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Show not ;i sou roc of worrimcnt nt t ho present pres-ent time. It is rl if re rent inUjigbnd. and the Lon'lon citizen goes on To s:iy: ''The v;o,'i',liy elassr-rj know the d:;ug'"'r of the present debt. Lot them impose I upon themselves, each as he is :Arf a voluntary levy. It should be able to puss t he exchequer within, twelve months such a su m us would s;ivo 1 lie taxpayer 0,t"i0f ) ,i)i"0 a year. I give one-fifth of my estate as a thank offer- j i n it, in t he firm eon vie t inn that never again shall wc have such a chance of giving our country that form of help which is so vital at the present moment. mo-ment. ' ' The English newspapers have endorsed en-dorsed the proposition of the man who has offered to give one-fifth of his possessions to his country, and the pub-lie, pub-lie, has been aroused. Other men of ; wealth are urged to follow the example set. Special attention 1ms been paid to t hi; war profiteers who would not suffer by giving up a portion of their huge gains. But, sad to relate, none of thorn has taken the hint.- If the situation situa-tion is as bad as the London cili'en thinks it is, confiscatory taxation ia imminent, in which case the profiteers will be stripped of their excess wealth with very little ceremony. GIVES ONE-FIFTH. "While Great Britain came out of the war in far better financial condition than any of her allies save the United States and Japan, her public debt is appalling, ap-palling, and the situation menacing. ;This is indicated by the fact that a , wealthy London man has promised to ; subscribe to the A7ictory loan in the ' sum of $730,000 anci then turn the bonds back to the government for immediate im-mediate cancellation. In a letter to one of the newspapers this patriotic Englishman Eng-lishman declares that ' ( today, on the eve of peace, we are faced with another crisis, less obvious, but none tho leas searching. Tho whole country is exhausted. ex-hausted. By a natural reaction not unlike un-like that which led to tho excesses of the restoration after the reign of the ' Puritans, all classes are being sub- j merged by a wave of extravagance and j materialism. ' ' High wages paid during the war en- ; nblcd the working classes to pay high prices for food, and of course the profiteers, prof-iteers, especially those who succeeded in dodging the income taxes, clothe themselves in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day. Hut' the war is practically over, and the people of England must manufacture plow-shares plow-shares and pruning hooks instead' of ; swords and spears for the government. Wages will never fall back to where they were before the war, and the working men and women will never be satisfied to return to former living conditions. Only a fow days ago Sir Conan Doyle predicted uprisings unless the high cost of living is reduced. The same cry has been repeated in other countries, and in Italy there have been numerous riots during the past fortnight. fort-night. Trices are mounting higher every day in the United States, and the American people are even more extrav- j agant than the Europeans. Where it will stop, no man can say. Uncle Sam owes some billions of dollars dol-lars as a result of the war, but that is |