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SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1917
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GERMANY, LAST STRONGHOLD
OF AUTOCRATIC MONARCHY
No Chance of Liberalization from Within so Long as
Hohenzollerns and Junkers Are in Control —People
Have Legislative Rights in Name Only
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The follow
ing article on the German form of
government, will on account of its
extreme length, be published in
three installments, of which this
is the second.)
By Charles Downer Hazen, Professor
of European History, Columbia
University.
But the fundamental evil is that the
elections to the Reichstag result in the
creation of an Assembly politically im
potent, which does not control the ex
ecutive and whose powers of legisla
tion are subject to an absolute veto by
the Bundesrath, that is, by the reign
ing Princes, big and little. German
Government is government by the Em
peror and the dynasties, with the con
sent of the Reichstag, a consent which
in practice can be forced, if not given
voluntarily, for the Bundesrath has the
power of dissolving, the Reichstag
whenever it wishes to, a power al
ways efficacious thus far. The German
government classes, the Princes, the
bureaucracy, agree with Moltke, who
said that the real ballot was the cart
ridge which the German soldier car
ried in his cartridge box, that the real
representative of the nation was the
army.
For ail practical purposes the
Reichstag is merely a debating club,
and a debating club that has no power
of seeing that its will is carried out.
As late as January, 1914, Dr. Fried
riel) Naumann of “Middle Europe”
fame, described the humiliating posi
tion of the body of which he was a
member in the following words:
"We on the Left are altogether in
favor of the parliamentary regime, by
which we mean that the Reichstag
cannot forever remain in a position of
subordination. Why does the Reicht
tag sit at all, why does it pass resolu
tions, if behind it is a waste-paper
basket into which these resolutions
are thrown? The problem is to change
the impotence of the Reichstag into
some sort of power.” He added:
“The man who compared this House
to a hall of echoes was not far wrong.
To those who are accustomed to do
practical work in life it appears a
mere waste of time to devote them
selves to this difficult and monotonous
mechanism. * * * When one asks
the question, What part has the Reich
stag in German history as a whole? it
will be seen that the part is a very
limited one.”
' Many millions among us,” said Dr.
Frank in the Reichstag on Jan. 23,
1914, “feel it a burning shame that
while Germans achieve great things in
trade and industry, in politics they are
deprived of rights.
| In the determination of national pol
| icy the German Nation has, therefore,
no way of enforcing its wishes through
the only agency it possesses. In other
words, the nation does not govern it
self. The mainspring of power lies, not
iin the Reichstag, but in the Bundes
. rath, the organ of the Princes, every
one of whom claims to rule by divine
right, not one of whom has his policy
dictated to him by his people’s repre
sentatives —and in the Kingdom of
Prussia.
Absolutism in Prussia.
The Kingdom of Prussia is larger
than all the other German States com
bined, comprising two-thirds of the
territory and about two-thirds of the
population of Germany. The empire
differs from other confederations in
that the States, comprising it are of
unequal voting power in both the
P.undesrath and Reichstag. It was
Prussia that made the German Empire,
and made, it by blood and iron, and in
the empire she has installed herself at
every point of vantage and guards
jealously not only the primacy but al
so the actual power.
Prussia has, since 1850, had a Con
stitution and a Parliament. What are
they like? The Constitution was
granted by the King, and nowhere
does it recognize the soverignity of
the people. What the monarch has
granted, he can alter or withdraw. All
the restriction the Constitution impos
es upon the monarchical principal is
that henceforth it shall be exercised
and expressed in certain forms, with a
certain procedure. Prussian states
men and Prussian jurists maintain with
practical unanimity that this does not
mean any diminution of the power of
the monarch, that the fact that he cre
ates a Legislature does not for an in
stant mean that he devolves upon it a
part o! the soverignty.
The Legislature of Prussia is the
Landtag, which consists of two cham-
bers, the House of Lords and the
,pouse of Representatives. The Legis-|
lature does not initiate much legisla- |
tion. Most of the bills passed by it
have been proposed by the Govern-'
ment; that is, by the King The Leg-,
islature has practically no control over .
the administration; that is, over the
powerful and permanent bureaucracy.
It can in this sphere) express opinions
and practically nothing more. The
Constitution does not determine the
composition of the House of Lords, but
leaves that to the King to determine
by royal ordinance As a matter of
fact, this House is really overwhelm- j
singly dominated by the land-owning
nobility, the famous Junkers, men fre
quently more royalist than the King,
conservative and militaristic to the
marrow of their bones. The House is.
subject to the absolute control of the
monarch through the unrestricted
power to create peers. It is really a
sort of royal council, an extension or'
variation of the royal power. It is a
body that in no sense represents the
people of Prussia. It has a veto upon
ail legislation, and the King has an
absolute veto also.
