A recent issue of the Boston Transcript" quotes a prominent German as saying: "for years we have paid our heavy war taxes without complaint, Then came the war levy in 1913, foreing every property holder to pay into the war fund five per cent. of his entire capital—more than a year's income. We have hardly recovered from that and now comes a big war loan to which we are forced to subscribe, We have no option, The Government simply takes twenty-five per cent, of our bank deposits and holdings and writes us down subscribers to the loan for that amount, And this is only the beginning." This is the way the German Government deals with insurance companies as well as individuals, and the knowledge of it should prove a warning to all who Generated for ie Do
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