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Making Tomorrow's World By WALTER WILLIAMS, LL.D. (Owi of the School of Joumalim of the Unhmity of Miacjn) GERMANY- Munich, Bava ria. "Every So cial Democrat is synonymous with enemy of the na tion and of the fatherland." The words are from an official letter of William II emperor of Ger many. Again and again, in spirit if not in exact sub stance, he has re peated the state tneut. Nor has the German era peror, more pow- mul than any other European monarch, hesitat ed to use his en orrnous power toward suppression of the party whjh he so vigorously de nounces. Electorate 30 Per Ce;it. Socialist. He has allied with him in this de termined opposition the clerical and conservative classes, combinations of capital and possessors of privilege the agricultural Interests, the less radical liberals of the middle class and yet nearly one voter In every three In Germany is a Social Demo crat, the largest single party is the Social Democratic party and its mem bership, organized on military and well-disciplined lines, is, with .occa sional And temporary lapses, steadily Increasing. The figures which politi cal statistics furnish snowing its progress are sufficiently impressive as to Its growing strength and Import ance. In thirty years it has increased the number of its voters from 300,000 to more than 3,000,000, from 6 to 30 per cent, of the total number of votes polled, with 110 representatives, de spite an absurdly inequitable suf frage system in a relchstag or par liament of 397 members. Far more impressive even than these figures are the conversations of the Man in the Street, the pro gram which to him is gospel, the or ganization which he has built up and maintained, and Vorwaerts (Forward) the trenchant daily newspaper which he reads. These will count, whether we approve or disapprove, in tomor row's Germany, and tomorrow's Ger many is to loom large In tomorrow's world. J?Z&,iz&kU . What Social Democrats Demand. The party platform or program may be summed up in few words. The editor of Vorwaerts declared it thus: "Adult suffrage, one vote for each man and each woman; government responsible to parliament; local self government; referendum; voluntary militia; freedom of speech and of the press; equality of woman and man before the law; no state church; com pulsory attendance, with free tuition at state schools; free legal proceed ings, medical attendance and burial, provided by the state; progressive in come tax and succession duty." In advocating this program the Social Democratic party has other and less clearly defined purposes. It is committed, through its leaders, to an attack upon the church which has led its more radical members and official utterances to approve atheism. "The j party is confessedly and entirely ' atheistic," said a Berlin Conservative Journalist. On the contrary, the man in the street, while Attacking the : is frequently careful to distinguish be- I twppn rlmrch nnrl rplieion. hptween ; . eccleslasticism InV ti.p Tteitv. In' I deed, an entire section of the party of ally of it, the Christian Social Vnion, as its-name suggests, is at vari ance with the doctrines of atheism. For Peace and His Throne. The abolition of monarchy is, of course, held as an end to which the Social Democrats look forward. It is not strange that the emperor views the party with such scornful and vehement disapproval. The assertion is often heard in German cafes that the emperor, war lord as he is, and seeker after military renown, baa been constrained to become an advo cate of peace many times, and just now in the latest but not the last Balkan struggle, for the predominant reason that a war might and probably would mean the downfall of the monarchy. Peaceand a throne Jjave been preferred above war and Wil liam Hohensollern, private citizen. The kaiser keeps his own counsel and the assertion may be wholly unjusti fied, but there have been twenty-five years without war and the emperor at Berlin still reigns and rules. The purpose of a program is some times more Indicative of a party's de sire than the program Itself. This huge worklngmen's party has ex pressed Its purpose in much writing. .Of making many books on the Social Democratic party in. Germany there Is no end. Much translated quotation therefrom is a weariness to the flesh. A single quotation from an official handbook of the party, with an early announcement of purpose, furnished at the office of Vorwaerts, the official orm, will suffice: "The aim of Social Democracy is not to divide all property, but to com bine it and use it for the development ' - W; J A REPUBLIC? and improvement of mankind, in order to give to all a life worthy of man. Work shall become a duty for all men able to work. The word of the Hible, "He that does net work neither shall he eat,' shall become a true word. Declares for Love Marriages. "Marriage, in contradiction to religi ous teachings, is in innumerable cases a financial transaction pure and simple. Woman has value in the eyes of man only when she has a fortune and the more money she has the hif'ner riEes her value. Therefore marriage has become a business, and