Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919 . uUSast fraiw 16 Orecnwich,. THE GERMAN EMPIRE 1914. >,iisseMerLme. :J«nft«»tt^^tf«<*pe. S RrStiwunifKudMadt_____ :SdmanJ>un)-Scndn^tsii W. Waideck- tni/Uih Mllrs. THE GERMAN EMPIRE 59 all by himself and announced complacently that he didnot suffer 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


Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919 . uUSast fraiw 16 Orecnwich,. THE GERMAN EMPIRE 1914. >,iisseMerLme. :J«nft«»tt^^tf«<*pe. S RrStiwunifKudMadt_____ :SdmanJ>un)-Scndn^tsii W. Waideck- tni/Uih Mllrs. THE GERMAN EMPIRE 59 all by himself and announced complacently that he didnot suffer 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 printed 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-tati


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