The Archive · 1911

Loyalty Under Oppression

The unanimity is all the more remarkable when one considers that outside those actually in office scarcely anybody io this city hae gained aoything from the recent movement, and mbat is even stranger still, scarcely anybody ca, tell you what be expects to gain in the fatare. To as from the West to call this new réyime—I will not say Repabl to call it even People's movement is ridiculous nonsense. It is as far as ever from being government "of the people, for the people and by the people." The people have no voice or vote in apy matter.

What is much more serious than this is that, 6o far, the people's welfare seems to have been in no wise conside:

To a few things they a not 80 well treated as they were before the revolution, ¢. g., the city gat are sbot earlier and when they are open all that passes in is subject scrutiny. Ihe searching of boxes is of politely done. The people are not considered of any account as compared th the least of the government employees. Again, no taxes have been lightened, bat "contributions" bare been asked in very peremptory man-all the grain shops bare been classed in three divisions; the first have

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