Show can not escape taxation every day fresh instances are corn com ing to light of how strenuous efforts are being made in germany to evade various forms of the new and heavy taxation the imperial postal autuori ties tried to escape the new taxes on gas mantles and electric globes by getting in a huge stock in advance of the day from which the altered legis lation came into force the brewers in their spite against the government have attempted to charge the public with a thousand per cent increase in excess of the true increase hoping thereby that the public would turn and rend the legislators instead of which the public has either quietly reduced its expenditure on alcohol or bodycot ted the saloons of notorious offenders the german too have be gun to raise rale the price of a cup of cof lee fee by a cent in order to recoup them I 1 I 1 elves tor for an increase in taxation to the extent of a quarter of a cent and have met with the same fate at the hands of the consumer I 1 |