Cologne, August 11. It is well known how the Prussian army paid
homage to German unity on August 6.* The Prussian police must
not lag behind the Prussian army. Never have there been in its
opinion more German foreigners or foreign Germans in Prussia than
since an indivisible German National Assembly, a German Imperial
Regent * and a German Imperial Government have been meeting in
Frankfurt.

Herr Geiger, acting Police Superintendent, whose accession to the
throne was greeted by us earlier” with misgivings, seems to have
received the special order to purge Cologne of German foreigners
and to tolerate only Prussian subjects within the walls of the old
imperial city. If he is consistent, who will save a person’s right of
domicile except the police, the army, the bureaucracy and the
natives? Herr Geiger himself will not be missing among these “last of
the Mohicans”.

We shall report at a later time about the conflicts the editor-inchief of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Karl Marx, had with regard to
the Prussian right of citizenship.” Today we are dealing with Herr
Karl Schapper, a contributor and proof-reader of the Neue Rheinische
Zeitung.

Herr Schapper has received an invitation to visit the Police
Inspector of his district this morning. The Police Inspector informed
him that due to an order of Herr Geiger, he would have to leave
Cologne and the Prussian state by tomorrow because he is a

* Archduke John of Austria.— Ed.
See this volume, p. 178.— Ed.
© Tbid., pp. 407-10.— Ed.

foreigner. The Inspector informed him at the same time that he
would extend the period by a week out of courtesy.

Herr Schapper is not only a German but he is also a citizen of
Nassau and he is equipped with a Nassau passport in optima forma.’
Herr Schapper resides at Cologne with his wife and three children.
His crime consists of being a member of the Democratic Society and
the Workers’ Association **° as well as being the proof-reader of the
Neue Rheinische Zeitung. These are, of course, three crimes all at
once.

“Every German possesses the general German citizenship,” reads the
first paragraph of the German Fundamental Rights*** which has
already been approved. Herr Geiger seems to interpret this in such a
way that every German has the right to be expelled from 37 German
states. Besides the legislation of the National Assembly, there is now
Geiger’s legislation!

For Herr Hansemann, however, the Minister of action, we have a
piece of advice: he may use police methods against deputies at his
own discretion, but there is no playing around with the press. It can
open the book of the bourgeois past and

If you are after a little amusement,
You may go dancing, but I'll play the tune °—

no matter how many Geigers may threaten with their violins.