Bismarck and State Socialism: An Exposition of the Social and Economic Legislation of Germany Since 1870 |
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Page 29 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 137 - It shall have exclusive power to legislate concerning the mutual protection of taxes upon articles of consumption levied in the several States of the Empire...
Page 111 - ... but as one serving their own needs and interests. The apprehension that a socialistic element might be introduced into legislation if this end were followed should not check us. So far as that may be the case it will not be an innovation but the further development of the modern state idea, the result of Christian ethics, according to which the state should discharge, besides the defensive duty of protecting existing rights, the positive duty of promoting the welfare of all its members, and especially...
Page 110 - A remedy cannot alone be sought in the repression of Socialistic excesses; there must be simultaneously the positive advancement of the welfare of the working classes. And here the care of those workpeople who are incapable of earning their livelihood is of the first importance. In the interest of these the Emperor has caused a bill for the insurance of workpeople against the consequences of accident to be sent to the Bundesrath — a bill which, it is hoped, will meet a need felt both by workpeople...
Page 114 - The cure of social ills must be sought not exclusively in the repression of Social Democratic excesses, but simultaneously in the positive advancement of the welfare of the working classes.
Page 118 - Then, again, in the year 1884 he said : " The whole matter centres in the question, ' Is it the duty of the State or is it not to provide for its helpless citizens ? ' I maintain that it is its duty, that it is the duty, not only of the ' Christian ' State, as I ventured once to call it when speaking of ' Practical Christianity,
Page 19 - Those who, from laziness, love of idleness, or other irregular proclivities, do not choose to employ the means offered them of earning a livelihood, shall be kept to useful work by compulsion and punishment under proper control.
Page 29 - Eines schickt sich nicht für alle ! Sehe jeder, wie er's treibe, Sehe jeder, wo er bleibe, Und wer steht, daß er nicht falle!
Page 111 - State should interest itself to a greater degree than hitherto in those of its members who need assistance, is not only a duty of humanity and Christianity — by which State institutions should be permeated — but a duty of State-preserving policy, whose aim should be to cultivate the conception — and that, too...
Page 51 - I regard it as my duty to adopt measures to preserve the German market to national production so far as is consistent with the general interest, and our customs legislation must accordingly revert to the tried principles upon which the prosperous career of the Zollverein rested for nearly half a century, but which have in important particulars been deserted in our mercantile policy since 1865. I cannot admit that actual success has attended this change in our customs policy.