The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-09
SOCIAL UNREST
IN GERMANY
CONDITIONS SAID TO BE FAR
WORSE IN EVERY LINE OF EN-
DEAvoR THAN THOSE WHICH
NOW EXIST IN THE UNITED
STATES.

unstinted praise OF labor and social
conditions in the United States char
acterize an article by DR.. Gustav
Stresemann, former prominent mem
Der of the reichstag and a well-known
economist, who has just returned from
a tour Of investigation through Amer
lea.
The conditions in most American
factories In respect to safety are sim
ply horrible" the doctor declares, and
any German factory inspector would
be astounded If he could observe the
dangers to which the majority of
| workmen are exposed. Too much
stress also has been laid, both in Ger
many and America, on the higher
wages paid in the United States. Con-
| sidering that the purchasing power of
dollar is equal to but from two to
| two and one-half marks, and the fur
| Their fact that the American laborer
/ must himself make provision for old
age or incapacity, 1t may be doubted
IL he is better of than the German
workman.
DR.. Stresemann's structures on fac
sharpest adverse criticism in his
I article, and he is full OF praise for
! other phases of general economic con-
ditions in America In the matter of
municipal housing conditions, for in
/ stance, he finds America far in adj
vance of Germany. When, for exam
pie, 80 per cent of the inhabitants OF
Detroit occupy their own homes, he
says, 1t is high time for Germany TO
send over a commission to find out
low it is done.
! DIR. Stresemann also expresses his
1 high appreciation of the manner in
which American cities have provided
free baths, gymnasiums and libraries
readily available to everyone, and he
was greatly impressed with the parks
of the different cities, both because Of
their number and the manner in which
they are maintained. In these things
he says America is far in advance OF
i Germany, as also in another thing
the domain of voluntary public charity.
He refers to the immense contribu-
lions of the well-to-do for the erec-
ton OF hospitals, asylums and similar
institutions, and terms them "a self
imposed taxation of the rich"
I'm all our criticism of the Dollar
Land" DR.. Stresesmann concludes,
I'VE must not forget that the chase
I after the dollar is not the only thing
that attracts the attention of the OBJ
server In the United States. The
United States is beginning to be an
example to US in many things, and
especially in it's care for the public
welfare"
4 Want Dueling Stopped.
81 9bA 90 dopaand anar-
getic measures be adopted for stop
l ping dueling in the army meets with
no support from the federal council
The resolutions adopted by the reich
stag demanded that officers who fight
duel or carry challenge be dis
missed from the army, but the bund-
esrat rejected this plan as class iegis-
lation. It would be equivalent. 1t says,
to an exceptional law, against army
| officers, inasmuch as civilian duelists
cannot be punished in this way.
Moreover, dismissal from the army is
, dishonoring punishment, carrying
with it the loss of pension rights, aid
the bundesrat thinks that this would
, involve an unreasonable hardship for
, an officer, who, out of ideal motives,
risks his life in defense of his honor"
. The reichstag further demanded that
| an officer who refused to fight duel
| should in no case be dismissed from
the army on that ground but the
bundesrat replies that 1.-The appoint
ment and dismissal Of an officer re-
} quires. according to the constitution,
, the decision of the crown"
Scarcity of Diplomats.
The appointment of Ambassador Won
| Jagow of Rome to succeed kiderlen-
| wachter as minister OF foreign affairs
has called attention to the compare
lively brief service in office of i'm
perial ministers under William II, Won
) Jagow being the ninety-fifth minister
appointed by the present emperor in
{ | his reign of less than twenty five
years. It has also brought to the front
. the indisputable fact that Germany is
} not over rich in ministerial material
r The list of names considered as COM
, pretending all the possible appoint
! ments was strikingly short, and al
! that it Included some men who have
) not thus far given any evidence OF
4 possessing the qualities demanded OF
a minister Of foreign affairs.
3 The German press. with the excep-
( ton Of the conservative element, is
inclined, as it has been for a Ions
= time, to blame the scarcity OF diplo-
matte and ministerial timber to the
= fact that few but noblemen are giver
!, opportunity to enter these posts, and
2 that the result is that the non-noble.
a men have no chance Ell her to Learn
: statecraft or to demonstrate that they
a possess it. It is pointed out that Of
!. Germany's forty ambassadors anC
ministers to foreign countries. only si1
n are commoners, and that these ST,
are assigned to the relatively unim.
n portant posts of Abyssinia, Brazil
Cuba. Haiti. Roumania and Uruguay