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Show DISGRACE KEENLY FELTJfGEllS Revelations Brought Out by the Krupp Trial Prove Most Embarrassing. COMPARISON IS DRAWN It Is Pointed Out What England Eng-land Would Have Done in Similar Case. By FREDERICK WEENEB. I Special Cable to Tho Tribune BERLIN, Nov. 29. It is not too much to say that the Gorman peoplo feel very keenly the disgrace of tho revelationB of tho recent Krupp trial. "When heretofore wo havo heard of official of-ficial corruption in other countries wo have raised our oyos heavenward in horror and thanked the Lord that though auch things woro possible in Franco! America and Hufisia, thoy would nover happen in Germany. And during all this time they havo boon going go-ing on under our very eyoB. Tho only way in which wo eeein to be different is that apparently German officials ore tempted by emallor bribes. A strong party has arison in Ger- many which iusistB that wo have unnecessarily un-necessarily brought this public dia-graco dia-graco upon ourselves and that the Krupp trial was not necessary. Tho majority of Germans, however, agree that they cannot Bee how it might havo boen avoided. Radical papers, on tho other side, are pointing out that ; thoro was another way, which would have been just as officiant and more diguifiod and whioh would have mado it unnecessary to let all the world know that German officials had boen found ready to betray stato secrets in return for cigars, suppers aud bribeB no larger than a tip to a waiter in a first-clasB restaurant. Comparison Drawn. Thoao papers depict what would havo happened in .England under similar simi-lar circumstances. In that country the government would quite naturally and spontaneously havo turned to the forum with which it 6haros the responsibility respon-sibility of guarding tho commonwealth -jmrfiameut. A parliamentary commission com-mission would havo looked Into tho matter and tho public would with full confldcnco have awaited the verdict of such a commission. Tho Gorman roichstag does not fill quite tho same position as tho English parliament, but there was nothing to 1 provont it from appointing a commission commis-sion to investigate tho matter, and it would willingly hare done so had it been asked by the government. But this was the very thing whioh tho government gov-ernment most or all tried to avoid. It Bhuddorod at the very thought of investing in-vesting a commission appointed by tho reichslag with powers ox investigation, but there is every reason to believe JJia it will no longer hesitate to do so should a similar oaso over arise. Jews Hold Conference. At a time when interest ia tho Jewish Jew-ish question is still vory 6trong, as a result of the recont ritual inurdor trial in Russia, tho Association of German Jews has held its national conforonco at Hamburg and after it had boon pointed out that in splto of tho many eminent services rondored the state by the Jowb, theso had not yot been given absolute quality with other citizens, tho following resolution was unanimously unani-mously adopted: It shall be our effort to make known to everybody the tenets and SrinclpleB of the Jewish faith: Wo enounce and opposo all presentations presenta-tions of the Jewish faith tending to make it appear that it does not fulfill nil. tho strictest demands of morality. We are fighting for and demand tho absolute equality of all Gorman cltizons regardless of religion. re-ligion. We demand partlcularly that Jews be given equal opportunities opportuni-ties and privileges in the army with Christians. We demand that the state subsidize all religious communities as long b it subsidizes subsi-dizes any. Wo opposo taxation of Jows in order to subsldizo Christian Chris-tian churches. We demand that the governmont shall use all its influence in-fluence with the government of Russia to see that German Jowb aro grantod equal rights with Christian Chris-tian Gorman subjects to enter and travol about in tho empire of Rus-Bia. Rus-Bia. We oppose all official regulations regu-lations treating Jews differently from Christians. Meat Prices Soaring. The prices of moat continue soaring and in consequenco the city of Borlin will in the vory near future establish a now municipal slaughtorhouso for homos. Tho consumption of horse meat la rapidly increasing, but there are complaints that the control of tho authorities is not strict enough and that quantities of horse meat absolutely absolute-ly unfit for human food is being imported im-ported from abroad and sold to the poor in this city. Tho . St. Petersburg correspondent of a Borlin paper statos that a Russian who previously buried the carcasnas of old horses slaughtered for their hides nt Roval and Dorpnt has recently boon making a big profit by salting down this horse meat and sending send-ing It to Berlin. Such a thing ought to bo impossible if customs regulations regula-tions wore properly enforced, but bribing brib-ing haB beeu hinted at and the opposition op-position press 1b domanding a thorough thor-ough investigation. Captain Porsius, a retired Gorman naval officer and a fnmouB naval ex- f ert, has boon highly coraplimcntod by he German peoplo for tho excellent mannor in which he in an open letter to Winston Churchill, found exact, expression ex-pression for tho feolinga of a majority major-ity of the German poople toward tho English minister's proposal of a twelve months' naval holiday. Captain Persius wroto in part: . Abovo all, wo in Germany think that you have put tho enrt before tho horse in addressing your suggestion sug-gestion in tho llrst iusLauco to Gor-nmny. Gor-nmny. It will not bo unknown to you that the navy is tho Gorman 's greatest prido. It is his favorite child, which the present generation bus brought up from tho cradle. It almost seems a personal insult to the German to suggest that ho should stop tlio growth of his bo-loved bo-loved navy. You should not fail to introduce this factor into your calculations. cal-culations. Before you addressed to German' Ger-man' your proposal for a holiday year yon ought to have been able to produce in blnck aud whito tho agreement of the United State's (which it seems has already boon given), aud, above all, of "Jrauco and Russia. It is improbablo that Germany would havo thou lagged behind. Gorman Chauvinism is cor-tainly cor-tainly not as powerful as soma think. Rap at Parliament. Purthor. you ought to rest assured as-sured that porhapB in no othor country iu tho world docs tho quos-tion quos-tion or war and peuce as well as of tho increase or reduction of nrma-monts nrma-monts depend so little on tho nation na-tion as in Germany. Of course, we have a parliament, but I need not doscribo the small influence which it enjoys. It is tho will of the govornment its mh1c volo, b!c ju-eo'-' which is tho all-powonul factor, and tho governmont is peaceful to tho marrow of its bones because, it is world-wise nnd practical prac-tical enough to know what a war would cost. Do not givo up tho hope that with the right mothod of setting about tho business practical practi-cal common sense will assert itsolf in Germany and your proposal will be accepted. 1 1 |