thousands meet in the marriage mar ket, for instance, by advertisements iu newspapers, in which a hasband or a wife is sought in the same way in which a house or a pig is offered for sale. Consequently unhappy mar riages have never been more numer ous than at the present time, a 6tate of affairs which is in contradiction tc the real nature of marriage. Social Democracy desires that marriages be concluded solely from mutual love and esteem, which is only possible if man and woman are free and independent if each has a free existence and an individual personality, and is there fore not compelled to buy the other or to be bought. This state of free dom and equality is only possible in the- socialistic society. "Who desires to belong to a church shall not be hindered, but he only shall pay for the expenses of his church together with his co-religion ists. "The schools and the whole educa tional system shall be separated from the church and religious societies, be cause education is a civil matter. Wants Brotherhood of Nation. "The God of Christians is not a German, French, Russian or English God, but a God of nil men, an interna tional God. God is the God of love and peace and therefore it borders upon blasphemy that the priests of different Christian nations Invoke this God of love to give victory to their na tion in the general slaughter. It is equally blasphemous if the priest of one nation prays the God of all na tions for a victory over another na tion. In striving to found a brother hood of nations and the peaceful co-operation of nations in the service of civilization, Social Democracy acts gust Bebel. in a most Christian spirit, and tries to realize what the Christian priests of all nations, together with the Christian monarclis, hitherto would not or could not realize. By combin ing the workers of nations. Social Democracy tries to effect a federation of nations in which every state en joys equal rights and in which the peculiarities of the inner character of every nation may peacefully de velop." The anti-socialist finds in these principles attacks upon the state, so ciety, the monarchy, the family, the church, and is quick to denounce both program and principles. Leaders Able; Followers Devoted. The Social Democratio party is re markable in the high personal char acter and ability of its leaders and In the well-nigh blind devotion of the followers. Almost exclusively a party of workingmen, strongest In the in dustrial centers, its leaders are men from the ranks who, In many cases, give their services , without pay, sup porting themselves and their families by daily toil in shop or factory. The funeral in Switserland of Aug ust Bebel, long the leader of the party, took place a few days aso. The praises to Bebel's intellect and char acter were numerous even in the gov ernment press. Before his portrait, draped in crepe in the window of the Vorwaerts newspaper office, was seen a veritable procession of German workingmen, reverently pausing to pay silent tribute. While Bebel was alive the great German historian, Professor Mommsen, had written "Everybody in Germnny knows that with brains lik those of Bebel it would be possible to furnlth forth a dozen noblemen from cast of the Elbe j ifa mm jaajjuar - ' in,, H lem shine among their peers." 1 Of the fol- "The devotion, the self-sacrificing' spiru oi tne social uemocrauc masses, ; impresses even those who are far .' . , , . , from sharing their alms." ' We are druggists right here in your Some Causes of Party . Growth. d business, but it is because people The German government tried force have t0 h.(Ve d and not becausc to suppress the growth of the Social we ijke t0 8ee people suffer we don't. Democratic party and then prosecu- Our duty is to render the best service tion of its leaders, but without avail, -we can, and when someone is ailing Workmen's insurance followed minus we are interested in seeing them take the unemployed benefit of Great the best medicine there is for their Britain but this, too, had no effect, particular trouble. We don't recom The party continued to grow. The end "cure-alls as we don t believe . n, , . c4. ,, there are such things. We don t want Immorality suggested by the adver- t morethan have to tising in the newspapers and by the JSome ofryou get small wages, and terrible fact that one of every ten when youre sick, none at all, and you births In Germany Is illegitimate, the should get the most you can for your low wages and crowded housing of the money. working classes, the official caste sys-, We recently came across a new tem, even the democracy taught in remedy for increasing strength and the schools, where Bona of kaiser and building up people who are run down day laborer sit on the same bench- fnd ejniciated. We know that a slight , ,.,.,, . trouble sometimes grows into a sen were causes contributing to its one anJ t() gto .fc jn the bcginn growth. ing, will save you money in the end. The founder of the Social Denio-jThis new compound is call Rexall cratic party in Germany was William olive Oil Emulsion. It is the best Liebknecht who began, at the sugges- remedy, when you are run-down, tired tion of his