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The Daily Morning Journal And Courier
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
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Berlin press criticizes the German army's caste system, where aristocrats from Junker families monopolize officer positions, limiting advancement for poor men and extending influence into administration.
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A Poor Man Has No Show to Rise in the Military Service.
Berlin, Dec. 27.—The pretensions of the German aristocrat, especially the army officer, received, as he always is, from the junker families to be treated as of a divinely constituted caste, are undergoing the severest exposure and criticism from the progressist and independent press.
The question is being discussed whether the army is national, except in the sense that the people contribute the rank and file, pay the money to support it and allow the aristocrats to monopolize every post above that of non-commissioned officer.
This grasp of caste upon office extends beyond the army into the lower regions of administration, where it might be supposed the junker would not seek employment.
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Berlin
Event Date
Dec. 27
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The pretensions of the German aristocrat, especially the army officer, received, as he always is, from the junker families to be treated as of a divinely constituted caste, are undergoing the severest exposure and criticism from the progressist and independent press. The question is being discussed whether the army is national, except in the sense that the people contribute the rank and file, pay the money to support it and allow the aristocrats to monopolize every post above that of non-commissioned officer. This grasp of caste upon office extends beyond the army into the lower regions of administration, where it might be supposed the junker would not seek employment.