The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-10-23

THE GERM
WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
I give you to-day a a with Doctor
Theodor Lcwald. the Kaiser's Commits
sioner General, on the Twentieth Century
Germany.
Doctor kwald Is one Of the high omcials
Of the German Empire.
He IL connected with the Interior De-
partment and 10 one OF the Imperial Prvy
Councillors.
He was Commissioner from Germany to
h exposition at Paris. and he has had
everything to do with the exhibit al st.
Louis.
Before giving my talk with him I would
say q word about the German xhibi
Il - one Of the finest and most complete
Of all sent in from abroad.
The Emperor 10 anxious to Increase the
friendly relations which obtain between
The United States and Germany, and he
Louis Exposition. This can be seen by
whiting the Imperial German Pavilion.
which r composed OF rooms copied after
soma OF the most famous apartments of
the imperial pelaces-
The Emperor has sent over his W
paintings and tapestry for these rooms.
and In one Of them are cases containing
his wedding presents Indeed, the pavilion
vies In beauty with many Of the palaces
Of Europe. showing what the Germans
historic past.
The exhibits in the other buildings show
me I've; u2ssS9,edats , scientifs pushing,
II would take columns to describe them.
md ] will only say that they indicate the
wonderful. advance that that nation Is
maktn6 along educational industrial n
I an told that the German Government
hae Went more than 100000 on its ex-
hnaf cutssde the money spent by the in
The, nr.t PAR Of my talk with Doctor
workfnguaan In comparison with the Ger
Doctor Lswah had to use the American
lAborer 70 put up his great buildings and
TO arrange his exhibits He doesn't think
q Can't. pnderstsnd how the United
States can hold It's own In the market Of
te world, II the labor conditions Of st.
acuis ar typical Of those Of the rest Of
we have bad, . terrible time here when
sysr We have had to employ American
we used them In erecting our buildings
and The wager were outrageous We have
pod6 q N hour to common mechanics who
In Germany would Be considered second
They would work only eight hours per
day and Il We found fault with their
WORK or asked them. to remedy any de-
secf, N It they would throw up tbs job
..rhsy seemed TO have no desire to
please us. a their sole object was TO put
IN sss t " our ana d e. sas n %ees.n,c., who
came over with uA, thought the conditions
o~utxAgeouk ] don't know that. similar
ores prevail throughout the United States.
ytur Industrial injury"
LABOR MATTERS IN GERMANY.
What = your situation a to labor mat
ters, Doctor LswaidT'
I'VE have our troubles, too. but we arc
faf beetr oz than you are.
Our people are more willing to Give q
fair GAYS work for q fair days wage and
they are yearly becoming more skiIlful
through our technical schools, which are
now 20 b found IN evsry industrial CEN
,. =: ths.. e exhibit Of these schools
We hays a szhibit OF our technical
technical schools, which are found all
oser the Bmpirs. ! doubt II the industrial
csntsEs would encourage the establish
ns4s q .rch ssnoSis sa;ewn m. ,.,,.-
German wofknen and IN this way better
produc4S for export We do not, naturally,
Nlah to help the United States a. n of
our Competitors In b markets Of the
I'VE have exhibits, however, showing
what We are doing IN the technical high
schools and also our progress along the
lines Of wurkmen's Insurance n for the
pFotecfiou Of b iaboring man."
VIA are you doing in insurins your
'Mors than almost any other country"
The movement for workmen.s insur-
Ance began with Emperor Wilhelm I. He
proposed IT In a message IN 1881. and the
since then that No have 9 regular system
Of insurance under the control OF the Gov
efnment. BY which every German work
nan receives financial assistance In case
Flor than an.oo Is daily spent in this
Wy upon the protection OF our working
kl00,aD persons receive help Of one KIND
y arother from this source In the sew
Guteen yearz from 1856 to 1901. 5000 zoo
people were 90 benefited. They received
Tbs money for this insurance fund"
centinusd Doctor Lewald, SIS raised by q
TAX Of about { per cent on b age Of
Ssrne by b employs and one.third by
the employer. In addition TO this there
are Wofkfnsmen's clubs which give bene-
ets TO their memberS In sickness. and We
ave associations providing for indemni-
de- in case Of accident or death.
Tbo insurance against i~nyalidity IN
cludes old asa. Every German workman
Svsr g Ests e pensiGn; and 4 one Of the
: he also. is pensioned. There are now
mere b Uyooo.00o persons insured as to
tnvals01ty.
In ADDITION to this the Insurance fund
- accumulated reserve capital of
aoost o1s.egNSA. which fs being used for
= general benefit Of the workingmen.
Ehrcug Il ~ are constructing working
n oWoa1fnS4 hospitals, homes for
o1xo&ng nm. public baths. systems Of
WtefWSk1n q other sanitary Improve
mt. 1ndeed. II seems to me that our
Qstem u Woek1nGmen's insurance 10 ex-
no WPoerTIoNs pArr
TAs csuyeesAkiea Asrs turned to the 81.
Leu1g nEVenfuen. mi ! ssked Doctor
&egoe N1sne - sbsugAt that Il paid