Arizona republican., 1917-08-25

This system is the most complete
 because it has drawn so many of the
 inhabitants of the country into it's net
 Virtually the industrial workers of the great towns and the stupid peasants in the country are the only persons ip
 Germany left out of it's meshes. I had q shooting place very nea1 Berlin; in fact, I could reach it in f three-quarters of an hour by motor
 from the embassy door, and there l
 had an opportunity of studying the
 conditions of life of the peasant class. Germany is still a country of great
 pr0prietors Lands may be held there
 by a tenure which was abolished in
 England hundreds of years ago In
 England property may be only tied up under fixed conditions during the lives of certain chosen persons in be- ing at the death of the testator. In the state of New York property may be only tied up during the lives of two persons in being at the death of
 the person making the will and for
 twenty one years (the minority of an
 infanD thereafter But in the central empires property still may be tied up , for an indefinite period under the feudal system, so that great estates,
 no matter how extravagant the life tenant may be, are not sold and do rot come into the market for division among the people.
 1 For instance, today there exist es- tates in the central empires which
 must pass from oldest son to oldest son indefinitely. and failing that, to the next in line, and so on, and con- ditions have even been annexed by
 which children cannot inherit if their
 father has married Q woman not Of a
 stated number If quarterings of mo-
 bility There is a prince holding great
 estates in Hungary. He is bachelor, and if he desires his children to in- herit these estates, there are only thir- teen girls in the Wor-d whom he can
 marry, according to the terms of the instrument by which some distant an castor founded this inheritance
 The vicious system has prevented extensive peasant proprietOrship The i government, however, to a certain eX-
 tent. has encouraged peasant pro- p1ietorship but only with very small
 parcels of land, and it would be an
 unusual thing in Germany, especially i in Prussia, to find 3 peasant owning
 more than twenty or thirty acres of
 land. most of the land being held by ] the peasants in such small quantities
 that after working their own lands 1 they have time left to work the lands Of the 3djoining landed proprietor al
 very small wage.
 l The Prussan Squire, or bunker ] Much is heard in Germany and out of Germany of the Prussian squire or 1 junker
 All the titles of the nobility are not 1 confined to the oldest sen. The pocket book of counts published by the same l firm which publishes the Almanac de Gotha contains the counts of Austria, Germany and Hungary Jumped to- gether. showing in this way the inti- mate personal relation between the l noble families of these three countries i All the sons of a count are counts, and
 so on ad infinitum Thus in Hungary
 there are probably seventy Counts | szecheny and about the. same number
 of Zichy. etc. Some Of the German noble families are not far behind In
 fact, it may be said that almost any person in what is known as society
 in the German empires, has a title of 1 some sort.
 The prefix 4von' shows that the per-
 son is noble. and is often coupled ] with names of people who have nc