Arizona republican., 1917-08-25

that has ever existed in any country. ment.
 Spartan Virtues of Prussia's Junkers
 There is no leisure class among the juniSers They are all workers. patri otic, honest and devoted to the en- peror and the fatherland. If it is pos sible that government by one class is to be suffered, then the Prussian iunkeIs have proved themselves mere fit for rule than any other class in all history
 Their virtues are Spartan, their minds narrow but incorruptible and their bravery and patriotism un- doubted One cannot but admire them and their stern virtues. This class, largely because of it's poverty and it's constant occupation, does not travel Nor does the casual tourist or health seeker in Germany come in contact with these men. The junkers will fight hard to keep their privileges, and the throne will figMc hard for the junkers, because they are the greatest supporters of the Hohenzollerns The worllingmen in the cities are hard workers. Probably they work longer and get less out of life than any other workingmen in the world. | The laws so much admired, and made ostensibly for their protection, such as insurance against unemployment, i sickness, injury, old age, and so on. 1 are in reality skillful measures which 1 bind them at the soil as effectively | as the serfs of the middle ages were bound to their masters estate. | 1 have had letters from workingmen ! who have worked in America, begging me for a steerage fare to America | and saying that their insurance pay = mcnts were so large that they could not save money out of their wages ! Of course, after having made these ! payments for some years the work
 ngman naturally hesitates to emigrate
 and so lose all the premiums he has j paid to the state.
 | Hard Worked German Farm Woner 1 In peace times skilled mechanic il Germany received less than $2 a day for which he was compelled to worl
 at least ten hours. Agricultural la ! berers in the central empires are poorly paid. The women do much ol
 the work done here by men. For in- l stance, once when staying at noble 1 mans estate in Hungary, noticed that | the gardeners were all women, and on inquiring how much they received was told they were paid about twent, cents day. The women in the farm
 ing districts of Germany are worked 1 harder than the cattle. In summer
 time they are out in the fields at anf
 $ in the morning, and do not return
 until or later at night For this worl
 they are sometimes paid as high a.
 forty eight cents a day in harves
 time. Nevertheless, these small wage.
 tempt many Russians to Germany dur.
 ing the season.
 At the outbreak of the war there were, perhaps, 500G0 Russians em.
 ployed in Germany, men, women anC
 girls These the Germans retained ii
 a sort of slavery to work the fields spoke to one Polish girl, who wa. working on an estate near Benin eve | which l had shooting rights She tolt
 me that at the commencement of tn,
 war she and her family were Warkine
 in Germany, and that since the wal they all desired to return to Poland
 out that the Germans would not per
 init it.
 This hard working of women in az ricultural pursuits tends to stupefy ant brutalize the rural population, an( keeps them in condition of subjectiot
 to the Prussian church, the P-ussiar system and in readiness for war. Botf
 Prussian junkers and the German
 manufacturers look with favor upor
 the employment of so many women il
 farm work, because the greater ths