Yet there exists another House in
this Legislature which enacts the laws)
that govern 40,000,000 Prussians —the
so-called House of Representatives;
and marvelous, indeed, is the construc
tion of that body. Every Prussian man
who has attained hist twenty-fifth year
has the vote. Is Prussia, therefore, a
democracy? Not exactly, for the ex-,
ercise of this right is so arranged that
the ballot of the poor man is practi-'
cally annihiliated. Universal suffrage
has been rendered illusory. And this
is the way it has been done: The* vot
ars are divided in each electoral dis
trict into three classes according to
wealth. The amount of taxes paid by
the district is divided into three equal
parts. Those taxpayers who pay the
first third arc grouped into one class;
those, more numerous, who pay the
second third, into another class; those
who pay the remainder, into still an
other class. The result is that a very
few rich men are set apart by them
selves, and the poor by themselves.
Each of these groups, voting separate-;
ly, elects an equal number of delegates
to a convention, which convention
chooses the delegates of that constitu
ency to the lower house of the
sian Parliament.
No Chance for the Poor.
Thus in every Electorial Convention
two-thirds of the members belong to
the wealthy or well-to-do class. There !
is no chance in such a system for the,
poor, for the masses. This system
gives an enormous preponderance of I
political power to the rich. The first j
class consists of very few men, in ,
soma districts of only one; the second
is sometimes twenty times as numer
ous, the third sometimes a hundred,
or even a thousand times. Thus,
though every man has the suffrage,
the vote of a single rich man may have
as great weight as the votes of a
thousand workingmen. Universal suf
frage is manipulated in such away as
to defeat democracy decisively and to
consolidate a privileged class in power
in the only branch of the Government
that has even the appearance of being
of popular origin. Bismarck, no friend
of Liberalism, once characterized this
electorial system as the worst ever
created. Its shrieking injustice is
shown by the fact that in 1900 the
i Social Democrats, who actually cast a
1 majority of thei votes, got only 7 seats
I out of nearly 400. It is one of the
i most undemocratic systems in ex
istence.
(To be continued Monday.)
CHOP REPORT FOR GEORGIA
AND THE UMTF.D STATES
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14—
A summary of the July crop report for
the state of Georgia and for the Unit
ed States, as compiled by the Bureau
of Crop Estimates (and transmitted
through the Weather Bureau), 1 . S.
Department of Agriculture, is as fol
lows:
Corn: State-July 1 forecast, 64,-
0(0,000 bushels; production last year,
December estimate, 62,000,000,000
bushels. United States— July 1 fore
cast, 3,120,000,000; production last year
December estimate, 2,583,241,000 bush
els.
All Wheat: State— July 1 forecast,
2,080,000 bushels; production last year,
December estimate, 3,808,000 bushels.
United States—July 1 forecast, 678,-
000,000 bushels: production last year.
December estimate, 639,886,000 bush-
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
' els.
| Oats: State —July 1 forecast, 8,700,-
('OO bushels; production last year, De
cember estimate, 16,770,000 bushels.
1 United States—July 1 forecast, 1,450,-
'OOO.OOO bushels; production last year,
December estimate, 1,251,992,000 bush
els.
| Potatoes: State—July forecast, 1,-
438,000 bushels; production last year,
December estimate, 900,000 bushels.
United States—July 1 forecast, 452,-
000,000 bushels; production last year,
December estimate, 285,437,000 bush
els.
Sweet Potatoes: State —July 1 fore
cast, 10,150,000 bushels; production
last year, December estimate, 7,525,-
000 bushels. United States—July 1
forecast, 408,000 tons; production last
year, December estimate, 393,00 ft tons.
United States—July 1 forecast, 103,-
000,000 tons; production last year, De
cember estimate, 109,786,000 tons.
Apples (agricultural crop): State
—July 1 forecast, 562,000 barrels of 3
bushels; production last year, Decem
ber estimate, 541,000 barrels. United
States —July 1 forecast, 66,800,000 bar
rels of 3 bushels; production last year,
December estimate, 67,415,000 barrels.
Last year about 29 per cent of the
total State crop and 38 per cent of the
total United States crop were estimat
cd to be “commercial” (i. e., shipped
out of county where grown). This
year about 33 per cent of the State
crop and 37 per cent of the United
States crop are estimated tentatively
to be “commercial.”
Peaches: State —July 1 forecast, 4,-
250,006 bushels; production last year,
December estimate, 3,510,000 bushels.
United States—July 1 forecast, 43,500,-
000 bushels; production last year, De
cember estimate, 36,939,000 bushels.
Cotton: State—June 25 forecast, 1,-
850,000 bales; production lase year,
Census, 1,820,939 bales. United States
—July 1 forecast, 11,600,000 bales;
production last year, Census, 11,449,-
930 bales.
Prices: The first prices given below
is the average on July 1 this year and
the second the average on July 1 last
year.
