i68 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 



which obtain in those countries can do precisely what 

 they do? 



Will also the fact that the single State of Prussia can 

 put by this large sum in one year out of the people's 

 savings, while we find the necessity of drawing out of our 

 Savings Banks as much as we put in, have any signifi- 

 cance for the people of this land? 



Will this amazing prosperity which has overtaken 

 Germany and which is solely the result of well-devised 

 paternal laws, which are after all as essential in the wide 

 government of a State as they are in the narrow domestic 

 government of a single family, appeal to the present 

 Government, or to any succeeding Government with the 

 force of a mighty shock? 



Will they ever realise that one of the immediate 

 results of this startling prosperity of the German people 

 is the enormous power it gives the State of raising 

 money? 



And lastly, will they ever awake to the important fact 

 that when the assessable amount liable to income-tax 

 has risen in one section of the German Empire by 

 ;f 238,000,000 in fourteen years, this vast sum, together 

 with similar. increases in other sections of the Empire, has 

 to be added to the taxable area of the country? 



