[14] "It has been truthfully said that in Germany a Social Democrat cannot even become a night-watchman."—Prof. Bernhard Harms (University of Kiel), Ferdinand Lassalle und Seine Bedeutung für die Sozial-Demokratie, 1909, p. 103.
[15] "Do you enjoy freedom from political interference?" I asked a high official in the civil service. "Absolutely. We think as we please, talk as we please, and do as we please. But we must let the Social Democrats alone."
[16] See Appendix, p. 293, for synopsis of this law.
[17] The vote for the Saxon legislature at this time was as follows:
| Party | Voters | Votes |
| Social Democrats | 341,396 | 492,522 |
| Conservatives | 103,517 | 281,804 |
| National Liberal | 125,157 | 236,541 |
| Independents (Freisinnige) | 41,857 | 100,804 |
| Anti-Semites | 20,248 | 55,502 |
The Social Democrats included over one-half of the voters, cast about one-third of the votes, and elected only one-fourth of the members.
[18] Some curious instances of inequality appear in the cities. In Berlin in one precinct one man paid one-third of the taxes and consequently possessed one-third of the legislative influence in that precinct. In another precinct the president of a large bank paid one-third of the taxes, and two of his associates paid another third. These three men named the member of the Diet from that precinct.
[19] For the struggle for ballot reform in Bavaria, see Der Kampf um die Wahlreform in Bayern, issued in 1905 by the Bavarian Social Democratic Party Executive Committee.
[20] February 13, 1910, was set aside as a day for suffrage demonstration throughout the empire. In Berlin alone forty-two meetings were announced. These provoked the following edict: "Notice! The 'right to the streets' is hereby proclaimed. The streets serve primarily for traffic. Resistance to state authority will be met by the force of arms. I warn the curious. Berlin, February 13, 1910. Police-president, Von Iagow." The Social Democratic papers called attention to the fact that these notices were printed on the same forms that the Police-president often used to announce that the streets would be closed to all traffic on account of military parades.
[21] Protokoll, 1890, pp. 119-120.