THE GERMAN PAUPER QUESTION 81 



The British tax-payers should be alert over this ques- 

 tion and carefully watch the contemplated Bill, other- 

 wise a heavy incidence of further taxation will surely fall 

 upon shoulders that are already too heavily burdened. 

 Even if a sensible, equitable scheme be brought into 

 operation, a certain amount of fresh taxation would 

 inevitably result, but we need have no fear of this, as 

 money spent in this direction means nothing more than 

 an insurance against pauperism and a reduction of poor- 

 rates. 



