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far as Constance with Dr. Paschnicke, an intelligent A German 

 and scholarly Berlin attorney, a member of the Llberd 

 Reichstag and one of the leaders of the National 

 Liberal party corresponding fairly to our own 

 "Stalwart Republicans"; this group of the moderate 

 "Right" supported especially the German Chancellor, 

 usually chosen from their number, and through him 

 the Emperor. Paschnicke said: 



All affairs in Germany are entrusted to professional diplomats. 

 They are often very narrow-minded and without knowledge 

 outside of a groove. All new things fall into an unchanging 

 system or policy, the retention of which constitutes the essence 

 of conservatism. 



Shortly after my return from Nuremberg we 

 started out on a delightful tour in warmer climes, dur- 

 ing which my wife was to fix upon an agreeable stand 

 for herself and companions while I should be absent on 

 my prospective lecture tour in England and Germany. 



Passing through Buchs on the Rhine on the eastern Activity 

 border of Switzerland, we observed great activity in 

 matters of emigration to America, to Canada espe- 

 cially. The Canadian government, I was told, en- 

 couraged immigration from Austria-Hungary, and the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway had brought over for 

 advertising purposes a series of sleeping cars, which 

 ran from Switzerland to Vienna and Trieste. The 

 fares on these were lower and the accommodations 

 incomparably better than in the local wagons-lits. 

 The Austrian government did not approve of Cana- 

 dian methods, however, and brought suit against the 

 agents of the company for using undue means to 

 tempt people away. How the matter terminated I do 



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