New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-27
GERMAN TOPICS.
DRESDEN IN DlSFAVOR.
Florence, Italy, Dec. s, 1873.

DRESDEN IN D1SFAVOR.
.,,rp1cANs pEsyRTIyG THE SAXON CAPIrAL--vEx-
ArIoUsNEss OF GERMAN TAXATIoN-sINGULAR
HOSTILITY TO AMERICANS - THE AMERICAN
REIIEF SOCIETY.
rynoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNEl
Berlin. Dec. lit is reported, and. have reason
to believe with truth, that the American population
of Dresden is rapidly falling off. The same is true,
OF course of the English, and for the same reason
but as that fact appeals less keeny TO our patriotic
interests ii will be sufficient to consider the Amer-
cans alone The cause of the exodus Is the same as
led TO the American RevOlution-taxalon without
representation In other country IN the wor0 does
the taxgatherer represent 80 complete anu enecu'e
system in no other does he reveal IN his work such
n diabolical consciousness of power. In no other,
probably does he collect with so little cost to the
state such large levics at such demoralizng rate.
The system reaches its climax in Prussia, ana the
other states can only initiate her sublime example
The hght-hearted and fair-halied SaN0ns, whose
or;tol ON fine banks Of the Ellie beloved resort
of tourists were late i'll applying after Prussia tho
more refined and ingenious forms of taxation to their
foreign guests but the resolution once formed, 1t
seems to have been carried out with fatal energy
They have killed the goose which laid the golden
eggs.
sort of taxes which simple living here exactS OF
them. | will take Berlin as specimen city. An
American here in professional business and keeping
house pavs as personal taxes: |. municipal IN
come tax: O. so-callcd ElaSscnsteaer. a State tax
from which the poorer people are exempt; 3 A
Gc,rabeseuer or professional tax or license; ana D.
rent tax or per cent on the amount ot rent pad
by him. The first tax is universal, and is eXtorted
oven from American students at the CniVer-
sity The second is paid by all Americans who
are technically domIcilcd here. The third Is I'M
posed of course on Americans who are pursuing any
calling recognized by the laws. The fourth Is pald
not by persons who rent furnished lodgings, but only
by those who rent an entire WohRpng or dwelling
from the owner of a house These impoSts are lght'
neither singy nor in the aggregate. When all four
are imposed the average aggregate 10 be pad Will
reach about so in every ~ 900 Of income, a fact
which Will give pause perhaps to many who look
toward Germany rs the land Of cheap living.
Another element to DO considered by tllS latter
class is the growing dislike in which Americans are
held in Germany. This springs from variety OF
causes There is first the economic or pccnhlary
reason The travelling Americans have made the
hotels better indeed, but dearer: the donlel'ed
Americans being determined to live well, have
turned the heads of the German youth and the Ger
man shopkeepers, and finally the American helrtssos
carried the most desirable piIIeH
Then comes the patriotic reason. While many Ger
mans were once glad TO find home III the United
States they have no sympathy with their
couutrymen who since the formation Of
the new Empire are still attracted away from the
Fatherland Finally the Germans believe that dur
ing the late war the whole American nation was
anxious 10 intervene for France Did we not send
contributions for the relief Of the French sufferers
and are not the French going to build Gallo watch
tower i'm the center of New-York haTbOrf In the
press there is systematic effort 10 dlscredit Aner-
ear institutions and the feelings of sensitive Auer-
cans who can read the Journals and keep awake
will ind plenty OF coarse and hoartless afronts.
The worst of these are IN the Liberal press ana
p.nncd BY the very men who have but Just returned
from thor exile in America. The Government press
is very fair, and is the Government itself II l.
clearly de.irous Of cultiyatmg the very best rela
tons With the United states and by the recent de
cision abou, the Naturalization Treaty of 1868 has
deliberately turned its back Of It's best friends
but most candid critics.
While am writing of Americans | ought 70 men
ton two other events of the day. One was the first
annual meeting Of the American Relief Society,
charitable body organized last year for the purpose
of afording systematic relief to destitute American
citizens who may happen to be at Berlin. During
The first year some 500 marks were collected and
paid into the treasury, and about 1000 marks were
disbursed to needy persons. But curious fact IS
revealed by the first years experience. In previ-
Gus letter spoke to You of class of adventuferS
who. having fled from Germany to escape military
service, remained long enough in America for natu-
ralizaton, and then returned to 1.-Two IN Germany
without bearing the obligations of citizenship any
where. They are the men who are continually
making cases" under the Treaty of 1865. If such
men have no moral claim on our Government, how
much less have they on the charity OF individual
Americansi Yet this is the class that have been
almost exclusively relieved by the society Ont OF
two score of cases only was that of a born and
bona fdc American citizen. In these circumstances
il is not strange that many members are III favor OF
suspendng such msuSed institution OF charity !;
but it was finally decided to try the experiment
another year.