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The Daily record and the Dresden daily : 07.10.1909
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Office: DresdenA. Telephone 1755. Meojrir and THE DRESDEN DAILY. The First Daily Paper in English published in Germany. M 1,114. ^ ~“ Office: DresdenA. Telephone: 1755. DRESDEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1909. 10 PFENNIGS. The Daily Record is delivered by hand in Dresden, and may be ordered at any Post Office throughout the German Empire. It is published daily. e: legal holidays in Dresden. xcepting Mondays and davs following Monthly Subscription Rates: Fo, Dresden, mark I.-: for the rest of.Germany and Austria, mark 1.20. For other countries, marks 2.50. THE SUBMERGED TENTH. The approach of winter is a theme very fruitful to the poets and others who can extract sentiment il inspiration from the seasons. But there is one very large class of people to whom the portents of winter convey nothing but sickening dread and dreary de spair. We refer to the submerged tenth, the people of the abyss, those unfortunate beings who, bereft oi warm clothing and nourishing food, must per force look to Mother Nature for warmth and sus tenance. Nature, however, is at times a harsh parent and a selfish one. At certain seasons she showers her favours lavishly on the earth, giving free light, warmth, and food to whosoever will accept :+. Au tumn heralds the dying year, and it is then th it the radiant smile of infinite benevolence fades from Na ture’s brow, leaving her countenance stern, forbid ding;, pitiless. We have only to consider the untold millions of our fellow-creatures who are permanently without the scantiest means of self-support to realist* the ghastly tragedy performed beneath our very eves every winter. The agony of this grim drama is ac centuated or relieved according to the severity of the cold season and the prevailing condition of the* labour market. While such misery is universal, and may be met with even in prosperous Germane and America, it undoubtedly reaches its climax in' Eng land, and is particularly concentrated in London — the worlds vast metropolis, a city of opuient wealth, and withal a cancer spot on humanity^ social system. We read in the papers that the coming winter is likely to bring a repetition of the unemployed tra gedy that will surpass anything formerly known. To put it in bald language, some half million of the poor, herded together like unclean cattle in the vile purlieus and kennels of the East End, will experience the gnawing pangs of hunger and suffer indescrib able torments from cold and exposure. A large per centage of these wretched people will inevitably starve and thus make room for fresh detachments of outcasts next year. Practically all of them will sustain permanent injury to their health, ensuring an unfailing supply of patients to the great hospffah. Others, preferring speedy release to the lingcting tortures of slow starvation, may be relied upon to commit self-destruction. History gives no precedent of such widespread, wallowing desolation and -de spair. The world at large accepts these unpleasant facts but refuses to do more. It follows the example of the wise ostrich, and buries its silly head deep in the sand hoping that the trouble will blow over without doing further harm. Others, more energetic but no a whit more practical, busy themselves in devising visionary ways and means' for putting an end to this economic butchery and converting the world into a Utopia, These people call themselves Socialists, and it is noteworthy that the stalwarts among them are nearly all men and women of wealth who have no idea of what it means to feel even moderately hungry. They sit in comfortable arm chairs and pass the time by constructing empty theories or objurgating their fellow Pharisees, but they only succeed in inculcating the starvation irmv with rudimentary principles of revolt. These may produce a temporary warmth, but they do not fill an empty stomach. Finally, a minority, hopelessly small, cannot rest complacent in face of the situation, and hurl themselves into slum work with commend able ardour. Here, again, many of them believe in the efficacy of preaching as an antidote for starva tion, and while the intention is good the result is sadly unsatisfactory. It is easy to attribute this evil to some vast hidden mistake in the social system, and it is correspondingly hard to devise a panacea for it. Unemployment is not the sole cause. There are innumerable members of the submerged tenth who are physically or mentally incapable of support ing themselves. A goodly proportion, too, is com posed of chronically weary individuals who are “look ing for work and praying to God they don’t find it.” One fact is silhouetted sharply against the threatening cloud: Sooner or later the climax must arrive. Given an elementary spirit of discipline and organisation, the people of the abyss will rise blindly against the callous social juggernaut which grinds them into sanguinary ruin beneath its remorseless wheels. Some day, perhaps, the great dumb masses will become articulate, the chained monster will cast off its shackles, and then the world will shudder *4* a Trade Mark. Establ.1843. DRESDEN CHINA Own workmanship :: Lowest prices :. Retail Export Wholesale A. E. STEPHAN, 4, Reichs Strasse succ. to Helena Wolfsohn Nachf. Leopold Elb. at a social cataclysm eclipsing the French Reign of Terror in blood and inhuman ferocitv. It is not a pleasant outlook but it must be faced, and not all the armchair philosophy of the Fabian Society and kindred dillettanti will prevail when the storm final I v bttaks. NEWS OF THE WORLD. Mr Asquith, the Prime Minister, left the House of Commons on Tuesday during the debate on several very important Budget clauses, and journeyed b> special train to Balmoral for an audience with King Edward, who had unexpectedly telegraphed to the Premier requesting his attendance. Great significance is attached by all parties to Mr. Asquith’s journev, particularly as it directly follows upon an audience which Ihe Earl of Cawdor, one of the most influential members of the Opposition in the House of Lords, has had with his Majesty. In Liberal circles it is conjeclured that an attempt is about to be made by the highest personage in the land to alleviate and finally terminate the grave Constitutional disput which is now rapidly coming to a climax. Leading members of the Cotton Exchange, says a New York telegram, gave a dejeuner in honour of Herr Demburg, the German Colonial Secretary, on Tuesday, at which also Consul-General Franksen took part. Later in the day