State —Wheat, 255 and 128 cents per
bushel. Corn, 190 and 98. Oats, 99
and 66. Potatoes, 279 and 119. Hay,
$19.40 and $16.30 per ton. Cotton, 25.6
and, 12.6 per pound. Eggs, 27 and -17
cents per dozen. United States —
Wheat, 221 and 93.0 cents per bushel.
Corn, 164.6 and 75.4 cents. Oats, 68.9
and 40.4 cents. Potatoes, 247.9 and
102.3 cents. Hay, $14.56 and $12.09 per
ton. Cotton, 24.7 and 12,5 per pound.
Eggs, 28.3 and 19.7 cents per dozen.
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BULGARIAN MACEDONIA GREAT
OPIUM GROWING TERRITORY
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, July 14.
—Since the occupation of the Bulgar
ian provinces of Macedonia, Bulgaria
has become one of the principal opium
growing countries, writes the Balkan
correspondent of the Nieuwe Rotter
dam Courant.
Before the Balkan wars Turkey was
the leading opium country in the Le
vant and Smyrna the principal market
for that article. But Bulgaria has now
become a formidable competitor of
Asia Minor, both as regards quality
ai.d quantity. The opium grown in
the environs of Uskub and in the Tik
vesh, along the Vardar river is richer
in Alkaloids than the best qualities
from Anatolia.
In ordinary times the opium from
the Levant is exported to the Far
East, largely via Holland and Great
Britain. Further, Germany chiefly
draws on Bulgaria for the opium her
chemical industry requires for the pre
paration of morphine, codeine, etc., and
Bulgarian opium thus is distributed
over the entire world by Germany’s |
agency. As the prices obtained for |
opium, particularly for that exported to
the Far East, were comparatively high
and very remunerative, the cultivation
of the poppy proved very way profit
able and was continually extending in
[the regions along the Vardar suitable
for its growth, especially in the Strum
nitza and Melnik] districts.
About 242,000 pounds of opium was
harvested last year in the provinces
under Bulgarian administration, but
j this quantity can easily be doubled
[Now that the war, and the Allies’
1 blockade has made export overseas to
[the Far East impossible, and there is
[consequently for the moment a much
1 smaller demand, a part of the fields
' destined for poppy cultivation this
'year is being used for the cultivation
'of much needed grain and peas and
[beans. Much more land still is devoted
to the poppy than the expected opium
demand requires, however, this being
on account of the poppy seed. Under
present circumstances the oil to be won
from this seed has made it of great
importance, such oil being extremely
useful not only for industrial pur
poses, but also for human food. Last
year 500 railroad freight-car loads of
poppy-seed were exported to the Cen
tral European countries.
In Bulgaria itself the winning of
the oil is still done in a very clumsy
manner, whereby a great part of the
oil is lost. Plans have now been set
on foot by Germans for the erection
on the spot of crushing mills equip
ped on the most modern lines.
DECLINE IN VALUE OF
GERMAN CURRENCY ABROAD
LONDON, July 14.—The decline in
the value of the German mark on
neutral exchanges as compared with
pre-war parities is shown in the fol
lowing comparison of exchange for
100 marks:
Pre-War Parity: Amsterdam florin
59.25; Copenhagen kronen 88.88;
Stockholm kronen 88.83.
May 16: Amsterdam florins
87.37 1-2; Copenhagen kronen 33.75;
Stockholm kronen 51.25.
May 30: Amsterdam florins 36.45;
Copenhagen kronen 52.0; 5 Stockholm
kronen 51.00.
June 6: Amsterdam florins 35.80;
Copenhagen kronen 0.590; Stockholm
kronen 49.75.
June 15: Amsterdam florins 32.00;
Copenhagen kronen 47.50; Stockholm
kronen 46.75.
At the latest Amsterdam quotations
the value of a mark in English cur
rency is 35 marks 98 pfennigs for the
pound sterling which makes the mark
worth about 6 1-2 pence instead: of a
shilling.
GREAT SHORTAGE OF
BEER IN LIVERPOOL
LIVERPOOL, July 14.—Owing to the
[shortage of beer certain saloonkeepers
■in the Liverpool district are refusing
to serve strangers, declaring that they
are reserving supplies for their reg
ular customers. The courts will b ■
asked to decide whether this is per
missible, under the terms of their lic
enses, which require them to provide
reasonable refreshments on request."
NOTICE.
Effective Monday, July 16th, Trains
Nos. 5 and 6 between Americus, Ga.,
nd Columbus, Ga., will be discontinued
except on Sundays. Trains Nos. 21
and 22, mixed will leave Columbus at
9:15 a. m., arriving at Americus 12:30
p. m. and leave Americus at 3:10 p. m ,
arriving at Columbus at 7:00 p. m.
daily except Sunday.
GEORGE ANDERSON,
Agent Central of Georgia Ry Co.
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P. O. Box 288, Americus, Ga.
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