Arizona republican., 1917-08-25

number of laborers the smaller their wages throughout the country.
 When first came to Germany I. of course, was filled with the ideas that prevailed in America that the German Workingmen had an easy time My mind was filled with pictures of the German werkingmen sitting with their families at tables drinking beer and listening to classical music. After I had spent some time in Germany I found that the reason that the Ger man workingmen sit about at tables was because they were too tired to do anything else
 l sincerely hope that after the war the workingmen If this country will induce delegates of their German brothers to make a tour of America. For when the German workingman sees now much better off the Ameri- cans are, he will return to Germany and demand shorter hours and higher wages; then the American will not be brought into competition with labor slaves, such as the German working man of the period before the war.
 As one goes through the streets of Berlin there are no evidences of pov- erty to be seen. But more than B per cent of the families in Berlin are fami- lies living in one room.
 The Germans are taken care of and educated very much in the same way that the authorities here look after the inmates Of q poorhouse or penitentiary
 German Self Made Men are Few Such a thing as a German railway conductor rising to be president of the road is an impossibility in Germany. and the list of self made men is small lndeed-by that I mean men who have risen from the ranks of the working men.
 The socialists, representing the ele- | ment opposed to the conservatives. 1 elect few members to the Prussian lower house and about one-t third Of the members to the reichstag. but otherWlse have no part whatever in the government. No socialist would have any chance whatever if he set ! out to enter the government service With the ambition of becoming dis trict attorney or judge. Jews have not much chance in the government ser vice. A few exceptions have been made. At one time Dernburg, who car red on the propaganda ir America during the first year of the war, and who is a Jew, was appointed colonial minister of the empire
 In my opinion the liberalization of Prussia has beer halted by the fact that there has been no party protest except that of the socialists. The so- cialists, because they have, in effect 1 demanded abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the republic as rart of the.r program. have been unable to do anything in the obtain ing of the reforms within the German state as at present organized.
 Up to the beginning ot the war tn gre was great dissatisfaction among the people with the order of things. The people were irritated by certain direct taxes, such as the tax upon the | matches, ana because every Protestant l in Prussia was compelled to pay a ta3 fer the support of the church, unless he made declaration that he wa: an atheist.
 l The only class in Germany whicf
 hr Ws something of the outside woflt
 is the kaufmann class The ruin:
 class of Prussian nobIes are not trav
 elers. They are always busy with tn
 army and navy, government employ
 ments or their estates, and, as a rule too poor to travel The toor of course do mt travel, and tie Kaufmann, al l though he learns much in his travels in other countries to make him dis satisfied with the small opportunity
 which he has in a political way il
 Germany. is satisfied to let thing stand because of the enormous profit