The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23

than five times as large as Germany itself. We are developing some of them and prospecting others. In Ger man East Africa we are raising cot ton. and in German Southwest Africa we are experimenting with cattle. Some of these lands are so new that we do not know yet just what they contain nor what they will produce"
 .,What kind of cotton are you rais- ing. doctor. and do you think you will ever be able to get along without our raw materials!"
 .sThe cotton Is said to be very good" was the reply. ''But doubt whether we will raise enough for our mills, The United States will. I believe, al- ways be the chief cotton country of the world ."f s Germany Not Crowded. "Is not Germany oyercrowded?' T do not think so." said the lmpe- rial German Commissioner. We have a large population in proportion to our area. but SO far we have plenty Of room. We have now almost 59.000.- 0oo people. This Is 20,000, ,000 less than the United States, and we are increas- ing at the rate of two or three mill l lions year"
 America a German Nation. 1 How about your emigration. Is 1t as great as in the past"
 No: business is now good. and ev- eryone has plenty to do. Our emi- | grants increase during hard times and | fall of when times are good. So far | you have had tho bulk of the Germans | who have gone abroad. It Is estimat- l ed that 5,0oo.O00 of our people have | come here since 1920, and that now one-sixth of all your population have German blood in their veins" What kind of Germans come to this l country"
 "A very good class. The lowest classes have not the money to go away, and they do not consider foreign emi- | grafton seriously, although they do move from one part of Germany to another. We are now having con- l Siderable exodus from the farms to the | cities, but that is going on all over | Europe and to some extent here. "Then the towns are growing at the expense of the country?"
 "Yes, the movement away from the Harms began shortly after 1871. Since | then the town population has gained l 16, ,000. .000.f
 Give me the size of your biggest cities, pr. Lewald,' said I.
 'T will reply to that after the Ameri- can method, taking each city and It's immediate suburbs. The Greater Ber- lin has now 2,534,000: Hamburg. 9SS.0o0 Essen, 758,000; Dresden, 634,00o: Leip- sig, 5e6,000; Munich, 52s.0O0; Barmer Elberfeld, 519,000; Cologne, S1,000 Breslau, 475,o00; Frankfort-on-the- Main. 5000; and six other cities ovei | 300, 900 each. We have 1000 town: ranging between 1000 and 100000 and | thirty-three of more than 100000 each
 Altogether more than one-sixth of oul | If.,~ s.. ka~x uf ni
 over"
 | The Germans as Mnnufacturers.
 'I suppose the increase in the citie
 indicates the change of Germany iron
 an agricultural to a manufacturinl
 nation7"
 "Yes. At the time of the Franco ! Prussian war a great many of our peo
 pie were engaged in farming. Toda! there are more working at industria
 pursuits than upon the farms, and thu
 farm population steadily decreases. Tn,
 tendency is to large factories ratpe
 than small ones It used to be tha
 we had a vast number Of workmen wh'
 carried on their trades In their owi
 homes. and there were many smal
 manufacturers. These are decreasing
 and establishments managed with larg,
 capital are increasing
 How about your trusts7
 We have some. but not on such
 scale as yours"
 Have you many rich people?"
 We have many well-to-do from
 German standpoint. but very few ricl
 from the American standpoint. w,
 have. you know, an income tax, and w
 can tell just what every one owns. Ac.
 cording to the assessments in Prussia l which country has about three fifths oi
 our people, there are a large number oi
 milIionaires. but a million marks is equal to only about $250,000, so that they do not represent a very great | amount after all"
 Frank c. Carpenter.