s and dulled glance
over the countryside, which is fertilized with the corpses of its old
heroic foes.

But what Mr Heinzen understands by the "connection of politics with
social conditions" is really only the connection of German princedom
with German distress and German poverty.

The monarchy, like every other State, exists externally for the
working class only in the form of taxes. Taxes constitute the
existence of the State economically expressed. Officials and parsons,
soldiers and ballet dancers, schoolmasters and beadles, Greek museums
and Gothic towers, civil list and army list--the communal seeds
wherein all these fabulous existences embryonically slumber are--the
taxes.

And what reasoning citizen would not refer the starving people to the
taxes, to the ill-gotten gains of the princes, as the source of their
poverty? German princes and German distress! In other words, the taxes
on which the princes live in opulence and which the people pay with
the sweat of their blood! What inexhaustible material for declamatory
human saviours!

No doubt the monarchy is very expensive. One has only to glance at the
North American budget and compare it with what our thirty-eight
duodecimo fatherland has to pay in order to be administered and
over-disciplined.

The blustering outbreaks of this conceited demagogy are answered not
by the communists, but by such middle-class economists as Ricardo,
Senior, etc., in a few words.

The economic existence of the State is the taxes. The economic
existence of the worker is wages. What has to be settled is the
relation between wages and taxes.

The average wage is necessarily reduced by competition to the minimum,
that is, to a wage which allows the workers and their race to drag out
a scanty existence. Taxes form a part of this minimum, for the
political business of the worker just consists in paying taxes. If the
whole of the taxes that fall on the working class were drastically cut
down, the necessary consequence would be that wages would be reduced
by the whole amount of the taxes now included in them. Either the
profit of the employer would thereby be increased to the same extent,
or a change in the method of raising taxes would have taken place.
Instead of the capitalist advancing to-day in wages the taxes which
the worker must pay, he would no longer pay them in this roundabout
fashion, but directly to the State. If wages are higher in North
America than in Europe, this