The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-14
CHEAP MONEY CHEAP MORALS.
immortality, Graft, Bribery Common in
European Cities.

Recent upward tendencies in foreign ex-
change may be regarded with encourage
ment from two points of view, if the OBJ |
serVatlons OF a correspondent in Vienna
are to be counted as valid Writing in |
the London Daily Mail when the foreign |
issues were still steadily declining. this |
correspondent said:
The morals of the new States of Eu- |
rope are falling with their moneys. The |
standards of conduct are collapsing with
the crown and the mark. i,e i. ~
More is meant than the Immortality
due to sudden poverty or sudden wealth
There are plenty of people making for
tunes but capable of spending them only
on light life There is mad boom on
the Vienna Bourse in which every class
down to the cook-general is taking part
Money itself is becoming unreal. 1t
is partly a vice of the small unit The
crown, worth a farthing today, in peace
time only 10 d. Now we have such
absurdties as crowns for a tramwayI
fare or l,200 for a packet of chicken
Sandwiches The poor reckon daily in
hundreds and the rich in millions. At
times the less well-to-do are taken aback
by the change in themselves.
" Before, | used to keep sharp eye on
crown said middle-aged and married
Bohemian official as he paid so crowns
| for scratch meal, but now | get change
| for a 1000 note without counting it al
most Any idea of stinting or saving
for rainy day is dead
THE money you touch is only a con-
venience for the necessities of existence
of the day. and gives no sensation of pos
session, though its absence very distinctly
gives the reverse The manufacturer or
wholesaler with a stock needs no adyer-
tisement, or catalog, or travelers-no sell
| ing organization. The buyers come to
him on Bonded knee offering anything.
Prices double overnight
"A hint how or where to get some
thing, to go somewhere and get some
thing DONE is paid for recklessy Graft
is everywhere. To do anything you need
a permit or privilege, some kind Of stamped
and signed paper. The new states are
stuffed with officials 1t is a question
whether the old or new, trained or I'M
trained, are more venal The Hapsburg
Empire, with generations of an official
Germanic caste, has been Topped off liml
after limb until it is one huge head
Vienna.
.'The German officials in the lost re
gions, replaced by Bohemians, or Poles
or Italians, are driven back on vienna
Jobs are invented and pay is multiplied
but they cannot live on their salaries
and corruption rises to the highest grades
, In the Succession States as they cal
them here, the new national officials arr
equally on the make A bankrupt {
year ago gets post through influence anC
is today millionaire.
: "You cannot move without bribing TIL,
concierge of a cosmopolitan hotel always
did well; but in such crowded capita
, as Warsaw he despises a 1000mark tip
, from traveller begging for 2o-marl
, room. Probably the conductors of tn,
great European expresses, such as still
, run, get even more tempting offers.
calculated that the tins. many for tin
I privilege of standing in corridor, in
. train between Zurich and Vienna mus
! have been nearly El 900 ii English value
D4A HAIoR in Austrian. FIX II