wife, the movement. Lieb-,out, nervous no matter what the knecht was a poor journalist. When ' cause. It doesn't merely stimulate he had created and organized the you and make you feel good for a few party and was serving in his old age hows but it takes hold of the weak as editor of Vorwaerts. after having ness a,n(l b"? ds yuf UP to a healthy " . . .. , .. '. . normal condition. It is a real nerve been in Jail from time to time for foo(, tonic am, bui,der of gQod b,00(! his political opinions boldly ex- stronpr muscle, good digestion. It con pressed, he was sharply cross- tains Hypophosphites, which tone the examined by a committee of the party as to his household expenses and censured for keeping a domestic servant and nrcpntinir n Kalarv as editor instead of living like an ordr- nary workingman. . .t. Not a Job-Getting Party. yc.ijr na vuCU Kexail btores, and in this town only present time In maintaining a strict by us. 1.00. Standard Drug Co., the democratic equality and a rigid disci- Rexall Store, Asheboro, N. C. pllne among its members. It is aid- j ed, of course, In its discipline by the , Charged with aiding and abetting spirit of organization which is drilled in the escape of three prisoners from into the German from childhood. Its the convict camp in Greene township leaders are never beyond party crici- on the night of February 28, Emmett cism, but its masses act as a unit Tate, an ex-convict who has been em under the leaders' direction. It has Pyed at the camp as a day hand added strength because it has not per- .se.n. h's term has been com mitted itself to be used by politicians g to get jobs. It has been a cause which aileged that Tate F8upplied the three has held the members together rather convicts with a file with which they than a campaign to get offices. AH filed off the shackles that bound their this, added to the considerable and legs. Nothing has been heard of the widespread industrial discontent, has escaped prisoners. increased the membership of thej party, bringing to it at the elections Judge W. F. Harding of Charlotte many bankers, merchants and profes- had the honor of christening the new sional men of advanced Liberal views ly erected Rowan county court house who were disappointed at the Ineffect- he" the special term of Superior ivene-ss of the Liberal parties-whlch S,urt. Pend Salisbury . Monday like most else in Germany live under mornl"- Everything was in readi J1K6 most else in uermany live under negg for the court w . f government InBpiratlon - and dis- trial of civil cases onl The pleased at the ineptitude of their lead- ro0m is pronounced to be one of the era. nicest in the State and the arrange- Is Substantially a Unit jment of the entire building is being What is the future of the Social ' complimented by all visitors. Democratio party 7 Others than the German kaiser and those of the estab lished order are asking 'this question most seriously. In part due to ' its Influence, though perhaps more Ufge ly due to the paternalism of the gov ernment and other causes, much progress has been made In the wide field of social reform. The party has remained substantially a unit Bebel's towering influence aided in maintain ing this unity. His successor, with out Bebel's historical Importance though possessed of his ability, may not be able to prevent the rise of dis cordant factions and the destruction of the party, as so many other parties j have been destroyed, on the rock of, personal ambition. Already three distinct schools oil " , , ... " to Insist on all their reforms in their -..,, - , . vlalnnUt plamonfa nnnarentlv now ' ' " I thn stronger, are willlne to loin with the Liberals and others to get half a loaf todav rather than no bread, ex- pecting the whole loaf tomorrow; a third and influential faction seek to harmonize the old and the new schools, preserving unity of action. Party's Future Provision. Discussion of the general strike as a political weanon is acute lust now as is criticism by the radicals of their representatives in the relchBtag who voted, according to the revisionist principles, for direct instead of indi rect taxation for miltairy purposes as the lesser of two evils. These discus sions are of less consequence than consideration of the future of the party as a w hole. There are no signs that this future will be less important In the empire than has been the party's past. Indeed the contrary ap pears probable. The Social Demo cratio party, in a country where men and women are educated to under stand and do what they are told with out asking for any reasons, is superb ly organized. Its leaders have cour age, common sense, ability, the con fidence of the rank and file. It is the one potent political force for democ racy in Germany tpday. All that it hopes it nay not soon. If at all, ac complish. Under its influence, how ever, or the Influence of the party or parties -into which it breathes life, bureaucracy, feudalism and caste, now so obnoxious in this mighty nation, will be thorn of much of their of- fenslveness and power. Short of so cialism. Germany may be content with a republic. 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