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Twain, Mark

"The Great Revolution In Pitcairn"

The emperor's reply -- "Look at Germany; look at Italy. Are you better than they? and haven't you unification?" -did not satisfy them. They said, "People can't EAT unification, and we are starving. Agriculture has ceased. Everybody is in the army, everybody is in the navy, everybody is in the public service, standing around in a uniform, with nothing whatever to do, nothing to eat, and nobody to till the fields --"


? ? ? ? "Look at Germany; look at Italy. It is the same there. Such is unification, and there's no other way to get it -- no other way to keep it after you've got it," said the poor emperor always.


? ? ? ? But the grumblers only replied, "We can't STAND the taxes -- we can't STAND them."


? ? ? ? Now right on top of this the cabinet reported a national debt amounting to upwards of forty-five dollars -- half a dollar to every individual in the nation. And they proposed to fund something. They had heard that this was always done in such emergencies. They proposed duties on exports; also on imports.


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