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ADDITIONAL NOTICE.
The Contest will be closed to entries at 6 o’clock the
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BERLIN, July 20. — (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press.) — The
Reichstag session Just cloned was
•marked by Interesting developments in
(he relations between the government
Bnd the various political parties. One
result was to bring out more sharply
than hitherto the opposition of the
Conservatives to Chancellor Bethmann
von Hollweg.
The Conservatives represent the old
aristocratic traditions of Prussia, and
their social and political Influence Is
so great that they usually succeeded
under previous chancellors In shaping
the course of the government. They
have ever taken the lead in opposing
nil Roclalist and democratic tenden
cies in the state: and before the war
one of their chief lines of policy was
war upon the Socialists as an element
dangerous to the monarchy and the
present order of society. Since the
war has been in progress, however,
the government has quite changed its
attitude toward the Socialists. The
chancellor has steadily acted In the
spirit of the emperor's declaration.
made just as the war wai about to be
gin, that henceforth he knew no par
ties, but only Herman*.
The loyalty with which the Social
ists have stood by the government and
helped to fight the country's battles
has been more than once recognized
by Hethtnann Hollweg In his speeches
in the Reichstag, and he ha* clearly
Admitted this fact must lead to some
political readjustments after the war
is over. This has never pleased the
Conservatives. But the chancellor
ha^ gone on his way making friends
of the Socialists and inviting their
support for government measures. The
Conservatives looked on coldly at all
this, for they saw that their best ar
gument for keeping the government
rigidly conservative was being wrest
ed from their hand*,
Besides this, ‘he Conservatives
have taken offense at the govern
ment's taxation policy. They are fully
committed to the view that the empire
must collect its revenue taxes through
Indirect taxation, like customs duties,
and internal revenue taxes of various
kinds. Especially do they urgently
Insist that direct taxes—income, gen
eral property and Inheritance taxes—
should be reserved for the federal
states. The huge problem, however,
of raising revenues to pay Interest on
the war debt, to pay pensions, and
meet other expenses growing out of
the war, cannot be solved without re
sorting to direct taxation — there are
not enough indirect taxes in reach to
meet the requirements of the situa
tion. Hence along with the various
indirect taxes proposed this spring
by the government was a direct tax
on war profits. In working out the
details of collecting this tax, however,
it was found by the budget committee
that it would be practically lrapos3tble
to distinguish between profits due to
the war and profits not due to it.
nrnico an au-ruuuu property u»ji 01 ouc
mill on the dollar was proposed bv
the committee, and accepted by the
government. Some of the Conseiva
tives finally voted for the tax; but
their two leaders, Count Westarp and
von Heyderbrand, voted against It to
the bitter end. In this, curiously
enough, they found themselves alone
with the small group of Socialists who
split off from the main body of the
Socialists last March.
In the debates on these tax meas
ures and on the press censorship the
Conservatives were very severe In
their criticisms of the government and
of the chancellor. They resent it in
particular that their newspapers wete
not permitted to say what they pleased
about the United States in the he.gut
of the submarine controversy between
Washington and Berlin; neither can
they forgive the chancellor for having
yielded in modifying the form of sub
marine warfare.
Several days ago the chancellor
spoke with unusual passion in expos
ing the false statements put forth In
an anonymous pamphlet written to
attack him. a pamphlet evidently ema
nating front Conservative quartets;
and he also had some sharp things to
say in replying to another pamphlet
by Herr Kapp, an Influential Conser
vative politician. These pamphlets
made the impression upon the country
that the Conservatives were beginning
a systematic campaign for the over
throw of Bethmann Hollweg. Some
of the National Liberals are also dis
satisfied with the chancellor and are
known to sympathize with these at
tacks upon him. In proportion, how
ever, as the ultra-national elements
turn away from the chancellor he Is
finding all the warmer support from
the other parties in the Reichstag, in
cluding the old Socialist party. II
was a curious unwonted spectacle dur
J OK E S
Some Are Funny; Others
Are Not; But All Are
Nonsensical.
THE LITERARY FARMER.
“What do you suppose Is the mat
ter with those chickens?”
“Well. T dunno," said Rawlins.
"What do you feed them on?”
"Feed them!” exclaimed the literary
farmer. “Why, 1 don't feed them at
all.”
"Then how do you suppose they was
a goln' to live?”
"I presumed," replied the literary
person, “that the old hens had milk
enough for them now."
HE UNDERSTOOD IT.
P. O. Clerk (to superior) — Can't
understand this address, sir. It reads,
"John Jones, Y Hotel.” There's no
such hotel here.
Superior (looking at It) — Where
are your wits? Deliver at the Wyan
dotte hotel at once.
CONCEIT PUNCTURED.
The conceit of some folks Is extra
ordinary. Young 8mlrker, for Instance,
believes that he is rather good look
ing, although no one else has con
flremd that opinion.
One day he was In a street car when
a young lady with a sketch book en
tered and sat opposite him.
Smlrker stared persistently at her,
and at last she was forced to bring
her own gaxe to bear upon his unlove
ly countenance. He grinned and
raised his hat.
Then the young lady, acting on an
impuinu, wuuv uu uvi onvvvii
and began to portray Smirker's fea
tures therein.
“Very flattering of you, miss," said
the young man delightedly.
“Not at all,” retorted the fair ar
tist. “I saw your face as a model for
a gargoyle."
A PRACTICAL 8WEETHEART.
They were shortly to be married,
and now they were sitting in his study
meditating on the blissfulness of fu
turlty.
"Algy." said the young lady, sud
denly, "every morn you send me vio
lets which at even you have culled,
don't you?"
“I do," responded the ever-faithful,
"let the cost be what it may.”
"You darling!”
A long pause for osculatory opera
tions.
"But l should like to suggest,” mur
mured the sweet young thing, "that
some mornings you might send up a
pound of mutton chops or a couple of
best loaves. It wouldn't cost you half
as much, but it would make a splendid
hit with the old folks in these in
creased cost of living times.”—Chi
cago Herald.
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TYPHOID AND MALARIA COST
$928,234,880 A YEAR.
WASHINGTON, July 27. — The an
nual economic loss suffered by the
United States from typhoid fever and
malaria aggregates $928,234,880, ac
cording to estimates given the senate
today by Senator Ransdell, of Louisi
ana, chairman of the committee on
public health, in an address on "Rural
Health—America's First Duty."
“Enough money to give us the larg
est navy afloat and the most efficient
army the world has ever seen Is an
nually offered up as a sacrifice to two
entirely preventable diseases,” the
senator said.
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$75,000,000 FOR WOOL.
WASHINGTON, July 27.—American
sheep raisers will receive about $76,
000,000 for this year’s wool crop, the
department of agriculture announced
today. Average prices during June
were 28.7 cents a pound, higher than
for many years.
ing the chancellor's speech of June 6,
to see the Conservatives listening with
mute dissent, along with the seceding
Socialists, while all the other parties
in the house applauded him to the
echo.
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