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Show 1 iERNUM Win TALK snyiw m fild Prophecy Gives It Im- fpetus; Conservatives Strive ill' to Muffle Rumblings. n 9AXES HIGH IN PRUSSIA n ' llhipping- Interests Reflect the General Prosperity of Empire. I' tS j By FREDERICK WERNER. 5 jecial Cable? to The Tribune. V BERLIN. January IS. In the year of X 49. twelve months after the dayu when IF fi Hohensollerns camo very near bolus liven out of their kingdom, una" at a ne when Germany's future looked any-? any-? Lnrr but brlllliint. the prophecy was Bde, nobody knows lyy whom, but It came kuov.n to everyone, that the I era of 1ST1, 1SSS and J'JlC were to bc-,lM'o bc-,lM'o famou In German history. 'Wfehc propli'U'v e;nne I run In the first j cars and now men tho uiohI aober-BWhidrd aober-BWhidrd perrons are asking themselves jjthc sreat European war which was llxjphesli'd for he present year is going HK:'com true. too. Nobudj- wants a war. w3nk Socialist., are pledged to oppose It 71th all tbelr mlyht even to the extent 'JrefiiHlnp to servo In the army, unless J inn any Is actually attacked. But at a o same lime the conviction Is gmlnim; .a bund thnt war may bceomo unavoid-1SKJ unavoid-1SKJ lc. In the officers' casinos as well a.s S 4on naval officers tho Idea of war la J beted with enthusiasm, though no one wf illy kccs what Germany nhould Dpfht it K rmy and Navy Ready. . " Tt may be liuly nald. however, that 111 ilther the kaiser nor his soverumcnl IS o In favor of war. though they do not 1 " ubt that the country's armv and navy e ready for It If Jt should come. The , Iscr. -who ban iilwayn been fond of jan BlnR uk tl-e great protector of Europe's ice. wants to celebrate his jubilee In lit lie. anions bin people far rather than Ttho battlefield. And tho government IX too well awaro of the costliness of Ukn c successful war to rush Into ono ,;Bhdcr t.hrso circumstances an article "eh bears every sign of having; boon tfcilred, appearing In the Deutsche KfiflB'iie's current number and dealing T.iWh Go-man International nolitlcs, Is of UHBjplal Interest hecauso it s ravel y warns . Pt part of the German people con-1 con-1 JnUv embarrassing the covrrnnicnt, tho IMh-Germans. agalntt stirring up HI fcel-agaJnst fcel-agaJnst TSngland. tho only country rrV Germany mlsht possibly gel. into lltiblo with, in spite of the conciliatory 4a.i(Peavor3 of the governments of both in tries. jj brman Philistine. 1 L Unfortunate!.- ,' tho article says, "all SuiptK at a rapprochement by England I' fall so long as the Germnn Phllis-7 Phllis-7 B, who has aBsuniod the line title of yl-Gorman. Is tilled with hatred against Cland and Incites to war against her. , Is very easy, by a so-called national patriotic phraseology, to win tho i ses and egg thorn on against another USi1 Jlre. But tho lenders or tho I-'an-',' roans do not understand what dam-H dam-H j'tIs thus done, or accept responsibll--, for the consequences of their Chauviu- II p ef forts. II P?hu conjunction of England and tho i man empire would be tho most im- 3. nt factor In ICurope and the world. 