Show THE FATHERLAND While the people of this happy and t prosperous nation are lamenting the hard times which exist only in diseased dis-eased imaginations mostly the property of some local Micawber the following glance at everyday life in Berlin should f serve to make them content with their lot enter the battle of life with renewed f courage and carve out a future for themselves I them-selves and their dependents throwing i f idle pinings to the dogs and consoling r themselves with the thought that others i t are more to be pitied than they A correspondent Ii i cor-respondent of the New York Situ writing t 4 from Berlin says r 2 Out of n population of 1200000 in Ber I lin more than 150000 are receiving publio charity Many of the workingmen here openly favor community of wives Divorces have increased to 15 per cent of the marriages mar-riages solemnized The attendance at the churches has decreased to 2 per cent of the ndult population and of 48000 funerals Innfc year nearly 30000 > wore performed without with-out any religious ceremonies whatever Women flock by thousands to the oity to obtain employment and failing to get J I what they want large numbers fall and are lost This evil has become so great that t strenuous efforts are being mnde to avoid it t The law of consent has already been raised i in a similar way na was done in New York and England By such legislative enactment some 111 sort of protection is extended to girls up tot to-t the age of 18 Lodging houses and benevo I lent institutions have been established to aid t working women and a society of ladies has > I boon formed charged with protecting sus 1 H taming and counseling women up to the age 11 MB of 35What 1 What a picture is here presented right in the heart of the country whose people g all over the world cry God bless the J Fatherland and who always revert to it with feelings of patriotism UIH pride 4 1 And yet many men who were born and 4 nurtured amid such scones come to this land of liberty and happiness and straightway seek to incite rebellion against the laws and tear down tho work J of generations of men who were the descendants de-scendants of others equally punished in their youth by foreign princes The 1 h nationality of most of the brutes now 4 g under sentence of death in Chicago for the Haymaiket massacre places them right among the unhappy people above alluded to and yet they sought to make of this country a similar prisonhouse to their I i r r own Think of 150000 men women and children in one city receiving public I charity and that too when the daily 1 cost of the maintenance of royalty is more than enough to give them plenty for a year and then view the acts of some of them who would breed riot and bloodshed blood-shed here and the verdict the Chicago jury will seem just indeed It is no wonder won-der that immigration continues at such a heavy rate when relief from such a living hell is promised by it but it L is a wonder that sane men will try to transport such infernal misery to this country andseek to drag down a rhappy and prosperous people to the level of f the old country aupers It is true that the German element of pur population popula-tion is composed of the best people in the land but the few black sheep who crowded in from that wholesale poorhouse poor-house which is the home of boasted German Ger-man royalty have done more harm to the peace and prosperity of their countrymen coun-trymen than a repetition of the plague could do If our dissatisfied population could be furnished daily with a true picture pic-ture of the want and misery existing in these boasted mothercountries they would soon learn to thank God for the blessings they possess and turn upon all who would sow discord among the unfortunate un-fortunate of our people and drive them out to be outcasts from the body politic as they deserve |