STATE INSURANCE IN GERMANY
Industrial Insurance in Germany, 1908.
| Sick benefits: | Number insured | 13,189,599 | |
| | Men | 9,880,541 | |
| | Women | 3,309,058 | |
| | Income | 365,994,000 | marks |
| | Outlay | 331,049,900 | marks |
| Accident Insurance: | Number insured | 23,674,000 | |
| | Men | 14,795,400 | |
| | Women | 8,878,600 | |
| | Income | 207,550,500 | marks |
| | Outlay | 157,884,700 | marks |
| Old-Age Pensions: | Number insured | 15,226,000 | |
| | Men | 10,554,000 | |
| | Women | 4,672,000 | |
| | Income | 285,882,000 | marks |
| | Outlay | 181,476,800 | marks |
From 1885 to 1908 a total of 9,791,376,100 marks ($2,447,844,025) was paid out in industrial insurance. (Compiled from Statistisches Jahrbuch des Deutschen Reiches.)
LABOR UNIONS IN GERMANY
| Name of Union | Membership | No. of Unions | Amount in Treasury—Marks |
| | 1908 | 1909 | 1908 | 1909 | 1908 | 1909 |
| Social Democratic | 1,831,731 | 1,892,568 | 11,024 | 11,725 | 40,839,791 | 43,743,793 |
| Hirsh-Duncker | 105,633 | 108,028 | 2,095 | 2,102 | 4,210,413 | 4,372,495 |
| Christian | 264,519 | 280,061 | 3,212 | 3,856 | 4,513,409 | 5,365,338 |
| Patriotic | 16,507 | 9,957 | 69 | 91 | 57,786 | 24,858 |
| "Yellow" | 47,532 | 53,849 | 79 | 85 | 386,305 | 437,602 |
| Independent* | 615,873 | 654,240 | | | 1,357,802 | 1,655,325 |
| * This is a nondescript group of local organizations, containing (1909) 56,183 Poles, as well as the organization of railwaymen, telegraph operators, postal employees, all in the government service, and organized as friendly societies rather than as fighting bodies. Government employees are not supposed to participate in "Unionism." Compiled from Statistisches Jahrbuch des Deutschen Reiches. |
TABLE SHOWING VOTE CAST IN REICHSTAG ELECTIONS SINCE THE FOUNDING OF THE EMPIRE*
| Election Year | 1871 | 1874 | 1877 | 1878 | 1881 | 1884 | 1887 | 1890 | 1893 | 1898 | 1903 | 1907 | 1912 |
| Population of Empire | 40,997,000 | 42,004,000 | 43,610,000 | 44,129,000 | 45,428,000 | 46,336,000 | 47,630,000 | 49,241,000 | 50,757,000 | 54,406,000 | 58,629,000 | 61,983,000 | 65,407,000 |
| Number of voters | 7,656,000 | 8,523,000 | 8,943,000 | 9,128,000 | 9,090,000 | 9,383,000 | 9,770,000 | 10,146,000 | 10,628,000 | 11,441,000 | 12,531,000 | 13,353,000 | 14,442,000 |
| Number who voted | 3,885,000 | 5,190,000 | 5,401,000 | 5,761,000 | 5,098,000 | 5,663,000 | 7,541,000 | 7,229,000 | 7,674,000 | 7,753,000 | 9,496,000 | 11,304,000 | 12,207,000 |
| Per cent. of vote cast | 51.0 | 61.2 | 60.6 | 63.3 | 56.3 | 60.6 | 77.5 | 71.6 | 72.2 | 68.1 | 75.8 | 84.7 | 84.5 |
| Conservative | 549,000 | 360,000 | 526,000 | 749,000 | 831,000 | 861,000 | 1,147,000 | 895,000 | 1,038,000 | 859,000 | 935,000 | 1,099,000 | 1,126,000 |
| Imperial Conservative | 346,000 | 376,000 | 427,000 | 786,000 | 379,000 | 388,000 | 736,000 | 482,000 | 438,000 | 344,000 | 333,000 | 494,000 | 383,000 |
| Anti-Semites | — | — | — | — | — | — | 12,000 | 48,000 | 264,000 | 284,000 | 249,000 | 261,000 | — |
| Other Conservative Groups | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 66,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 230,000 | 272,000 | 424,000 |
| Center | 724,000 | 1,446,000 | 1,341,000 | 1,328,000 | 1,183,000 | 1,282,000 | 1,516,000 | 1,342,000 | 1,469,000 | 1,455,000 | 1,866,000 | 2,159,000 | 1,991,000 |
| Guelphs | 73,000 | 72,000 | 86,000 | 107,000 | 87,000 | 96,000 | 113,000 | 113,000 | 106,000 | 109,000 | 101,000 | 94,000 | 91,000 |
| Danes | 21,000 | 20,000 | 17,000 | 16,000 | 14,000 | 14,000 | 12,000 | 14,000 | 14,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 17,000 |
| Poles | 176,000 | 209,000 | 216,000 | 216,000 | 201,000 | 203,000 | 220,000 | 247,000 | 230,000 | 252,000 | 354,000 | 458,000 | 448,000 |
| Alsatians | — | 190,000 | 149,000 | 130,000 | 147,000 | 166,000 | 234,000 | 101,000 | 115,000 | 107,000 | 127,000 | 107,000 | 157,000 |
| National Liberal | 1,171,000 | 1,499,000 | 1,470,000 | 1,331,000 | 747,000 | 997,000 | 1,678,000 | 1,179,000 | 997,000 | 984,000 | 1,338,000 | 1,696,000 | 1,723,000 |
| Other Liberal groups | 281,000 | 98,000 | 89,000 | 69,000 | 429,000 | — | — | — | 258,000 | 235,000 | 285,000 | 435,000 | |
| Progressist or Radical | 361,000 | 469,000 | 403,000 | 388,000 | 649,000 | 997,000 | 973,000 | 1,160,000 | 666,000 | 558,000 | 538,000 | 744,000 |
| People's Party | 50,000 | 39,000 | 49,000 | 69,000 | 108,000 | 96,000 | 89,000 | 148,000 | 167,000 | 109,000 | 92,000 | 139,000 |
| Social Democrats | 124,000 | 352,000 | 493,000 | 437,000 | 312,000 | 550,000 | 763,000 | 1,427,000 | 1,787,000 | 2,107,000 | 3,011,000 | 3,259,000 | 4,250,000 |
| * In round numbers. From Kürschner's Deutscher Reichstag, p. 24. |
PARTY REPRESENTATION IN THE REICHSTAG
The Years are those of General Elections—Excepting 1911