'iJ3 the intorc)t: of the two countries '1 r(ciillty diverge much lfss than those jther powers. hihIi a union would be 4 ronly thinkable but attainable If we 1 ib aa cool and polillcaily realistic as a ?J English in our atlludc toward world riot! Btions. Tho Pan-Ocnnan movement, iiii i' 'cvcr- 00 often threatens with Ihu u . hJ and destroy tho work done by diplomacy to arrive at an under-f. under-f. iding with England. War with Eng-7IB' Eng-7IB' and her allies would be ono of the .test and ino3t perilous catastrophes ,tho entire civilised world. In niod-'Rwarfare niod-'Rwarfare It is not only armies which 'Jt against one another, but also epl-Ics epl-Ics and the hunger of the unem-cd unem-cd m:isbcs, so Uial. as ihn present Tfpfifc3-11 "lv;ir ul'owt5- H'c victor, oven after J,Xfi greatest nuccesMcs. must often suffer r dii.a)polntmcnta und incalculable jjrc sacrlflcoj." jSfcssia's Condition. fcllo tho inassor of the people of the 9619 Mlom of Prussia are still as orcly a iJlcned with ta::es aa over and nobody much about individual prosperity, "T'J.Baunot bo denk-d that the financial ?Mtloii of tho kingdom itself la pro- .pilng qulto favorably. 09bT "l0 first t-l'no many years the ,jGWantii balaneo without the aid of a t0m. 'I'ho national debt of Prussia Mints to 52,-17B,000.000, but Tfi per cent "tM:x. 1" Invested In state rullroada and a BMBdcrablo portion remaining has been ' "MpycJ for produutlvo iiurpoaes. Direct BLlon will, according to tho cstiniatou, M; nearly 512ri.000.000, whllo 5107,2 10.- SRTfjmrc yielded by state enterpriser. The Mua from the shito railroads, for ox- flc, In estimated at SSl.SOB.OOO,1 though mFBv ?G8. 775,000 of this sum WI1U ho (Pai to meet tho ordinary oxpcndltures ijigWC state. Land and forests belonging Mf state am estimated to yield a sur-0mct sur-0mct ?21,t7i,,000 besides providing; 1,-Tiedi 1,-Tiedi K tou"ard tho civil list. Tho curpluu mi tho state mines, inline springs, i tfCM.wJH yield Is estimated at $3,070,000. , la largo sums bolng not aoldo for new ructionc. I may add that It In cstl-. cstl-. nflmri Ihat Ihn Hluto loltory will yichl a viCw" ,uri"e ,Uo f-'omlng year of ?4,o00,- ;74fceral Prosperity. Bbc figures refer exclusively to the ! om of Prusala, but the gunoral flBerity of tho empire 8 manifested ;-Kstrlhlng manner by reports on tho .jBpial bltiiatlon of tho great German tfirBng. companies. Tho Borsen Cour-m Cour-m 1' jKhe of. thn most rella.blo organs of v TBBourso, has made Inquiries among ,,iiry!rr and shipowners, and from tho tMpatlon Hupplled to it Ik enabled to JSfjBtlui following forcuuata of th dlvl- 9rmL 'lvn,cn "will lJe paid In Oic coming mfim?' Tllt, ITambui-g-Amerlka line cx-MBr cx-MBr to pny lj, and porhapa even 12 Wnl.. au compared with 9 per cent - previous yi-ar: thn ortldciilschu fU'M expected to pay from 7 to S per lWLn& compared with f "per cent In kHTovloua year; whllo it lo anticipated KHr 'lc Hamburg-South American gSMlohlp company will pay nt. Jcasl. !!, fcer cent more than in tho previous m JA.v Gcrman-AuKtrallan Steamship L fKIiy lms 1,:icJ u hrllllaut year, und it nfT rBi'lcrcd on tho Uoursc lo hi very Mile that it will pay u dividend of from 15 to 1C per cent, as compared wltli 11 por cent in the previous year. It is hcllc.vod that tho steamship company com-pany Koxmou will pay 1C, as compared with 10 per cent for tho previous year-Thn year-Thn German East African lino In described de-scribed av being in a brilliant financial position. However, "solely in consideration considera-tion of English competition," it will again only P&y S per ront. The German-Levant line hna not. owing to thi Balkan war. dono thy business it would other-ulso other-ulso have done, but can nevertheless In-ercar.o In-ercar.o It1 dividend from f, to 8 per cent. Tho Gorman steamship company Mau-tai. Mau-tai. which paid Ifi per cent this year, will probabb pay "0 vcr cent at tho beginning be-ginning of next year. I |
