GERMAN ELECTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1328, 4 January 1912, Page 5

GERMAN ELECTIONS.

SOCIALIST ACTIVITY. GENERAL INTEREST INCREASING.' By TelecraDh-Press Association-Copyright ■ '■''■' ■■■ • Berlin, January 2. Tho Socialists aro holding thousands of .election, meetings nightly. The electors generally are apathetic, but, interost.is increasing, in ..view, of tho" polling, which takes 1 , place on tho ,12th instant. Tho second ballots will be held on the 25th instant. • PARTIES: AND POLICIES. The' general election for the new Reichstag will lake place on Januarv 12. The Berlin correspondent of the New York "P°s(, ' writing on November 1, states: Ihe Imperial Chancellor's speech in. the Reichstag on the dear food interpellation has removed all doubt as to the flag uu■dor winch the Government wishes to fight the elections. It is to bo protection against tree trade. It will'.apparently be no empty cry, for the.Chancellor intimated pretty plainly (hot the new Reich-' slap would be called on to take-weighty decisions concerning tho'-'e'eorioinio 1 ftolicy of the. Empire, which- points ■clearly to new tariff legislation, and, if the present Administration remains at the helm, a revision of the duties upwards. 'This,'of' itself, should be sufficient to bring" the protected interests solidly into lino. The policy has the merit' of iprorhising revenue wherowjth ia build more warships. , The.Agrarian Right, of course,heartily applauded the Chancellor in the, Reichstag, and will undoubtedly give him their full support. He is suro of the Centre, too. The. Left, Radical and Socialist, will be against'him as one man ;■ tin tho'.tariff ■plank,, and havo many-other causes of, quarrel with him, from the Prussian Franchise Bill-to tho Morocco agreement.