The workingman's advocate., 1871-06-24

use, for intelligent absolutism mostly
wears the cloak of law-it would
easily have prevented the election OF
Ewald. Let us suppose candidate
appears whom government wishes TO
keep out of the Reichstag the news
papers recommending him are conhs-
Gated lawfully; his placarIs are conhs-
Gated lawfully; the meetings OF the
electors are forbidden lawfully or, the
meetings are allowed but dissolved al
terwards lawfully; the persons advo-
eating his election are arrested lawful
ly F; the candidate is sent to prison law
lully."t
Enough. So Prussia was three years
ago. So Prussia is to-day, and so
Prussia will be as long as she exists.
And this Prussia is now trying to mould
the other German States after her
fashion
To complete the picture and to give
it the finishing touch, l must tell you
that for this speech Mr.. Liebknecht has
been sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment in Prussia, and is still under
accusatian in Saxony for the same Of
fence. Send your Bismarck worship
ers over to Germany-they will soon be
cured of their queer disease.
p. S.-March 2sth. This afternoon
Messrs. Rebel, Liebknecht and Hepner
we're set at liberty. They had TO give
their word Of honor not to leave the
district of Leipsig without permission,
while the cause is pending. As the
judicial inquiry has been absolutely re-
~ultless, and has not brought home to
he accused the slightest 1act. which
has not been read in the VoLkstdGt by
many thousand pee pie, the public ac-
cuser included,it is more than probable
that the affair will be dropped. During
their imprisonment our friends were
treated most bumanely-this must be
acknowledged-but strange times is it,in
which three innocent men can be sent
to Jail for three months and a half
without having any means to get re-
dress for the wrong done them! 1t is
to be hoped that our Brunswick friends
will now get free too.
While other governments withhold the Fl an
chise from the working classes In a more Cr
less direct form, the PIu-sian government lef,
them the suffrage after the wreck OF the Dem
ocratic Constitution Of S4S but with Jesu-
itism worthy Of our Protestant Paraguay, it in
vented mechanism, which dissolved the york
ingman's vote into smoke The process is as
simple o. can be the whole body Of the elect
ors and there are verv few male rersons over
twenty-five years excluded), are divided int
three classes, according to the rate of The direct
taxes paid. In the hrst class the wealthiest are
put-so many a. are paying one-thlrd Of all the
direct Iaxes paid the second class contains the
wel-to-d do people, who pay the other third !;
aud the last class is crammed with the small
tradesmrn, farmers and Workmen, ; no be-
tween them pay the last third Of the direct
taxation. Each Of those three classes have 70
choose a like number-not Of deputies for
then the mass OF the people would at least
have one-thrd Of the representatiOn-but Of
deputy elec,o orr who have to meet (those OF the
three classes rogether) and to eject the deputy
by simple m jority, 40 that the deputy-elrctor-
chosen by three millions of poor, are dOubly
out voted by those chosen BY five hundred and
6fly thousand rich. This is the celebrated
three class suffrage, which for the mddle-class
has the double advantage of giving them the
majority OF the representation, and Of being d
dSke against democracy. Its being in the in
ierest of she middle claas, induced Mr. Bismarck
% reject it for the Reichstsg, and will perhaps
induce him, to abolish il for the PrussiaD
chamber too.
tin H,no yer where Prussians are hated
much more in tel sely than before tie anneKa-
ZION, the enemies of the new order Of things,
did not participate il the two elections OF S67.
which IT, consequence of that we're miserable
minority elections (by two per cent Of the Popu-
lalionl But the pArticularists soon sa~, tnat
abstention was rather a dangerous policy. and,
when IA the beginning Of 1868 seat became
vacant, they put forward candidate of their
own Professor Ewald, the most celebrated of
our orieLtalists and a staunch adherenJ Of the
Guelphs he elected with great majority
by the by he has ben reelected for this
Reichstag
a Germann Emperor, Sjgismund think, on
being made aware OF gross blunder he had been
guilty Of in deive ing Latin speech mot writ
ten BY him), replied The Emperor il above
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