policy, Mr. Frederick Raine, American Consul-General at Berlin, in the introduction to his annual report, writes briefly, rises the German Empire continuously continu-ously but steadily. He says the new system of government was carried into execution in an almost" iminterrnpted flow of new laws, and was apparently not retarded by a single inconsistency. They formed symmetrical parts of a structure that long before its erection was planned by far-seeing statesmen. states-men. Sufficient financial and other means were abundantly on hand for the establishment establish-ment of the empire. An immense amount of intellectual and moral forces for centuries was neutralized by petty rivalry between individuals and States, CONFEDEBATION BECAME AVAILABLE, And Bismarck was prompt in inviting1 and directing them to higher aims. With their aid he was enabled to forge formidable instruments in-struments for the erection of new political and other organizations, hardly thought of before. Mr. Raine embodies in'his report a series of tables from which he deduces several sev-eral interesting facts. The population and area comprised in the German Empire, which was 24,831,000 in 1816, had increased to 45,2M,0CD in 1880, and at the present rate of increase it doubles once in forty-seven years. This is in excess of the growth of the population in any of the neighboring powers. Great Britain, Mr. Raine says, doubles her population in fifty-one years, the Netherlands in fifty-two years, Denmark in fifty-four years, Austria in sixty years, Belgium in sixty-one years, while France requires two hundred years to double her population at the present rates. IMMIGRATION FBOM THE EMPIRE shows a steady and marked decrease since 1881, which fact, Mr. Raine argues, shows that either the economical condition of Germany Ger-many has improved, the attractive force of America has decreased, or that Bismarck's colonial policy is proving successful. This policy is meeting with universal approval throughout the Empire. The German Colonial Co-lonial Association, formed two years ago, spread with great rapidity. The first acquisition acqui-sition was made bv a Bremen firm of traders, the area being 909 German square miles in South Africa. The traders applied for and received recognition from the home government, govern-ment, and other traders speedily following the example, possession being thus acquired in South Africa and the South Sea Islands. It is now proposed that all the associations and companies which are endeavoring to promote the German COLONIAL INTERESTS SHALL BE FEDERATED, And the question, Mr. Raine says, will be considered at a meeting shortly to be held in Berlin. The Government has recently subsidised two lines of steamships to ran between the parent country and the colonies, and the third line has just been established by private pri-vate enterprise between Hamburg and Congo. Mr. Raine describes another colonial colo-nial enterprise of a novel character, which is now in successful operation. Three or four years ago, he says, several hundred thousand tramps infested Germany, -and drew from the people many millions annually, bestowed in charity. Clergymen first suggested a plan of colonizing these people, and with the aid of men of wealth, secured tracts of wasteor partly cultivated land in West-, phalia, where was organized "the workmen's work-men's colony." Local committees were everywhere formed to counsel the withholding withhold-ing of alms and bestowal of an equivalent sum to the new colony. TRAMPS WERE COMPELLED TO EMIGRATE To the colony in large numbers. There they were washed, provided with clothing, and furnished with employment as farm laborers. Gradually, as farm laborers, in the progress of colonization they found work at their respective trades, and many of them became useful members of society. The rest found their way to the work-house. The Emperor and many influential men of the Empire took a deep interest in the matter, and at present such committees are established estab-lished in all the colonies and states of Germany. Ger-many. Mr. Raine discusses exhaustively the conditions con-ditions of German trade and industries and influences, including the new protective policy of the government which is affecting them. He finds that manufacturers are complaining more of low prices than "of want of opportunities to dispose of their goods. The prices obtained do not yield the desired profits, but in nearly all branches of manufacture there is plenty of work, and new industrial establishments are being created. , |