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arrived. The speaker said probably more
than he meant but the words have Great
ed agitation, both AuStrians and Hunga.
rians declaring that they cannot and will
not Dear taxation so heavy. 'sThpy are
haIf-ruined already" The Government
has had TO explain that General Bauer
spoke only of certain contingencies, and
the Delegations will vote the three millions
a year now demanded but the feeling OF
alarm remains, and it is feared that the
speech will greatly diminish the reluctance
OF the two Parliaments to GO to war. They
do not see their way to annual loans, and
they know that their constituents will
dismiss them rather than bear additional
taxation. As we have 50 repeatedly point
ed out, it already presses on their low in
comes with a severity which has hardly
ever been felt III England, except perhaps
in 1916, when every one is believed to
have been paying a third of all he earned
to the Treasury.
The democracy in America, when called
the consumer, appears to have no rights
at all. Mr.. Blaine actually publishes the
following letter to a citizen of Maine who
had suggested that to remit the duty ON
sugar would help to deplete the overfull
Treasury. He is willing to take off the
t"Ag buU VIC OuSubS NC Say ~ W utN1 II
exchange for free sugar q free market for
breadstufs and provisions, besides various
fabrics, from all parts of the United
States. If sugar be made Internationally
free, we shall give the Latin American
States free admission for $3.50, 100000
worth of their produCts.o The fact that
cheap sugar would help to fatten every
American, and Is therefore clearly brue-
fetal, does not even occur to Mr.. Blaine.
His notion is that trade only benefits the
seller, and he does not ask himself how the
sugar is 10 be paid for except in American
exports.
An outbreak of cholera. supposed to he
ASiatic, in Puebla de Rugat Valencia)
and some neighbouring villages, has
greatly alarmed both Spain and France.
The disease, whether sporadic or MT, has
been spreading since the middle of May,
and kills about half those attacked. The
local Government has placed a Gordon of
troops round the town, and emigrants from
Valencia are to be placed in rigorous QUA
rantint. SO great is the alarm, that the
lich from the whole South OF Spain are
flying nOrthwaTdS, and the peaSantIy in
The Valencia villages have armed them
selves to keep out strangers. The authO-
rites in Southern France are taking Sc
we're precautions, practically prohibiting
trade 10y land and though the Govern
ment in Italy pooh-poohs the reports, the
cities are greatly alarmed. Men Of the
Southern temperament almost lose their
heads in the presence of the cholera, yet
they will not take the necessary procau-
tons as to the purity of the water they
drink, or give up eating half-rotten fruit.
During the last outbreaks in Naples, the
people were convinced that the doctors
were distributing poison, and both in
Italy and Spain they do not scruple to
"isoIate" any infected house in such q way
That the inmates are imprisoned and cam
not get food. The disturbance to trade
caused by panic is so great, that the
rumonrs from Valencia sent down stocks
on every Bourse in Europe. The odd
thing is, that an unhealthy season, which
kills more than the cholera does, creates
no panic at all.