ates of North America, because it
is nowhere less glossed over by political inequality. If pauperism has
not yet developed here to the extent that it has in England, this is
due to economic conditions which need not be further discussed at this
place. Meanwhile pauperism is making the most delightful progress.

"In a country where there is no privileged class, where all classes of
society have equal rights" (but the difficulty lies in the existence
of classes), "and where our population is far from pressing on the
means of subsistence, it is in fact alarming to see pauperism growing
with such rapidity." (Report of Mr Meredith to the Pennsylvanian
Congress.) "It is proved that pauperism in Massachusetts has increased
by 60 per cent, in twenty-five years." (From Miles' Register.)

As in England under the name of Chartists, so in North America under
the name of National Reformers, the workers are forming a political
party, whose slogan is not--monarchy versus republic, but rule of the
working class versus rule of the bourgeois class.

While therefore it is just in the modern bourgeois society, with its
corresponding political forms of the constitutional or the republican
representative state, that the "property question" has become the most
important "social question," it is the peculiar situation of the
German middle-class man which prompts him to assert that the question
of princedom is the most important social question of the time.

"The princes," Mr Heinzen tells us, are the "chief authors of all
poverty and all distress." Where princedom has been abolished, this
explanation is of course out of place, and the slavery system upon
which the ancient republics broke down--the slavery system which will
lead to the most terrible collisions in the southern states of
republican North America, the slavery system may exclaim with Jack
Falstaff: and if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries!

Once upon a time the people were obliged to place at their head the
most eminent personalities to conduct public affairs. Later these
positions were transmitted through families. And lastly the stupidity
and depravity of mankind have tolerated this abuse for centuries. If a
conference were convened of all the native pot-house politicians of
Europe, they could answer nothing different. And if one went through
Mr Heinzen's entire works, they would yield no other answer.

Bluff commonsense believes that it explains princedom by declari