The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-17
YOUNG MEN AND THE ARMY Agitators Want to Keep Them Ont SOME OF THEIR ScHEME France Ls Werried by Tariff
 Question. Clalmea That the Mefher County Mistrests Her CoIs.ists-opi.- io. is Makinx Hesdwsy Among The student. .f
 The I.ati. Quarter.
 

The Latin Quarter.
 BY A W L,AMOUREUx. Paris, Oct 16.--The eoffrts of the
 anti ti-militarists to obtain real hold over the young conscripts are mat ter of common knowledge, and though they are rarely attended with suc- cess, since nearly every Frenchman is at heart a soldier. they are from time to time made exident at Macon, when the regimental colors were found soil- ed and torn.
 Tho Temps regrets the days when,
 under the, influence of Gambetta and the memory of 1870. the Army was re- garded as being above all party poli- cies- Now. however. the Army has be- come battlefield for the two extreme parties in France, and the "Temps'
 compares an appeal to the conscripts published by the notorious antf-mili- tarist paper La Huerre Sociale" with
 manifestoes posted in Bordeaux, for which the extreme Clerfcals it says
 must be held responsible. The anti-militarist appeal, with as- founding impotence. calls on the young conscrfpts to form revolutionary sec- tions In their companies and regi- ments, "such as already exist in cer- tain fortresses on the Eastern frontier. These sections, though autonomous. are in relation with one another, and form force which, on the day when our Government dreams of war abroad or at home. will rise and declare that they are not alone and must be reck- oned with"
 The Bordeaux poster, on the other hand. calls on Roman Catholic fathers of families to appont formally the garrison chaplain as correspondent for their sons. so that they may receive remittances from home through him.
 Another manifesto addressed to the conscripts themselves bids them have
 all their correspondence addressed "care of the chaplain"
 These posters are. the "Temps" points out, direct incentive to breach
 of discipline. since by the military re-
 gulations soldiers are forbidden to re- ceive anything through any other per-
 son than the quartermaster. It is clear says the Temps" that the object of both the anti-militarist and the Cleri- cal manifestoes is to remove the Haen
 as far as possible from the influence of their superior officers. 'It is the substaitution for an education entend- ed to produce unity. through a com mon sentiment of patriotic duty, of another education which can only tend to increase the divisions that trouble
 the country"
 The French Budget.
 The, new Finance Minister M. .coch- 1 erys Intends to meet the deficit of 40,- 000. GOO in the French Budget by means of various fresh taxes and increases in existing taxation. including an aug l.M.<,Ao<fo~f4n@ %ha aaoth sdttfaaa Giuea the year 1901 these duties have been |considerably augmented. and are pro-
 gressive in the double sense that they Increase with the amount inherited and with the remoteness of the rela- tionship between the testator and the beneficiary. Beneficiariesf in the direct
 line of succession at present pay in death duties a proportion which
 ranges from one per cent in the case of inheritances not exceeding $40o in value of per cent. in the case of in- herftances exceeding in value $1o.0o0.- GOO. A wife inheriting from e hus-' band inheriting from wife pays duty which ranges from 3 3-4 per cent. to 9 per cent. according to the amount inherited. and the incidence of the duty increased until, in the case of relations beyond the sixth degree or
 of unrelated beneiciaries. the tax ranges from 15 per cent. in the case
 of inheritances valued at $400 or un- der to 20 1-2 per cent. in the case of estates valued at over s1o.000,0o0. M. Chrochery now proposes to. raise the scale of all death duties leviable on estates above the value of s400.
 The minimum augmentation will be
 in the duty on estates the value of which is between s2.o0O and s1o,o0o, and which are inherited in the direct
 line of succession; here the increase
 will be 1-2 per cent. The maximum augmentation will be in the duty on estates exceeding s10.0oo.000 in value and inherited by persons who are not related to the decreasd or ar relatives beyond the sixth degree; here the in- crease will be 5 1-2 per cent, or from 20t t-2 to 26 per cent. The Finance Minister estimates that his proposed augmentation of the death duties will yield SS,OO0,O0O of fresh revenue. It does not appear that M. Cochery's new scheme of taxation is intended to supersede~M Caillaux's Income-tax, Bill. which still awaits the decision of the Senate.
 The expansion of the French posses sions recently acquired in Asia and Africa and their great extent are In danger of obscuring the urgent griev- AnCe9 or those OAQer anu StAldAACE SOAO-
 nies which long ago passed ther period
 of expansion and are steadily decreas-
 ing In wealth and importance. The
 Colonial Union will this year summon
 to Paris a Congress of the Old Colo
 nies, and The Temps discusses at some
 length the remedies that can be ap-
 piled to improve their condition.
 For the newer colonies the tariff
 law of 1892 has not proved disastrous;
 owing to their size, they are more or less Independent of foreign trade and capable of supplying their own wants.
 For the older and smaller colonies.
 which for the most part are devoted
 to a single form of crop, this law has
 meant ruin They Import the greater part of their necessaries of life. and
 the Moline tariff has meant. on the
 one hand, the impoverishment of the
 colontsts owing to the duties imposed
 on their products on. their entry into
 France, and, on the other, the rise in
 the price of necessities owing to the imposition of the French tariff on their
 frontiers and the consequent obligation
 to procure their supplies fromX France
 alone regardless of distance. Thus
 the Governor of Martinique. declares
 that the cost of equipping Q factory ia
 increased by 40 per cent with the re-
 sult that the price of cod. the staple
 food of the black population, has
 doubled.