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Rh A better state of affairs, however, is, I think, beginning to prevail. Signs are not wanting to show that the public is awaking to a due sense of its responsibilities and is determined no longer to permit its representatives to amuse themselves at its expense. The course of policy which has landed the country so heavily in debt has been abandoned. The debt itself, unfortunately, cannot be got rid of so easily. Various schemes for meeting the heavy interest on the borrowed money are proposed, and one which receives considerable support is the imposition of a heavy land tax. Into this question, however, I do not