THE WAR MUST END
" Everybody, who has any responsibility here must understand that the war has got to end as soon as possible," said Herr Stroebel, editor of Vorwarte, in the Prussian Diet. "It is useless to have any sympathy for the expansionist desires of our capitalists, who have helped a great deal towards starting tin's horrible war. The capitalists have made immense profits, and yet they still succeed in eluding the tax on war profits by buying great quantities of jewels, especially diamonds, which' axe not taxed. It is impossible to burden the proletariat with the new indirect taxes. The new Imperial Budget is intended to deceive public opinion. A sum of 713,000.000 marks is down there for Customs receipts, which cannot possibly be realised, because there are no imports, and also the right of importation has been suspended. The deficit of the Budget will certainly amount to several milliards of marks."
Herr Lcntze, the Prussian Minister of Finance, declared the speech to be so unpatriotic that he was unable to reply to it. '
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 143, 17 June 1916, Page 14
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