In home affairs the Chancellor declared war on Socialism. He
denounced the Socialist doctrine that he was "the servant of the Reichstag,"—surely a very reasonable democratic senti- ment. He said that Herr Liebknecht had remarked during his recent tour in America that everybody in Germany knew that the time was at hand when in Germany, as in Portugal, the Crown might be blown away overnight. The German people must be shown plainly whither the Socialists were taking them. He held that the Social Democracy shared the responsibility for the excesses in Moabit. The debate was continued on Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday the Chan- cellor returned to his attack on the Socialists, and definitely accused them of instigating the Moabit riots, although the arrested persons are now being tried in the Courts. "The moral complicity of the Social Democrats in the occurrences in Moabit," he said, "is established." We do not wonder that in the circumstances this pronouncement was followed by uproar.
