Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-21
TERRIFIC PICTURE OF WANT AND GRAFT IN GERMANY IS PICTURED
CRIME CROWS AS HUNGER APPEARS
 DECLARESDEPUTY

AMSTERDAM June 20.-OBy
 the Associated PTess).-A picture
 Of social conditions in Prussia was
 given during a debate June IS on
 the budget of the minfstery of the
 interior in the house of deputies at
 a session of the reichstag We
 are face to face with a terrible
 condition O. public morality" said
 Deputy Braun. a socialist. We
 hear of numberless cases Of thefts
 on railroads and alarming Juvenile
 criminality According to official
 statistics between. October. 1916. and November. 1917. there were
 4S7.726 convictions for infractions
 of the food regulations and these were only a small percentage af the actual transgressiOns commit ted
 As for that we are all sinners. Profiteering exceeds all bounds: usury is rampant among all classes. Fraudu- ! lent OrOfiteering. like that Of the Daimler Works. is nOwise exceptional. Even official bodies attempt to extOrt illegal profits. Poor people can only buy clothes at the official clothing de partment by bribing salesmen vi.n tips of food.
 The increase Of criminality demon strates the demOralization through the war. which is described by fools as a rejuvenating bath. Self sacrifice and patriotism perhaps are still found in the trenches but in the invaded re- gions profiteering begins to rear it's head. eliminating in the most repuls- i've profit snatching at home.
 Everybody cheats, steals, grabs. from jailbirds to court chamberlains. who cheat the needy hOmeworker out of his scanty earning and pocket mil lions And the longer the war lasts the worse it becomes.
 Added to this is the Fatherland party's wild war batting prOpaganda and refusal of equal suffrage What wonder that popular exasperatiOns burst forth in a big strike in January Herr Braun further piilOried the ac- tivities of the police and infOrmers and hateful hypOcritical censorship. The prohibition of the acknowledge ment of gifts by soldiers to the social ist funds he said. was ordered for the purpose of withholding from public knowledge the magnitude of the de mand in the army for peace and equal suffrage
 He further mercilessly indicted the systematic discrimination against the soeialistic press. while the Fatherland party and annexationists with impun- ity raised the accusation of bribery with AnelO-American money against those favoring peace by negotiation
 The minister of the interior. Dr. Drews, answered vaguely that he was not responsible for the censorship or the other matters complained O.. which were under the jurisdiction of the mili- tary authorities.
 The socialist newspaper NOrwaerts devotes a long editorial 10 the fore going, in which it says.
 ~Dr Drews' unsatisfactory answer is tantamount to a confession of im- potence of the civil government In fact there is no responsible civil gov ernment in Prussia today U demon strates the necessity of the abolition nf the state of siege in the country for which there is no legal justifi- cation whatever The necessity Of a responsible government is shown. es- pecially by the fate of suffrage reform. which has been dragged from reading to reading without the government in tervening with tN0 immediate dissolu- ton of the house"