Additional import taxes have just been announced in Kuangtung, these affecting the aerated water and wine and spirit trades. They do not at first. glance appear to be specially 3 but those interest Jed in the business will probably take a very different view. On every case of 250 large bottles of aerated water imported from a foreign port there will be a duty of $1, and on cases containing 120 small bottles 50 cents, A graduate od tax on wines and spirits is being introduced, varying from four ents jon a small bottle of beer to $1 on a large bottle of champagne, and the bottles containing such liquors will jin future have revenue stamps affixed to them showing the amount. of duty paid, When we say that do not strike the casual observer as being particularly xerlous, we mean that half a cent or 80 on of aerated water in nor there to the fe man, but in fact it eon stitutes quite a considerable per: centage when the wholesale price fof such a commodity is borne in mind. In the same way the tax on spirituous liquors looks as if it were worked out on a 10 per cent, basis, and while to the average consumer other four cents on his beer ix not the sort of thing to make him stop drinking it, the cumulative effect must be considerable. In the ease of champagne the extra dollar might even make it unpopular These are called war taxes, and are probably in exactly the same featexory as the education tax, by which a provincial duty on cigarettes was imposed over Unfortunately tung and her capital Jand new methods of taxation are a habit, Dr. Sun Ax newspapers from other centres arrive, interesting comments upon Morning Post" we learn something jof the attitude of Hongkong, this Jjournal in its editorial making the following. statements:
1 en's death failed to saruuse rear spontaneous. public Kelee thay. be attribute spected another bs his that fu vent policy: hae alienated from bint proportion of Chinese. aym= hat the bulk of the C1 vile-did Hot know, him. If that' is. true of southern China, light apply with still greater elsewhere, but the say) what meant by "the people,"
joe years ayo when he was puss~ Hongkong, Dr. Sun was conthusiastically received by the student classes, and an address he gave at the University commanded their utmost attention, while on each occasion on which he appeared in Shanghai the same class of people were almost rapturous. Yet, as four Hongkong contemporary "re-arks, he was not generally known, and probably the average wage-earner concerned himself not Jat all with him or his doctrines.
A successful general about to oust rival from the Arsenal would, in all probability, make a greater ap~ peal to his imagination. This is, of course, due to the fact that the political sense of the Chinese masses is quite undeveloped, and long as it iso men of the type jof Dr. Sun will remain, at the best, concerned, nebulous figures as far as they are
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