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Show were taxea lor being iuxvu. . The duty ou sugar makes that important article of food costs from 1 5 to 20 cents a pound. Yea costs from so cent to H, coffee from 40 to 00 centa, according to quality, llread is very dear, as there is a duty of .in i.or cent, on imported wheat. The people pay, either directly or indirectly, nearly one-third of all their earnings to the government. Hundreds and thousands thou-sands of farmers have been ruined by tiie intolerable burdens of taxation. Cue would imagine that, if taxes d the cost of living were so high, wages would be correspondingly high, but just the opposite is true. Farm laborers get but 20 cents a day on an average. Artisans Ar-tisans receive from 80 to 40 cents a day, and are not regularly employed at that. The wages of women are so small as to maltc a man blush to name them. In the rice fields of northern Italy women wade to their knees twelve hours at a stretch for 10 cents. The straw plaiters of Fie-sole, Fie-sole, Prato and Leghorn make from 6 to 10 cents a da3T. Their poor fingers fly like spindles from early dawn till late at night. Skilled labor is better paid, but tl a day is considered good pay. A few workers in Stone and marble, bronze and silver, make from f3 to IS per day. TAXATION IX ITALY. Government TaJies Nearly One-Third One-Third of the People's Earnings. Low Wugea and High Prlcet Keep the Working Classes In a Perpetual State: of Poverty Financial Mli-inanagement, Mli-inanagement, " V The cities of Italy, the communes and the provinces are threatened with political extinction as well as with financial ruin, says an Italian correspondent corre-spondent of the New York Independent. In Naples the city treasury is not only empty, but there is a deficit in the municipal revenue this year of 1600,000 ar more. Rome is also in a bad way financially, and so are Florence, Genoa, Milan, Turin, and other cities of the peninsula. In some of the cities building build-ing speculators have been driven to such desperate straits that the national government gov-ernment has been forced to advance them money in. order to prevent whole-sake whole-sake bankruptcy and ruin. As a result of all this the;people are burdened with enormous taxes and debts. It may be doubted whether any modern nation is so heavily pressed as Italy. It would be an easy matter for the people to recover re-cover their losses were it not for the immense burdens laid npon them by the national government. , AH kinds of local lo-cal improvements, sanitary as .well as others, are at a standstill because the people cannot pay the' costs. Some idea af the burdens which the people of Italy are enduring may be gathered from a brief glance at a few of the most important taxes. Income from. landed estates pays a tax of 43 per cent for national and local purposes; rent on houses pays 34 per cent.; the earnings of merchants are taxed 13 cents on the dollar. All incomes in-comes above ?120 pay one-seventh of the amount to the government. A schoolteacher school-teacher receiving S200 a year has to pay a tax of about HI. Cab drivers and railway employes also endure enormous burdens. To make all this worse the-government the-government imposes a heavy duty on nearly all the necessaries o'f life. There is a tax on imports and there is a tax on exports. It yrould look as if a man |