Show SOCIALISM IN GERMANY the socialists in germany havo shown a wonderful increase in the last three years and it is realy no wonder abo young kaiser is showing signs of uneasiness as evinced by his call for a labor con bention to meet in berlin to discuss the labor question and his speech favoring the boiking class when he opened the reichstag Keich stag in the socialists cia lists numbered not quite and notwithstanding the very stringent measures passed to keep down this and the vigilant endeavors on tho park of the police the last election returns show a voting strength of or nearly double of what there were throe years ago socialism is beginning to assume enormous proportions and wo can well excuse the young emperor for acting a little fidgety just at present for this is a class or subjects who do not take well to sovereign sway they are men who believe all persons all born with equal rights and that none are entitled to wear the purple from the mere right 0 birth things have been a little to M act ing in germany heretofore and things havo been kept up pretty well by the iron grip of tho great chancelor Chane elor bismark has many times acted in defiance of the constitution and has raised money and improved armies without parliamentary sanction as when he began war against austria he has succeeded well ia his many schemes which has kept up uis reputation but now that no wars are to bo won and the old chief taints declining with the weight of years we find he cannot retain his grasp probably no government over existed that has borne greater burdens of warfare than germany just think of one man in every five belonging to the militia as is the case with germany oven today to day and contemplate the immense cost this is to a country then these men required to servo for four years in the army are just in the prime of life and is the working part of the nation to compel them to leave tho farms und workshops for this length of time works a great hardship and causes poverty it interferes with of young men and many who have just made a fine start when called to serve as soldiers spent it all on account of an insufficiency to live on during tho time these which we have mentioned are some of the causes of socialism |