Will the Tikin authorities persist. in their intention t0 en-dono is obvious, The railways are helpless to] force the likin with all the ace tier; the merchants rigour of which they are cap. tail lows, though not, 20: heavily, find the actual: taxation collected This ix a question which mer-muse of necessity work out at con-chants all over China are. asking!
Siderably tess than has been the themeelvew to-day, and unhappily) case in the past. At the present the answer appears to be in the! time we are informed by the rail-affirmative. New tax stations] way authorities in Shanghai that have been established on the lie only goods' being loaded at Shanghai-Nanking lino and col-Markham Road and Shaoghi lectors have been put in and or-North are goats sent_on transit dered to extort every cent the law allows them. The tax, was ever! perishable goods. Nothing. passes, exemption crtifeats, and fan exorbitant one, but in the past) comes within the likin is being it has always been collected in a transported by Neither are' these the only sor. very carnal sort of way with the fous consequences likely to" arise result that beyond. gonoral_ mur-out of the tax. people's action. murings and occasional protests the merchants have never proved New industries will be crippled in troublesome. Furthermore, infancy and-many of them ruined. an exampjo of this, take the] making arrangements with" the new cement, and lime' works- at various transportation companies) Lungtan.. The enterprise isa outside of the railway, they have now one and. was started been able to a largo extent to get fevory prospect of success. The out of the tax, for it is a well: last news we had of it was that 70] known fact that. by means of] rioting of @ serious nature. had private arrangements" with the Qcourred, arising out of the en-authorities the transporta-foreing of the likin, tax." Dozens tion companies have scoured. re-of incidents of simi ductions whereby they have been ould doubtes be able to transport goods for the! {s am unpopular one and the only merchants more cheaply than_the way to meet the wishes of the peo-merchants could have got it done plo will bs to reduce it or abel by going straight to the railway] ie authorities, since with the latter there is no question of "private The whole question should be) reconsidered, for the position waa
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