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

 and scholarly Berlin attorney, a member of the ^*'™' 

 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. 



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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 ^," J""'^™' 

 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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