Our informant said he could quite understand the feelings of the Big firma faced with an expenditure of $20,000 every time some new "government" demanded repistré tion, but it was difficult to make the directors at Home of such a firm his see things in the same light, They might say it was unfair and egal, but they would not risk £10,000 for a £10—note. Nor, how-exer hard the diplomats out here might strive to put things right, did the Home Government give the merchant much help. If he did his £10,000 worth of business, they took the income tax, but if he lost it through joining in with the others in accordance with diplomatic advice, he was not given any relief.
Others have agreed that this is a fair presentment of the small man's tasse, but, as the small men, equally with the large firms, concede that the whole affair is utterly iniquitous, and as, by a reversal of what is more usual, the small man can afford to lose and the big firms cannot, it would seem that there is 8 necessity for some understanding which will save the small people from the ignominy of giving way and the Toss of holding out, with a view to an ultimate benefit for all.
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