The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

IIOm lOOkluS iuiO ulcClOudrIcS lOT
"hard" words; nor from comparing q
few dozen synonyms outof vocabu-
larry of 10000; but they learn
thoroughly, grahmatically, and pro-
fessionally what has to be learned
and that is the only way to learn
anything properly.
No government has done so much
for her working people as the German.
Since 1883 compulsory insurance law
has been in force in Germany. Accord
ing to this law every employee, no matter
whether it is bookkeeper, clerk. me-
chanic, domestic, latorer, etc., male or
female, must be insured against sick
ness, accident, inyalidity and old age.
This insurance is national enterprise
controlled by the government, and the
expense is borne in large part by the
employers, while the contributions of
the employees are almost nominal.
This law has brought such benevolent
results to the working classes, that this
writer, who personally investigated its
working at three different times, will
write about it for THE MIRROR on some
future occasion.
Even the compulsory military SER
vice (now only two years in the stand-
ing army, and six weeks each year for
the succeeding six years. has proved
very beneficial. The strict discipline,
the judicious training, and many other
matters connected with the service,
contribute to make men out of all those
farm hands and laborers, etc., who
would otherwise. never have learned
manners, good carriage and-patri-
otism.
The German workingmen are we'll
paid according TO conditions prevail
| ing there. OF course, in comparison
to the wages prevailing here, they earn
very little; neither can they afford to
indulge in many of the luxuries at the
disposal of some of our working men:
nor are their chances of becoming in
, dependent so great as they are here
, But they can and do live we'll and
, respectfully; even if they cannot eat
meat three times day, as meat il
r dearer, but also Better over there. The
stories circulated here by certain trusts
and occasionally repeated by editors
! who know no better, that "in Germany
the workingmen can afford to eat mea
only once q week-if that often" il
; veritable bosh as everybody, who hal
ever Investigated conditions over there
knows full we'll. The German working
. people eat meat once every day, some
a times for lunch also, aye, and they als'
!, drink their glass or two of beer-good
: unadulterated, well-seasoned German
|, beer. On Sunday mornings they 60 t.
;. church, and on Sunday afternoons
: anybody going to get fit?-they g
a with their family to some place o
. amusement, listen to good music, AM
otherwise amuse themselves. An,
they drink their beer too-and so d
: their pastors, and their priests an
= rabbis. But they do not hang aroun
: q bar; nor do they treat, nor allo,
!, others to treat them; nor do they &c
= drunk.
y Perhaps the best there is in Gel
Is many for the workingmen is the hi
p name and judicious treatment the
Al receive at the hands of the law. Ever
D. Judge, every court, the entire machiner
ID of the law, is painfully solicitous to NJ
70 hold and to secure the rights Of th
NJ poor against the rich. Before ever
ID tribunal, civil or criminal, the poo
q. man has the same chance az the mi
A lionaire, rather better than worse; q
d. matter whether he can employ couns
is or not. There are rumors that sue
A. conditions do not prevail everywhel
re In this worldi
as For . country situated, and CONNIE
IN cially occupied, as Germany, the
lis can exist but one all-absorbing desire
r. the desire Of good will and pea
of towards ell nations; but that does n
lie mean peace at any price. About eigh
We cen years ago one smsrt(P) Englil
st writer called William II. the aW
10 Lord" Those American editors wi
We believe that everything an Englishms
Is says is the real thing, have continu'
in to use this name for the kaiser till Il
ID. day. Why, yes, he has 9 superb fgl
IN ling machine ct his disposal, and the