The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-07
THE PASSING THRoyG

DR.. Carl Johann Fuchs. professor Of the
Same science at the University of Grehs-
sasd. Germany, arrived in the city Tues
day and are AZ the Rainier. They have
been sent 10 this country by the RUSSIAN
government TO ssady the science from
practical observation and to collect in
formation, Dr.. Fuchs deyoting his atsen-
ton to the manufacturing industries and
commerce and DR.. Sering TO agriculture
This IL not Dr.. Servings first visit 10 this
city, for he vas here ten years ago. and
the growth Of Seattle and the develop
ment Of the state which has occurred IN
the interval assonishes him. "At that
time Seattle wss nothing bat . village and
there MAS but one ANAL hotel. in which
there was q grea. crowd Of men pushing
their way along, for there was boom
then. Now ! find a handsome city and
the country has developed in proportion
Speaking of the contrast between Ger
many and America, Dr. Sering said:
Land 10 80 cheap and % abundant in this
country that IL can be farmed IN large
bodies and the high wages induce the use
Of machinery more extensively. In Ger
many, on the other hand. the farms are
smaller and consequently machinery can
not be used 10 such advantage and the
wages are so much lower that there is less
inducement to INTRODUCES it. In the Red
river valley found farm hands receiving
81 Is day, and they have been paid 81 in
late years, In addition to board. 1t Is
difficult to compare wages in Germany. be-
cause every man has his little garden. and
at harvest he gets from one-eleyenth 10
oue-fifteenth o. what he harvests. The
g. - - - f<~ Ssr
COW. He probably gets IS cents day.
The largest farms are In Pomersnia, and
there the government is adopting
the policy of buying these large farms and
dividing them among the laborers, so a. TO
create class of small iandholders. Ii Is .
remarkable fact that the largest emigra-
ton is from these thinly populated East
ern provinces and not from the Aanufac-
turing districts of Western Germany. We
regard emigration as good thing, for our
population is growing at the rate OF 500 900
a year. and we can spare 10000 year for
America The attraction for our farming
people Is the homesteads they can secure
here. A man will come over here and
work ut ~ day until he has saved $500
or 500 and then take a homestead. and he
is then independent. When your vast
area of unoccupied land is all taken up
ron will see change in social conditions
here; IN fact. it Is already to be observed
In the Eastern states, where the land is all
taken and farming is done on much the
same scale a. I'm our Eastern provinces.
Then you will see your people divide into
classes as ours have done, and as they
have already begun to do in the East. 1t
will no longer be so easy for poor man to
grow rich and rise to the highest rank in
the social scale. The emigration from our
manufacturing districts is small, for the
men get good wages and are contented; in
fact, their wages have doubled in the last
twenty years. There has been great de-
velopment of the resources Of Wesphalia
and the Rheinland, and people have
migrated from the Eastern PROV
inces to that section. Such places
as Dortmund, which were only vii
lagos twenty years ago. have become
populous cities. We have similar move
ment to your Farmers Alliance among
our farmers, and In Pomerania they are
beginning to build elevators of their own,
like those in the Palouse country. The
condition of our working class is steadily
improving. and the classes are slowly
melting into one another. The Social
Democratic party, which Is composed of
them almost exclusively, Is the strongest
political party in the country. Socialism
does not take root in this country, because
your workingmen have the great tracts of
public land to turn to, and when a man
gets q homestead he Is an indiyidualist.
AS to the silver question. | think that if
this country abandons the purchase of sill
yer 1t will be in position to invite the
other great commercial NATIONS of the
world to join In the coinage of silver at an
agreed ratio. Ii they do that. the q ues-
ton is settled. but the United States can
not maintain the value of silver alone.
Germany was formerly a silver country,
but when we received the great war in
demnity from France in gold IL enabled as
to establish the gold basis and we stopped
coming silver except as subsidiary COIN
age"
Prof Fuchs inquired about the effect of
the Mckinley tariff on the industries Of
this section. and will make a point of
studying that subject in his travels. Both
he and DR.. Sering have spent much time
in the great farming states. and after pay
ing visit to the hop fields of Puyailup
and TO Tacoma they will go East over the
Great Northern road. stopping off at some
point in Eastern Washington to see what
is being done in the way of irrigation.
They will spend some time at the Worlds
fair TO see the many inventions exhibited
there.
party of insurance men 10 gathered at
the Rainier, their several lines of travel
having brought them together here with
out any concerted movement. They are !:
F. c. Storey. surveyor of the Pacific Insur-
ance Union; Alfred II. Grim. SPECIAL agent
of the Alliance of London: w. A. Fraser.
special agent OF the Western. of Toronto:
Maj. Z. 6. Sproul, special agent of the
Liverpool. London & Globe; ]. L. Fuller.
special agent of the Royal: d. NJ. Mcvean.
special agent OF the Transatlantic, OF Ham,
burg; J, X. Watson, special agent of the
Home Mutual: d. VI. Bokee, special agent
OF the insurance Company of North Amer
lea. and W. IL. Gibbons, special agent of
the Brown, Craig Co. of San Francisco.
They naturally met and talked of their
business. exchanged yarns about fires and
wondered whether they would not be de-
tanned by having q loss to adjust before
they could move on.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McKinlay and Mr.
and Mrs. James Pollock, who have been
visiting in Victoria and other places in
British CoiumhiR returned hoyae T,asyf.~