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In the muni- cipalities as in the Empire the government is effective, the peace is kept, pecula- tion is rare, the peoples money husbanded, but, throughout, the people have nothing to say; they have to do simply as they are told, obey this regulation and that and have mot even the right to grumble at their masters.

Comfort and reasonably cheap living are attained, but at the sacrifice of initiative, of spontan- eous thought, of freedom, of everything involved in the word "democracy" the phrase " government by the people.

" Now if the Prussians were content to apply their principles to themselves and their own land only, we would have no right to complain.

Our American cousins may take up one.

Yoa.