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Show DR. JACOB RIESSER i In the overthrow of the conservative conserva-tive pnrty in Germany at the last elections elec-tions for the reichstag. two years ago. some saw only a socialist victory. Others who had bee?" studying political politic-al and economic conditions in the empire em-pire for the few years preceding greeted the result as an anti-agrarian triumph. In addition to the great number of seats won by the socialists, fifty-eight candidates who were avowedly or known to be agrarians in their sympathies sym-pathies were defeated, not because of the increased popularity of socialist doctrines, but by reason of the spread of revolt against agrarian domination of politics in the empire and the organized or-ganized campaign against the big landowners and what they stood for. waged for a little more than two years by the Hansa league. The credit for the defeat of the agrarians i largely due to Prof. Jacob Ja-cob Riesser the well-known German f ft J: expert on banking and finance. Dr. Riesser is the founder of the Hansa league, the organization which was formed four years ago to fight agrarianism. Otherwise he is privy councilor of justice, honorary professor in the I'niver-tSJi I'niver-tSJi of Berlin, and tAe author of many standard works on bankin.;. |