. Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919. ^cvUui ^^rossbu (Cr £fM iSiii0en. >/ -X5 ^rt. THE GERMAN EMPIRE 1914. >^bre viatiems:^rBmnswide L rlippe. ^J<.-Iieuss &..£in0.^ATSa-mAUenburg. ^dtAOf. <i -M ?^; AldiifiHigcn/. S \{.-Saxti-Weimar. THE GERMAN EMPIRE 39 all by himself and annouilced complacently that he didnot suffef from his isolation. In one of the Berlin dis-tricts Herr Heffte^ a manufacturer of sausages, formedthe first class. This system would seem to be outrageous enough byreason of its monstrous plutocratic caste. But t


. Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919. ^cvUui ^^rossbu (Cr £fM iSiii0en. >/ -X5 ^rt. THE GERMAN EMPIRE 1914. >^bre viatiems:^rBmnswide L rlippe. ^J<.-Iieuss &..£in0.^ATSa-mAUenburg. ^dtAOf. <i -M ?^; AldiifiHigcn/. S \{.-Saxti-Weimar. THE GERMAN EMPIRE 39 all by himself and annouilced complacently that he didnot suffef from his isolation. In one of the Berlin dis-tricts Herr Heffte^ a manufacturer of sausages, formedthe first class. This system would seem to be outrageous enough byreason of its monstrous plutocratic caste. But this wasnot all. This reactionary edifice was appropriatelycrowned by another device—oral voting. Neither in theprimary nor the secondary voting was a secret ballotUsed. Voting was not even by a written or pritited bal-lot, but by the spoken word. Thus everyone exercisedhis right publicly in the presence of his superior or hispatron or employer or his equals or the official represen-tative of the King. In such a country as Prussia, wherethe police were notoriously ubiquit


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