1. Like all other states of Europe, Germany is threatened by the
discontent existing among the working‐classes.
2. The principal reasons for this discontentment are: Decrease of
the retail business; overtaxing the agricultural classes;
miserable condition of the operatives in manufactories; and the
endless development of money speculation.
3. The real origin of these misfortunes is the enervation of
Christian faith and morality in the higher as well as in the lower
ranks of society, caused by modern rationalism and liberalism,
whereby it has happened also that a great portion of the working‐
classes have allowed themselves to be deceived by the illusions of
irreligious and revolutionary leaders.
4. The means of healing these social evils and reconciling all
classes of society consist in the passing of laws prohibiting the
exhausting of the bodily and financial strength of the people; in
claiming that protection from the state to which all classes are
entitled; in the continued effort to remove the particular defects
of the present commercial laws by means of legislation; in
establishing the rights of the working‐classes in accordance with
Christian principles and the demands of general equity; in
founding different industrial auxiliary houses, either through the
union of the working‐classes and others, or through the friends of
the working‐classes; in restricting the amount of labor to be
performed by females and children; in the careful cultivation of
the moral and religious life in the families of the working‐
classes, especially by having Sunday kept holy, and by applying
Christian principles to the sphere of business life; in the free
development of Christian charity to alleviate inevitable want.