| Show comparative SOCIALISM the victories won by the socialists in germany can scarcely bo be estimated from the regular reports the disadvantages under which they were gained being BO so entirely without a parallel on this side of tho the water under the operations of the socialist laws no euch such tiling thing as the free dia cue ions which characterize and control american campaigns is there permitted to this objectionable organization public meetings for such pur awes are forbidden and to ho be caught distributing socialist documents would subject the offender to a term of imprisonment A number of leading socialists are now in exile for of fences of that nature some of this sort of campaign in work has been done surreptitiously surin and numerous other inventions vent ions have been resorted to which in this free country could scarcely be contemplated with seriousness the reports affirm that the greater part of the canvassing has consisted in writing the names of the candidates with chalk on the fences or scattering hand band bills and dodgers by means of the school children A parisian paper tells a story of one of the candidates di named viereck said to be an illegitimate son of the old emperor william whose name in german means square and whose supporters therefore covered the walls in his district with squares of all sizes on election day with the single word elect eleca written underneath the candidates are mostly poor men among them were twelve carpenters ten machinists eight compositors eight shoe makers six merchants four cigar makers three tavern keepers three masons three two druggists and eight journalists no salaries are paid to the members of the reichstag ReicLe tag and the expenses of theao these persons will of course have to be paid by contribution trib ution but the necessary funds seem to have always been forthcoming when needed during the last days of the campaign over ov er a hundred meetings were held in berlin in spite of the vigilance of the police to prevent it and all of these involved heavy expenses in supplying such requisites the socialist of germany undoubtedly do their tall fall share but a strong fraternal sympathy is ex tended to them from all over europe and america it is asserted that tho the greater part of the funds for the campaign juet just closed went from the united states ri ay ws these facts alone are sufficient to suggest the extent and growth of the system its strength in that one nation has proven itself sufficient to capture in the sense at least of holding the balance of power the lawmaking law making body of the realm in switzerland it is IF comparatively greater aa as it is likewise in B ilium holland denmark and england are also amona the social strongholds strong holds in the united states slates the organization has been unfortunate or foolish in the choice of leaders who have involved ita its members in several grave mistakes if it not infamous crimes which have resulted in their judiciously retiring for the present at least from public gaze it is impossible therefore to give any approximate idea of their numbers it is a an injustice however to rank them with the anarchists archiAs an as Is commonly done the latter assume resume too much liberty tor for their previous education and this has led them into a disreputable aggressiveness and called down upon them the execrations exec rations of the masses of rood good citizens when they learn the effectiveness of moderation and a judicious recognition of the personal guarantees of the united states government and the might of public opinion the real merits of their peculiar ideas of government and the extent of their power may be better comprehended ended the obvious f tact act that there exists in this country a prevailing sympathy for the of germany and an equally popular hatred of the socialists of america is significant of the effects of too much freedom A CHICAGO citizen upon being arraigned before the police magistrate for drunkenness pleaded not guilty an and d produced in evidence a certificate e of 0 I 1 membership in the order of good Temp lars the court took the matter under advisement for ten days IT is 18 computed co n buted that four bills before th the bouge H 0 ulie committee on pensions call for the treasury surplus is doing very little talking these days |
