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Show LCIin (IbltMAM. Tin: domeatlo iltustlon In (iermany In critical, roll. Inl fttjllng liu not run n high ilnce the fall of Itlimarck aaatirriront. Though the dlaatciua do not itato definitely tho relation between the I.ruperur and lili mlnli-tera, mlnli-tera, yet It la plain that great dluall. faction txIftU. Cajrlvl, tho chancellor chancel-lor aucccNTor to Illainarck, U aald to have reMgnod. The realgnatlon of Zedlllx. anothermlnliter.la alleged to hTo been accented. The origin of all thla eicttement can be tracod to tho education bill now under conalderatlon by tho (lerman parliament, the Vroror and bli mln Uteri. ThUblHIaa moat abominable ineaiure. It la not alone retrogrcnilve In Ita character, but It lit) rannlcal and brutal. It deaUnaUi about half a dozen rillglouvM eta, nod virtually makea of thcmitato rellglona. In aome one of theie aecta every child attending a common ichool muit be tJucated, no matter what tho family belkf of the child may be. It la noticeable that the rellgloua denomtuatlona ttrongnough to com il recognition nra those men tlontd In the favored Hit. The wraiuritctiaro woraa than Ig noicJ; they are actually compelled ty tho provlalona of thla bill to permit tliemwlvettoboqulbtly wallowed up by tho larger and atronger, or b iub-Jccted iub-Jccted to pnal chaitUement or to Hltlcal and foclal dUabllltlea. In thort, thu bill atlpulatea that all education educa-tion ahall to controllud by theLlurgy of a few powerfuldtmomlnatloua, those of the I.ulhorana and Ibmanliti being the leadera. Itlallltlo wonder that the Oerman peoplo aro excited, au i It Ii not strange that many of the Uerman nilnlatera do not vudone thu bill. Uerr Miguel, the Pruwilan mlnUter of finance, oj jroaed it. When he found that uo mod-Ideation mod-Ideation of the tlaUMLOuld UttalQed be reelgned. Thla atartod the agitation, and the National Liberal ralaeJ auch aatofm that William did actually (rj to eflect a rumpromlif, Thla ti where liuatrandej. Hie tolerated aecti are Moralaiir,(u&kerf,(lreel(Bt Anglican, Jewi und Old Lutheran. The Itomau Catholic and Lutheran are, ofcourte, the great Htate religion, tut In their hoolgu ! lrltuAllty they extend protec lion to tlupu sect, but Ignora Method liti, Old Cathollci, Uultarlant, DoltU aud rree-thlnkera, all of whom mut lw vdiuated lu one ef the abovo aei,ta, or Uavo the empire. The iltuatlou In tho (ierman empire t really anomatou. Deiptlo rule auatalnod by mllitarlam tiUlnlJo l aile Willi tho grealcit Intellectual ro grew and advanced enlightenment of the age. Tbe cry for jvlltlcal dlien aatfflHBBBHBH thrallmtnt la Intense and earnest. The l.tjiperorlt erratic, Impulsive and precipitate. pre-cipitate. The clerny are treacherous Inltlmilnj and thirsty for power. The polllh lint are urging a aytt m ol Htate cclallstn which It Ralnlntf tecofiil-tlon. tecofiil-tlon. There are 84,000 mllee o! rallrjtd In riermsny. The Ktate owns andoralel 67 r cent, of the milage. (Iermany lial a sorlallillo sytem of Insurance. Hies: Iwief.ta were paid In 1SS1 0 111 overl,OW,00.caies. I ll 1 SD1 H,W0 0011 worklmtmen were enjoying Htate Insurance for accident, aud the sum aid to wl lows an I on liana under the law was JT,5"i,0. There- Is alto an olJ.sa:elnsurance law which went Into UtVct January III, 1801, and Jlf.OX). 000 was paid out lt J ear by tbetitile tosuierannuatedlatjorers. t III 180.1 the Hoclalliti cal tOM votes. Thli vote list .Usillr Incnawd tlon, and In 1 600 It cast l,417,U!l oles, one-flllli one-flllli of the total voting strength ot the eniflre. The clergy make political capital of this, aud aro battening the crlils. Victor Hugo said of Waterloo that It waa not a 1'ronrh defeat, but a chance ol front In the uuhirie. Homelhlng similar may be said of Germany Ger-many today. It Is not a mere parly broil that It In process, It Is a complete revolution lu Uerman national syitema that Is being Inaugurated. |