Herr Dernburg left for Wash ington for a further conference with the State Agri cultural authorities. A Rome telegram states that the Pope is practically restored to health, and granted several audiences 011 Tuesday. Mgr. Palombi, one of the most widely-known pre lates and who was an intimate friend of the Pope’s, attempted to board a moving street-car in Rome on TutsJav and fell under the wheels of a passing van. He was terribly mutilated and ‘sifc^ipmbdd to his in juries on the spot. • ’ ■< t " y A brilliant banquet was given in New' York on Tuesday night by the leading British societies in ho nour of Admiral Seymour and the officers of the British squadron taking part in the Hudson-Fulfou cdebi atiens. Admiral von Koester, commanding the German ships, was also a guest, and delivered a par ticularly happy speech on the theme of the German Navyds respect and admiration for Admiral •Seymour. All German sailors, said Admiral von Koester, re called the fact that many Germans were the com rades in arms of Admiral Seymour in the Chinese dis turbances of 1900 and served under him, and the cordial leception given to the German Fleet at Ply mouth in 1904 was also a cherished remembrance. Whenever Britishers and Germans met, continued the Admiral, they must of necessity, come together as members of two nations mutually engaged in energetic world competition. Nevertheless, the efforts of both nations, in view of their common racial origin and their commercial interests, should always .be directed towards the establishment of good relationship and friendly intercourse with each other. That should apply with double force in the United States, where Germans and English met in the midst of a great nation of high civilised development and inteHertual equipment, and worked together for the further pro gress of the splendid country of their adoption. “We hope,” concluded Admiral von Koester, “that here, as once the soldiers and sailors did in China under Admiral Seymour, English and Germans will march shoulder to shoulder and endeavour to serve in the best way the interests of their new home.” The German societies of New' York, in the pre sence of Admirals Wainwright and Schroeder, of the U.S. Navy, handed to Admiral von Koester on board the German cruiser Victoria Louise at New' York 011 Tuesday a silver Table service as a gift for the Ger man Emperor. in a review of the past year’s work (writes our Loin .-mi correspondent) the St. Pancras Distress Com mittee reports that never was there a year since they started operations in which the committee have more keenly felt their impotence. A study of the record papers revealed the spectacle of hundreds of men and women with unblemished records and a keen desire for work having nothing but poverty and disappointment staring them in the face. Com menting on the paucity of Government assistance to local schemes, the committee protests against the fact that no more than one-third of the total number of deserving applicants registered in the hop* of obtaining work were found employment, while of those w r ho did obtain it only a small proportion receivt u any substantial help. So keenly did loval members of the committee feel this that their re signation in a body had been seriously proposed. Nothing that the committee has done has in the slighted degree tended to drain the “stagnant pools” of labour in the borough. A few men in every grade obtained temporary relief work, but either they or others have again filled up the ranks of the per manent reserve army of labour. The unemployed painters and builders’ labourers continue to be a standing problem to the committee. The conclusion of the report is that the whole problem of un employment calls for a systematic solution. The com mittee says it has investigated facts and revealed tunning sores; it is for those in authority to provide means for permanent relief. In regard to the suicide of Mr. Albert Pulitzer, the well-known American journalist and brother to Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World (brief mention of which we published on Tuesday), the following telegram from Vienna gives further details Mr. Pulitzer, who came to Europe some 14 years ago owing to ill-health, had lately suffered greatly by reason of nervous trouble. He had rooms °at the Grand Hotel, and his doctor, who called otn Sundry night to keep an appointment, found him lying dead on the floor in circumstances which pointed to his having shot himself in front of a mirror, while on the table was a small empty phial which had con tained poison. Inquiries showed that earlier in the evening Mr. Pulitzer had dismissed his secretary and other attendants, and had asked to be left alone. Deceased, who was 58 years of age, was a native of Hungary. He founded the New York Morning Journal, which has since become the New York A mer'can. Mr. Pulitzer was well known in London, where he frequently stayed during the summer months, fol lowing up his visits with sojourns in Scotland and provincial cities. He was reputed to be very wealthy, and his chief interest in life lay in formulating schemes of newspaper enterprise. The ex-Shah of Persia reached Odessa on Tuesday evening with his family by special train, and was met at the station by the town commandant, who escorted him to the apartments prepared for his re ception. It is reported from Breslau that Anton Dwcrzak, the well-known baritone, was on Tuesday sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment for a murderous attack on Annie Tharau, a souhrette, from motives of jealousy. A slight incident which occurred in regard to the Benediction of a flag which was solemnly bestowed on Monday at Civita Veechia upon the new battle ship “Roma” is causing great comment in Rome, as being symptomatic of the relations existing between Church and State. It is reported that Cardinal Merry del Val refused to grant the Benediction, which was only conceded through the intervention of several numbers of Parliament who are personal friends of the Pope, his Holiness allowing Mgr. Beccaria., the King’s chaplain, to perform the ceremony. The Vatican, however, gives the following explanation: “Cardinal Merry del Val had nothing! to do with the question of the Benediction, which•«'nobody ever dreamed of prohibiting. Certain members of Parlia ment requested the Pope to allow the Bishop of Civita Vecchia to perform the ceremony, but his Holiness refused this request, solely because be feared that the ceremony might afford a pretext for anti-dencal demonstrations, at w'hich the presence of the Bishop would have been undesirable.”
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