The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-02

and intellectual well-being Of its cit
liens; and on this task it concentrates
its labors with amazing energy.
/ have talked about this subject
with DR.. Freund, the chairman Of State
Insurance for Berlin. He is favorite
with the Kaiser, and our own King
and Queen have discussed with him
the subject of the health Of the work
ing classes. No man understands his
business better than this small, neat
German. The State. he holds should
do everything to fit its citizens for the
battle of commercial competition; and
when it has done everything, when it
has first equipped, then safeguarded,
and afterwards assisted in distress, it
should punish sternly and steadfastly
the lazy and the indolent. Fall sick,
says the State to its workpeople, and
we will nurse you back to vigor; drop
out of employment, and we will find
you fresh work; grow old. and we will
provide you with bread and butter;
but become lazy and yagabond, and
we will lock you up and make you
work till you have paid the uttermost
farthing Of your debt.
Berlin has erected a huge building
resembling a factory, where the unem-
ployed-whole famllies-are received
and provided for. But no one must
take advantage of this hospitality
more than five times in three months.
Consider this point Of view. If you
are homeless five times in three
months you are dubbed reckless
creature and packed off to the work.
house. Private enterprise. with the
Socialist, Herr Singer, at its head. has
provided another asylum where the
homeless may come five times in one
month and where the police are not
allowed to enter at night. l have Wis
ited this place and have seen the peo-
pie who attend it-some decent enough,
others criminal in every line Of their
faces. There are many of these des-
nerate men in Berlin, many Of these
dirty, ragged and unhappy wretches,
doomed from the day of their birth.
but they dare not show themselves in
the decent world as they do in London.
They sink into these asylums at
O'clock; they have their clothes disir-
fected; they cleanse themselves under
shower baths: they eat bread and drink
soup, and then they go TO bedat 5 like
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Now this system is hard one, for
when once a nan gets down in Berlin
it is almost impossible for him to rise,
but it has this clear advantage-every-
body feels that it is better to work
than to fall into the hands of the law.
Rags and misery dare not lie about
in the parks or scatter disease through
the crowded streets. If there is any
virtue in the unemployed the State
will certainly develop it as well as it
is possible to do so. There is a central
bureau for providing men with work,
and when a man knows that not to
work means the workhouse be solicits
here and elsewhere with
such q will as almost compels wages.
In one year the State has secured en-
ployment for 10000 men.
The citizen is provided with sanitary
dwellings. with unadulterated food.
with schools and technical colleges,
and with insurance for sickness and
old age. For a penny he can travel
almost from one end of Berlin to the
other by electric tramway or electric
His streets are clean, brill
Iiantly lighted and noiseless; his cafes
and music halls are innumerable. He
lives in palace. And all this is the
result of municipal government by ex-
Derts instead of by amateurs.-London
Daily Mail.