EMPIRE WITH 22 RULERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 148, 13 June 1908, Page 4

EMPIRE WITH 22 RULERS.

MOKE THAN" lon CAISINCT MINISXJiIiS JX tIEUMAXY. A remarkable book. onlilhM •• Th ■ future of Cortnaiiy," is beim; published in Horliu by Stale Councillor lludolf -Mail in. Councillor Martin poinls mil thai rnuof the causes of linancial dillicullics in Orniany is lite existence of the twentylive diilcicnl States, oacli of which maintains its own (loverniucnt, ami many of which support their own ruling mmiarehs. There ;iiv twenty-two ruling iinntarclu in Cormany. ami the aggregate amount of Ihcir respective civil lists is an enormous linancial burden, on Ilia country, ilu-jnjj lo the fact that the individual Stales of the Empire mainlain their own separate. Cuvcrnments, Cormany possesses move than a hundred Cabinet .Miui-tir.-, anil a corresponding proportion of Covcminonl ollicials of lower grades, ami their maintenance involves a heavy financial saerilico. Councillor .Martin maintains that if lli« barriers between Hie separate Slates were swept awav, and if the federal character of the Ccrman Empire could he abolished, an economy of fifty million pounds per annum could I"' ollcrled. so lhal the linancial ilillicullies of ihe countrv would be solved al one stroke. lncidenlally he points oul'lhal the Ccnnan taxpayer is far burdened than the liritidi taxpayer. In ticnniuiy each citizen pays an average -iini of CI Is Md per annum in taxe-. while Hie Hriii-li citizen pais j verage of .1;:: lis m[ per annum in taxi's.