24th June, Ix view of the general election which has been proceeding in Germany, an article in the May isto of the " Nineteenth Century and After with the above title, by Mr. O. Eltzbacher, will be found full of interest. It is not easy to give a summary of it in the space at our disposal. The Social Democratic party is the strongest political party in Germany, but it is the party of discontent with things as they are, and in consequence the German Emperor has seldom lost an opportunity of condemning it in unmeasured terms.
The Kaiser has called its|S members "enemies to the divine order of things, without a fatherland:" it has been branded as "Die Umsturgpartei," the party of subversion; the Kaiser has said: "For Me every Social Democrat is synonymous with enemy of the nation, and of the Fatherland." At the meeting of the Conservative party in March 1897, Freiherr von Stumm said: "The right to vote should be taken away from the Social Democrats, and no Social Democrat should be permitted to sit in the Diet." Professor H. Delbriick, the distinguished historian, has written: "The duty of the Government is not to educate Social
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